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(Unabridged: 2hrs 7mins) Born in 1797, her Mother died when she was only 11 days old. Mary was then raised by her Father, who remarried when she was four, with a liberal but informal upbringing. At 17 she began the relationship with the poet Percy Byshe Shelley which was the...
Read by Jim Norton (Abridged: 2hrs 59mins) Set against the background of Dublin at the turn of the century, Joyce's celebrated collection of short stories recount a series of unremarkable incidents in the lives of ordinary men and women. Stylistically straightforward, it is Joyce's eye for detail, matched only by...
Read by Christopher Ragland & Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 2hrs 51mins) William Sydney Porter was born on 11th September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At age 3 his mother died from tuberculosis. From an early age it was clear Porter had a large appetite for reading as he absorbed the world around him....
(Unabridged: 2hrs) 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 Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 6mins) Charlotte Mary Mew was born on 15th November, 1869 in London to professional parents – her father was responsible for the design of Hampstead Town Hall. Charlotte, one of seven children; three of whom died in early childhood,...
(Unabridged: 1hr 33mins) Edgar Allan Poe, is considered the greatest of all writers of macabre stories, was born in Boston, Massachesetts, in 1809. His father, an Irish-American actor, died the following year, and his mother, an English actress, the year after, in Richmond, Virginia. John Allan, a wealthy Richmond merchant,...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Sean Barrett & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 17mins)e Featuring poems by William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson & Alfred Austin. The office of Poet Laureate goes back many centuries – informally to the time of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1389 and followed thereafter by a number of ‘volunteer laureates’....
(Unabridged: 2hrs 58mins) Jack London's tales of man's struggle against the forces of nature are universally popular. Best known for his novels The Call Of The Wild and White Fang, London was also a prolific writer of short stories. This collection brings together four of his finest, all depicting the...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 57mins) Featuring poems by Emily Dickinson, Sappho, Amy Lowell, Katherine Mansfield, Aphra Behn & more. In the last few decades secular society has become more tolerant of homosexuality. Now, in the West, we live in a time when to be gay...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) 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...