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Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 48mins) Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists. As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms...
Read by Robert Ross (Abridged: 1hr) It has been said that no translation, however studied and skilful, can do justice to the genius of Chaucer’s writing.
(Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Saki was the pen-name of Hector Hugh Munro. One of the wittiest of all short-story writers, he was born in 1870 in Burma where his father, a Scots army officer, was stationed. He was one when the family returned to England to live in North Devon. When his...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 30mins) Henry James was born 15th April 1843 in New York City. His youth was spent travelling with his family receiving what was an "extraordinarily haphazard and promiscuous" education as they journeyed through London, Paris, Geneva, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Newport, Rhode Island, according to the...
Written by Letitia Maclintock (Unabridged: 47mins) The Emerald Isle has produced some of the greatest writing ever to capture the world's imagination. In this volume we have three short fairy tales read by famed actress Siobhan McKenna that are perfect illustrations of the genre. In this compilation - 01...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 1min) Dorothy Kathleen Broster was born on 2nd September 1877 at Devon Lodge in Grassendale Park, Garston, Liverpool. At 16, the family moved to Cheltenham, where she attended Cheltenham Ladies' College and then on to St Hilda’s College, Oxford to read history, where she...
Part 4 For many Christians the New Testament forms the basis of our more modern view of Christianity. But the Old Testament has much to offer both in which of its parts are accepted by which branch of the Church but, more obviously, many of the stories themselves. Whether you...
(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...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 57mins) Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4th July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, a town synonymous with the earlier Salem Witch Trials. It was instrumental in Hawthorne’s later use of American Gothic and dark romanticism in his writing. At only four years old, his father died and...
Read by Martin Jarvis (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The Charles Dickens masterpiece ‘A Christmas Carol’ is a perennial favourite. The story of mean and cold hearted Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghostly revelations that encourage his transformation from into a warm hearted and full of cheer member of mankind one Christmas Eve.