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Author: Mark Twain, F Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, Various
Format: Online
Author Mark Twain, F Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, Various
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 52m
A wonderful selection of stories to make you laugh, cry and shiver! Featuring stories from Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saki amongst a great many famous others, this collection is a must for anyone who enjoys listening to a wide variety of stories from a diverse range of voices.
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Author: Victor Hugo
Format: Online
Author Victor Hugo
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 2h 24m
Hugo's vibrant portrait of the characters in late eighteenth century Paris is a world-famous story, which has also been made into an award-winning musical. Jean Valjean, an ex-convict, tries to turn his life around for the sake of his adopted daughter, Cosette. Set in turbulent times, this reading by Michael Jayston of this classic tale is a bustli...
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Author: Virginia Woolf
Format: Online
Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 20m
In "The Legacy," Gilbert Clandon is a widower whose wife has left him the collection of diaries she has kept since their marriage began. The diaries reveal that the wife he thought was completely devoted to him has been in love with another man. With this discovery also comes the realization that her death may not have been accidental, as he previo...
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Author: We Aytoun
Format: Online
Author We Aytoun
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 15m
This truly perturbing story starts from harmless enough beginnings to give a blow-by-blow account of a terrifying encounter between one young man and and the cause of his many nightmares thenceforth. A bell-ringer climbs up to remove a muffler from a bell, so that practice can resume. However, his partner is called off on urgent business, and our h...
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Author: W W Jacobs
Format: Online
Author W W Jacobs
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 25m
An old soldier visiting the Whites gives Mr White a monkey's paw, fabled to grant three wishes to three different men, but warns of the misery it can bring on the lives of those who use it.
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Author: Wilkie Collins
Format: Online
Author Wilkie Collins
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 1h 19m
Classic story from the author of The Woman In White, a young woman finds herself caught between true love and her family's honor
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Short Stories: The Thinking Man's Collection
Author: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 20m
Following the success of its 'Best of Women's Short Stories' collections, CSA Word now compliments its oeuvre of critically-acclaimed short stories with a collection that celebrates and studies MEN in all their forms. Inspirational, weird, wonderful, intriguing and even extraordinary men feature in this collection.
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Author: William Locke
Format: Online
Author William Locke
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 47m
A gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, Andrea is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the co...
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Author: William Thackeray
Format: Online
Author William Thackeray
Narrator Edward Petherbridge
Duration 2h 22m
Becky Sharpe will stop at nothing to increase her social standing, could anything get in her way? Becky Sharp is one of literature's most important and controversial characters; born into the lower classes, she must rely on her wit and guile and sexuality to master regent society. Neither friendship nor trust can even abate Becky's desire to climb...
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Author: William Wordsworth
Format: Online
Author William Wordsworth
Narrator Jasper Britton
Duration 1h 18m
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, in the Lake District. His Lyrical Ballads, written in collaboration with Coleridge, was published in 1798, and shortly afterwards he settled in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with his sister Dorothy. Inspired in his early manhood by the French Revolution, he grew disillusioned with revolutionary poli...
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Author: Carl Grose
Format: Online
Author Carl Grose
Narrator Various
Duration 59m
A surreal, dark comedy from BBC Radio 3's The Wire, by Cornish writer Carl Grose that was inspired by seeing a Johannesburg local newspaper headline about a farmer who hanged 49 donkeys from tree branches on his land. Originally broadcast 1 November 2008 and repeated 18 July 2009. In Grose's play, Stanley Bray, a Cornish farmer, is compelled to han...
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Author: Charles Dickens
Format: Online
Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 32m
The Bagman's Story is an uncharacteristically happy story taken from 'The Pickwick Papers'. Dealing with themes of marriage and having an overall positive tone, this tale is uplifting and gentle, with a reassuring and welcome direction.
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Author: Charles Dickens
Format: Online
Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 23m
The timeless and enchanting festive story of Scrooge, who declares Christmas 'Humbug' and is taught otherwise. Ebenezer Scrooge is a money-grabbing skinflint who makes his own life and the lives of those around him nigh-unbearable with his mean and economical ways. One night just before Christmas, tucked up in his cold bed, he is shocked to meet ap...
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Author: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
Format: Online
Author Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
Narrator Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres
Duration 33m
This classic Shakespeare tale of false identities, cross-dressing, disguises and romantic confusion is brought to life in a story (rather than a play) format. Based in a Dutchy in France, most of the action in fact takes place in 'The Forest of Arden' where the characters in the play fall in love, fall out with each other and find out some unlikely...
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Author: Colin Dexter
Format: Online
Author Colin Dexter
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 14m
Neighborly concern about a suspicious stranger sets a new puzzle for Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse.
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Author: Dai Sijie
Format: Online
Author Dai Sijie
Narrator Bradley Wong
Duration 4h 24m
BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village for re-education during China's infamous Cultural Revolution. There the two friends meet the da...
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Author: E F Benson
Format: Online
Author E F Benson
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 22m
This ghost story recounts in vivid detail the experiences of a man's stay in a 'haunted' villa, terrorized by strange and hideous apparitions.
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Author: Fay Weldon
Format: Online
Author Fay Weldon
Narrator Julie Christie
Duration 28m
Mark and Molly, a married couple, share the same birthday although occupy different positions on the astrological chart. Molly is fastidious, devoted and frugal and hopes that Mark can appreciate her approach to life and adopt it for the sake of their growing family. A poignant story about the innate power of nature over nurture and the pointlessne...
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The Bottom Line and the Sharp End
Author: Fay Weldon
Format: Online
Author Fay Weldon
Narrator Julie Christie
Duration 21m
Written with biting satire, much humor and a pervading melancholy, this story is a fine example of Fay Weldon's exquisite and accomplished talent for short story writing.
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Billy Bunter and the Blue Mauritius
Author: Frank Richards
Format: Online
Author Frank Richards
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h 5m
Billy Bunter becomes involved in Sir Hilton Popper's incredibly valuable stamp, the Blue Mauritius which is stolen by a local thief. After the usual hilarious romp Bunter of course comes up trumps!
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Author: Frank Richards
Format: Online
Author Frank Richards
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h 2m
Money goes missing from the Head's drawer and the hunt is on for the money and the thief, with lashings of silly business and clumsy incidents along the way! The very rotund British schoolboy proves a hit with listeners yet again!
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