In The Aspern Papers, a cold and ruthless literary biographer travels to Venice on the trail of personal letters belonging to the deceased American poet Jeffrey Aspern. His journey takes him to a dilapidated, rambling house belonging to an elderly woman, named Juliana Bordereau, and her lonely niece, Miss Tina. Just how far will he go to get what he wants? Will morality confront his personal ambition and literary curiosity?

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Lev arrives in the UK with little English and even less money. For all it's promise, London leaves him lonely and isolated, facing the seamier side of economic migration, until he discovers a passion that could lead him back home. But having a dream and realizing it are two very different things. Humane and deeply moving, the Road Home is vividly filled with the voices of those struggling to belong, whether in their own land or an adopted one.

MANSFIELD, K.: Bliss and Other Stories (Unabridged)

White, T.H.: Candle in the Wind (The) / the Book of Merlyn (

FITZGERALD, F.: Great Gatsby (The) (Abridged)

Written and performed by Christopher Hastings, The Human Holiday is a continuous play in five sections. This quirky play is written in the British style, and was an instant hit in the 1980s on public radio. “The sound is so good you simply forget about it after a few minutes and become completely immersed in the content. The Human Holiday is so slickly and convincingly done that one finds it easy to accept the whole thing as being real…It’s a masterpiece.” (J. Gordon Holt, Stereophile)

Classical Music

Chopin, K.: Awakening (The) (Abridged)

ELIOT, G.: Silas Marner (Abridged)

Four more stories from the master detective. The mystery of the missing suitor is solved and Sherlock Holmes raises his whip... an Indian pot stands in the shadows of a Colonel' death... serious affairs of state and international diplomacy are threatened by.

Lessing: The Golden Notebook (Unabridged)

CONRAD, J.: Nostromo (Unabridged)

WILDE, O.: Picture of Dorian Gray (The) (Unabridged)

Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in the English language. In his remarkable tour de force, Joyce catalogues one day-16 June 1904-in immense detail as Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin, talking, observing, musing-and always remembering.