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Read by Christopher Ragland, Liza Ross & Danny Swopes (Unabridged: 1hr 13mins) Alan Seeger was born on 22nd June 1888 in New York. When he was one the family moved to Staten Island and nine years later onwards to Mexico for two years. After attending several elite preparatory schools he enrolled at...
Read by Jan Francis, Glyn Huston & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Featuring poems by AE Housman, John Keats, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Cowper & others. Westminster Abbey has seen much during its long, rich history; the coronations of Kings and Queens, the burials of Prime...
Read by Geraldine James (Abridged: 2hrs 23mins) Although set in the heart of rural England, in a place still untouched by industrial development or social upheaval, Silas Marner is no idyllic country tale. Eliot depicts village life good and bad: Silas’s suspicious neighbours are far from perfect and both the...
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 William Roberts (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) When The Great Gatsby was published, commercially it was a failure but critically it was a success. It is still the most admired and well read of all Scott Fitzgerald’s novels and it is considered a handbook of the 'Jazz Age'. Scott Fitzgerald...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 35mins) Featuring poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Burns, Sara Teasdale, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe & others. Love whether fleeting or of the ages, expressed with a look, a touch, or a thought is wanted by us all. Across genders and generations...
Read by David Shaw-Parker & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 19mins) Richard Harris Barham was born in Canterbury, England on 6th December 1788. His father died when he was seven leaving him a small estate, including the manor of Tappington of Denton in Kent. As a nine-year old he was sent to...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 47mins) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29th January 1860 in Taganrog, on the south coast of Russia. His family life was difficult; his father was strict and over-bearing but his mother was a passionate story-teller, a subject Chekhov warmed to. As he later said;...
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...
Author of the Great Gatsby Fitzgerald explores a young mans rise to riches and his regrets at the loss of love. Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 1hr 6mins) Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother...