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Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 1min) Dorothy Kathleen Broster was born on 2nd September 1877 at Devon Lodge in Grassendale Park, Garston, Liverpool. At 16, the family moved to Cheltenham, where she attended Cheltenham Ladies' College and then on to St Hilda’s College, Oxford to read history, where she...
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...
(Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Saki was the pen-name of Hector Hugh Munro. One of the wittiest of all short-story writers, he was born in 1870 in Burma where his father, a Scots army officer, was stationed. He was one when the family returned to England to live in North Devon. When his...
(Unabridged: 1hr 49mins) Controversy and hidden pasts are suddenly and painfully exposed as wealthy widow Mrs Alving prepares to open a new orphanage in memory of her seemingly beloved husband. Her treasured son Oswald’s return from Paris and her relationship with old friend Pastor Manders are no longer the source...
The literary movement influenced by sources such as Nietzsche, Darwin & Einstein Read by Jim Norton Laurel Lefkow & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 10hrs 33mins) Featuring stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Mansfield, Damon Runyon, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf & more. Grouping together works by various authors into a theme should be...
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 46mins) Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Russian province of Tula to a wealthy noble family. As a child, he had private tutors but he showed little interest in any formal education. When he went to the University of Kazan in 1843 to...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 31mins) Featuring poems from Sara Teasdale, William Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, William Blake & many more. The year reaches its end with the Twelfth month. The landscape may be bleak, a sculpture of lines, monochrome dominates. The air carries the sounds of...
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'...
Read by Lia Williams (Abridged: 2hrs 55min) This novel depicts a mill owner, Robert, whose business is struggling and in turn rejects his attraction to an orphaned woman, Carolne, in favour of proposing to a rich landowner, Shirley. In Charlotte Bronte’s classic Shirley rejects him as she loves Robert’s poor...
Read by Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 1hr 51mins) Herman Melville was born in New York City on 1st August 1819. At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which permanently diminished his eyesight. Add this to a contemporary description of being "very backwards in speech and somewhat slow in comprehension"...