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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'urbervilles
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Jude the Obscure, published in 1895, is Thomas Hardy's final novel and considered one of his most controversial and forward-thinking works. Though initially met with outrage, Jude the Obscure is now hailed as a masterpiece of English literature. The story was adapted into a 1996 film starring Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet.
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With its esteemed history and bold contemporary scene, Britain lays claim to some of the most exciting literature in audio. With the hundreds of incredible British writers throughout the centuries, a person could devote their whole literary life solely to British authors and still never run out of amazing things to listen to. Whether you're an avid Anglophile or just want to discover the best English novelists for yourself, here’s a list of the best for you to choose from!
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,452
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Performance1,290
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Story1,286
Hardy's first major literary success, here brought to life by narrator Nathaniel Parker, is the story of the independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene....
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Does Thomas Hardy justice
- By vhuggins on 06-11-13
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-19-09
- Language: English
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Peter Firth
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall977
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Performance845
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Story845
When John Durbeyfield discovers a family connection to the ancient Norman family, the D'Urbervilles, the fate of daughter Tess is transformed....
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Peter Firth gets this book
- By Claire on 04-11-10
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Narrated by: Peter Firth
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-09-08
- Language: English
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Jude The Obscure
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall309
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Performance255
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Story254
This is the story of a young country workman obsessed by his ambition to become an Oxford student, interwoven with his fraught relationships with two women....
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Staggering
- By Tad Davis on 02-16-10
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Jude The Obscure
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-19-09
- Language: English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall367
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Performance330
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Story328
This audiobook is about the rise and fall of Michael Henchard. While out-of-work he gets drunk at a fair and impulsively sells his wife and baby for five guineas to a sailor....
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Tangled Webs
- By Joseph R on 12-22-09
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-05-09
- Language: English
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Anne-Marie Duff
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall132
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Performance117
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Story117
Thomas Hardy’s timeless masterpiece is brought to life in this new recording by Anne-Marie Duff....
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Don’t read this
- By Amazon Customer on 02-25-22
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Narrated by: Anne-Marie Duff
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-09-20
- Language: English
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,218
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Performance2,027
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Story2,027
Tess Durbeyfield, a peasant girl and cast-off descendant of English aristocracy, has become one of the most famous female protagonists in 19th-century British literature....
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Davina Porter Does It Again!
- By misaki on 06-15-15
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-08-11
- Language: English
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Desperate Remedies
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Melody Grove
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall71
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Performance62
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Story63
Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston. Desperate Remedies contains sensational...
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Absorbing early Hardy
- By P. D. on 04-22-19
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Desperate Remedies
- Narrated by: Melody Grove
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-20-13
- Language: English
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Far from the Madding Crowd (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Nick Sandys
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance52
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Story52
In rural Victorian England, the willful Bathsheba Everdene is courted by three men: her repressed neighbor, a devoted shepherd, and a thriftless soldier. They cross and clash again and again....
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Thomas Hardy’s best!
- By jdd on 10-26-19
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Far from the Madding Crowd (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Nick Sandys
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 04-23-18
- Language: English
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The Woodlanders
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall368
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Performance305
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Story302
The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-do-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of a dashing and dissolute doctor....
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Thomas Hardy lesser known work
- By Molly Aultz on 06-12-08
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The Woodlanders
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-14-07
- Language: English
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The Return of the Native
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Alan Rickman
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,776
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Performance1,597
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Story1,567
Set on Egdon Heath, a fictional barren moor in Wessex, Eustacia Vye longs for the excitement of city life but is cut off from the world in her grandfather's lonely cottage....
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A Perfect Pairing
- By Mel on 11-04-12
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The Return of the Native
- Narrated by: Alan Rickman
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-27-09
- Language: English
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 07-29-08
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Classics Collection – Volume Two: 15+ Novels, Stories, and Poems from Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Brontë, Edith Wharton, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Jane Austen, & More
- Anna Karenina, Ethan Frome, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Scarlet Letter, The Age of Innocence, & More
- By: Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, and others
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt, Peter Kenny, Emma Gregory, and others
- Length: 176 hrs and 24 mins
- Highlights
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Two is the second instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Two features 13 essential classic novels from Jane Austen; Edith Wharton; Leo Tolstoy; D.H. Lawrence, and many more.
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Loving it
- By Anonymous on 03-01-25
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The Ultimate Classics Collection – Volume Two: 15+ Novels, Stories, and Poems from Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Brontë, Edith Wharton, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Jane Austen, & More
- Anna Karenina, Ethan Frome, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Scarlet Letter, The Age of Innocence, & More
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt, Peter Kenny, Emma Gregory, Adjoa Andoh, Jonathan Keeble, Rachel Atkins, Kristin Atherton, full cast
- Series: The Ultimate Classics Collection (SNR Audio)
- Length: 176 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 02-24-25
- Language: English
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Under the Greenwood Tree
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall63
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Performance49
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Story46
The four seasons of the Wessex year form the backdrop for the delightful romance of Dick Dewy and Fancy Day. The ups and downs of their courtship are set alongside the story of the rustics....
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Terrible narrator
- By Turner on 02-26-26
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Under the Greenwood Tree
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-02-08
- Language: English
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Wessex Tales
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance45
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Story45
Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories, deals with a number of timeless themes seen so often in Hardy’s work: marriage, class, revenge, and disappointed love....
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A Sampler
- By Tad Davis on 06-08-14
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Wessex Tales
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-06-12
- Language: English
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Short Stories: The Vintage Collection
- By: Saki, Thomas Hardy, Kate Chopin, and others
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Martin Jarvis, Hugh Laurie, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall131
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Performance100
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Story101
The fifth volume in CSA Word's massively popular complete and unabridged ‘Short Stories’ collection is bound to please....
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Superb Collection and Production
- By andrew on 07-14-12
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Short Stories: The Vintage Collection
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Martin Jarvis, Hugh Laurie, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Rupert Degas
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-02-10
- Language: English
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Penguin Classics
- By: Thomas Hardy, Rosemarie Morgan - introduction
- Narrated by: Olivia Vinall, Karen Cass
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance22
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Story22
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Olivia Vinall, who is known for her roles in Apple Tree Yard and The Woman in White. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Rosemarie Morgan. Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take...
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Fantastic work and performance
- By Amazon Customer on 05-10-21
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Olivia Vinall, Karen Cass
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 06-25-20
- Language: English
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Jude the Obscure
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall134
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Performance115
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Story115
When Jude and Sue decide to lead their lives outside marriage they bring down on themselves all the force of a repressive society. This fearless and outspoken story caused a furor on its publication....
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Left reeling
- By Tad Davis on 03-03-14
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Jude the Obscure
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-07-13
- Language: English
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The Thomas Hardy Collection: Six Novels
- Far From the Madding Crowd; Tess of the D'Urbevilles; The Return of the Native; Jude the Obscure; The Woodlanders; The Mayor of Casterbridge
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Matt Bates, Dawn Murphy
- Length: 90 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
The Thomas Hardy Collection: Six Novels is a collection of Thomas Hardy most well-renowned works, read by an esteemed cast of narrators.
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Fantastic Collection
- By D on 07-03-25
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The Thomas Hardy Collection: Six Novels
- Far From the Madding Crowd; Tess of the D'Urbevilles; The Return of the Native; Jude the Obscure; The Woodlanders; The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Matt Bates, Dawn Murphy
- Length: 90 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 09-05-24
- Language: English
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 16 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance73
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Story72
The daughter of the rector of Endelstow, a sparse, sea-swept parish in Cornwall, Elfride is caught between two suitors of very different backgrounds....
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Depressing story & unbelievable central character
- By Molly R. on 08-14-17
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 16 hrs
- Release date: 12-10-15
- Language: English
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Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 09-07-10
- Language: English
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