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Volume 5 – Closing The Ring - Winston S. Churchill; The History Of The Second World War. As the Allies prepared for the Normandy invasion many war councils were held. At Teheran, the first of the Big Three conferences, decisive steps were taken to ensure this. Discussion was opened as to...
Volume 2 – Their Finest Hour - Winston S. Churchill; The History Of The Second World War. In this short and intense period of the war Churchill’s sense of history is profound. ‘If the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say this was its...
Volume 1 – The Gathering Storm - Winston S. Churchill; The History Of The Second World War. In the Second World War every bond between man and man was to perish. Crimes were committed by the Hitler regime which find no equal in scale and wickedness with any that have darkened...
Read by Martin Jarvis (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Dickens' exuberant novel charts the rise of its young hero Nicholas Nickleby, who progresses from an impoverished youngster gladly accepting his uncle's offer of help, to an assured businessman capable of thwarting villainous plans. The book unfolds in a series of vivid scenes,...
Read by Christopher Timothy (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The intrigues of peaceful Barchester are of tremendous importance to its inhabitants, and Anthony Trollope enjoys observing how differently they impinge on the separate worlds of men and women. Men have to make a place for themselves in society; for them ambition is...
Read by Carole Boyd (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) In this chillingly memorable tale, Henry James employed his trademark subtlety and ambiguity to create a masterpiece of double meanings. The novel is written in a strangely complex form; a narrative by a governess, which is introduced by another narrator, who recounts the...
Read by Kate Harper (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter is a dramatic story. The plot progresses through a series of theatrical set pieces, such as the three incidents on the scaffold, Hester Prynne’s confrontation with the Governor and her liaison with Mr Dimmesdale in the forest...
Read by Bob Peck (Abridged 2hrs 24mins) Women In Love studies the nature of relationships between men and women through four very different characters, each of whom seeks fulfilment in their own way. Gudrun seeks an intellectual equal, while for Ursula, overwhelming love is all that will suffice; Gerald attempts...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) Featuring poems by Thomas Shadwell, Robert Southey, John Dryden, John Skelton, William Davenant & others. Volume 1 - The office of Poet Laureate is a high honour amongst poets. The Ancient Greeks had the first idea and their heroes and Poets...
Read by Nigel Planer, Richard Mitchley & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Featuring poems by William Blake, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John Clare & others. The Romantics – Volume 2. Romanticism was a new movement in philosophy and the arts that began in the late 18th century...