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The literary movement influenced by sources such as Nietzsche, Darwin & Einstein Read by Jim Norton Laurel Lefkow & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 10hrs 33mins) Featuring stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Mansfield, Damon Runyon, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf & more. Grouping together works by various authors into a theme should be...
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 46mins) Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Russian province of Tula to a wealthy noble family. As a child, he had private tutors but he showed little interest in any formal education. When he went to the University of Kazan in 1843 to...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 31mins) Featuring poems from Sara Teasdale, William Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, William Blake & many more. The year reaches its end with the Twelfth month. The landscape may be bleak, a sculpture of lines, monochrome dominates. The air carries the sounds of...
Read by Connie Booth (Abridged: 2hrs 50mins) Little Women is constructed as a series of episodes which are almost complete stories in their own right. Incidents in the lives of the March sisters act as fables, each illustrating a moral point. In her novel, Louisa May Alcott describes her characters'...
Read by Lia Williams (Abridged: 2hrs 55min) This novel depicts a mill owner, Robert, whose business is struggling and in turn rejects his attraction to an orphaned woman, Carolne, in favour of proposing to a rich landowner, Shirley. In Charlotte Bronte’s classic Shirley rejects him as she loves Robert’s poor...
Read by Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 1hr 51mins) Herman Melville was born in New York City on 1st August 1819. At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which permanently diminished his eyesight. Add this to a contemporary description of being "very backwards in speech and somewhat slow in comprehension"...
Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were...
Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were...
Read by Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Stephen Crane was born 1st November, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey and was the eighth surviving child out of fourteen. Incredibly he began writing at the age of four and was published several times by the age of sixteen. Crane only began a...
Read by Eve Karpf & Liza Ross (Unabridged 1hr 20mins) The art of writing a short story can be barely noticed by a reader such is the quality with which they are usually written. It is a difficult trade, an unforgiving discipline but for those who master it the rewards...