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Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 46mins) Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Russian province of Tula to a wealthy noble family. As a child, he had private tutors but he showed little interest in any formal education. When he went to the University of Kazan in 1843 to...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 52mins) Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was born on 21st August in Oryol, Russia to a middle-class family of Polish, Ukranian and Finnish ancestry. He studied law in Moscow before working as a police-court reporter for a daily newspaper. His literary efforts...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Tom McLean & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hrs 43mins) Featuring stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov & others. Christmas may come but once a year but evil, intrigue and malevolence are everyday events. Within this volume Christmas is a time when these dark forces form and coalesce to...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 4hrs 42mins) Science, better diet, advanced medicines are all part of a process that in the modern age keep most of us going to a ripe old age. In previous times some diseases could only be slowed and not defeated. There toil...
Read by James Taylor, Aidan Gillen, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Alex Jennings (Unabridged: 1hr 49mins) Featuring poems by GK Chesterton, Herman Melville, Christoper Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde & others. Novelists stake their claim as artists on works that encapsulate a whole world of characters and narrative...
What would you sacrifice for your dreams to become reality Read by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland & Garrick Hagon (Unabridged: 7hrs 2mins) Featuring stories by Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, Niccolo Machiavelli, Washington Irving, William Makepeace Thackeray & more. It’s really very simple. You will sell me your eternal soul and in return...
Read by Christopher Ragland, Jim Norton & Patricia Rodriguez (Unabridged: 4hrs 41mins) Featuring stories by James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, O Henry, Louisa May Alcott, Fyodor Dostoevsky & others Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters are with us every day. Yet, somehow these same...
Read by Edward Petherbridge (Abridged: 2hrs 23mins) In the second half of Tolstoy's masterly novel War and Peace, Napoleon's dramatic military invasion of Russia seems to overwhelm the private lives of all the characters. But it is precisely these private lives which in the end survive the clash of armies...
Read by Michael Jayston (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Les Miserables is part thrilling narrative and part social document of life in early 19th-century France. With Valjean, the reader descends into a human hell where suffering and injustice are a way of life. Through his characters, Hugo graphically details the plight of...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 3hrs 47mins) Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born on 9th November 1818 in Oryol, Russia to parents from the nobility. He and his two brothers were raised by their mother on the family estate. Surrounded by foreign governesses he became fluent in French,...