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Read by Bob Sessions (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Moby Dick is an epic work of the 19th century, not just in its length or its geographical vastness, but also in the way the main characters, Ahab and Ishmael, are presented to the reader. Ahab is, in true classical tradition, a larger-than-life,...
Read by Roger Blake (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Stevenson's classic tale of 18th-century intrigue, conspiracy and piracy has everything an adventure story should have, especially a resourceful young hero in Jim Hawkins. From the moment a drunken sailor arrives to menace the tranquillity of his father's inn, Jim is caught up...
Read by Nigel Planer (Unabridged:1hr 31mins) Featuring poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, James Whitcomb Riley, Charlotte Bronte, William Makepeace Thackeray, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Austin & others. Although there is no definitive definition we all know what they are. At their most magisterial they can reach hundreds of feet...
(Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) MR James is widely regarded as THE master of the ghost story. His stories abound with spectres skulking in the shrubbery, in shadowy corners and dark recesses. The Mezzotint is a whimsical and apparently supernatural tale of art on the move, a dying man devises a gruesome...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 43mins) Alfred McLelland Burrage was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex on 1st July, 1889. His father and uncle were both writers, primarily of boy’s fiction, and by age 16 AM Burrage had joined them. The young man had ambitions to write for the...
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) Algernon Blackwood was born on 14th March 1869 in Shooter’s Hill, South East London, to a religious middle-class family. His mother was a widowed Duchess and his father was a Post Office administrator. Blackwood was interested in the paranormal and the supernatural at...
Read by Hugh Laurie (Abridged: 2hrs 20mins) Three Men In A Boat ranks as one of the most amusing and agreeable books in the English language. Written soon after Jerome’s marriage, it bubbles over with the happiness he felt. Rather than recording one particular trip, the story combines many boating excursions...
Read by Kerry Shale (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Like the hero in the novel, Mark Twain was also a time traveller. His boyhood was spent in the American South, where people followed agrarian lives. As the country modernized, inventions such as electricity and the move towards manufacturing rapidly changed the way...
Read by Bob Sessions (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Brimming with tense and violent incidents The Call Of The Wild traces the changes in the heart of Buck, the dog who grows from a pampered pet in California to a rugged fearsome and indomitable working dog in the far north. Primeval instincts...
Read by Christopher Timothy (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The action of Billy Budd is set within the claustrophobic confines of a British man-of-war ship in the mutiny shadowed summer of 1797. Here, cramped between decks, live the crew of HMS Indomitable, many of them pressed into service against their will, and...