More BBC Classics: Wuthering Heights, Silas Marner, Ethan Frome & Orlando

Emily Bronte · George Eliot · Edith Wharton · Virginia Woolf

Jun 2021 · BBC Digital Audio · Narrated by Susan Jameson, Sean Baker, Joseph Ayre, and Clare Corbett

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32 hr 23 min

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Unabridged readings of four fictional masterpieces

Contained in this collection are four more enduring classics, read in full by some of the very best audiobook narrators. With over 32 hours of irresistible storytelling, tracked by chapter for ease of navigation, this is the perfect way to immerse yourself in these iconic works.

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë's tempestuous tale of passions, betrayal and retribution on the wild Yorkshire moors. Read by Susan Jameson.

Silas Marner
George Eliot's heart-warming tour de force about a lonely weaver's search for redemption and hope. Read by Sean Baker.

Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton's powerful, affecting novella about a poverty-stricken young man attempting to escape a loveless marriage. Read by Joseph Ayre.

Orlando
Virginia Woolf's comic biography of a time-travelling hero whose adventures through the centuries include transforming into a heroine... Read by Clare Corbett.

Credits:

Wuthering Heights
Read by Susan Jameson
Produced by Ross Burman
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 24 August 2019

Silas Marner
Read by Sean Baker
Produced by Martha Littlehailes
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 22 August 2019

Ethan Frome
Read by Joseph Ayre
Produced by Julian Wilkinson
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 1 November 2019

Orlando
Read by Clare Corbett
Produced by Simon Richardson
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 1 November 2019

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About the author

Emily Jane Bronte (30 July 1818 - 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Bronte siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell. Edith Wharton was born on 24 January 1862 in New York. She was educated in both America and Europe. In 1885 she married Edward Robbins Wharton. In 1899 she published her first work, a collection of stories called The Greater Inclination. In 1900 she published her first novel, The Touchstone. She wrote many other works including travel writing, home decoration manuals, short stories and her famous novels The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), The Custom of the Country (1913) and The Age of Innocence (1920). She lived in France from 1907. She was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1916 for her work helping refugees there during the war. Edith Wharton died on 11 August 1937.

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