Read by Alison Larkin

At the heart of each of these award winning audio recordings is an orphan with an indomitable spirit who becomes the heroine (or hero) of her own life, despite all odds. Peter Pan J.M. Barrie's classic tale of Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up. (AudioFile Earphones award) Great Expectations It's the same thrilling story of mysterious beginnings, poverty, an old woman jilted at the altar, a beautiful, haughty young woman and a mysterious financial gift that transforms the life of a young person. Only in Larkin's critically acclaimed adaptation, Pip is a woman. (Best audiobook of the Year award) The Secret Garden When her parents die from cholera in India, orphan Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in a cold, dark mansion in England. Then she discovers a secret garden that has been locked since her Aunt died 10 years earlier....(AudioFile Earphones award) Jane Eyre After being subjected to cruelty in her foster home and at boarding school, Jane becomes a governess in the home of the mysterious, sarcastic and deadly attractive Mr. Rochester who harbors a terrible secret....(AudioFile Earphones award.)

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