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Read by David Shaw-Parker & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 6hrs 18mins) Featuring stories by Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyesky, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol & others. 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 lives into locations, people and experiences with...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Tom McLean & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hrs 43mins) Featuring stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov & others. Christmas may come but once a year but evil, intrigue and malevolence are everyday events. Within this volume Christmas is a time when these dark forces form and coalesce to...
Read by Christopher Ragland, Jim Norton & Patricia Rodriguez (Unabridged: 4hrs 41mins) Featuring stories by James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, O Henry, Louisa May Alcott, Fyodor Dostoevsky & others Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters are with us every day. Yet, somehow these same...
Gogols story of an aging couple who must confont the harsh lessons of mortality. Read by Eliott Fitzpatrick (Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born on 1st April 1809 to a father, descended from Ukrainian Cossacks and a mother with a military background in the Ukrainian town of Sorochyntsi,...
Read by Edward Petherbridge (Abridged: 2hrs 23mins) In the second half of Tolstoy's masterly novel War and Peace, Napoleon's dramatic military invasion of Russia seems to overwhelm the private lives of all the characters. But it is precisely these private lives which in the end survive the clash of armies...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 27mins) 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...
Read by Bill Wallis, Geoff McGivern & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 3hrs 20mins) his collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, Guy De Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Arnold Bennett, Daniel Defoe, Edith Nesbit and MR James. These tales...
Read by Garrick Hagon, Christopher Ragland & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 8hrs 51mins) His name is a byword for unspeakable horror and dread. Across ten stories this dark master holds a fascinating lure for all of us. Word by word, line by line we are drip-fed stomach-churning terror of a mesmerizing...
Explore suicide stories and suicidal characters in this deep psychological collection. Read by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow & Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 15hrs 19mins) Featuring stories by Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostovesky, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Victor Hugo, O Henry, Mary Shelley, Rabindranath Tagore, Honore De Balzac, Thomas Hardy,...
Read by Garrick Hogan & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 3hrs 2mins) This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as HP Lovecraft, Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, as you sit...