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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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The Adventures Of Hucklebery Finn was published in 1884 by the American author Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens) and went on to be referred to as ” The Great American novel “

The story centres around the adventure of the young boy Huckleberry Finn (or Huck Finn) ansd his sidekick Jim who was a former slave of the Finn family. Their journey takes them on an epic journey down the Mississippi River where they need to survive floods, conmen and everything inbetween.

This is an English Audiobook read-aloud by Phil Chenevert

Great Expectations

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens was written in 1861 and was the English Author’s 13th novel. This Bildungsroman (or coming of age tale) is set around London and Kent in the 1800s and is narrated by our hero and orphan Pip. The novel is equally famous for its protagonist as it is for the reclusive Miss Havisham character with whom Pip’s life becomes entangled. This an English Audiobook, read-aloud by Mil Nicholson

Crime and Punishment

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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (sometimes translated at Fyodor Dostoyevsky ) were written in 1866 and this particular version has been translated by Constance Garnett. This epic piece of classic Russian Literature focuses on the mental, philosophical, and moral plight of an impoverished former student called Rodion Raskolnikov. Could a murder ever be justified if it leads to a bigger benefit to the world – This is the heart of the dilemma of Rodion’s life and the biggest question raised by this incredible audiobook.

The Cricket on the Hearth

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The Cricket On The Hearth or “The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home” to give it its full title was the third of 5 fames Christmas books written by Charles Dickens. This novella was written and published in 1845. As with the previous Christmas books he decided against standard “chapters” and instead went with “Chirps.”

In this tale which Dickens himself called “innocent and pretty” we follow the tangled love story of John Perry Bingle and his family watched over by the guardian Cricket on the hearth of the title.

Treasure Island

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Treasure Island by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson by was first published back in 1883. The well loved novel tells the incredible tale of young Jim Hawkins who comes into possession of a seemingly cursed treasure map. The tale takes us aboard a pirate ship, on a quest for buried treasure that can only be obtained if the curse of the black spot can be avoided. So much more than the definitive pirate tale that spawned tropes such as an X marking the spot, parrots and 1 legged pirates, this is a remarkable coming of age tale that all the family will enjoy.