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Poetry and prose together from literary greats. Read by Alex Jennings, Richard Mitchley & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 2hrs 4mins) 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...
Poetry and prose together from literary greats. Read by Alex Jennings, Richard Mitchley & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 2hrs 1min) 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...
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 (Unabridged: 2hrs 42mins) 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...
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...
Read by Richard Mitchley, William Dufris & Daniela Nardini (Unabridged: 1hr 48mins) Featuring poems by John Donne, Ben Jonson, Anne Bronte, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sara Teasdale & others. Through the centuries in the solace of a church we hear music. These soaring vaulted often beautiful pieces of architecture...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 17mins) Featuring poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Percy Bysshe Shelley & others. ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series...
Read by Stephen Hogan, Kelly O'Doherty & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 54mins) James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on the 2nd February 1882 in Dublin into a middle-class family, and the eldest of ten surviving siblings Admired as a brilliant student he briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School before excelling...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 47mins) Featuring poems by Thomas Hardy, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson & others. At this time of the year as the nights close in and the temperature drops Winter seems like a season that nobody really enjoys...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Featuring poems by Aphra Behn, Anne Bradstreet, Anne Kilgrew, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Kingsmill Finch & more. For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in the shadows of our...