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The Essential Classics Collection: 1984; Great Expectations; The Brothers Karamazov; Pride and Prejudice; & The War of the Worlds

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Duration: 90H 24min
Language: English
Format
Category: Classics

The Essential Classics Collection is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of five of the greatest novels ever written, and the perfect way to listen to those classics you've always been meaning to read but never cracked open.

Read by a cast of incredible narrators including Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Fry, David Rintoul, Hugh Kermode, and Malk Williams.

Included here are stories of love, war, ambition and family, authored by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jane Austen, H. G. Wells, and George Orwell.

The titles included in this collection, in order of appearance, are:

- 1984, by George Orwell - Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens - Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen - The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells

The Essential Classics Collection: Volumes 1-5 are also available to pre-order now. This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.

Release date

Audiobook: 11 September 2025