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Recordings - the Template of Great Literature on audio CD
 
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Live recordings of Jane Mackay's talks and lectures available on CD - approximately 1 hour in length.
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William Golding - Lord of the Flies
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1020
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A jaundiced view of the human psyche or how we really are? Golding’s boys range from the ordinarily flawed to the psychotic. A terrifying and haunting tale.
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Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory
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1033
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Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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1003
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Tess,'a pure woman'is one of the most poignant and beautiful of Hardy's rural heroines. A novel of seduction, murder and the ultimate penalty. Melodrama? or the most poetic and forwardlooking of all Hardy's novels?
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Hemingway:For Whom the Bell Tolls
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1061a
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Published in 1940 this is the novel that charts Ernest Hemingway's experiences during the Spanish Civil War.
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Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
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1021
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Passion, poetry and suicide make for a powerful myth. A life-affirming Yorkshireman and a death - haunted German/American …whose poetry will last the time test?
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Hugo:The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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1060
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Victor Hugo's novel full of unforgettable characters from the hunchback Quasimodo to the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda.
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Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
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1022
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One of the great works of Western literature, with a breathtaking breadth of vision. A novel which embraces a wider field than any other of its time.
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Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
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1023
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One of the cruellest of world visions from one of the sweetest of men. Huxley sheds a blazing light on the consequences of science without heart.
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A Doll's House
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1065
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Henrik Ibsen's 1879 social drama that truly shocked the world of theatre. A seminal play that must be read as the true innovation that it was.
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Henrik Ibsen - Ghosts
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1042
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Incest, syphilis and the ‘sins of the fathers’. Set in rainy Bergen, one evening of revealed family secrets unlocks total tragedy. The play which rocked London in 1881 and blew a blast of fresh air through what was previously considered suitable for drama.
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Henry James - Portrait of a Lady
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1024
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Give a beautiful young woman wealth and what will she do? Henry James involves us totally in the process of Isabel Archer’s destruction.
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James:Daisy Miller
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1059
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Henry James's novella about the loss of innocence. Set in Switzerland but with his usual exploration of Americans abroad.
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