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(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...
Read by Robert Powell (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Far From The Madding Crowd is much more than a tale of rural life; at times the principal characters act madly enough to make the title seem ironic. Hardy subtly spins his story around the disruption of a small community by two differing...
Read by William Hootkins (Abridged: 2hrs 58mins) Terry Malloy is a hoodlum, caught between the beginnings of a conscience and the racketeers for whom he works. Katie is that conscience. But she is torn between her love for him and her belief he killed her brother. Together with a slum-reared...
Read by Laurel Lefkow & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 27mins) Francis Bret Harte was born on 25th August 1836 in Albany New York. As a young boy Harte developed an early love of books and reading. He first published at the tender age of 11, his satirical poem ‘Autumn Musings’....
Read by Peter Egan (Abridged: 2hrs 20mins) It is strange to consider that, although The Hound Of The Baskervilles is Conan Doyle’s most popular novel, his hero is absent for much of the time. Notice how he sets up an atmosphere of supernatural horror right from the start through Dr...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 11mins) In those last few moments drifting from wake to sleep we sometimes delve into thoughts of a very unpleasant kind. The hint of a shadow moving across the room can give rise to all sorts of troubling, unsettling ideas. Bram Stoker was a master of this effect....
Read by Ghizela Rowe, William Hootkins & Laurel Lefkow (Unabridged: 1hr 23mins) The Land of the Free, the Home of the Brave. This illustrious phrase encapsulates the aspirations of America and its people. In this volume we feature 50 American poets beginning with the Colonist Anne Bradstreet in the 17th...
Read by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 50mins) This vast and teeming metropolis that many of us call home sits astride a small river on a small island anchored off the north-west shores of Europe. Yet its very name ‘London’ is famed, admired and known worldwide. ...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 43mins) Featuring poems by William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser & others. The ships of Europe explore the globe. The Age of Mercantilism sets the stage for centuries to come. The Reformation is underway and...
Read by David Healy, Bill Wallis & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 3hrs 14mins) This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just...