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ID: 505120

Title: Murders in the Rue Morgue

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Christopher Ragland, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:41:16

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Edgar Allan Poe, born Edgar Poe, was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809 but orphaned at an early age. Taken in by the Allan family his education was cut short by lack of money and he went to the military academy, Westpoint, where he failed to become an officer. His early literary works were poetic but he quickly turned to prose. He worked for several magazines and journals till in January 1845 'The Raven' was published and became an instant classic. Thereafter followed the works for which he is so rightly famed as a master of the mysterious and the macabre. Poe died at the early age of 40 in 1849 in Baltimore Maryland.Poe was also an early proponent of the detective story and announced his entry to this genre with the classic short story 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'.

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ID: 505122

Title: Screaming Skull

Author: F Marion Crawford

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:11:50

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Francis Marion Crawford, an only child, was born on 2nd August 1854 at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. He was a nephew to Julia Ward Howe, the American poet and writer of 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'. Crawford was educated at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire and then on to Cambridge University, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Rome. In 1879 he went to India, to study Sanskrit and then to edit The Indian Herald. In 1881 he returned to America to continue his Sanskrit studies at Harvard University.His family became increasingly concerned about his employment prospects. After an attempt at a singing career as a baritone was ruled out, he was encouraged to write. In December 1882 his first novel, 'Mr Isaacs', was published and was an immediate hit as was his second novel 'Dr Claudius' in 1883. In October 1884 he married Elizabeth Berdan and encouraged by his excellent start to a literary career they returned to Sant Agnello, Italy to make a permanent home, buying the Villa Renzi that then became Villa Crawford. In the late 1890s, Crawford began work on his historical works which would later include 'Corleone', in 1897, the first major treatment of the Mafia in literature. Crawford is also exceedingly popular and anthologized as a short story writer of bizarre and creepy tales. In 1908 came his classic 'The Screaming Skull'. Without doubt its unsettling nature is heightened as the reader/listener is drawn into to the story by its narrator. Everything is explained and plausible until, of course, it isn't.Francis Marion Crawford died at Sorrento on Good Friday 1909 at Villa Crawford of a heart attack.

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ID: 505117

Title: On the Gull's Road

Author: Willa Cather

Narrator: Eric Meyers, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:51:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Willa Sibert Cather was born on 7th December, 1873 on her grandmother's farm in the Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia. After several years and moves the family eventually settled in Red Cloud, Nebraska and for the first time Cather could now attend school.In Red Cloud Cather had her earliest writings published in the local Red Cloud Chief newspaper. Her time in the mid-West created a vivid tranche of experiences for the young woman. It was still, for the most part, the frontier; a landscape of dramatic environment and weather, the vastness of the Nebraska prairie, as well as the many diverse cultures of the local families. Attending the University of Nebraska she published a well received essay on Thomas Carlyle in the Nebraska State Journal and thereafter became a regular contributor to its offerings. After being hired to write for the Home Monthly, in 1896, Cather moved to Pittsburgh. Within a year she became a telegraph editor and drama critic for the Pittsburgh Leader as well as contributing poetry and short fiction to The Library, another local publication. Her first collection of short stories, "The Troll Garden", was published in 1905 and contains several of her most famous including "A Wagner Matinee," "The Sculptor's Funeral," and "Paul's Case."As a writer Cather was now taking immense strides forward. By 1912 she had finished her first novel "Alexander's Bridge" which was serialized in McClure's to favourable reviews. Cather now began her Prairie Trilogy: "O Pioneers!" (1913), "The Song of the Lark" (1915), and "My Ántonia" (1918). All three were popular and critical successes nationwide.Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, Cather continued to establish herself as a major American writer and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 for her novel "One of Ours". A determinedly private person, Cather destroyed many old drafts, personal papers, and letters. Her will would also restrict the ability of scholars to quote from personal papers that remained. In 1932, Cather published her final collection of short stories, "Obscure Destinies" which contained the highly regarded "Neighbour Rosicky." She now began work on "Lucy Gayheart", a novel that was rather darker than those before it.With her career settled as one of America's greatest writers honours began to flow. In 1943 she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The following year, 1944, Cather received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. However time was about to settle scores with her. On April 24th, 1947, Willa Siebert Cather died of a cerebral haemorrhage at her home at 570 Park Avenue in Manhattan. She was 73.

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ID: 505119

Title: Ghost in the Garden Room

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Mark Rice-Oxley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:52:51

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Elizabeth Stevenson was born in Chelsea in London on 29th September 1810. Both parents embedded their strong Unitarian beliefs into Elizabeth who rebelliously was often reluctant to display these religious convictions. The early death of Elizabeth's mother saw her sent away to be brought up by her maternal aunt in Knutsford, Cheshire. Her father now remarried but Elizabeth spent most of her childhood in Cheshire away from her father and his new family but was supportive towards her half-siblings. Elizabeth's aunt encouraged her education and particularly to read and express herself through writing. In 1828, her brother John, who worked in the merchant navy, disappeared on a journey to India. This disastrous loss depressed her father, and she went to his household to nurse him for the next year before he died. In 1832, she fell in love with William Gaskell, a Unitarian minister like her father, and married him. They settled in Manchester. This booming industrial city had a great impact on Elizabeth who felt the need to speak up for poor workers and their exploitation by large industrial companies. A collection of poems and short stories, 'Sketches among the Poor' appeared in 1837, co-authored by her husband. Her first major work, under a pseudonym, was 'Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life' published in 1848.During her career she worked continually with Charles Dickens and published much in his various magazines. With him she published 'Lizzie Leigh' in 1850 which dealt with the taboo subject of prostitution. She was an excellent writer and impressed her many Victorian literary peers. Much of her writing reflects her work as a social critic highlighting the exploitation of the working class and the situation of women in society. On 12th November 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell died in Holybourne, Hampshire, after suffering from a heart attack a month earlier.

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ID: 505118

Title: Death of the Lion

Author: Henry James

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:30:23

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Henry James was born 15th April 1843 in New York City.His youth was spent travelling with his family receiving what was an "extraordinarily haphazard and promiscuous" education as they journeyed through London, Paris, Geneva, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Newport, Rhode Island, according to the father's current interests and publishing ventures. James studied primarily with tutors and only briefly attended schools. Undoubtedly the quality of his writing has ensured his name is enshrined in the American literary tradition. James was a committed Anglophile and spent most of his adult life as an expatriate in Europe. Many of his novels juxtapose the Old World with the New World. Classics such as 'The Portrait of a Lady', 'Daisy Miller' and 'The Ambassadors', display the entanglement between American and European cultures and mentalities. They highlight the differences between the two worlds through following the experiences of American expatriates in Europe. A prolific author he was able to easily move across genres to create vivid and totally real worlds and situations and to offer sophisticated observations of human relations as well as realistic, social criticism.As a critic James was unafraid to venture into reviews and essays of those other literary giants around him. These together with his short stories and, of course, classic novels, make Henry James an author to be not only admired but read, and read often. In 1915 Henry James became a British citizen.On 28th February 1916, at the age of 72, Henry James died in Chelsea, London.He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912 and 1916. He never won.The Death of the Lion is a formidable short story with a sharply comic view of the literary "lionization" of an author by many who know little of his work. It is a situation Henry James himself was often in.

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ID: 519967

Title: Fire: A Brewed Novel

Author: Molly McAdams

Narrator: Erin Mallon, Jason Clarke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:42:41

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Summary:

Im the oldest of all the Dixon boys.

Yeah, that family.

And, yeah, that Dixon. The one with a notorious temper and devastating fists.

My family tried everything short of giving up on me, but theres only one person who can calm me.

Savannah Riley Dixon.

Girl next door. My best friend.

Sweeter than honey and stronger than whiskey. And the answer to my enraged soul.

From the moment she came skipping onto our ranch when we were kids, I knew she was my futuremy everything.

One touch, the fire in me cools.

One kiss, that rage melts away.

But the girl whos stood by my side through brawls, cop cars, and kids of our own warned me years ago: One more fight, and shes gone.

For her, Id do anything.

Id lower my fists. Id rein it all in. Id stop the damn world.

But when someone threatens our marriage, all I see is red.

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ID: 505126

Title: Sixty Women Who Changed the Word

Author: Ann Plato, Emily Dickinson, The Brontes

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lewkow, Stella Gonet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:44:10

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Whether we understand it or recognise it, it is women who have shaped the course and journey of humanity. We are all born from women and usually raised by women. Half the world's population is female but many of them are trodden down by misogyny, religious misinterpretation, failing systems of education and welfare and all manner of other ills that shame us all. In a world where, gender, colour, race and orientation are still stumbling blocks to inclusion, women's words are too often unheard and neglected.Whilst the world has moved measurably forward in recent decades, although not enough, some progress has been made. Our poets wrote at a time when their basic rights as human beings were restrictive and oppressive. Against the odds, they were able to write verse, which in varying degrees, moved the literary needle and perhaps influenced their society in positive ways.This volume pays tribute to 50 different women poets, some well-known whilst others undeservedly forgotten but all contributing a single poem which we hope might nudge listeners to discover more of their verse.1 - Sixty Women That Changed the Word. The Classic Poets - An Introduction2 - Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend by Jane Austen3 - The Disappointment by Aphra Behn4 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet5 - Night by Anne Bronte6 - Speak of the North, A Lonely Moor by Charlotte Bronte7 - Remembrance by Emily Jane Bronte8 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning9 - What Constitutes A Negro by Eva Carter Buckner10 - Prairie Dawn by Willa Cather11 - The Hunting of the Hare by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle12 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson13 - Hermes of the Ways by Hilda Doolttle14 - In A London Drawingroom by George Eliot15 - Ardelia To Melancholy by Anne Kingsmill Finch16 - In Memorium. Alphonse Campbell Fordham by Mary Weston Fordham17 - The Little Waves of Breffney by Eva Gore-Booth18 - Song of the Worker's Wife by Alice Gray Jones19 - Expecting The Lord by Ann Griffiths20 - The Angel's Visit by Charlotte L Forten Grimke21 - A Twilight Fancy by Radclyffe Hall22 - Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances E W Harper23 - Acceptance by Janabai24 - You Men by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz25 - Tears Ere Thy Death by Khansa26 - Love, the Soul of Poetry by Anne Killigrew27 - Vakh - They Who Have Gained Experience by Lal Ded28 - Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon29 - Afterword by Emily Lawless30 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus31 - Lilacs by Amy Lowell32 - Would a Circling Surface Vulture by Akka Mahadevi33 - Night Scented Stock by Katherine Mansfield34 - Infelix by Adah Isaacs Menken35 - The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew36 - Regrets by Alice Meynell37 - Drink the Nectar by Mirabai38 - Negro Heroines by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer39 - Before Winter by Edith Nesbit40 - The Gift of India by Sarojini Naidu41 - Impressionist by Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson42 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato43 - Envy by Adelaide Anne Proctor44 - In Love by Rabia al Basri45 - A Birthday by Christina Rosseti46 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay47 - Hymn to Aphrodite by Sappho48 - Stanzas by Mary Shelley49 - Sonnet LXX - On Being Cautioned.....

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ID: 505125

Title: Haunted House

Author: Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:25:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Whilst writer Charles Dickens needs no introduction, his 'Haunted House' anthology might, not least because in his role as editor he introduces a formidable array of known and lesser-known literary talents. Dickens started a tradition of releasing stories each Christmas with 'A Christmas Carol' in 1843. 'The Haunted House' was his 1859 offering and, as the name suggests, is set in a large house which, as his introductory story explains, is desired by John the narrator, as a temporary country retreat for health reasons. He is made aware of the terror the house holds for the locals but undaunted, he and his sister, Patty, take residence without any servants, save for the deaf stable hand, who is untroubled by the ghostly goings on. John and Patty invite friends to visit and except Patty who keeps her own room, they all draw lots for which rooms they will stay in but agree not to share their experiences of their rooms until the twelfth night.On that night they all gather together to feast on their experiences and share them with each other. The Haunted House is a skillful portmanteau by Dickens, assembling the best literary talent of his age including Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Hesba Stretton, Adelaide Anne Proctor, George Augustus Sala and, of course, the literary leviathan himself to delight us, scare us and occasionally raise a laugh or two before the next moment of fear and dread come calling. 1 - The Haunted House - An Introduction2 - The Mortals in the House by Charles Dickens3 - The Ghost in the Cloakroom by Hesba Stretton4 - The Ghost in the Double Room by George Augustus Sala5 - The Ghost in the Picture Room by Adelaide Anne Proctor6 - The Ghost in the Cupboard Room by Wilkie Collins7 - The Ghost in Master B's Room by Charles Dickens8 - The Ghost in the Garden Room, Part 1 by Elizabeth Gaskell9 - The Ghost in the Garden Room, Part 2 by Elizabeth Gaskell10 - The Ghost in the Corner Room by Charles Dickens

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ID: 505124

Title: Poetry of Dogs

Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow, Nigel Planer, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:23:15

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Man's best friend. An always faithful ally.Whether the dog is domesticated as a pet and there to enjoy life with a family or as a work-dog herding sheep, helping to hunt, police or guard, the dog has proved time and time again to have many invaluable uses. They come in all shapes and sizes from sought after breeds to lowly mongrels each with an array of qualities that give them distinct personalities. From earliest times dogs have been able to find a unique place fulfilling the needs of their keepers and often there is equal devotion from master to servant. A dog's life no longer has to have negative connotations as so many pooches are loved, extravagantly fed, groomed, petted and pawed over, all perhaps more than our fellow man. Dogs were even worshipped as deities in Mesopotamian times and across several cultures and civilisations including Hindu, Chinese and Greek, they are the helpers, the watchers or guardians of sacred or sensitive sites. Between then and now poets have written verse, both serious and humorous, in attempts to keep a poetic track both of feelings and as a tribute to our four-legged friends and their adventures.1 - The Poetry of Dogs - An Introduction2 - A Friendly Welcome by Lord Byron3 - A Popular Personage At Home by Thomas Hardy4 - The Power of the Dog by Rudyard Kiping5 - Verse for a Certain Dog by Dorothy Parker6 - The Best Friend by Meribah Abbott7 - The Joy of a Dog by Edgar Albert Guest8 - Dog by Harold Munro9 - My Comforter by Anonymous10 - Four Feet. 'The Woman in His Life' by Rudyard Kipling11 - The Dog and His Master by Anne Kingsmill-Finch12 - Little Lost Pup by Arthur Guiterman13 - A Little Dog That Wags His Tail by Emily Dickinson14 - The Hairy Dog by Herbert Asquith15 - Dogs and Weather by Winifred Welles16 - Incident. Charactristic of a Favourite Dog Which Belonged to a Friend of the Author by William Wordsworth17 - Confessions of a Glutton by Don Marquis18 - The Fable of the Shepherd and Wolf by John Gay19 - On a Spaniel Called 'Beau', Killing a Young Bird by William Cowper20 - Beau's Reply by William Cowper21 - Contentment by Burges Johnson wav22 - The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog by Anonymous23 - The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat by Eugene Field24 - How the Feud Started by Arthur Guiterman25 - Tray by Robert Browning26 - The Dog and the Water Lily. No Fable by William Cowper27 - The Irish Greyhound by Katherine Phillips28 - The Fable of the Mastiff by John Gay29 - The Dog in the Manger by Aphra Behn30 - Towser, A True Tale, 20th July 1806 by Robert Tannahill31 - The Dog of St Bernard's by Caroline Fry Wilson32 - Sonnet - To Tartar, A Terrier Beauty by Thomas Lovell Beddoes33 - Tobias's Dog by Mary Howitt34 - I Started Early - Took my Dog by Emily Dickinson35 - Canis Major by Robert Frost36 - Man and Dog by Edward Thomas37 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell38 - So This Is How I Turned into a Dog by Vladamir Mayakovsky39 - The Dogs by Arthur Symons40 - To a Black Greyhound by Julian Grenfell41 - An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith42 - The Dog Tupman by Stella Benson43 - Upon His Spaniel Tracy by Robert Herrick44 - To Rollo by Kenneth Grahame45 - Ruby by Edward Lear46 - To Flush, My Dog by Elizabeth Barrett Browning47 - Kaiser Dead by Matthew Arnold48 - Epitaph to a Dog by Lord Byron49 - Last Words To A Dumb Friend by Thomas Hardy

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ID: 492698

Title: Book of the Earthworm

Author: Sally Coulthard

Narrator: Deirdra Whelan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:13:02

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-21

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: History, World

Summary:

Sally Coulthard explores the miraculous world of the earthworm, the modest little creature without whom life as we know it would not be possible.

For Charles Darwin who estimated every acre of land contained 53,000 earthworms the humble earthworm was the most important creature on the planet. And yet, most people know almost nothing about these little engineers of the earth. We take them for granted but, without the earthworm, the world's soil would be barren, and our gardens, fields and farms wouldn't be able to grow the food and support the animals we need to survive.

Sally Coulthard provides a complete profile of the earthworm by answering fifty questions about these wiggling creatures, from 'What happens if I chop a worm in half?' to 'Would humans survive if worms went extinct?' The Book of the Earthworm offers a feast of quirky facts and practical advice about the world's most industrious but least understood invertebrate.

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