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ID: 340015

Title: Minstrel

Author: Maurice Baring

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:14:01

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-18

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English short story writer, children's writer, travel writer and war correspondent during the First World War.

The Minstrel is a classic fairy tale about a childless couple who are granted a wish by a fairy. They wish for a daughter. The fairy gives them a heart-shaped copper coin to hang over their hearth, telling them that they must never give it away, for if they do, they will be giving away their daughter. One day, years later, when the beautiful child is home alone, a minstrel comes by and sings a lovely, captivating song. The girl gives the minstrel the heart-shaped copper coin from above the hearth...and her fate is sealed....

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ID: 340003

Title: Blind Man, the Deaf Man and the Donkey

Author: Mary Frere

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:17:41

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-18

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845-1911) was an English author of the first English-language field-collected book of Indian folk stories.

"The Blind Man, the Deaf Man and the Donkey" is a strange but compelling tale of two co-dependent friends who nonetheless mistrust each other. They find a donkey and a large container... and then when sheltering from a storm in what they mistake for a temple, they find a Rakshas' (terrifying monster with elephant tusks) treasure. While attempting to trick the Rakshas and steal the treasure, the two are still also intent on swindling each other... then karma deals a strange twist to the tale.

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ID: 340002

Title: Alligator and the Jackal

Author: Mary Frere

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:10:37

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-18

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845-1911) was an English author of the first English-language field-collected book of Indian folk tales.

"The Alligator and the Jackal" is the story of a jackal who narrowly escapes being eaten by an alligator on the banks of a river. Following this incident, the alligator is determined to catch the cunning jackal. The Jackal is equally determined not to be eaten. A series of close escapes escalates the feud until the dramatic finale.

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ID: 339999

Title: Punchkin

Author: Mary Frere

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:31:05

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-18

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845-1911) was an English author of works regarding India. She is most famous for her beautiful retellings of Indian fairy tales.

"Punchkin" is a traditional fairy tale about a Rajah with seven daughters. When he remarries, the princesses' stepmother is determined to do away with the girls and make her own daughter the heir to the throne. A series of adventures and trials follows which leads to the overthrow of an evil magician.

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ID: 433328

Title: Hymn to Proserpine

Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne

Narrator: Roy Macready

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:44:20

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-18

Publisher: Big Happy Family Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909) was a poet, critic, novelist and playwright. He was born in London and educated at Eton and Oxford and was a contemporary of the Pre-Raphaelites.

"Hymn to Proserpine" was published in 1866 in "Poems and Ballads," Swinburne's first collection of poems which was a great success but which contained subjects that were, at the time, very controversial. Other poems in this collection are: "A Ballad of Dreamland," "A Leave-Taking," "At Parting," "August," "Genesis," "Itylus," "Rococo," "Sapphics," "An Interlude," "The Nightingale," "Three Faces," and "Before the Mirror."

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ID: 340018

Title: Red Hand

Author: Arthur Machen

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:19:07

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-18

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and mystic, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction.

"The Red Hand" is a mysterious horror story, which tells the peculiar tale of the strange murder of Sir Thomas Vivian, the famous heart surgeon. Why was he murdered with an ancient flint weapon, when there was an unused brand new knife at the scene? What was the meaning of the bizarre letter in the dead man's pocket, written in a very strange hand? And what could be the meaning of the peculiar symbol of a red hand chalked on the wall above the corpse?

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ID: 334165

Title: Gambler's Luck

Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:22:05

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-18

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror as well as a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories were highly influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement.

"Gambler's Luck" tells the story of a young German baron who is enjoying a streak of beginner's luck at the gambling tables. As his winnings mount up, the young man is gradually becoming sucked into the addictive habit of gambling. One night a stranger appears at the gambling table and watches the baron intently. The stranger appears night after night, until the baron is infuriated and challenges the man. A later chance meeting between the two results in the stranger relating a most unusual and gripping tale...

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ID: 339997

Title: Gambler's Luck

Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:22:05

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-18

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror as well as a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories were highly influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement.

"Gambler's Luck" tells the story of a young German baron who is enjoying a streak of beginner's luck at the gambling tables. As his winnings mount up, the young man is gradually becoming sucked into the addictive habit of gambling. One night a stranger appears at the gambling table and watches the baron intently. The stranger appears night after night, until the baron is infuriated and challenges the man. A later chance meeting between the two results in the stranger relating a most unusual and gripping tale...

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ID: 334169

Title: Little Girl and Other Stories

Author: Katherine Mansfield

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:38:40

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-18

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. The Little Girl and Other Stories was first published in 1921 and includes:

'The Tiredness of Rosabel'

'How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped'

'The Journey to Bruges'

'A Truthful Adventure'

'New Dresses'

'The Woman at the Store'

'Ole Underwood'

'The Little Girl'

'Millie'

'Pension'

'Séguin'

'Violet'

'Bains Turcs'

'Something Childish but Very Natural'

'An Indiscreet Journey'

'Spring Pictures'

'Late at Night'

'Two Tuppenny Ones, Please'

'The Black Cap'

'A Suburban Fairy Tale'

'Carnation'

'See-Saw'

'This Flower'

'The Wrong House'

'Sixpence'

'Poison'

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ID: 334168

Title: Island

Author: Maurice Baring

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:15:12

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-18

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Maurice Baring (1874 - 1945) was an English travel writer, novelist and war correspondent during World War I.

"The Island" is a supernatural horror story about two explorers who discover an uncharted volcanic island off the coast of southern Spain. As they begin to explore they have a strong feeling that they are not alone...

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