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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, David Shaw-Parker & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 50mins) This vast and teeming metropolis that many of us call home sits astride a small river on a small island anchored off the north-west shores of Europe. Yet its very name ‘London’ is famed, admired and known worldwide. ...
(Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) Katherine O'Flaherty, far better known as Kate Chopin, is widely considered to be one of our greatest novelists excelling especially with her many short stories. Born in Louisiana her Creole, Cajun, Irish and French background would help to provide a rich source of ideas for her literary...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 27mins) Featuring poems by Edward Thomas, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, James Elroy Flecker, Alan Seeger & more. War may be rationalized as ‘diplomacy by other means’ but the reality is that when tribes, Nations and peoples bring themselves into armed...
Read by Hannah Gordon (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) George Eliot opens her complex study of life in the provincial Midlands with a brilliant portrait of Dorothea Brooke in all her strengths and weaknesses. Dorothea’s misguided marriage is only one of the many, at first seemingly quite separate, stories of thwarted ideals,...
Read by Hannah Gordon (Abridged: 2hrs 24mins) The action starts and ends on the River Floss at Dorlcote Mill, home to the Tullivers for generations. But, for all the mill's beauty, Maggie Tulliver, the heroine, finds family life intolerably narrow. The Tullivers, for so long solidly prosperous, are soon beset...
Read by Martin Jarvis (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The Man of Property begins as a crushing satire on the narrow-minded lawyers, merchants and bankers who made up John Galsworthy's claustrophobic, upper-middle-class world. All that is worst in this acquisitive, soulless breed is personified by Soames Forsyte. Yet far from condemning Soames,...
Read by Anna Massey (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) In Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen comments on the financial situation of women. Elinor and Marianne are virtually penniless in a world where the 'marriage market' is largely governed by money. They lose their home on their father's death − as did the...
Written by Daphne Du Maurier Du Maurier is of course world famous for many of her novels. These two stories are perhaps even better known as films (The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock and Don't Look Now by Nic Roeg), but here we bring you the full terrifying texts. Read by...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 11mins) George Meredith, OM, was born in Portsmouth, England on February 12th, 1828. His mother died when he was five. As a fourteen year old teenager he was sent to a Moravian School in Neuwied, Germany, staying there for...