Discover the Best Sellers Audiobooks in Classics, British Literature

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Title: Lilac

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.

Lilac is a multilayered tale of a marriage proposal. Frederick Anstey, an art dealer, asks his beloved Lily Brocket to marry him. But she is in a hurry to get away, as her Aunt Clara has appeared from out of town, and she promises to write him a letter by ten that evening to give her reply.

In the intervening hours, as Frederick is tormented by doubts, he meets a series of his neighbours, each of whom sheds a different light on possible outcomes of his proposal to Lily.

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Title: The Ruby Glass

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day. One recurring theme in his works, based in his own unhappy experiences of being bullied at school, is alienation in childhood.

The Ruby Glass is a story of dysfunctional childhood. The Cole family play host to their little cousin, Jane, one spring. The other children, Jeremy, Helen, and Mary take an instant dislike to this scrawny, terrified child, and although they do their best to include her in their games, Jane will not join in or engage with them.

The only person who seems to like Jane is Hamlet, Jeremy's beloved dog. Jeremy is having a period where whatever he does, he seems to be in increasing trouble with his parents. And the hated cousin, Jane, always seems to be at the root of everything that goes wrong. He feels that she will be the source of his downfall.

Then one day, the Jane commits the worst act that any of the children could possibly imagine. And Jeremy's response...even with hindsight he cannot understand how on earth he came to do what he did. And why. Why on earth did he do that?

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Title: A Thread of Scarlet

Author: J. J. Bell

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

John Joy Bell (1871-1934), known professionally as J. J. Bell, was a Scottish journalist and author, popular for his vibrant short stories.

A Thread of Scarlet is a mystery story. In an inn in a remote village, three locals are drinking and discussing the extraordinary events of the day. They all attended a hanging that morning.

One of their number had been on the jury which had convicted the murderer. The men are deeply affected by the events of the day and not least because the only friend of the hanged man also appears at the inn, intent on drowning his sorrows. The landlord refuses to serve him.

Then a stranger appears with a peculiar story, and events take a series of very strange turns....

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Title: The Staircase

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.

The Staircase tells the story of a house. An old house, which has seen much and knows many things about the ways of humans. In this story the house feels compelled to intervene in the affairs of the inhabitants to prevent an impeding disaster by murdering one of the humans.

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Title: The Whistle

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist and short-story writer.

When Charlie Penwin arrives home with a dog, his wife is horrified. Mrs. Penwin agrees to keep the dog only if it is looked after by Blake, the wonderful, talented chauffeur whom she dislikes intensely.

Blake and the dog take to each other instantly, but the presence of the dog upsets the equilibrium of the household. Mrs. Blake and Mrs. Penwin hate the dog, as does Mopsa, the family's Sealyham terrier. Charlie and Blake are drawn closer together, almost bonding over the dog, but both of their marriages are developing dangerous rifts.

Mrs. Penwin is perpetually on the lookout for any opportunity to get rid of the dog....

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Title: The Silver Mask

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.

The Silver Mask is a multilayered tale of an elderly lady who falls victim to an insidious but dreadfully attractive confidence trickster. Like a fly trapped in a spiderweb, she cannot extricate herself from the clutches of this gorgeously wicked man...and he is so very attractive...so very, dreadfully attractive....

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Title: Unwinding

Author: W. F. Harvey

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres.

Born into a wealthy Quaker family in Yorkshire, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, and took a degree in medicine at Leeds. Ill health dogged him, however, and he devoted much of his recuperation to writing short stories.

Unwinding is a strange story based around a simple parlour game. The guests take it in turn to say what the thing mentioned by the previous player reminds them of. But when the vicar says that first-class railway compartments remind him of murder, everyone is puzzled. Over supper the vicar tells a very peculiar story. But it is the behaviour of the newcomer, the mysterious Mr. Cholmondery, which is most peculiar....

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Title: The Man Who Hated Aspidistras

Author: W. F. Harvey

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Man Who Hated Aspidistras is an eerie tale of a man whose life, from boyhood onward, as been blighted by the sinister houseplants favoured by Victorian ladies. His dislike turns almost to a mania...and then things take a very peculiar turn....

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Title: Dead of Night

Author: W. F. Harvey

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, particularly in the mystery and horror genres.

Dead of Night is a creepy tale set during a zeppelin raid during the first world war. Athelston Digby goes out during a raid to check on a fire at a factory of which he is a shareholder. While he is out, he is involved in an accident and is taken to the local infirmary.

The hospital is operating under blackout conditions with a skeleton staff...and under these circumstances it is quite possible for mistakes to take place...terrible mistakes....

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Title: The Heart of the Fire

Author: W. F. Harvey

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres.

Born into a wealthy Quaker family in Yorkshire, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, and took a degree in medicine at Leeds. Ill health dogged him, however, and he devoted much of his recuperation to writing short stories.

The Heart of the Fire is a queer tale. On the fireplace in the old coaching inn, The Moorcock, there is carved an old mysterious prophecy which casts an odd burden on the family... in that they dare not ever let the fire go out.

One night a stranger appears at the door. He does not stay long and appears afraid of staying in the house after he has sat by the fire for a while. He mentions that he always sees his future in the embers. He sets off into the night, but after a few hours returns, injured, having been thrown from his horse. As the landlord sits with him by the fire, the stranger nods off to sleep.

The landlord seems to hear a strange voice calling him from the flames and urging him to commit a terrible...awful...unconscionable crime. His action determines the events of the next seventy years.