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Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018Dickens’ extraordinary novel of Victorian valuesGreat Expectations chronicles the progress of Pip from childhood through adulthood. As he moves from the marshes of Kent to London society, he encounters a variety of extraordinary characters: from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham and her ward, the arrogant and beautiful Estella.In this fascinating story, Dickens shows the dangers of being driven by a desire for wealth and social status. Pip must establish a sense of self against the plans which others seem to have for him—and somehow discover a firm set of values and priorities.This novel is part of Brilliance Audio’s extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

Arthur Gordon Pym decides to go to sea as a stowaway on the ship of his friend Augustus. But a mutiny at sea alters his plans to become a sailor, and he soon becomes involved in a fight to save his life. The tide will take him to the end of the world, Antarctica. There, he will discover a forgotten civilization that keeps a terrible secret of all mankind.

Born in the wild, the wolf-dog White Fang quickly learns the law of nature: eat or be eaten. Captured by Indians, bullied by another dog, and then turned into a killer, he becomes vicious and fiercely independent. Rarely has the raw realism of life on the edge of civilization been so vividly captured. But in this classic animal novel, Jack London also has other points to make - that animal and human beings alike are deeply affected by the way they are treated.

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family of Salem.The greed and haughty pride of the Pyncheon family through the generations is mirrored in the gloomy decay of their seven-gabled mansion, where the family's enfeebled and impoverished relations now live. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family's salvation--or its downfall.A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, Hawthorne's gothic Romance is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared "the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel."

Alan Bennett reads The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and Other Nonsense Rhymes by Edward Lear.The poems and limericks in this delightful collection include"The Daddy Long-Legs and the Fly""The Owl and the Pussy-Cat""The Duck and the Kangaroo""The Table and the Chair""The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker and the Tongs""Mr and Mrs Discobbolos""The Nutcrackers and the Sugar Tongs""The Two Old Bachelors""The Pobble Who Has No Toes""The Jumblies""The Dog with a Luminous Nose""The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò""The Quangle Wangle's Hat""Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly""An Epitaph""There Was a Young Lady in Blue""There Was an Old Person of Harrow""There Was an Old Man of Dumbree""There Was a Young Lady whose Chin""There Was an Old Man who when Little""There Was an Old Man on the Border""There Was an Old Man in a Tree""There Was an Old Man of Calcutta""There Was an Old Person of Ware"This work is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.