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Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 3hrs 17mins) This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad, Edith Nesbit and Rudyard Kipling. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, as...
Read by Tom McLean, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 4mins) Franz Kafka was born on 3rd July 1883 in Prague, then in Bohemia, the eldest of 6, into a middle-class Jewish family. Life for the young Kafka and his passion for literature was often made an ordeal by his over-bearing...
Unwavering conviction in all manner of Gods, beliefs and delusions Read by David Shaw-Parker, Laurel Lefkow & Elliot Fitzgerald(Unabridged: 15hrs 5mins) Featuring stories by Honore de Balzac, F Scott Fitzgerald, Leo Tolstoy, Rudyard Kipling, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Barry Pain & more. Faith is something we all have. Fervour we see as passion without...
Gogol uses the absurd in expert form to show us the problems with society, status, class and their places in the world around us. Read by Eliott Fitzpatrick (Unabridged: 59mins) Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born on 1st April 1809 to a father, descended from Ukrainian Cossacks and a mother with a...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick & Tom McLean (Unabridged: 3hrs 1min) Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born on 26th May 1799 in Moscow into a family of Russian nobility. Raised by nursemaids and French tutors in French he learnt Russian only via the household staff. He graduated from the prestigious Imperial...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 15mins) Featuring poems by Tagore, George Eliot, WB Yeats & others. Love. What is love? The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but...
(Unabridged: 50mins) 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...
(Unabridged: 3hrs 9mins) Howard Phillips Lovecraft is among the greatest American writers of fantasy and the supernatural. Born in 1890, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, his health was uncertain from childhood and he led a sheltered early life. His semi-invalidism enabled him to read omnivorously, and as a shy imaginative...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 2hrs 28mins) 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,...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Patricia Rodriguez (Unabridged: 1hr 31mins) Featuring poems by Sara Teasdale, Amy Levy, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Edith Nesbit, Amy Lowell, Wu Zao & more. For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in the shadows...