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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...
(Unabridged: 44mins) 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...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 52mins) David Herbert Lawrence was born on the 11th September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, a coal mining town where the reality of a harsh life was only useful as experiences for future literary works. He was educated at Beauvale Board School and became the first local...
(Unabridged: 40mins) William Wordsworth was among the greatest of English Poets. Included here are selections that put into perspective his great talent. The works are brought beautifully to life by Sir Cedric Hardwicke. William Wordsworth Biography
Read by David Rintoul (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The story of Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, starts and ends in the frozen wastes of the Arctic. There, he tells Robert Walton, his English rescuer, about his obsessive quest to create life and its disastrous results. He has attempted to make a...
Read by Peter Marinker (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Set in the wild forests between the British and French colonies in the mid-18th-century wars, The Last of the Mohicans brims with action. Hawk-eye, first of the tough but honourable heroes of the frontier, leads a mixed band on a perilous journey. In...
Read by Sir Christopher Lee (Abridged: 2hrs 22mins) From the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Quasimodo, the hunchback, looks down on the turmoil of Paris with a bitter eye. He is an outsider, tormented and derided because he is deformed and as ugly as a gargoyle. But love for the beautiful...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Julie Peasgood (Unabridged: 3hrs 2mins) This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, HP Lovecraft and AM Burrage. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just...
Read by Liza Ross, Janet Maw & Laurel Lefkow (Unabridged: 7hrs 15mins) Featuring stories by Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Kate Chopin, Amelia Edwards & more. This century is crammed full of talents that showcase an enviable array of stories and genres. Across a hundred years the short story develops, becomes...