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Read by Eve Karpf & Liza Ross (Unabridged 1hr 14mins) The art of writing a short story can be barely noticed by a reader such is the quality with which they are usually written. It is a difficult trade, an unforgiving discipline but for those who master it the rewards...
Read by Anna Bentinick (Unabridged: 54mins) In the small village of Haworth in Yorkshire the Bronte family created novels and poems that are still admired to this day around the world. The eldest of the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, was born on 21st April 1816. The author of ‘Jane Eyre’, ‘Shirley’...
(Unabridged: 1hr 23mins) Many giants of Literature originate from the shores of these emerald isles; Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, The Brontes and Austen to which most people would willingly add the name Thomas Hardy. Far From The Madding Crowd, Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, The Mayor Of Casterbridge are but three...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 55mins) Sara Trevor Teasdale was born on 8th August, 1884 in St Louis, Missouri. A child of poor health she was 14 years old when she was well enough to begin school. Her first poetry publication was in 1907 with her second book in 1911....
Read by Anna-Juliana Clare (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Emma is one of the most delightful but also one of the most domineering of Jane Austen’s heroines. Her attempts at manipulating other people’s lives start in fun and end in hurt feelings and embarrassment for all concerned. The frothiness of the novel gives...
(Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) The gentler sex or the deadlier of the species. Between these two definitions of the female gender lies a collection of some of the most beautiful verse ever written. For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. In this volume poets of great depth and...
Read by William Hootkins, Gideon Wagner & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 20mins) Walt Whitman was an immense talent. And a prodigious one at that. Associated with the Free Verse movement his poems are usually on the longer side. Iconic works such as Leaves Of Grass divided opinion on their publication. Some...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Tim Graham (Unabridged: 1hr 18mins) Featuring poems by John Donne, Ben Jonson, Christina Rossetti, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Lord Tennyson & others. Christmas, they say, comes but once a year. In these days it seems to also last for much of...
Volume 4 - Most famous for his tales of crimes and deduction, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also had a passion for suspense, the supernatural and the macabre as demonstrated in this collection of gothic short stories. The stories featured in this volume include: The Leather Funnel, The Beetle Hunter, The...
Read by Anthony Valentine (Abridged: 2hrs 24mins) Edmond Dantès, an innocent young sailor, falls into despair when he is arrested on a false charge of treason and thrown into prison without a trial. He learns of his friends' betrayal from the Abbé Faria, an equally innocent prisoner, and plots his...