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Free illustrated audiobooks and picture books of British classic books: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol, Dorian Gray, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Jane Eyre, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Jungle Book, The Moonstone, Pride and Prejudice, The Secret Garden, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four, The Time Machine, Treasure Island and The War of the Worlds. Each one is retold in pictures and narrated page by page, with the original text free to read alongside.

Illustration from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Alice was growing very tired of sitting on the bank beside her sister, whose book had no pictures or conversations in it. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll BritishAll ages 48 pages · 17 min Illustration from A Christmas Carol: Marley had been dead seven years, but Scrooge never painted out his partner's name. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens BritishAll ages 60 pages · 17 min Illustration from Dorian Gray: On a hot summer afternoon, the scent of roses and lilac drifted through Basil Hallward's London studio. Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde BritishAges 13+ 72 pages · 25 min Illustration from Dracula: In May 1893 the young solicitor Jonathan Harker travelled east across the Danube to settle a London house sale for a Transylvanian nobleman. Dracula Bram Stoker BritishAges 13+ 135 pages · 37 min Illustration from Frankenstein: In the spring of 17—, Robert Walton, a young English captain, hired a ship at Archangel and signed on a crew of hardy whalers. Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley BritishAges 13+ 78 pages · 29 min Illustration from The Hound of the Baskervilles: One morning at Baker Street, Watson picked up the walking-stick that a visitor had left behind the night before. The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle BritishAges 10+ 60 pages · 23 min Illustration from Jane Eyre: No walk was possible that dreary November day. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë BritishAges 13+ 159 pages · 48 min Illustration from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Mr. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson BritishAges 13+ 40 pages · 15 min Illustration from The Jungle Book: Now Rann the Kite brings home the night     That Mang the Bat sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut     For loosed till dawn are we. The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling BritishAges 10+ 120 pages · 33 min Illustration from The Moonstone: I set down these lines in India for my relatives in England, on my word of honour. The Moonstone Wilkie Collins BritishAges 13+ 120 pages · 47 min Illustration from Pride and Prejudice: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen BritishAll ages 120 pages · 34 min Illustration from The Secret Garden: Mary Lennox was born in India to a busy father and a beautiful mother who cared only for parties and did not want a little girl. The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett BritishAll ages 80 pages · 26 min Illustration from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: To Sherlock Holmes she was always the woman. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle BritishAges 10+ 294 pages · 1 h 16 min Illustration from The Sign of the Four: In our rooms at Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes took his bottle and his neat morocco case from the corner of the mantelpiece. The Sign of the Four Arthur Conan Doyle BritishAges 13+ 120 pages · 44 min Illustration from The Time Machine: One Thursday evening in his house at Richmond, the Time Traveller set a small table before the fire and placed on it a glittering framework of brass, ivory and crystal, scarcely bigger than a clock. The Time Machine H. G. Wells BritishAges 10+ 51 pages · 19 min Illustration from Treasure Island: Long ago, when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn, a scarred old seaman came plodding to our door, his sea-chest trundling behind. Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson BritishAges 10+ 100 pages · 28 min Illustration from The War of the Worlds: No one in the last years of the nineteenth century believed this world was being watched. The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells BritishAges 13+ 64 pages · 24 min

About British

British classics from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) to Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden (1911): a century that gave readers Dickens's A Christmas Carol, the Brontës, Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes, Treasure Island, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds.

It is the largest shelf in the library, and it runs from comedies of manners and children's fantasies to detective stories and gothic horror. Every book is retold in illustrated pages with audiobook narration, and the full original text is free to read too.