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Read by Tony Britton (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Defoe's masterpiece is part adventure and part do-it-yourself book. It describes the experiences of the resourceful sailor and castaway Robinson Crusoe. After escaping shipwreck and being swept on to an island with nothing but his wits, Crusoe survives − and even prospers −...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs) William Hope Hodgson was born in Essex, England on November 15th, 1877. Over his short career he produced a large body of work which explored and covered many genres. From horror, to science fiction, to stories on the sea, where he...
Read by Hannah Gordon (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The fictitious landscape of Loamshire provides the setting for this country tragedy, with little peace about the intertwined lives of its inhabitants. Dinah Morris is an earnest Methodist preacher who rejects Seth Bede for a life devoted to God. Adam Bede, his brother,...
Read by William Roberts (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) When The Great Gatsby was published, commercially it was a failure but critically it was a success. It is still the most admired and well read of all Scott Fitzgerald’s novels and it is considered a handbook of the 'Jazz Age'. Scott Fitzgerald...
The literary movement influenced by sources such as Nietzsche, Darwin & Einstein Read by Jim Norton Laurel Lefkow & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 10hrs 33mins) Featuring stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Mansfield, Damon Runyon, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf & more. Grouping together works by various authors into a theme should be...
Read by Richard Mitchley & George Irving (Unabridged: 2hrs 22mins) Featuring stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Rabindranath Tagore, Wilkie Collins & others. We sit. We lie. We wait. We are examined. We are left alone. Emotions fritter. The door re-opens. The face. Is it tinged with sadness or reassuring and...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) Featuring poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Georgina Rossetti, George Meredith, John Ruskin & William Morris. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood began as a group of painters, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, who wished to reject the stern and academic...
Read by David Shaw-Parker & Jake Urry: (Unabridged: 1hr 54mins) Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Trinity College and then at Oxford. Wilde then moved to London and its...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 6mins) This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.
Creative and inspiring poems about all forms of art. Read by Alex Jennings, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hrs 49mins) Featuring poems by John Donne, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Pushkin, Edna St Vincent Millay, Katherine Mansfeild, Hafiz, Christina Rossetti, Langston Hughes, James Joyce & many more. ‘Perchance to dream’ is an offer that most of us...