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Short Stories about Isolation & Loneliness

In a crowded world we can still be alone and ignored

by Anton Chekhov, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Amy Levy, Bret Harte, Guy de Maupassant, H P Lovecraft, Ivan Turgenev, Katherine Mansfield, Mary Shelley, Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nikolai Gogol, O Henry, Sherwood Anderson ...

Narrated by William Dufris, Eve Karpf, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

16 hours 29 min

Time seems to move to a slower beat. Everything becomes more circumspect when you have no one to share the big things of life or even the everyday little things. The worry of being alone, to be apart from others. The solitary feeling for a short time might help to get things into perspective or cool a raging mind. But if it’s long term then the mind begins to play tricks. Conversations are between ... Read more

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Time seems to move to a slower beat. Everything becomes more circumspect when you have no one to share the big things of life or even the everyday little things. The worry of being alone, to be apart from others. The solitary feeling for a short time might help to get things into perspective or cool a raging mind. But if it’s long term then the mind begins to play tricks. Conversations are between
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Rhyme A Dozen, A - Roses

12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic

by Robert Burns, Hafiz, Alfred Austin, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Damon Runyon, Edna St Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, John Cournos, Thomas Moore, W B Yeats, William Henry Davies, William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by Alan Cumming, Eve Karpf, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

15 min

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme a ... Read more

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‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme a
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Power of Poetry, The - Poems To Mend A Broken Heart

Beautiful poems that touch the heart for those suffering from heartbreak

by Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, A E Housman, Alice Meynell, Aphra Behn, Charlotte Smith, Edith Nesbit, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Kabir, Michael Drayton, Robert Seymour Bridges, Rupert Brooke, T S Eliot, William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by Marcus D'Amico, Eve Karpf ...

Unabridged

1 hour 23 min

1 - The Power of Poetry - Poems to Mend a Broken Heart - An Introduction2 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe3 - Loves Lies Bleeding by Algernon Charles Swinburne4 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling5 - Ebb by Edna St Vincent Millay6 - Heart We Will Forget Him by Emily Dickinson-7 - My Own Heart, Let Me Have More, Have Pity by Gerard Manley Hopkins8 - They Flee From Me by Sir ... Read more

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1 - The Power of Poetry - Poems to Mend a Broken Heart - An Introduction2 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe3 - Loves Lies Bleeding by Algernon Charles Swinburne4 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling5 - Ebb by Edna St Vincent Millay6 - Heart We Will Forget Him by Emily Dickinson-7 - My Own Heart, Let Me Have More, Have Pity by Gerard Manley Hopkins8 - They Flee From Me by Sir
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Night Terrors Vol. 22

Short Horror Stories Anthology

by Scare Street, Nina Wachsman, Jack Neel Waddell, Clarence Carter, Matthew R. Davis, Roger Davis, Craig Crawford, Kat Sokol, P. D. Williams, Margaret Eve, D. C. Marcus, Adam Vine, Madeline Jacobson, Justin Boote, Justin Moritz, Ron Ripley, Kevin Saito ...

Series Book 22 - Night Terrors
Terror lurks just out of sight. But it won't stay hidden for long…A terrifying science experiment unleashes a phantasmal killer from beyond the grave. An ancient tome devours the minds of all who dare read its endless pages. And a donut shop waitress discovers a sinister secret ingredient, that keeps customers coming back for more…Scare Street is proud to present a breathtaking new collection of ... Read more

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Terror lurks just out of sight. But it won't stay hidden for long…A terrifying science experiment unleashes a phantasmal killer from beyond the grave. An ancient tome devours the minds of all who dare read its endless pages. And a donut shop waitress discovers a sinister secret ingredient, that keeps customers coming back for more…Scare Street is proud to present a breathtaking new collection of
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Night Terrors Vol. 25

Short Horror Stories Anthology

by Scare Street, Warren Benedetto, Eldon Litchfield, Brandon Ebinger, Oliver C. Seneca, Mathew L. Reyes, Alex Zalben, Justin Boote, Joshua Orr, Adam Noyes, David-Jack Fletcher, P. D. Williams, Eve Morton, Andrew Wilmot, Matt Bliss, Nikki Zambon, Ron Ripley, Kevin Saito ...

Series Book 25 - Night Terrors
Enter a new realm of nightmares…An ancient legend comes to life, when a savage creature stalks a terrified girl through the jungle. A mission to Mars takes a grisly turn, as the last surviving astronaut encounters horror beyond comprehension. And the shadows that lurk in a young boy's bedroom become sinister protectors, lashing out at the child's cruel and dysfunctional family…Scare Street is ... Read more

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Enter a new realm of nightmares…An ancient legend comes to life, when a savage creature stalks a terrified girl through the jungle. A mission to Mars takes a grisly turn, as the last surviving astronaut encounters horror beyond comprehension. And the shadows that lurk in a young boy's bedroom become sinister protectors, lashing out at the child's cruel and dysfunctional family…Scare Street is
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Classic Sci-Fi Horror Stories

Two of our favourite genres intertwined

by Ambrose Bierce, Auguste Villiers de I'Ísle-Adam, H G Wells, H P Lovecraft, Jack London, L T Meade, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Violet Hunt, William Hope Hodgson ...

Narrated by Garrick Hogan, Eve Karpf, Christopher Ragland ...

Unabridged

14 hours 2 min

Science fiction is in many ways positive, uplifting and a vision of where we are headed. But in this volume our classic authors including Lovecraft, Wells, Hawthorne and others reveal its darker cousin; Horror. Now these malevolent terrors have made up their minds that blending themselves with Science Fiction might make their impact even more awful and frightening for us to bear.1 - Classic Sci-Fi ... Read more

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Science fiction is in many ways positive, uplifting and a vision of where we are headed. But in this volume our classic authors including Lovecraft, Wells, Hawthorne and others reveal its darker cousin; Horror. Now these malevolent terrors have made up their minds that blending themselves with Science Fiction might make their impact even more awful and frightening for us to bear.1 - Classic Sci-Fi
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Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law

Essays in Comparative Legal History from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Centuries

Edited by William Eves, John Hudson, Ingrid Ivarsen, Sarah B. White ...

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive introduction addresses the intellectual challenges posed by comparative approaches to legal history. This is followed by twelve essays ... Read more

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Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive introduction addresses the intellectual challenges posed by comparative approaches to legal history. This is followed by twelve essays
... Read more
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Fifty Shades of March

50 of the best poems about the month of March

by William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, William Morris, John Clare, Katherine Mansfield, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Amy Levy, Amy Lowell, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Blake, Walt Whitman ...

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf ...

Unabridged

1 hour 25 min

The third month of our Gregorian calendar. Spring begins to delicately change the land. Colour and light begin their inexorable march to bathe the landscape around us. Temperatures subtly begin to rise, nature welcomes warmth.50 poems from the pens of our remarkable poets including Yeats, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Housman, Lowell and a plethora of others come lines and verse on the wonder of the ... Read more

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The third month of our Gregorian calendar. Spring begins to delicately change the land. Colour and light begin their inexorable march to bathe the landscape around us. Temperatures subtly begin to rise, nature welcomes warmth.50 poems from the pens of our remarkable poets including Yeats, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Housman, Lowell and a plethora of others come lines and verse on the wonder of the
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Heraldry as art

An account of its development and practice, chiefly in England

by George William Eve ...

In dealing with heraldry from the artist’s point of view, as a decorative subject which offers interesting scope for technical effort, it will not be necessary to go overmuch into the question of its origin, nor to elaborate its history beyond what is needed to give such knowledge of its methods as may help the doing of present work or the intelligent appreciation of the old. Nevertheless, the ... Read more

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In dealing with heraldry from the artist’s point of view, as a decorative subject which offers interesting scope for technical effort, it will not be necessary to go overmuch into the question of its origin, nor to elaborate its history beyond what is needed to give such knowledge of its methods as may help the doing of present work or the intelligent appreciation of the old. Nevertheless, the
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Westminster Memorials, Volume 1

by William Blake, John Bunyan, Rupert Brooke ...

Narrated by Alex Jennings, Eve Karpf, Richard Mitchley ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Westminster Memorials
Unabridged

1 hour 4 min

Volume 1Westminster Abbey has seen much during its long, rich history; the coronations of Kings and Queens, the burials of Prime ministers. However it is also a church that remembers the men and women of the arts. Dedicated writers and poets who spoke so eloquently that the Nation wished to remember them with plaques upon its walls so that all who travelled here could remember too.Their works are ... Read more

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Volume 1Westminster Abbey has seen much during its long, rich history; the coronations of Kings and Queens, the burials of Prime ministers. However it is also a church that remembers the men and women of the arts. Dedicated writers and poets who spoke so eloquently that the Nation wished to remember them with plaques upon its walls so that all who travelled here could remember too.Their works are
... Read more
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The Winter's Tale

BBC Radio Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by Danny Sapani, Eve Best, Full Cast, Karl Johnson, Paul Copley, Shaun Dooley, Susan Jameson ...

Unabridged

2 hours 30 min

Eve Best, Danny Sapani and Shaun Dooley star in this modern, riveting and magical production of The Winter's Tale by William ShakespeareThe Winter's Tale treads new dramatic ground embracing tragedy, poetry, folklore, magic realism, music, comedy and the infamous stage direction "exit pursued by a bear". One of Shakespeare's mesmerising later productions, often considered a 'problem play' as it ... Read more

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Eve Best, Danny Sapani and Shaun Dooley star in this modern, riveting and magical production of The Winter's Tale by William ShakespeareThe Winter's Tale treads new dramatic ground embracing tragedy, poetry, folklore, magic realism, music, comedy and the infamous stage direction "exit pursued by a bear". One of Shakespeare's mesmerising later productions, often considered a 'problem play' as it
... Read more
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Venus & Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece

by William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by David Burke, Eve Best, Clare Corbett, Benjamin Soames, Oliver Le Sueur, Ruth Sillers, Hugh Dickson, Daniel Philpott, David Timson ...

Unabridged

3 hours 18 min

These two great poems date from Shakespeare’s early years and are full of passion and invention. In Venus and Adonis, the goddess of love pleads with the beautiful boy to submit to her advances and become her love but he only wants to hunt boar. In the more serious Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare draws on the Roman take of the Emperor Tarquin’s desire for Lucrece and its tragic consequences. These ... Read more

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These two great poems date from Shakespeare’s early years and are full of passion and invention. In Venus and Adonis, the goddess of love pleads with the beautiful boy to submit to her advances and become her love but he only wants to hunt boar. In the more serious Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare draws on the Roman take of the Emperor Tarquin’s desire for Lucrece and its tragic consequences. These
... Read more

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