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Title: The White Cat

Author: W. W. Jacobs

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. His most popular works in the early part of the last century were his humorous tales set around the docks of Wapping and in the taproom of the infamous Cauliflower tavern. Many of his stories were written in a cockney vernacular and were keenly observant of character.

'The White Cat' is a humorous tale of a disputed inheritance, a clever old rogue and a suspiciously mislaid white cat.

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Title: The Sphinx without a Secret

Author: Oscar Wilde

Narrator: Anthony Donovan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-02-13

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This is a story from the Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories collection.

A palmist's prediction leads to murder; an enigmatic woman's lifestyle is a mystery to be solved; a ghost tries to frighten the new tenants of his home; a man has discovered the dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets; a millionaire wants to be painted as a pauper. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of fascinating short stories that are subversive as well as entertaining. Also included in this audiobook is 'The Birthday of the Infanta from A House of Pomegranates', in which an ugly dwarf loves a beautiful princess. How will his feelings fare in a cruel society?

Editorial Reviews:

Two old friends meet. One suggests, "women are meant to be loved, not to be understood". The other, sadly whispers, "I cannot love what I cannot trust", and shares his concern on learning a mysterious, beautiful womans secret just before she passes on, which is also shortly before they were scheduled to marry. Anthony Donovan brings Oscar Wildes school chums, as well as the enigmatic woman, to life with this performance of one of the Irish wits short stories, a selection from the Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories collection.

Members Reviews:

some of these stories are timeless

I really enjoyed most of the stories in this collection. If nothing else they give a window on the popular English perceptions about Americans of the time as well as some (again, for the time) biting satire on English middle-class mores and attitudes. I often re-listen to this collection when I need an antidote to the reverentional treatment that late Victorian England gets on PBS, especially Masterpiece Theatre -- which I enjoy, but come on, in reality the streets were full of horse dung and the upper-class treated the lower classes like they were not human. All in all, well worth the price.

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Title: Murder under the Microscope

Author: William Russell

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-13

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

When Joseph Gibson, an oil and colourman from London, faces bankruptcy, he seizes the opportunity to take the bargain lease on Stape Hill near Poole in Dorsetshire. The deal turns out to be less a bargain than a swindle. The farm is worth nowhere near the price paid for it. The grasping owner, a retired lawyer, Arthur Blagden, had charged him more than twice the property's worth.

Gibson and his delicate daughter face ruin next Michaelmas day when the next annual rent payment is due. On the due date, there is a furious row between Gibson and Blagden at Stape Hill farm, when the latter refuses to defer the rent payment for even one minute.

When the next morning, the murdered body of Arthur Blagden is discovered on a road near Poole, suspicion immediately falls upon Gibson. When a private detective from London is mysteriously brought onto the case by an anonymous benefactor, he discovers that the case against Gibson is not quite as clear cut at it at first appeared.

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Title: The Red Stockade

Author: Bram Stoker

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-12

Publisher: Harmonic Wave

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Members of the 'Old Coast-Guard' are sent to put down pirates in the Straits of Malacca. A young boy, named Tempest, finds himself often criticized for being a coward by the crew, but he proves his mates wrong during the thick of battle. Tempest allows the crew to defeat the pirates in the Red Stockade due to his bravery and willingness to sacrifice.

Members Reviews:

Unexpected Pirate adventure from the author of Dracula

Great performance.

I was excited to realize as I read through that its a short story of pirate adventures, albeit from the perspective of the British sailors who unwittingly begin a fight on terrain they quickly realize isnt familiar to them. Much like Dracula I found I was spellbound and always wanted to see what would happen next.

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Title: The Wondrous Child

Author: Bram Stoker

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-12

Publisher: Harmonic Wave

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"The Wondrous Child" is a tale written by the famous Bram Stoker, writer of Dracula. This short story is an amazing tale of a brother and sister, Sibold and May, and their dream adventure where they encounter the wondrous child.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful Story

Any additional comments?

This is a great short story, especially from the author of Dracula. I recommend reading/listening to other short stories from Bram Stoker!

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Title: Howards End

Author: E. M. Forster

Narrator: Susannah Harker

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-12

Publisher: Canongate Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

First published in 1910, Howards End is considered by many to be Forster's greatest novel. Set at the beginning of the 20th century it follows the fortunes and interrelations between three family groups of differing backgrounds and outlooks. At the top of the money tree are the Wilcoxes who represent broadly materialism and an upper-class English archetype. The family has made money in the colonies and also have a property - Howards End - owned by the terminally-ill mother, Ruth Wilcox, who must decide how best to pass on the estate. A decision that triggers much of the novel's ensuing conflict, scandal and tragedy.

Members Reviews:

A level memories

I studied Howard's End for A levels in 1978. How wonderful to rediscover it. Only connect the past and the present.

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Title: The Pavilion on the Links

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-12

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

When Frank Casillis, an eccentric independently wealthy vagabond, finds himself near an old friend's pavilion on a remote part of the Scottish coast, he discovers some mysterious nocturnal goings-on. The house is being visited under cover of darkness ... strange figures land on the coast ... and then he is himself the victim of a savage knife attack.

Robert Louis Stevenson is the master of the action adventure. The Pavilion on the Links is a classic of the genre - a secret plot, a mysterious and beautiful girl, a villain, mortal danger ... all in a wild and windswept setting. Splendid!

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Title: Mrs. Molesworth's Ghost Stories

Subtitle: Four More Uncanny Tales by Mary Louisa Molesworth

Author: Mary Louisa Molesworth

Narrator: Susie Berneis, Robert Bethune

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-12

Publisher: Freshwater Seas

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

In this set of "Uncanny Tales," Mary Louisa Molesworth deftly makes us feel the shiver of ghostly mystery without actually giving us a ghost! Or, to put it another way, she's interested in a different kind of ghostly presence.

In "The Man with the Cough", it is the ghostly presence of a secret agent, and the ghostly experience of events that seem like a dream, but have real-world consequences. In "Halfway Between the Stiles", it is the ghostly presence of old memories of love that will not die away, and again, the real world responds. In "Will Not Take Place", it is a man who almost becomes a ghost, so thoroughly does he cut himself off from friends, family and the woman he loves. And in "The Clock that Struck Thirteen", a woman finds that the man she loves can become a ghostly presence, influencing her life behind the scenes.

Molesworth makes you shiver, but she also makes you laugh, and she even makes you think about the mysteries of the world.

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Title: The Major's Tale

Subtitle: Joking during Death & Dying

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Narrator: Deaver Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-12

Publisher: Simply Media

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A story that blends practical joking with death; the irony of the Devil's Dictionary is a live and well in this story. A jewel.

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Title: Daniel Defoe: The Short Stories

Author: Daniel Defoe

Narrator: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-12

Publisher: The Copyright Group

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Daniel Defoe is most well-known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born circa 1659, he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy and a writer of short stories. His life was long and colourful, and the breadth of his work, still highly regarded, is infused with similar vigor.

In these short stories, Defoe succinctly emblazons his style upon subjects as diverse as apparitions, pirates, and politics. This volume is brought to your ears by Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.