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(Unabridged: 2hrs) 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 many...
Read by Andrew Sachs (Abridged: 2hrs 19mins) To this day Phileas Fogg’s epic race against the calendar retains its power to thrill, despite the ease of long distance travel provided by modern transport. The novel succeeds because it has all the elements of a great adventure story: Fogg experiences the risks...
Read by Alex Jennings (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an action-packed story of a voyage into the unknown - an enthralling mixture of 'fact' and fiction. Although Jules Verne is describing the most fantastic of events, he gives credence to them by packing the novel...
The Top 10 Short Stories of the 1850's. Read by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Ghizela Rowe(Unabridged: 09hrs 26mins Featuring stories by Herman Melville, Jules Verne, Frances Watkins Harper & many more Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A...
The top ten short stories that helped shape the science fiction genre Read by Richard Mitchley(Unabridged: 8hrs 15mins) Featuring stories by Jules Verne & many more Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our...
Selected products from Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne was born on February 8th, 1828 on Île Feydeau, a small artificial island on the Loire River in Nantes. His father, Pierre Verne, an attorney, and mother, Sophie Allote de la Fuÿe, a Nantes woman from a local family...
A collection of quotes on and about nature. “We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.” Anna Sewell “We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural...