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Read by Lorelei King (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) 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'...
Read by Christopher Timothy (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The action of Billy Budd is set within the claustrophobic confines of a British man-of-war ship in the mutiny shadowed summer of 1797. Here, cramped between decks, live the crew of HMS Indomitable, many of them pressed into service against their will, and...
Read by Steven Pacey (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Hailed as a masterpiece on publication, The Moonstone still thrills as a supreme detective story. But it is also a novel of mounting suspense, as the action follows the Moonstone’s trail. The gem is tracked from the bloody looting of Seringapatam to the...
Read by John Michael MacDonald, Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 24mins) On 29th November 1775 Thomas Jefferson said “Believe me, dear Sir, there is not, in the British Empire, a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the God that made...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 48mins) Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists. As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 1hr 8mins) Edward Everett Hale was born on April 3rd, 1822, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a prodigy, gifted with extraordinary literary skills. At only 13 he graduated from Boston Latin School and enrolled at Harvard College. There, he settled in with the literary set, won...
Written by Letitia Maclintock (Unabridged: 47mins) The Emerald Isle has produced some of the greatest writing ever to capture the world's imagination. In this volume we have three short fairy tales read by famed actress Siobhan McKenna that are perfect illustrations of the genre. In this compilation - 01...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 2hrs 57mins) John Griffith Chaney was born on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco. His father, William Chaney, was living with Flora Wellman when she became pregnant. Chaney insisted she have an abortion. Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself. ...
Read by Kelly Burke (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born on 22nd April 1873 in Richmond, Virginia. She published her first novel ‘The Descendant’ anonymously in 1897 at age 24. As a ‘Southern’ writer much of her work integrates themes of class and gender struggles, many...
Read by Darrell Joe (Unabridged: 1hr 12mins) Uriah Derick D’Arcy seems to all intents to be a literary pseudonym. Why no-one would want to take ownership of this story from its first publication in 1819 has been the subject of several conjectures. The only settled agreement is that it was written by...