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Read by Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 51mins) Willa Sibert Cather was born on 7th December, 1873 on her grandmother's farm in the Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia. After several years and moves the family eventually settled in Red Cloud, Nebraska and for the first time Cather could now attend school. In...
Read by Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 55mins) Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was born in Paris on 2nd April 1840. When he was 3 the family moved to Aix-en-Provence in the southeast. At 7 his father died, leaving the family on a meagre pension. In 1858, they returned to Paris. His...
Read by Stephen Hogan (Unabridged: 1hr) Rosa Mulholland was born in Belfast on 19th March 1841. She originally wished to become a painter but turned to literary pursuits and attempted to publish her first book at 15. Charles Dickens, who took an early interest in her work, did much to...
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 58mins) Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with. James was born on 1st August 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate but at age 3 the family went...
Read by Darrell Joe (Unabridged: 56mins) Alice Ruth Moore was born on 19th July 1875 in New Orleans where she was part of the multi-racial Creole community. She was the first generation seemingly born free after the Civil War and unusually for the times, obtained a university education which led...
Volume 5 - 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: Lot 249, The Man with the Watches,...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 36mins) Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 in Bromley in Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’. The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly, and...
Some of histories greatest love stories, happy, sad or both. Read by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker & Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 12hrs 59mins) Featuring stories by Anton Chekhov, Khalil Gibran, Ivan Turgenev, Katherine Mansfield, Amy Levy, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & more. Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state...
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...
"History is an account not of what actually happened, but of what people think happened" - Queen Victoria. Marie Tussaud was a remarkable woman. She escaped the guillotine and survived the horrors of the French revolution. She toured the towns of Britain for thirty three hard years with her travelling...