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Title: A Modest Proposal

Author: Jonathan Swift

Narrator: Phil Chenevert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The full title of Swift's pamphlet is A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burtden to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick."The tract is an ironically conceived attempt to "find out a fair, cheap, and easy Method" for converting the starving children of Ireland into "sound and useful members of the Commonwealth." Across the country poor children, predominantly Catholics, are living in squalor because their families are too poor to keep them fed and clothed.

The author argues, by hard-edged economic reasoning as well as from a self-righteous moral stance, for a way to turn this problem into its own solution. His proposal, in effect, is to fatten up these undernourished children and feed them to Ireland's rich landowners.

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Title: The Devil of the Marsh

Subtitle: Supernatural Fiction Series

Author: H. B. Marriott Watson

Narrator: Gene Blake

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-15

Publisher: Lamp of Trismegistus

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Henry Brereton Marriott Watson was a prolific writer of Gothic horror during his day. This short story, originally from 1893, is the tale of a man, in love with a magical swamp woman, who sets out to find her, in order that they may run away together and marry. But, before the two are able to leave, a menacing, sickly specter appears before the man, to object.

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Title: Mercury Theatre: The Pickwick Papers - November 20, 1938

Author: Orson Welles

Narrator: Orson Welles

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-15

Publisher: ABN

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a radio series created by Orson Welles, presented adaptations of classic literary works. These were performed by actors from Welles' celebrated Mercury Theatre repertory company, with music composed or arranged by Bernard Herrmann. The series ran from July to December 1938, after which the title was changed to The Campbell Playhouse.

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Title: Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus - The Original 1816 Classic

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Narrator: Julie Harris

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-05-15

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Housebound by inclement weather at a villa near Geneva in 1817 in what has come to be known as, "The Year Without A Summer", a gifted group of writers passed the time by reading then-popular ghost stories and contemplating "the nature of the principle of life." Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Shelley's wife Mary, who was then only nineteen, all agreed to each compose ghost stories. Mary Shelley's story came to her during a restive night: "I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." The result of her vision, which she later published as a full length novel, became the most famous and compelling horror story of all time.

This performance by Julie Harris delivers a chilling reading of the original work as told by the young Mary Shelley. Curl up on a lonely evening, with lights low and perhaps a storm raging outside and return to the 19th Century to experience the classic evocation of the macabre.

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Title: Pride and Prejudice (Dramatized)

Author: Jane Austen, M.A. Erichsen (adaption)

Narrator: Audioscape Players

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-14

Publisher: AudioscapeProductions

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

When Mrs. Bennett learns of Mr. Darcy's income, she envisages the end to one of the five principle problems in her life. If her single-minded daughter Elizabeth can be married off to someone of means, her four remaining problems might be less daunting. However, Mr. Darcy and Miss Elizabeth appear to take an instant dislike to each other - not that the dour Mr. Darcy would ever take a liking to anyone in any event! Luckily for Mr. Bennett, fate, in the guise of another couple's elopement, enters the scene.

An audio-dramatization with full cast, sound effects, and 'audio-ambience' created for you by AudioscapePlayers.

Members Reviews:

Skips...a lot

I loved the voice actors, particularly Darcy. But the dramatization itself skipped important moments and chunks of dialogue that I would have loved to hear

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Title: The Woman in White (Dramatized)

Author: Wilkie Collins, J.A. Mears (adaption)

Narrator: Audioscape Players

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-14

Publisher: AudioscapeProductions

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Walter Hartright, a young Drawing teacher, encounters a woman at night, dressed in white, on his way to take up his post. He does not know that she has escaped from an asylum. She appeals to him for help - and then seems to vanish. An audio-dramatization with full cast, sound effects, and "audio-ambience" created for you by AudioscapePlayers.

Members Reviews:

APPALLING ACTING!

Gave me a headache. Acting so amateur, unlistenable. Cannot listen for more than a few minuets.

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Title: The Man Who Found Out

Subtitle: A Nightmare

Author: Algernon Blackwood

Narrator: Phil Chenevert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-25-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A researcher goes on an expedition to find "The Tablets of the Gods" which have plagued his dreams since his boyhood. He finds them, and the horrible truth of humanity's true purpose in the universe. This story, The Man Who Found Out is an example to me of pure cosmic horror in that the horror comes totally from knowledge which is (in-story) so terrible that it forever blights the minds of anyone who discovers it.

Two highly intelligent and well informed men, Professor Ebor and then Dr. Laidlaw, learn the contents of the Tablets of the Gods, and even though this information is short enough to be on two ordinary-sized tablets, it is enough to induce absolute belief in its veracity and utterly destroy hope in the reader. Yeah, that is pretty scary. There are no monsters in the tale, nothing but Forbidden Knowledge - which, apparently, is Forbidden with good reason.

Members Reviews:

An interesting tale!

Again this is not my normal type of audiobook story. I received a free audio copy to review for the narrator and I think the narrator did a really good job!

There was a lot of intrigue in the story and both that and the way the narrator preformed the story kept me going!

I received this audiobook in return for an honest review

I really enjoyed this and I think the narrator did a really good job! I'd defo listen to more of his work.

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Title: The Monkey's Paw

Author: W. W. Jacobs

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"The Monkey's Paw" is a supernatural short story by author W. W. Jacobs first published in England in 1902. Three wishes are granted to the owner of the monkey's paw, but the wishes come with an enormous price for interfering with fate.

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Title: The 19 Club

Author: A. J. Alan

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A secretive gentlemen's dining society meets twice a year. On these occasions they invite a guest speaker... always somebody who has done something extraordinary, like flying to Australia and back, driving across China... or some incredible criminal feat such as robbing the Bank of England. On the search for the next speaker, the Club Secretary spots an account of a most extraordinary jail-break in the East Indies and decides to try to track down the escapee. A course of events is set in motion which nobody could predict.

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Title: Jane Eyre

Author: Charlotte Brontë, Janet Chiesa (Adapted by)

Narrator: Audioscape Players

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-14

Publisher: AudioscapeProductions

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

After an unhappy childhood, 16-year-old Jane Eyre acquires the post of governess to a young girl at Thornfield Hall. Plain and poor Jane may be, but she is not to be intimidated by the owner of Thornfield Hall, Mr. Rochester, who tries to goad her into defending herself against his verbal pinpricks. As a backdrop to this duel of minds is evidence of a creature or phantom dwelling somewhere within these walls. Jane senses that something tragic must have occured in this place. She ascertains that Rochester knows what is going on, but is determined to keep it to himself. Jane is being drawn into a snare.

Members Reviews:

RUINED BY THE AMATEUR ACTOR PORTRAYING MR ROCHESTE

I am offended by the affront of the producer of this wonderful Bronte' adaptation to allow this DREADFUL actor to DESTROY what should be a good production of Jane Eyre by using this actor who has NO idea about acting, his vocals are APPALLING and all over the place. He tries to sing rather than speak! and uses a sigh at the end of most of his sentences. His performance is completely and utterly PAINFUL !!

I am disgusted that Audioscape have used this amateur actor when it has cost REAL MONEY to buy this RUBBISH !!

Like many, I have enjoyed many versions of Jane Eyre and this is the WORST performance of Mr Rochester and INSULTING.