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One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike ( Gone Girl). In her bright and energetic performance of this British classic, she expertly captures Austen’s signature wit and tone. Her attention to detail, her literary background, and her performance in the 2005 feature film version of the novel provide the perfect foundation from which to convey the story of Elizabeth Bennet, her four sisters, and the inimitable Mr. Darcy.

Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down.

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost 20 years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.

Renowned as much for her wit and satirical social commentary as for her stories of love and romance, Jane Austen remains unfailingly relevant and one of Britain’s best loved authors. In this Audible Original collection, an all-star list of narrators (Billie Piper, Claire Foy, Emma Thompson, Florence Pugh and Gugu Mbatha-Raw) capture Austen’s pin-sharp humour and tone in these dramatisations of her six beloved novels accompanied by a full cast.

When 11-year-old Lizzie Mudie loses her mother in Dundee's darkest disaster, her world is shattered. Forced to grow up too soon, Lizzie uncovers a resilience beyond her years. An unexpected inheritance – Green Tree Mill, crumbling and forgotten – offers a new path. Determined to succeed, Lizzie rises to become its formidable mistress.

Will Bowman, now fully entangled in Richard Lionheart's crusade, has reached the Holy Land. However, just as he and his crew are about to touch down in Acre, they are drawn into an intense battle at sea, where they are faced with the dreaded Byzantine weapon: Greek Fire. Barely escaping with his life, Will gains the trust of Richard Lionheart, moving into his service. But as the siege of Acre continues, and Richard's campaign grows ever more brutal and barbaric, Will begins to wonder just how safe his new position is.

As the dutiful second-eldest daughter of a poor family, society would have Haewon believe that her only hope of a decent life is to marry well. But during a time of rampant government censorship and book banning, she instead works as an illegal book transcriber in order to make a little extra money. It's dangerous work, but she loves it - especially when she gets to transcribe the work of her favourite author, known as Black Lotus.

Die junge Irma Rehberger liebt ihren Lipizzaner-Hengst Novio über alles. Als er verkauft werden muss, um das Gestüt ihrer Familie zu retten, bricht für sie eine Welt zusammen. Kurzerhand beschließt sie, ihrem Pferd an die berühmte Spanische Hofreitschule in Wien zu folgen. Verkleidet als Pferdeknecht tritt sie die Ausbildung als Eleve an, hat es ohne adligen Hintergrund allerdings nicht leicht.

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss.

In this spicy Regency romance by USA Today bestselling author Charlie Lane, a treasure hunt leads a scholar and a bookish widow to love. A penniless widow with a practical plan. Widow Sarah Pennington has no time for love. Sending a son to Harrow is not cheap, and her husband’s lies left them in poverty. When she loses her position at a London bookshop, she must find a new one or lose everything she's worked so hard for, including her son's education. When a famous explorer storms into the shop, sun kissed and grumpy, he brings with him an answer to her problems.

World War One might be over, but Elsie, Hetty and Anne still have more than their fair share of drama, romance and secrets to contend with.

A must-listen regency romance.

When three young Black men enlist in the US Army hoping to serve their country with honor, their lives are forever changed. When Pearl Harbor is attacked in 1941, Cora’s brother Benny rushes to enlist against the wishes of Cora and her mother. Able to pass as white due to his pale skin and light eyes, Benny reports for duty only to realize he’s been mistakenly enlisted as a white man in a racially segregated military.

After spending two years away at culinary school, learning the arts of baking and magic, all Karl wants to do after graduation is return home to the kitchen where he grew up. However, when Karl's adoptive uncle asks him to do a little favor for him along his journey, of course Karl says yes. He needs to find a missing person, one who may have been captured somewhere in Yaroi, a neighboring country to Karl's home in Toval. Finding the missing person is hard enough.

When a half-frozen young girl is discovered on the country estate of Viscount Clavering, he is unaware his past will soon come crashing through his doors. Five years ago, Maxmillian's life spiraled into a life of debauchery and self-destruction after his position as a third son was deemed unsuitable for the hand of a duke's daughter.

To escape her guardian's plans to marry her, Lady Charlotte Fairfax steals away to Montreal to locate Reid McCoy, a fur trader who owes her fiancé a debt for saving his life. Even though European women are forbidden from entering the interior, she is desperate to get to her fiancé deep within the northwestern wilderness.

Déterminée et sûre d'elle, la jeune femme tient à ce qu'il restaure le manoir, point d'orgue du village et du futur festival floral auquel elle concourt. Les enjeux sont de taille : la princesse royale est attendue, et son aval pourrait infléchir la carrière de Madeline. Et, Will a beau tempêter et refuser cette responsabilité, Madeline semble décidée à lui tenir tête coûte que coûte.

Fortunata, una joven humilde y apasionada, se enamora de Juanito Santa Cruz, un hombre adinerado y casado con Jacinta. A lo largo de la historia, se exploran las diferencias sociales, los conflictos emocionales y las pasiones desenfrenadas que surgen entre los personajes. La trama se desarrolla en el Madrid del siglo XIX, mostrando las tensiones entre la moralidad tradicional y los deseos individuales.

Die junge Luise kommt aus Heidelberg ins geschäftige Berlin. Sie will im Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus eine Ausbildung zur Kindergärtnerin beginnen. Durch Zufall macht sie die Bekanntschaft des warmherzigen Bernhard. Die beiden sind voneinander fasziniert und verlieben sich Hals über Kopf. Aber hat ihre Liebe überhaupt eine Chance? Denn Bernhard und seine Familie sind Juden. Die Wirren der Weimarer Republik und das Erstarken der Nationalsozialisten werfen zusätzliche Schatten auf eine gemeinsame Zukunft.

A medida que Lord Murchison intenta descubrir el secreto detrás de la enigmática belleza de Sibyl, se ve envuelto en una trama de intriga y pasión. La historia explora temas como la dualidad entre la apariencia y la realidad, la obsesión amorosa y las consecuencias de perseguir un ideal inalcanzable.