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(Unabridged: 2hrs 10mins) Jerome K. Jerome - An early life of poverty exacerbated by the death of his parents in his early teens helped to cruelly mould the young Jerome. After early stints on the railways, as an actor, a journalist, a school teacher, a writer and a solicitors clerk...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 14mins) Featuring poems by Amy Levy, William Butler Yeats, Walt Whitman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hafiz, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson & others. The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar saunters into mid-summer. Temperatures rise still further. The landscape may...
Read by David Healy, Bill Wallis & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 3hrs 14mins) This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 23mins) Gifted playwright George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan is based on the life and trials of Joan of Arc whose canonisation occurred shortly before he wrote this play. Based on both substantial information of her life in Medieval France and records of her trial, Shaw characterizes this unique...
Read by James Fox (Abridged: 2hrs 15mins) The Thirty Nine Steps keeps the reader enthralled from beginning to end. From the opening scenes in a London flat to the final conclusion in a seaside villa, the jaunty, undaunted and remarkably resourceful Richard Hannay is at the centre of the action....
Read by Robert Powell (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Far From The Madding Crowd is much more than a tale of rural life; at times the principal characters act madly enough to make the title seem ironic. Hardy subtly spins his story around the disruption of a small community by two differing...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 1hr 41mins) Edgar Allan Poe, born Edgar Poe, was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809 but orphaned at an early age. Taken in by the Allan family his education was cut short by lack of money and he went to the military academy,...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 21mins) Perhaps best known for her classic novel The Age of Innocence Wharton loved the short story form because its brevity allowed her to concentrate on telling the story. In these three powerful stories, Edith Wharton transports the listener to the turn of the century where she depicts (without...
Read by Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow & Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 2hrs 7mins) Willa Sibert Cather had Welsh ancestry but like her parents Charles and Mary, was born in Virginia, on 7th December 1873. Despite strong roots in the community, Willa was 9, when the family moved to Nebraska, to work...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 43mins) Featuring poems by John Donne, George Herbert, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell & others. The Caroline era was dominated by the growing religious, political and social conflict between the King and his supporters; the Royalists and it's Puritan opposition;...