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Read by Laurel Lefkow & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 3hrs 9mins) Louisa May Alcott was born on 29th November 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She is most definitely a writer of her own experiences. Her father was a transcendentalist, philosopher and educational experimenter who founded, Fruitlands, a utopian community. Although poor, her...
Read by Tim Graham & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) Featuring poems by William Blake, Eliza Cook, Anne Taylor, Walt Whitman, DH Lawrence, Emily Bronte, Robert Burns & others. This volume of poetry brings together poems throughout history with very special women. The relationship with our Mother is one of...
Read by Kerry Shale (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Like the hero in the novel, Mark Twain was also a time traveller. His boyhood was spent in the American South, where people followed agrarian lives. As the country modernized, inventions such as electricity and the move towards manufacturing rapidly changed the way...
Read by Rowena Cooper (Abrigded: 2hrs 25mins) Born in Newgate Prison and abandoned soon after, Moll Flanders is searching for a secure place in society. Her desire to belong propels her into all kinds of trouble from numerous marriages, bigamy and incest to theft. Charting her progress from an innocent...
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 Hannah Gordon (Abridged: 2hrs 24mins) The action starts and ends on the River Floss at Dorlcote Mill, home to the Tullivers for generations. But, for all the mill's beauty, Maggie Tulliver, the heroine, finds family life intolerably narrow. The Tullivers, for so long solidly prosperous, are soon beset...
(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...
(Unabridged: 1hr 23mins) In this selection of some of Saki's best short stories, we enter a fictional world in which the Edwardian gently are pitched against the rude forces of nature and maiden aunts struggle unsuccessfully to contain the merciless antics of children in their charge. Saki is perhaps the...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Jake Urry & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 3mins) Featuring stories by Saki, D.H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling & others. The human race prides itself on being the most organised of animals. We manage the fate of all other species. All other animals bow to our control or...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 14mins) Herman Cyril McNeile, MC was born on September 28th, 1888 in Bodmin, Cornwall. His education was rounded off with military training and from there he was given a posting to Aldershot Garrison then Canterbury and then Malta. With the beginning...