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Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 1min) John Donne was born on 22nd January 1572 in London into a Roman Catholic family when Catholicism was illegal in England and there was turbulence and unrest with both state and church throughout much of Europe. His father,...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Jake Urry & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Hermann Hueffer on 17th December 1873 in Wimbledon, London, England. Today he is best known for one book, ‘The Good Soldier’, which is regularly held to be one of the 100 greatest novels...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 27mins) If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and horror, his...
Poetry and prose together from literary greats. Read by Sean Barrett, David Shaw-Parker & Kelly O'Doherty (Unabridged: 2hrs 26mins) Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. An author’s ideas...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Algernon Charles Swinburne was born on April 5th, 1837, in London, into a wealthy Northumbrian family. He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, but did not complete a degree. In 1860 Swinburne published two verse...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner, Tim Graham & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 17mins) With our almost religious zeal to categorise and pigeon hole everything it should come as little surprise that one of the poems we learnt at school should so regularly be voted the best ever poem. Whether ‘If..’...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 54mins) Letitia Elizabeth Landon was born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London. A precocious child she had her first poem published is 1820 using the single ‘L’ as her marker. The following year her first volume appeared and sold well. She published a...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 14mins) Featuring poems by Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear, Gerald Manley Hopkins & others. Victorian Poetry – Volume 2 - An Introduction. Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 25mins) Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25th, 1803, the son of Ruth Haskins and the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister. Emerson was the second of five sons who survived into adulthood.<p><p>His father died...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 6mins) Charlotte Mary Mew was born on 15th November, 1869 in London to professional parents – her father was responsible for the design of Hampstead Town Hall. Charlotte, one of seven children; three of whom died in early childhood,...