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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...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 3hrs 6mins) John Galsworthy was born in Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey, on August 14th 1867. The family was wealthy and well established. John was schooled at Harrow and New College, Oxford before training as a barrister. But law was not for...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan. He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted...
(Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) This poet of Victorian times was held in awe for his magnificent works, including "In Memoriam", "Morte D'Arthur", and "Charge of the Light Brigade". His language and command of vocabulary seem particularly in keeping with the grand sweep of Victorian ambition. Many selections are asembled here and...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 8hrs 11mins) Featuring stories by Virginia Woolf, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Gaskell & 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,...
Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 8hrs 40mins) Featuring stories by Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell & 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,...
Read by Shyama Perera, Ghizela Rowe & Libby Brunton (Unabridged: 1hr 13mins) Katherine was born on the 14th October 1888 into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand, the middle child of five. A gifted celloist, at one point she thought she might take it up professionally but writing gradually began to move...
Read by Christopher Ragland, Liza Ross & Danny Swopes (Unabridged: 1hr 13mins) Alan Seeger was born on 22nd June 1888 in New York. When he was one the family moved to Staten Island and nine years later onwards to Mexico for two years. After attending several elite preparatory schools he enrolled at...