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Read by Richard Mitchley, Nigel Planer & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 19mins) Featuring poems by Henry Alford, Laurence Binyon, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Hafiz & others. The eighth month of the Gregorian calendar brings summer to a close, at least on our calendars. Nature will continue with her wise and infinite...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 27mins) 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...
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,...
Read by Gareth David-Lloyd, Ian Fairbairn & Geoffrey Balydon (Unabridged: 2hrs 22mins) M.R. James, the greatest English writer of ghost stories, was born in 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate, and spent most of his boyhood at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia,...
Read by Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 29mins) Stephen Crane was born 1st November, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey and was the eighth surviving child out of fourteen. Incredibly he began writing at the age of four and was published several times by the age of sixteen. ...
Read by Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow & Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 2hrs 7mins) Willa Sibert Cather had Welsh ancestry but like her parents Charles and Mary, was born in Virginia, on 7th December 1873. Despite strong roots in the community, Willa was 9, when the family moved to Nebraska, to work...
Read by Peter Egan (Abridged: 2hrs 20mins) It is strange to consider that, although The Hound Of The Baskervilles is Conan Doyle’s most popular novel, his hero is absent for much of the time. Notice how he sets up an atmosphere of supernatural horror right from the start through Dr...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs) Many giants of Literature originate from the shores of these emerald isles; Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, The Brontes and Austen to which most people would willingly add the name Thomas Hardy. Far From The Madding Crowd, Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, The Mayor Of Casterbridge are...
Read by Tom McLean, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 4mins) Franz Kafka was born on 3rd July 1883 in Prague, then in Bohemia, the eldest of 6, into a middle-class Jewish family. Life for the young Kafka and his passion for literature was often made an ordeal by his over-bearing...
Read by Nigel Planer, Richard Mitchley & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Featuring poems by William Blake, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John Clare & others. The Romantics – Volume 2. Romanticism was a new movement in philosophy and the arts that began in the late 18th century...