Discover the Best Sellers Audiobooks in Classics, British Literature

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Title: A Child's Dream of a Star

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Glenn Hascall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A classic short story from beloved author Charles Dickens. As was common among many of Dickens' stories, this tale deals with death and human connection. It is a story of hope and compassion. It is a story of love.

Members Reviews:

Public domain work being sold for WAY too much.

This story is included in the "Weird Tales" anthology and why? I do not see why this could be in something which is generally ghost and horror stories. This is Dickens at his most saccharine. A pair of siblings look each night for a star to appear, continuing the practice even as one grows ill and dies. The star connects the surviving sibling to the heavenly spirit of the dead sibling, who repeatedly tells him it is not time even as the rest of the family drops like flies. Until finally, one day, he gets to join them again and I just rolled my eyes.

I saw someone say in their review that it would be a good bedtime story for kids, but no. No no. Don't read this to kids, hearing about family members dying and not being able to join them will be nothing to comfort them to sleep, what are you doing?

The story is in the public domain, so you can get it for free from sites like Project Gutenberg and Librivox. I listened to the audio production from Librivox.

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Title: The Man Who Went Too Far

Author: E. F. Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

When Darcy, recuperating from a serious illness, goes to stay with an old friend of his, Frank, in the New Forest, he discovers a puzzling change in the man. He appears to have become significantly younger and is also filled with exuberance and joy. Frank explains that he has spent the last six years studying Nature and has discovered a new philosophy of life around the joy of nature.

After devoting himself to Nature, he has started hearing a strange wonderful pipe music in the woods and he knows that the final revelation is about to come to him. But Darcy has serious misgivings about his friend's situation and his fears are not unfounded.

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost and horror stories.

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Title: Outside the Door

Author: E. F. Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known as the true master of the gothic ghost story.

Outside the Door is a strange tale illustrating how terrible deeds from the past can imbue the rooms in which they happened with the spirit of the events which happened there. In this case, a dreadful murder which is re-enacted at night in the old manor.

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Title: Black Yarn and Blue

Author: A.L.O.E.

Narrator: Glenn Hascall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-02-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

During her time as a writer, A Lady of England (A.L.O.E.) was one of the best-selling authors alive. Our current generation may have little reference point for her work, but her tales are always filled with a combination of great storytelling with an underlying message. This short story helps a young boy recovering from an injury to discover even in difficult circumstances there is always reason to be grateful. Perfect for all ages, but especially for those who may need to revisit the bright side of life.

Narrated by Glenn Hascall.

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Title: The Man of Science

Author: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-02-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Do you believe in ghosts? You might reconsider if you don't after listening to this story of a man haunted by a longtime enemy.

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Title: The Voice

Author: A. J. Alan

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A. J. Alan was the pseudonym of Leslie Harrison Lambert (1883-1941), an English magician, intelligence officer, short story writer, and radio broadcaster. He was hugely popular in the '20s and '30s for his radio broadcasts, when he performed his own humorous and often macabre short stories, which he always delivered wearing full evening dress.

The Voice tells the story of a family whose wireless reception is being mysteriously interrupted by unusual sounds of a woman singing. Attempts to discover the source of the interference leads to something quite extraordinary.

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Title: The Story of the Sealed Room

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Gregg Rizzo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A banker who has people's fortunes leaves his wife and son. They receive letters from Paris describing his life and know nothing of what is behind the sealed door.

Members Reviews:

The Door To ???

Fascinating story full of suspense and very well written

Excellent Mystery

Another Masterpiece. In this story, we are in April 1894, and Watson (now a widower) checks 427 Park Lane where a young gambler, the Honorable Ronald Adair, was shot in a closed room on the 30th of March. He bumps into a wizened old book collector, who follows him home to his Kensington practice study then drops his disguise â it is Holmes. Holmes apologizes for the deception needed to outwit his enemies, and describes his three years' exploits. He needed funds, so he confided in his brother Mycroft, who had preserved Sherlock Holmes's rooms.

Holmes is convinced that Adair was killed by Colonel Sebastian Moran, a surviving lieutenant of Moriarty. Holmes has set a trap: the empty house across from his Baker Street flat has a clear view of a wax bust of Holmes, which is moved regularly from below by Mrs. Hudson to simulate life. After a roundabout route, Watson and Holmes wait two hours until around midnight in the abandoned Camden House. Moran, who has taken the bait, fires a specialized air-gun to assassinate his foe. Watson knocks down the villain, while Holmes whistles for Inspector Lestrade and the police.

Back at Baker Street, Holmes explains. Adair planned to expose card-partner Moran whom he found cheating, and had locked himself in to count out the spoils he needed to return. Moran would have been ruined by the exposure and kills Adair instead.

I recommend this book to any reader who appreciate a well written mystery.

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Title: The Bath Chair

Author: E. F. Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost stories.

The Bath Chair is a sinister tale of Alice Farraday who harbours an obsessive hatred of her selfish brother Edmund. Alice is a believer in occult powers, and she well knows that a hatred, nurtured and fed, will take on a life of its own and bring about disaster for its object.

She herself will not have to lift a finger to harm her brother. She must merely be patient and continue to hate. And indeed, before long Edmund begins to see a stranger with a limp wherever he goes. At first he is unable to get a clear view of the strange man... but when finally he sees him close up, the man's face fills him with terror, as he realizes the ghastly significance of the apparition.

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Title: The Story of the Black Doctor

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Gregg Rizzo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

When the "good doctor" is found dead, there is a trial and surprises await, with an ending you could not predict.

Members Reviews:

Three Stars

Interesting and short.

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Title: A Foggy Evening

Author: A. J. Alan

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A. J. Alan was the pseudonym of Leslie Harrison Lambert (1883-1941), an English magician, intelligence officer, short story writer, and radio broadcaster. He was hugely popular in the '20s and '30s for his radio broadcasts, when he performed his own humorous and often macabre short stories, which he always delivered wearing full evening dress.

A Foggy Evening tells of a night when A. J. Alan is mistaken by a stranger for someone else, and decides to play along with the mistake. He is dragged along to a mysterious party, which turns out to be the meeting of a very odd secret society. All narrated with A. J. Alan's infection humour.