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Read by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker & Ian Holm (Unabridged: 6hrs 44mins) Featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, MR James & 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...
(Unabridged: 53mins) Oscar Wilde is a giant and legend as a writer and as a wit. But there is a softer, gentler side in some of his short stories for children. Admired and beloved through the generations in this collection the wonderful British actor Basil Rathbone brings these superb...
(Unabridged: 3hrs 9mins) Howard Phillips Lovecraft is among the greatest American writers of fantasy and the supernatural. Born in 1890, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, his health was uncertain from childhood and he led a sheltered early life. His semi-invalidism enabled him to read omnivorously, and as a shy imaginative...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Nigel Planer & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 26mins) Featuring poems by Tagore, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Laurence Dunbar & others. Our senses revel in the incomparable majesty of the work of Mother Nature. The structure of the landscape, the...
(Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel but it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many...
Stories about life as a soldier, love in a time of war, horrors of battle & more Read by Laurel Lefkow, Eric Meyers & Christopher Ragland(Unabridged: 5hrs 50mins) Featuring stories by Ambrose Bierce, Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather & more. War is always a tragedy. There may be a winner...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 30mins) Featuring stories by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Daniel Defoe & others. We love control. The ability to predict and organise our lives as we want them. As we desire them. It’s quite a shock then when Phantoms, Ghouls and Ghosts...
Broken heart poems for those hard times. Read by Ghizela Rowe, Alex Jennings & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 59mins) Featuring poems by WIlliam Shakespeare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Wilfred Owen, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, Edith Nesbit & more. The beating heart, the drumbeat, the very force of life. What then when...
Deadtree Publishing have a large and expanding range of audiobooks especially in Poetry and Short Stories. It’s difficult to sometimes find time for a complete book but many times and hour of Poetry or a short story hits the spot for literary nourishment. Each of the free titles below is...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 37mins) Many great writers are defined and remembered by one piece of work; one novel or poem that embeds itself in Society. For Louisa May Alcott it was Little Women - enjoyed by every generation since its publication. Born in 1832 in...