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  1. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June

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  2. Short Stories by Francis Wyndham

    Stories by short fiction writer Francis Wyndham, recalling England in the 1940s

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  3. John Wyndham - The Chrysalids

    John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic science fiction classic, dramatised by Jane Rogers

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  4. Bright Young Things

    Short stories celebrating the riotous, witty, cocktail-swilling party people of the 1920s

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  5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    Heart-breaking modern myth of obsession, pride and the need for love. With Jamie Parker.

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  6. Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd

    Thomas Hardy's novel, adapted by Graham White

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  7. Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo

    Swashbuckling tale of revenge by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sebastian Baczkiewicz

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  8. Anthony Trollope - Miss MacKenzie

    Margaret Mackenzie inherited a small fortune and was finally free to seek some happiness.

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  9. Stella Gibbons - Nightingale Wood

    Hearts beat and minds scheme. The dowdy Withers compete with the glittering Springs.

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  10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

    Muriel Spark's much-loved and sparkling classic about an Edinburgh school teacher

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  11. Thomas Hardy Short Stories

    Tales of the beloved author's inimitable Wessex characters

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  12. Esther Waters

    By George Moore. Stirring tale of how a servant girl makes her way in Victorian England

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  13. Machiavelli - The Prince

    The Florentine philosopher's tour-de-force, read by Peter Firth

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  14. Joseph Roth - The Radetzky March

    Joseph Roth's novel about the end of an empire, dramatised by Gregory Evans

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  15. William Golding - Lord of the Flies

    William Golding's classic story about a group of boys plane-wrecked on a deserted island

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  16. George Gissing - New Grub Street

    Tale of a group of Victorian writers' struggles with integrity and poverty

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  17. Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

    Jane Austen's delightful comedy of manners, dramatised by Helen Edmundson

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  18. Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Omnibus)

    Omnibus edition of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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  19. Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time

    Michael Butt's dramatisation of Marcel Proust's classic series of novels

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  20. James Joyce - Ivy Day in the Committee Room

    Short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners.

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  21. Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native

    Hardy's tale of the hopes and disappointments of the folk of Egdon Heath.

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  22. Phoebe Junior by Margaret Oliphant

    Saga of English provincial life in the country town of Carlingford. With Elizabeth Spriggs

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  23. The Great Train Robbery

    Two films telling the story behind the most infamous heist in British history.

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  24. The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

    Don Warrington reads Sam Selvon's 1950's classic of immigrant life in London.

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  25. James Joyce's Ulysses

    Dramatisation of the great modernist novel. Specially re-edited for Radio 4 Extra.

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  26. Charlotte Bronte - Shirley

    Love, longing and loss set against a backdrop of turbulence and unrest in 1811 Yorkshire

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  27. Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters Omnibus

    A new adaptation made for 4 Extra, starring Deborah McAndrew and Emerald O'Hanrahan.

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  28. Sarah Dunant - Sacred Hearts Omnibus

    Dramatisation of the novel by Sarah Dunant, set in a convent in Renaissance Italy

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  29. Little Dorrit Omnibus

    Adaptation of Dickens' story of love, honour, debt and hope in 1820s London.

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  30. Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook

    Groundbreaking novel about motherhood, breakdown, marriage and communism.

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  31. Jamaica Inn

    Period drama adapted from Daphne du Maurier's gothic novel.

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  32. The Pallisers

    Drama series from 1974 based on Anthony Trollope's novels.

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  33. Four Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald

    A series of short stories by the author of The Great Gatsby

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  34. Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls

    Ed Hime adapts Ernest Hemingway's novel, set during the Spanish Civil War.

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  35. Mapp and Lucia

    1930s comedy drama based on EF Benson's novels.

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  36. War and Peace

    Dramatisation by Timberlake Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic.

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  37. Lucinda Brayford by Martin Boyd

    A beautiful and wealthy Australian girl who marries into the English aristocracy.

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  38. Vesna Goldsworthy - Gorsky

    A story about beauty, money and books. Read by Philip Arditti.

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  39. Cyrano de Bergerac

    Glyn Maxwell's adaptation of the classic novel by Edmond Rostand.

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  40. MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (Omnibus)

    Epic drama set in the aftermath of the 1857 Indian mutiny. Stars Vineeta Rishi.

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  41. The Outcast

    Post-war coming-of-age drama based on the novel by Sadie Jones.

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  42. Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman

    Harper Lee's second novel revisits the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird.

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  43. Herman Melville - Moby Dick

    Classic seafaring tale of Captain Ahab's obsessive chase for a great white whale

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  44. Virginia Woolf - Night and Day

    Edwardian novel examining love marriage, happiness and success. With Kristin Scott Thomas.

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  45. Simon Mawer - Tightrope

    Political alliances forged during WWII give way to the moral uncertainties of the Cold War

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  46. And Then There Were None

    Period murder mystery based on Agatha Christie's novel.

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  47. Dickensian

    Drama set within the fictional realms of Charles Dickens's critically acclaimed novels.

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  48. Toni Morrison - Beloved

    Adjoa Andoh narrates Toni Morrison's novel set in the era of American slavery

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  49. The True Story of Martin Guerre

    The infamous 16th-century case of a man who was tried for posing as an imposter.

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  50. Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre: Omnibus

    Amanda Hale stars in an adaptation of the classic Bronte novel

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