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  1. Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu

    Classic supernatural tale by Sheridan Le Fanu

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  2. Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector

    Farcical tale by Gogol, adapted by Rene Basilico

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  3. Shoulder to Shoulder

    Six pivotal stories in the history of the women's suffrage movement.

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  4. I, Claudius

    Serialisation of Robert Graves' story of the Roman emperor, read by Sir Derek Jacobi

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  5. Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    Tess Durbeyfield struggles to overcome the pitfalls of rural poverty and ignorance.

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  6. EM Forster - A Room with a View

    EM Forster's novel about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian-era England.

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  7. Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure

    Last of Hardy's novels, featuring a young working-class man who dreams of being a scholar.

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  8. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

    Cervantes' classic novel, adapted by John Arden with Bob Grant and Bernard Cribbins

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  9. Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera

    Adaptation of the classic novel by Gaston Leroux

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  10. Edith Wharton - The Reef

    Daring novel, published in 1912, following the complicated love lives of four Americans.

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  11. Far from the Madding Crowd

    Thomas Hardy's novel, dramatised by Nick McCarty

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  12. Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas

    George Cole and Teresa Gallagher star in a dramatisation of Sheridan le Fanu's novel.

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  13. The Mayor Of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

    Helen Edmundson's dramatisation of Thomas Hardy's classic

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  14. Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge

    Dramatisation of Thomas Hardy's novel

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  15. George Eliot - Adam Bede

    Dramatisation of the classic novel set in a Midlands village

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  16. Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes

    A love triangle between a young woman and her two suitors from very different backgrounds

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  17. DH Lawrence - Women in Love

    DH Lawrence's story of two gentlemen with two very different responses to love.

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  18. Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

    Flora Poste embarks on a career as a parasite and moves in with the Starkadders of Howling

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  19. George Orwell - Animal Farm

    Bill Nighy reads George Orwell's famous cautionary fable

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  20. Adam Bede by George Eliot (Omnibus)

    Dramatisation of the novel by George Eliot

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  21. Charlotte Bronte - Villette

    Charlotte Bront毛's novel about Lucy Snowe, who travels to Villette to take a teaching post

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  22. Nicholas Nickleby Omnibus

    Charles Dicken's classic tale of the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

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  23. RL Stevenson - The Master of Ballantrae

    Robert Louis Stevenson's buccaneering tale of family division in Jacobite times

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  24. Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders

    Hardy's tale of thwarted love and ambition, set amongst the woodsmen of Little Hintock

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  25. Portrait of a Lady

    Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce

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  26. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

    John Hurt narrates Flaubert's infamous novel

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  27. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

    Adaptation of the classic Emily Bront毛 novel

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  28. Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Bronte's classic love story, with Sophie Thompson and Ciaran Hinds

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  29. The Inimitable Jeeves

    More escapades from PG Wodehouse's most famous creations, Jeeves and Wooster

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  30. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Omnibus)

    John Hurt narrates Flaubert's infamous novel

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  31. RL Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Tim Pigott-Smith reads Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic tale of the monstrous Mr Hyde

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  32. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

    Anna Chancellor stars in George Eliot's classic 1876 novel dramatised by Robert Forrest.

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  33. The Black Sheep by Honor茅 de Balzac

    Balzac's tale of family rivalry and fortunes lost and won, set in 19th-century France

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  34. Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (Omnibus)

    Elizabeth Gaskell's novel depicts life in the lower classes of Manchester in the 1830s.

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  35. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

    Tobias Smollet's uproarious satire of 18th century life, dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus

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  36. Jane Eyre

    Dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel.

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  37. Crime and Punishment

    Barnaby Kay stars in Dostoyevsky's tale of guilt and redemption

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  38. Sword of Honour

    Dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's story starring Hugh Dickson

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  39. Bleak House

    Adaptation of Charles Dickens' masterpiece

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  40. Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    Acclaimed adaptation of Thomas Hardy鈥檚 classic tale of love, seduction and betrayal.

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  41. Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited

    Dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's tale of faith, love and war, starring Ben Miles

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  42. Henry James - Portrait of a Lady

    Miriam Margolyes reads Henry James' classic novel

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  43. Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

    Classic family drama novel set in 19th-century New England

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  44. Portrait of a Lady Omnibus

    Miriam Margolyes reads Henry James' classic novel

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  45. Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives

    Louisa May Alcott's classic sequel to Little Women. Stars Buffy Davis and Jemma Redgrave.

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  46. Victor Hugo - Les Miserables

    Dramatisation of the classic novel by Victor Hugo, featuring Joss Ackland

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  47. Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (Omnibus)

    Dramatisation of the classic novel by Victor Hugo, featuring Joss Ackland

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  48. John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress

    John Bunyan's parable about a pilgrim who tries to reach the Celestial City.

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  49. Little Dorrit

    Adaptation of Dickens' story of love, honour, debt and hope in 1820s London.

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  50. JB Priestley - The Good Companions

    Dramatisation of the novel about an English concert party, written in 1929

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