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Read by Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 48mins) Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on 24th March 1852 into a wealthy family. When he was eight the family moved to a house on New York’s famed Fifth Avenue. In 1863 he witnessed the Draft Riots...
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"...
Part 5 For many Christians the New Testament forms the basis of our more modern view of Christianity. But the Old Testament has much to offer both in which of its parts are accepted by which branch of the Church but, more obviously, many of the stories themselves. Whether you...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan. He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted...
Part 3 For many Christians the New Testament forms the basis of our more modern view of Christianity. But the Old Testament has much to offer both in which of its parts are accepted by which branch of the Church but, more obviously, many of the stories themselves. Whether you...
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 56mins) Occasionally an author appears who, in a short career, emblazons a legacy so bright and so distinct, as well as popular that it is difficult to believe it is the output of only one man. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was such a talent. Stevenson...
Read by Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 55mins) Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was born in Paris on 2nd April 1840. When he was 3 the family moved to Aix-en-Provence in the southeast. At 7 his father died, leaving the family on a meagre pension. In 1858, they returned to Paris. His...
Part 6 For many Christians the New Testament forms the basis of our more modern view of Christianity. But the Old Testament has much to offer both in which of its parts are accepted by which branch of the Church but, more obviously, many of the stories themselves. Whether you...
(Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) This poet of Victorian times was held in awe for his magnificent works, including "In Memoriam", "Morte D'Arthur", and "Charge of the Light Brigade". His language and command of vocabulary seem particularly in keeping with the grand sweep of Victorian ambition. Many selections are asembled here and...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 51mins) Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4th July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, a town synonymous with the earlier Salem Witch Trials. It was instrumental in Hawthorne’s later use of American Gothic and dark romanticism in his writing. He was a mere four...