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Poetry and prose together from literary greats. Read by Bill Wallis, Eve Karpf & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 26min) Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. An author’s ideas...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 1min) Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Campden Hill, Kensington on May 29th 1874. Originally after attending St Pauls School he went to Slade to learn the art of illustration. In 1896 he joined a small London publisher and began...
Read by Bill Wallis (Unabridged: 2hrs 45mins) This wonderful creation by GK Chesterton is a familiar favourite to many as a TV series in the 70s with Kenneth More. Chesterton’s other works include ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much. These four stories test Father Brown in many ways creating headaches...
Read by Mark Rice-Oxley, Christopher Ragland & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 5hrs 24mins) Featuring stories by Anthony Trollope, Virginia Woolf, John Galsworthy, G K Chesterton & others. The teeming metropolis of London has a long history of innovation. Amongst its most gilded are the literary talents of its world-famous authors. From Anthony Trollope and Daniel Defoe...
Read by Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) Featuring poems by Thomas Hardy, G.K. Chesterton, Letitia Elizabeth Landon & others. The church building has been pivotal to man’s spiritual and religious life for centuries. For many the interior of a church is literally their one to...
Read by James Taylor, Aidan Gillen, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Alex Jennings (Unabridged: 1hr 49mins) Featuring poems by GK Chesterton, Herman Melville, Christoper Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde & others. Novelists stake their claim as artists on works that encapsulate a whole world of characters and narrative...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 3hrs 29mins) Featuring poems by Sara Teasdale, G.K. Chesterton, Siegfried Sassoon, Amy Lowell, Thomas Hardy, Ford Madox Ford & others. In the War a great volume of poetry was written, produced and published in books, periodicals, newspapers or letters back to home. ...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 51mins) Featuring poems by GK Chesterton, Thomas Hood, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, Alice Meynell & others. Curved up against the Harrow road in London is one of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries that began to girdle the capital in the Victorian Age....
Many writers of poetry or novels are also critics. Fewer critics have also written poetry or novels. G.K. Chesterton, however, during the course of his various and colourful literary career, wrote poetry, plays and novels, including both fantasy and detective amongst other more traditional genres, while also criticising literature...
A collection of quotes on and about morality. "Men are cruel, but man is kind." Rabindranath Tagore "Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before." G.K. Chesterton "Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere." G.K. Chesterton...