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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...
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...
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: 43mins) 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 at this time were...
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...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 3hrs 6mins) John Galsworthy was born in Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey, on August 14th 1867. The family was wealthy and well established. John was schooled at Harrow and New College, Oxford before training as a barrister. But law was not for...