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Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 2hrs 33mins) Featuring stories by Virginia Woolf, Arthur Machen & others. The short stories written during and about World War I are often over shadowed by the excellent verse of the War Poets. Yet the short story is perhaps their...
Read by Hurd Hatfield (Abridged: 59mins) Oscar Wilde's only published novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray presents an intriguing idea: the main character, Dorian Gray, allows a painting to be subjected to the consequences of his actions and general aging, allowing him, in turn, to live a carefree and youthful...
(Unabridged: 47mins) Walt Whitman’s work influenced many later poetic voices, and no work more so than this epic American poem, 'Leaves of Grass', which he spent his entire life writing and constantly revising until his death. The work heralded a new dynamic relationship in poetry, with its candid and sensual...
(Unabridged: 1hr 1min) 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...
(Unabridged: 1hr 26mins) Edgar Allan Poe, is considered the greatest of all writers of macabre stories, was born in Boston, Massachesetts, in 1809. His father, an Irish-American actor, died the following year, and his mother, an English actress, the year after, in Richmond, Virginia. John Allan, a wealthy Richmond merchant,...
Written by Frank Wedekind (Unabridged: 1hr 40mins) London, 1944. Seemingly far from the war in Europe, two schoolboys find they have much more pressing concerns than the fighting on the front-line. Melchior rekindles a passionate love affair with an old flame, but beneath his confident, roguish exterior lies a young...
Read by Laurel Lefkow, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 52mins) Featuring poems by Emily Dickinson, Christina Georgina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, Edgar Allan Poe & others. Tears. Sometimes our greatest comfort. Often our darkest fear that we are about to be overwhelmed by sudden and uncontrollable feelings. From...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow & Nigel Planer (Unabridged: 1hr 25mins) Featuring poems by Lord Byron, Aphra Behn, Edward Lear, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Man’s best friend. An always faithful ally. Whether the dog is domesticated as a pet and there to enjoy life with a family or as a work-dog...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 15mins) Featuring poems by Edgar Allan Poe, Hafiz, Christina Rossetti & 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...
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 2hrs) Vernon Lee was born Violet Paget on 4th October 1856 in Boulogne, France to intellectual expatriate British parents. In common with several other very talented literary women of the day she felt it necessary to publish under a masculine pseudonym in order for her...