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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...
Read by Carole Boyd (Abridged: 2hrs 23mins) One of the most passionate novels of its time, Jane Eyre derives its strength from the honesty and directness of its heroine. The first person narrative involves us right from the start, letting us into Jane’s thoughts as she matures from rebellious child...
Read by Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged 1hr 9mins) Mary Gleed Tuttiett was born and brought up in Newport on the Isle of Wight on 11th December 1846. She was largely self-educated but of determined character to achieve something with her life. As a young woman she travelled in England and Switzerland working...
Read by Laurel Leftkow (Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died. Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was...
Read by Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) Featuring poems by Thomas Hardy, G.K. Chesterton, Letitia Elizabeth Landon & others. The church building has been pivotal to man’s spiritual and religious life for centuries. For many the interior of a church is literally their one to...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 38mins) Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London. Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of fifteen he had experience; selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 38mins) In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. This volume is dedicated to one such recognised master of the short story, namely, Katherine Mansfield whose...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 1min) Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Campden Hill, Kensington on May 29th 1874. Originally after attending St Pauls School he went to Slade to learn the art of illustration. In 1896 he joined a small London publisher and began...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 23mins) Thomas Burke was born Sydney Thomas Burke on November 29th, 1886 in Eltham, London (at the time it was part of Kent). An author in the early years of the century who brought his skills of pen and eye to...