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Title: A Quartet of Saki

Subtitle: Mrs Packletide's Tiger, Reginald on Besetting Sins, Sredni Vashtar, The Recessional

Author: Saki

Narrator: Helen Elizabeth G

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-09

Publisher: Matrix Digital Publishing

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook collects together four of his finest short stories:

'Mrs Packletide's Tiger' - in this story, Saki tackles the Victorian-Edwardian fascination with wild-game hunting, as well as the timeless drive to keep up with the Joneses. In this case Mrs Packletide has been outshone by her rival Mrs Bimberton and decides to get ahead - by hunting a tiger.

'Reginald on Besetting Sins' - Reginald tells the unfortunate story of a woman who found problems with being completely truthful at all times.

'Sredni Vashtar' - The story of a young, sickly child, Conradin. When his guardian, Mrs. De Ropp, finds his Houdan hen, it is sold and taken away, but she is unaware of the pet polecat-ferret, called Sredni Vashtar, which Conradin worships as a god. Just before tea, Mrs. De Ropp enters the shed in which the ferret lies in his hutch. As the time slips by without a stirring from the shed, Conradin begins to pray to Sredni Vashtar - and receives his darkest wish.

'The Recessional' - Clovis discusses with Bertie the progress of his 'recessional'; a poem he was challenged to write and get published by Loona Bimberton. He hopes, with the assistance of Mrs Packletide, to win the bet.

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Title: The Enemy

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-15

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 and short-story writer.

The Enemy tells the story of a mild-mannered bookseller, Jack Harding, whose life is completely ordered and unremarkable except that he has a terrible enemy - a man named Tonks, who pursues him with uninvited joviality, driving Harding to distraction.

Every morning on the way to the station, Tonks seems to lurk in wait for Harding, accosting him with cheery converation and accompanying him all the way to work. Harding cannot pluck up the courage to tell Tonks to leave him alone...until one day Tonks pursues Harding right to his sanctuary: his beloved bookshop.

Harding is forced to take drastic action. After that things only get worse, until the absolutely unthinkable happens.

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Title: Mapp and Lucia

Author: E. F. Benson

Narrator: Miriam Margolyes

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-10

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Mapp and Lucia is the centrepiece of E. F. Benson's series of Lucia novels - bringing together for the first time the eponymous middle-aged doyennes of polite 1930s society Miss Elizabeth Mapp and Emmeline Luca (Lucia to her friends).

Lucia, recently widowed, is the newcomer to the village of Tilling and eager to wrest the reins of social supremacy from the incumbant Miss Mapp and install herself as its benevolent dictator. In their polite acts of sabotage and ruthless jockeying for the position of cultural arbiter Mapp and Lucia tear up the conventions of drawing-room bridge evenings as their deadly weapons.

Things finally come to a head with Miss Mapp's audacious attempt to steal her rival's celebrated Lobster a la Riseholme. E.F. Benson's charming satrical bent turns the pretensions and snobberies of English village life into a vicious comedy.

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Title: The Captain's Doll

Author: D. H. Lawrence

Narrator: Davina Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Captain Hepburn had a wife he didnt love and a mistress who made hand-crafted dolls; in fact, shed made one in the image of the captain, resplendent in his military uniform, and now his wife wants to buy it. In this taut tale, love is a complicated battle, and the soldier is outflanked.

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