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Bram Stoker

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Phyliss Logan, Bertie Carvel, Frederick Jaeger, Bernard Holley, Jimi Mistry, Peter Marinker, Edward de Souza, Full Cast

An anthology of full-cast Gothic dramas and readings from the author of the world’s most famous vampire taleCelebrated today as the creator of the legendary blood-sucking Transylvanian aristocrat Count Dracula, Bram Stoker was best known in his lifetime as stage manager to the actor Henry Irving. A former Dublin civil servant, he wrote a over a dozen other novels and numerous short stories, yet his reputation rests on a single masterpiece.But Stoker was muc...

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Edward Bond

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David Tennant, Anton Lesser, Ronald Pickup, Stephen Murray, Susan Sheridan, Colin Starkey, Rosemary Leach, Josephine Tewson, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Frederick Jaeger, Full Cast

A selection of visceral full-cast plays from the incendiary British playwright – plus bonus interviewEdward Bond was one of the most influential and important British dramatists of the 20th century, well-known for his controversial plays exploring societal discord and the darker impulses of human nature. His most famous drama, Saved – banned due to its scenes of violence and abuse – was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK, and wen...

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Bram Stoker

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Bernard Holley, Frederick Jaeger, Full Cast, Phyllis Logan

Frederick Jaeger and Phyllis Logan star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel. Summoned to the forbidding heart of the Carpathian mountains in Transylvania, Jonathan Harker journeys to Castle Dracula. There he becomes the unwitting prisoner of a mysterious nobleman whom local legend suggests is Nosferatu, the vampire, a night-stalking beast whose immortality depends on the slaking of his insatiable thirst for human blood. Able to transform himsel...

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Émile Zola, Leighton Pugh

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Leighton Pugh

Against the backdrop of political and legal corruption in Second Empire France, La Bête Humaine (1890) contrasts the technological advancements of the Machine Age with the primitive and timeless human impulse to possess through killing and to kill through possession. The lives of two railwaymen on the Paris to Le Havre line are fatally entwined by their love for the same woman in this shocking account of brutal violence, greed, revenge and repression. In the wider cast of Zola’s characters...

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Émile Zola

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Eloise Fairfax

We enter the world of a fictional town of Plassans in Zola's native region of Provence and we are introduced to the eccentric heroine Adelaide Fouque, later known as Tante Dide, who becomes the common ancestor for both the Rougon and Macquart families. Her legitimate son from her short marriage to her late husband, a labourer named Rougon who worked on Dide's land, is forced to grow up alongside two illegitimate children.

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Alejo Carpentier

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Caleb Summers

Translated by

Adrian Nathan West

**“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksThe best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction by Leonardo PaduraA Penguin Classic**Dissatisfied with his em...

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Ann Radcliffe

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Digital Voice George E

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Dark secrets, forbidden love, and the shadow of the Inquisition fill the pages of Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic masterpiece, The Italian. First published in 1797, this novel cemented Radcliffe’s reputation as one of the foremost pioneers of Gothic fiction, weaving mystery, suspense, and romance into an unforgettable tale of terror and passion.The story follows Ellena Rosalba, a young woman of beauty a...