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Title: The Young Bull

Author: Geraint Goodwin

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-11-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Arthur Geraint Goodwin (1903-1941) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. Although Goodwin died at the age of 38 of tuberculosis, the works he has left to posterity remain full of life, fresh and vigorous.

'The Young Bull' is the story of a farmer on the Welsh border who is trapped in a hostile and combative marriage which is nonetheless charged with suppressed sexual tension. An episode where he is forced to do battle with his enraged bull and his wife steps into the fray to help serves both as an allegory of his marriage and the catalyst to breaking the barrier between the couple.

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Title: The Blue Pearl

Author: John G. Brandon

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-11-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

John Gordon Brandon (1879-1941) was an Australian-born writer who started life as a professional heavyweight boxer. He moved to England after the First World War and wrote more than 120 novels, and numerous short stories.

'The Blue Pearl' is an adventure story set in the Dutch East Indies. 'Bad Luck' Jim Barton is slaving in a chain-gang and facing five more years of penal servitude under the Dutch. Suddenly, on a short break, his neighbour on the chain gang - an evil-looking Frenchman - slips something hard and round into his shoe and gives him a Chinese coin with a strange character on it. He whispers quickly that Barton is about to be released and that he must take the mystery object and the coin to Quong Meng, the richest Chinese tycoon in the district. The object turns out to be a breath-taking flawless blue pearl.

There follows a breathless and racy series of daring adventures, brutal murders, narrow escapes and pirate attacks as Barton attempts to deliver the pearl to its destination.

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Title: Little Tobrah

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-11-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

'Little Tobrah' is a disturbing murder story set in India. The eight-year-old Tobrah stands accused of the murder of his younger blind sister. The evidence is purely circumstantial...and then he recounts his own tale of what happened.

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Title: The Jade Earrings

Author: Andrew Soutar

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Andrew Soutar (1879 - 1941) was a British author and journalist best known for his novels and short stories.

"The Jade Earrings" is the story of an elderly antiques collector with a young and pretty wife, Rosetta. One day he presents her with a pair of jade earrings with a legend attached to them. It is said that any faithful wife who wears them will become unfaithful. Of course the legend is complete nonsense...but then one day Rosetta offers to negotiate the purchase of a rare Queen Anne four-poster bed with a young handsome antiques dealer....

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Title: The Schoolboy's Story

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Michael Page

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Originally published in the 1853 Christmas edition of Dickens's journal Household Words, The Schoolboy's Story recounts the tale of Old Cheeseman, a schoolboy who becomes the second Latin Master, and his former peers who consider him a traitor for doing it. This version of The Schoolboy's Story was recorded as part of Dreamscape's The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens.

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Title: The Lost Sanjak

Author: Hector Hugh Munro, Saki

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture.

'The Lost Sanjak' is the last-minute account by a condemned man, speaking to the prison chaplain, telling the astounding story of how he came to be condemned to hang for the murder of...himself!

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Title: Mrs. Scarr

Author: Elinor Mordaunt

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Elinor Mordaunt (1872 - 1942) was an English author, writer and traveller. She lived extensively in Mauritius, Australia and the East Indies, which provided the inspiration and background for many of her works.

Mrs. Scarr is a tense and mysterious ghost story set in Mauritius, a place where local mythology and European morals sit uneasily alongside one another. Mrs. Scarr is a beautiful woman of French origin who defies local cultural norms. She goes out alone at night and wears white rather than the traditional black. And her husband, who is a debauched sea captain, is mysteriously plagued by a single white moth wherever he goes.

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Title: The Man Who Fell in Love with the Cooperative Stores

Author: Stella Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and short story and travel writer.

The Man Who Fell in Love with the Cooperative Stores is an amusing allegorical story about mercenary love, the gullibility of those men who keep a mistress and the cynicism of those women who accept this kind of relationship.

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Title: Mary Postgate

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

Mary Postgate is a horrifying story, and like much of Kipling's work it can be interpreted in different ways. It was written as propaganda in 1915 during World War I against the background of German atrocities and massacres in France, and just after German aircraft had engaged in bombing raids on English towns.

Mary Postgate was intended to inspire English readers with just such cold-blooded courage and ruthlessness as Mary herself displays. It is also, however, a portrait of a woman who finds release from societal, psychological, and sexual pressures in the context of war: the deaths of Wynn and little Edna Gerrit are not so much reasons as excuses for the behavior Mary indulges in.

Kipling provides us with detailed motivation of Mary's actions, so we understand why she behaves as she does: the story is full of ominous warning signs which prepare us for the dreadful climax. And the climax becomes more terrifying, more ghastly, the more carefully we listen to it.

Members Reviews:

mary postgate review

I had to read the ending several times to understand what had happened and it hit me suddenly and forcefully. what a writer!!

Mary Postgate.

A bit dark, but I enjoyed the short story. The revelations of human nature under duress are revealed even more so as you give this book time to unveil itself. Shocking.

Three Stars

too British

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Title: The Penance

Author: Hector Hugh Munro, Saki

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture.

The Penance is an edgy and at times horrifying tale about a normally amiable man who has killed the cat belonging to his neighbour's children, on the grounds that he suspected it of attacking his chickens. His efforts to make up for this awful deed are met with hostility, and the children take the opportunity to plan a dire revenge.