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(Unabridged: 2hrs 43mins) Elizabeth Gaskell is equally well known as Mrs Gaskell. When her mother died, she was three months old and she was sent to live in Knutsford, Cheshire with her Aunt Hannah, this setting would become the basis for her novel Cranford. At 22 she married and settled in...
Read by David Shaw-Parker & Jake Urry: (Unabridged: 1hr 54mins) Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Trinity College and then at Oxford. Wilde then moved to London and its...
(Unabridged: 1hr 58mins) 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...
(Unabridged: 1hr 26mins) 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 Eve Karpf, Janet Fullerlove & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 80hrs 17mins) In this compilation - 01 - The Female Short Story. A Chronological History - An Introduction - The Complete History 02 - The Unfortunate Bride or The Blind Lady a Beauty by Aphra Behn 03 - Fantomina or, Love...
Read by Michael J Shannon (Abridged: 2hrs 51min) When The Great Gatsby was published, commercially it was a failure but critically it was a success. It is still the most admired and well read of all Scott Fitzgerald’s novels and it is considered a handbook of the 'Jazz Age'. Scott Fitzgerald...
Volume 2 - The Darker Side Of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Most famous for his tales of crime 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. This set contains the stories: The...
Read by Laurel Lefkow, David Shaw-Parker & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 44mins) Featuring poems by Kabir, Mirabai, Guru Nanak & others. Whilst Europe endured the Dark Ages in the 6th & 7th Centuries devotees of Shiva and Vishnu in Southern India were creating the Bhakti Movement. Some of these exponents, as in our...
Written & Read by Nicholas Ridley (Unabridged: 3hrs 35mins) Godfrey’s Ghost is, at its heart, the story of a father written by his son. As a young man, Arnold Ridley was chiefly known as the author of the long running comedy thriller, The Ghost Train. Today he is remembered for...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 2hrs 21mins) Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life. Her education was at Brighton High...