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Read by David Shaw-Parker & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 6hrs 18mins) Featuring stories by Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyesky, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol & others. Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 12 mins) Franz Kafka was born on 3rd July 1883 in Prague, then in Bohemia, the eldest of 6, into a middle-class Jewish family. Life for the young Kafka and his passion for literature was often made an ordeal by his over-bearing and domineering...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 27mins) Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Russian province of Tula to a wealthy noble family. As a child, he had private tutors but he showed little interest in any formal education. When he went to the University of...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick & Tom McLean (Unabridged: 3hrs 1min) Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born on 26th May 1799 in Moscow into a family of Russian nobility. Raised by nursemaids and French tutors in French he learnt Russian only via the household staff. He graduated from the prestigious Imperial...
Unwavering conviction in all manner of Gods, beliefs and delusions Read by David Shaw-Parker, Laurel Lefkow & Elliot Fitzgerald(Unabridged: 15hrs 5mins) Featuring stories by Honore de Balzac, F Scott Fitzgerald, Leo Tolstoy, Rudyard Kipling, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Barry Pain & more. Faith is something we all have. Fervour we see as passion without...
Gogol uses the absurd in expert form to show us the problems with society, status, class and their places in the world around us. Read by Eliott Fitzpatrick (Unabridged: 59mins) Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born on 1st April 1809 to a father, descended from Ukrainian Cossacks and a mother with a...
Read by Tom McLean, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 4mins) Franz Kafka was born on 3rd July 1883 in Prague, then in Bohemia, the eldest of 6, into a middle-class Jewish family. Life for the young Kafka and his passion for literature was often made an ordeal by his over-bearing...
Explore suicide stories and suicidal characters in this deep psychological collection. Read by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow & Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 15hrs 19mins) Featuring stories by Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostovesky, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Victor Hugo, O Henry, Mary Shelley, Rabindranath Tagore, Honore De Balzac, Thomas Hardy,...
Stories of madness, insanity and losing your grip on reality. Read by Ian Holm, William Dufris & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 17hrs 36mins) Featuring stories by Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Leo Tolstoy, HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle & more. We are all driven by needs,...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley & Tom McLean (Unabridged: 4hrs 3mins) Anton Chekhov is amongst the most vaunted of authors. His tales can take a small fragment of a person’s life and turn it into a narrative of unrivalled and compelling power. This volume perfectly illustrates Chekhov and his...