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Bill Nighy reads Frank L Baum's true American classic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find themselves stranded in the fantastical Land of Oz. As instructed by the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins, Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to try and find her way to the Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz, who can help her get home.

John Harmon, in exile for many years, discovers that by a curious quirk in his father’s will he must marry Bella Wilfer, a girl he has never met, in order to claim his inheritance. Mistakenly thought to have drowned, on his return he gains employment with the kindly Mr Boffin under the assumed name of John Rokesmith and falls in love with the flighty and mercenary Bella, who scornfully rejects him as a mere impoverished secretary. But Boffin and his wife contrive a plan to help John and show Bella the error of her ways.

A Signature Performance: Tim Curry rescues Charles Dickens from the jaws of Disney with his one-of-a-kind performance of the treasured classic. Our listeners loved this version so much that it inspired our whole line of Signature Classics.

Pip is an orphan, brought up in a village on the Essex marshes by his disagreeable sister and her husband Joe Gargery, the kind-hearted village blacksmith. Life is harsh and Pip has few prospects until he receives from an anonymous benefactor the chance of escaping the forge for a more promising life in London. But his expectations are fraught with difficulties as he is haunted by figures from his past such as the escaped convict Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her proud, beautiful ward, Estella.

A Signature Performance: Leelee Sobieski’s Emma is sultry but vulnerable, offering a sympathetic rendering of the heroine and her plight, allowing the listener to draw his own conclusions about Madame Bovary in this cautionary tale of love, passion, and desperation.

This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality, and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.

Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounters a more eligible proposition.

Dans Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion, son dernier grand livre (1932), Bergson ne se contente pas d'établir la distinction entre le clos et l'ouvert comme critère absolu, en morale, mais aussi en religion (et même dans chaque religion) et en politique. Il en recherche le double fondement, dans la structure immuable de notre espèce, d'un côté dans les actes imprévisibles des grands hommes de bien ou des mystiques, de l'autre.

La scène est au Pirée. Attablés dans la maison du vieux Céphale, Socrate et quelques amis entreprennent de discuter des récompenses promises au juste dans l'au-delà. Qui peut le mieux cerner l'essence de la justice ?

Los hijos legítimos de Fiódor Pávlovich Karamázov - un "bufón", un "filisteo", un "déspota", solo en última instancia un padre - se reúnen después de haber sido educados, lejos unos de otros, en distintas partes de Rusia: Dmitri es soldado y - como su padre - puro "ímpetu", bebedor, derrochador, lujurioso; Iván se ha convertido en un escéptico que duda de la ley, de la conciencia y de la fe (el primer existencialista, según Sartre); Aliosha ha abrazado la religión, todo el mundo lo llama "ángel" y vive en un monasterio.

Pantagruel censuré, Rabelais récidive avec Gargantua, ogre démesuré et grand seigneur de Touraine dont les aventures paraissent encore suspectes aux théologiens. Monstre de paresse, abruti de religion durant son enfance, il échappe au pédantisme des vieux tousseux de la Sorbonne, dérobe au passage les cloches de Notre-Dame, se cultive enfin auprès de l'humaniste Ponocrates, son maître. Survient la fabuleuse " guerre picrocholine ", née d'une querelle entre vignerons et boulangers tourangeaux, où se distingue le merveilleux frère Jean des Entommeures.

Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.

夕顔の忘れ形見、玉鬘をめぐる、恋の駆け引き。揺るぎない地位を築いた光源氏の苦悩と迷い――人間ドラマを描く筆が冴えわたる巻！

栄華を極める光源氏への女三の宮の降嫁から運命が急変する。柏木と女三の宮の密通を知った光源氏は因果応報に慄く。すれ違う男女の思い、苦悩、悲しみ。最高峰「若菜（上・下）」から「鈴虫」までを収録。

Após perder os pais, Amaro é acolhido pela Marquesa de Alegros que deseja o inserir no sacerdócio, ainda que o jovem não tenha vocação para essa posição. Após criar experiência na função, se muda para a cidade de Leiria, a fim de se tornar padre, e se hospeda em um quarto alugado na casa de Amélia, por quem desenvolve profundo interesse.

生きる苦しさと、愛するかなしみ。紫の上の死を迎え、悲しみにくれる光君は出家を決意し、光源氏の物語はしめやかに終焉に向かう。そして新たな物語、薫と匂宮が姫君たちと繰り広げる「宇治十帖」へ！

Nesta aventura, Verne constrói um submarino ultramoderno para a época (1866), o Náutilus. Nele, o capitão Nemo e sua tripulação cortam relações com a humanidade e partem para uma aventura marítima, já que para a sobrevivência precisam apenas da eletricidade obtida na imensidade do mar.

Fue en un apartamento lúgubre de Vanves, durante su exilio francés, donde Tsvietáieva escribió el presente texto, que relata el encuentro de la pequeña Marina con el diablo en la habitación de su hermana, donde se refugiaba para leer libros prohibidos. Con una prosa burlona, ora exaltada, ora gélida, pero siempre hechizante, la poeta relata el despertar de su fascinación por las palabras, encarnadas en la figura del diablo, que su implacable mirada transforma en una criatura tan temible como seductora.

Der Autor erzählt die Leidensgeschichte des Studenten Rodion Raskolnikow, der zum Mörder wird und letztlich daran zerbricht. Die Suche nach Moral und Gerechtigkeit und der Umgang mit Schuld vor dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen sind die Themen, die von Dostojewski hier verarbeitet werden. Nicht zuletzt wird dabei ein klares Bild der sozialen Verhältnisse im St. Petersburg des 19. Jahrhunderts gezeichnet.

Homer's epic poem, written near the end of eighth century BC in Greece, follows the hero Odysseus as he journeys home after the fall of Troy. Many scholars believe that The Odyssey was originally composed as an oral tradition and was more likely meant to be heard than read, making it a great listen.