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Read by Connie Booth (Abridged: 2hrs 50mins) Little Women is constructed as a series of episodes which are almost complete stories in their own right. Incidents in the lives of the March sisters act as fables, each illustrating a moral point. In her novel, Louisa May Alcott describes her characters'...
(Unabridged: 1hr 20mins) The gentler sex or the deadlier of the species. Between these two definitions of the female gender lies a collection of some of the most beautiful verse ever written. For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. In this volume poets of great depth and...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 50mins) Charlotte Turner Smith was born on 4th May 1749 in London. Her early years were dominated by her mother’s early death and her father’s reckless spending. At age 15 she married Benjamin Smith in order to rid her father of his gambling debts. Charlotte...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 18mins) Featuring poems by Sara Teasdale, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge & others. ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series...
Read by Brian Holland-Rose (Abridged: 2hrs 26mins) This story of Santa Claus veers away slightly from the traditional stories of his beginnings. L. Frank Baum creates a world of fantasy that surrounds Santa Claus's life. Orphaned as an infant he is found by the nymph Necile, who raises Claus for...
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...
(Unabridged: 38mins) March - The third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar brings with it the Spring Equinox and the promise of warmer days and shorter nights. Our selected poets including Swift, Yeats, Morris, Swinburne and Austin of course provide the words to match the mood. Among our...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 18mins) Featuring poems by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alice Duer, Edgar Allan Poe, Frances E W Harper & others. ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice...
Read by Joanna Lumley (Abridged 2hrs 15mins) Pride and Prejudice is a masterpiece of wit and perception, ridiculing the superficial manners of Jane Austen’s time. But it is more than just social satire. Notice, in particular, how the author’s close attention to detail makes the events and characters so true...
Read by Roger Blake (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Stevenson's classic tale of 18th-century intrigue, conspiracy and piracy has everything an adventure story should have, especially a resourceful young hero in Jim Hawkins. From the moment a drunken sailor arrives to menace the tranquillity of his father's inn, Jim is caught up...