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Fernandino Eboli

A twisting tale of stolen identity and revenge set upon the Napoleonic wars in Italy

by Mary Shelley ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

51 min

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born on the 30th August 1797 in Somers Town, London.Her mother, the famous feminist philosopher, educator, and writer Mary Wollstonecraft died when Mary was only 11 days old and she was raised by her father, the philosopher, novelist, journalist, and perpetually in debt, William Godwin.Though Mary received little formal education her father taught her a broad range ... Read more

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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born on the 30th August 1797 in Somers Town, London.Her mother, the famous feminist philosopher, educator, and writer Mary Wollstonecraft died when Mary was only 11 days old and she was raised by her father, the philosopher, novelist, journalist, and perpetually in debt, William Godwin.Though Mary received little formal education her father taught her a broad range
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Shadow of a Shade, The

A man explores the Arctic, but his friend takes advantage of this

by Tom Hood ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

36 min

Tom Hood was born on the 19th January 1835 at Lake House, Leytonstone just outside of London, the son of the famed poet Thomas Hood.Hood was educated at University College School and Louth Grammar School before attending Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1853 to study for a career in the Church. Despite passing all of his exams he never graduated.Hood began writing at Oxford and first published soon ... Read more

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Tom Hood was born on the 19th January 1835 at Lake House, Leytonstone just outside of London, the son of the famed poet Thomas Hood.Hood was educated at University College School and Louth Grammar School before attending Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1853 to study for a career in the Church. Despite passing all of his exams he never graduated.Hood began writing at Oxford and first published soon
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Richard Middleton - A Short Story Collection

Talented turn of the century author that suffered from intense depression that led to his early suicide

by Richard Middleton ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

1 hour 47 min

Richard Barham Middleton was born on the 28th October 1882 in Staines, Middlesex.His education was primarily at Cranbrook School in Kent before he began work as a clerk, in 1901, at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation in London. There he struggled with constraints and boundaries and by night he took to a bohemian lifestyle.Middleton moved into rooms in Blackfriars and joined the New Bohemians ... Read more

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Richard Barham Middleton was born on the 28th October 1882 in Staines, Middlesex.His education was primarily at Cranbrook School in Kent before he began work as a clerk, in 1901, at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation in London. There he struggled with constraints and boundaries and by night he took to a bohemian lifestyle.Middleton moved into rooms in Blackfriars and joined the New Bohemians
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Lessons from Literature - Stories Dealing with Death and Loss

Learn from the oldest form of communication and education - storytelling

by Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Mary Shelley, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Winifred Holtby, Winifred Holtby, D H Lawrence, Barry Pain0, Johann Hebel1, Stacy Aumonier2, Mary Butts3, Mary Cholmondeley4, O Henry5, Katherine Mansfield6, Gertrude Atherton7, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps8, Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev9, Vera Jelihovsky0 ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell1, Richard Mitchley2, Eric Meyers3 ...

Unabridged

10 hours 54 min

Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings.In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and ... Read more

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Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings.In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and
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Media, The - A Short Story Collection

Classic stories before the age of social media

by Henry James, E M Delafield, E M Delafield, Frank R Stockton, H D Everett, W F Arnold, Barry Pain, Dorothy Edwards, Robert Duncan Milne, Owen Oliver, Winifred Holtby0, Charlotte Perkins Gilman1, C E Montague2 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley3, Robert Maskell4, Eric Roberts5 ...

Unabridged

7 hours 49 min

The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting.However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s ... Read more

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The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting.However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s
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3 Christmas Stories - Sad

A trio of Xmas themed stories for the holiday season

by Hans Christian Anderson, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...

Narrated by Janet Fullerlove, Robert Maskell, Tom McLean ...

Unabridged

30 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Lettice Galbraith - A Short Story Collection

A gifted supernatural author whose identity remained a mystery for almost 100 years

by Lettice Galbraith ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

3 hours 46 min

Lettice Galbraith is yet another of those mysterious women of British literature of whom little was recorded.Lizzie Susan Gibson was born on the 27th January 1859 in Kingston-Upon-Hull in Yorkshire into a comfortable middle-class family.Her education was primarily private but at fifteen her father died, and life became rather different.After several years in London, she moved with her mother to ... Read more

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Lettice Galbraith is yet another of those mysterious women of British literature of whom little was recorded.Lizzie Susan Gibson was born on the 27th January 1859 in Kingston-Upon-Hull in Yorkshire into a comfortable middle-class family.Her education was primarily private but at fifteen her father died, and life became rather different.After several years in London, she moved with her mother to
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Professor's Mummy, The

Egyptian artifacts, abuse, love and murder all mix in this Victorian thriller

by Fergus Hume ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

33 min

Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys' High School before studying law at the University of Otago. Hume was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885.He moved to become a barrister’s clerk to Melbourne and once there also began writing plays. The ... Read more

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Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys' High School before studying law at the University of Otago. Hume was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885.He moved to become a barrister’s clerk to Melbourne and once there also began writing plays. The
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Ghost-Ship, The

A unique and humorous take on a ghost story

by Richard Middleton ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

22 min

Richard Barham Middleton was born on the 28th October 1882 in Staines, Middlesex.His education was primarily at Cranbrook School in Kent before he began work as a clerk, in 1901, at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation in London. There he struggled with constraints and boundaries and by night he took to a bohemian lifestyle.Middleton moved into rooms in Blackfriars and joined the New Bohemians ... Read more

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Richard Barham Middleton was born on the 28th October 1882 in Staines, Middlesex.His education was primarily at Cranbrook School in Kent before he began work as a clerk, in 1901, at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation in London. There he struggled with constraints and boundaries and by night he took to a bohemian lifestyle.Middleton moved into rooms in Blackfriars and joined the New Bohemians
... Read more
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Flying Leave, The

A WW1 soliders childhood traumas return on his leave from trench duty

by Ethel Lina White ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

26 min

Ethel Lina White was born on the 2nd April 1876 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in Wales.Her family were wealthy due to her father’s invention of a waterproofing material used, initially, for the London Underground.Ethel started writing when she was only a child and published essays and poems in children’s papers. She was also a talented artist.As an adult she began to write short stories and, some ... Read more

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Ethel Lina White was born on the 2nd April 1876 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in Wales.Her family were wealthy due to her father’s invention of a waterproofing material used, initially, for the London Underground.Ethel started writing when she was only a child and published essays and poems in children’s papers. She was also a talented artist.As an adult she began to write short stories and, some
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Detective Stories – Mysteries

Truth and justice by way of clues

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Nicholas Olde, Ernest Bramah, Jacques Futrelle, Rose Champion de Crespigny, G K Chesterton, Frank Howel Evans, Arthur Morrison, George Griffiths, Maurice LeBlanc, Arthur Gask, Headon Hill ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, Robert Maskell, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

9 hours 54 min

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult ... Read more

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The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult
... Read more
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Theme is Poison, The - A Short Story Collection

Stories revolving around one of humanities more subtle killing methods

by Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Mansfield, H P Lovecraft, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Nesbit, Arthur Gask, A M Burrage, E M Delafield, Lady Eleanor Smith, Francis Brett Young, Alice and Claude Askew, Vincent O'Sullivan ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Richard Mitchley, Janet Fullerlove ...

Unabridged

8 hours 21 min

Poison is all around us. Whether that’s in the vindictive personalities of some who do not wish us well or, more usually, in a substance given to us to cause illness and maybe even death.In this volume our classic authors take narratives and characters who sometimes know each other, may profess love for each other, but are on a dark path to ensure their victims suffer in a cruel and needless way ... Read more

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Poison is all around us. Whether that’s in the vindictive personalities of some who do not wish us well or, more usually, in a substance given to us to cause illness and maybe even death.In this volume our classic authors take narratives and characters who sometimes know each other, may profess love for each other, but are on a dark path to ensure their victims suffer in a cruel and needless way
... Read more

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