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(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...
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 Christopher Ragland & Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 2hrs 51mins) William Sydney Porter was born on 11th September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At age 3 his mother died from tuberculosis. From an early age it was clear Porter had a large appetite for reading as he absorbed the world around him....
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 Ghizela Rowe, Sean Barrett & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 17mins)e Featuring poems by William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson & Alfred Austin. The office of Poet Laureate goes back many centuries – informally to the time of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1389 and followed thereafter by a number of ‘volunteer laureates’....
(Unabridged: 1hr 23mins) In this selection of some of Saki's best short stories, we enter a fictional world in which the Edwardian gently are pitched against the rude forces of nature and maiden aunts struggle unsuccessfully to contain the merciless antics of children in their charge. Saki is perhaps the...
Read by Christopher Ragland & Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 1hr 44mins) Sherwood Anderson was born on 13th September 1876 in Camden, Ohio. When his father’s business failed the family was forced to move on a regular basis before finally settling in Clyde, Ohio. Anderson, one of 7 children, left school at 14...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Danny Swopes (Unabridged: 1hr 7mins) Paul Laurence Dunbar was born on June 27th, 1872 in Dayton Ohio. His parents had been slaves in Kentucky before the Civil War. Dunbar wrote his first poem at age 6 and gave his first public recital at age...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 10mins) William Wymark Jacobs was born on 8th September 1863 in Wapping, East London. He was educated at a private school and then Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, now part of the University of London. In 1879, Jacobs began work...
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...