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Read by Jim Norton (Abridged: 2hrs 59mins) Set against the background of Dublin at the turn of the century, Joyce's celebrated collection of short stories recount a series of unremarkable incidents in the lives of ordinary men and women. Stylistically straightforward, it is Joyce's eye for detail, matched only by...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 7mins) Born in 1797, her Mother died when she was only 11 days old. Mary was then raised by her Father, who remarried when she was four, with a liberal but informal upbringing. At 17 she began the relationship with the poet Percy Byshe Shelley which was the...
(Unabridged: 1hr 26mins) Edgar Allan Poe, is considered the greatest of all writers of macabre stories, was born in Boston, Massachesetts, in 1809. His father, an Irish-American actor, died the following year, and his mother, an English actress, the year after, in Richmond, Virginia. John Allan, a wealthy Richmond merchant,...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 57mins) Featuring poems by Emily Dickinson, Sappho, Amy Lowell, Katherine Mansfield, Aphra Behn & more. In the last few decades secular society has become more tolerant of homosexuality. Now, in the West, we live in a time when to be gay...
Read by Laurel Lefkow, Eric Meyers & Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 2hrs 8mins) Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24th June 1842 at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents were poor but they introduced him to literature at an early age, instilling in him a deep appreciation of...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 1min) Kabir, meaning Great and one of the 99 names of God in Arabic, was a mystic and poet, born around 1440 in Varanasi to poor Muslim parents. Another account claims he was the child of a Brahmin widow. He himself said...
Read by Laurel Lefkow, Eric Meyers & Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 2hrs 9mins) Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24th June 1842 at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents were poor but they introduced him to literature at an early age, instilling in him a deep appreciation of...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland & William Dufris (Unabridged: 2hrs 5mins) Featuring stories by Jack London, Edgar Allan Poe, HG Wells & others. Nature is always on the move. Evolution over untold generations moves, streamlines, sometimes mutates. Since the dawn of life there is little doubt that at any...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 5mins) Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22nd May 1859. His childhood was blighted by his father’s heavy drinking which for some years broke up the family. Fortunately, wealthy uncles were willing to support them by paying for...
(Unabridged: 2hrs) The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many...