Your cart is empty now.
Read by Christopher Timothy (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The intrigues of peaceful Barchester are of tremendous importance to its inhabitants, and Anthony Trollope enjoys observing how differently they impinge on the separate worlds of men and women. Men have to make a place for themselves in society; for them ambition is...
Read by Kate Harper (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter is a dramatic story. The plot progresses through a series of theatrical set pieces, such as the three incidents on the scaffold, Hester Prynne’s confrontation with the Governor and her liaison with Mr Dimmesdale in the forest...
Read by Martin Jarvis (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Dickens' exuberant novel charts the rise of its young hero Nicholas Nickleby, who progresses from an impoverished youngster gladly accepting his uncle's offer of help, to an assured businessman capable of thwarting villainous plans. The book unfolds in a series of vivid scenes,...
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...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) Featuring poems by Thomas Shadwell, Robert Southey, John Dryden, John Skelton, William Davenant & others. Volume 1 - The office of Poet Laureate is a high honour amongst poets. The Ancient Greeks had the first idea and their heroes and Poets...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 30mins) Performed by The Marlowe Society One of Shakespeare's most popular plays is here performed by The Marlowe Society with Anthony Jacobs, Corin Redgrave, Paul Scofield and many other very fine actors. The story itself follows on from that of Shakespeare's Richard II (also available in this series)...
Read by Phil Reynolds (Unabridged: 2hrs 52mins) Considered to the be one of most influential American authors, Howard Philip Lovecraft is synonymous with some of the best fantasy and horror fiction of the 20th century, second only to Edgar Allan Poe. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in...
Read by Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow & Liza Ross (Unabridged: 3hrs 9mins) Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on 3rd July 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to an unaffectionate mother and a father who abandoned her and her older brother to a life of poverty. Inevitably her schooling was limited and...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) John Clare was born on 13th July, 1793 in Helpston, a few miles north of Peterborough. Schooled only until the age of 12 his early career was that of agricultural labourer, pot boy, gardener and lime burner. His...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Jake Urry & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Israel Zangwill was born in London on 21st January 1864, to a family of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. Zangwill was initially educated in Plymouth and Bristol. At age 9 he was enrolled in the Jews' Free School...