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  The Story of Shakespeare's The...

  William Shakespeare, Mary Ellen...

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  A Winter's Tale is set in Sicilia where the King, Leontes, is enjoying a visit by his friend the King of Bohemia.  When he wants to leave, he tries to persuade him unsuccessfully to stay.  Leontes then decides to ask his wife to try and get him to stay longer which she does.  He is then consumed by jealousy imaging that the reason she persuaded him so easily was because they were having an affair.  Inevitably no good comes from his irrational jealousy in Shakespeare’s tale.  This narrative version was written by Mary & Charles Lamb.

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  MR James: The Complete Ghost...

  M. R. James

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  This audiobook is an unabridged collection of all M.R. James' ghost stories, including stories from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories, A Thin Ghost and Others, and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories. It is expertly read by award-winning narrator, Jonathan Keeble. 
   
  The collection includes: 
   
  Track 2: Canon Alberics Scrap-Book 
  Track 3: Lost Hearts 
  Track 4: The Mezzotint 
  Track 5: The Ash-tree 
  Track 6: Number 13 
  Track 7: Count Magnus 
  Track 8: Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad 
  Track 9: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas 
  Track 10: A School Story 
  Track 11: The Rose Garden 
  Track 12: The Tractate Middoth 
  Track 13: Casting the Runes 
  Track 14: The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral 
  Track 15: Martin's Close 
  Track 16: Mr Humphrys and His Inheritance 
  Track 17: The Residence at Whitminister 
  Track 18: The Diary of Mr Poynter 
  Track 19: An Episode of Cathedral History 
  Track 20: The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance 
  Track 21: Two Doctors 
  Track 22: An Evening's Entertainment 
  Track 23: A Warning to the Curious 
  Track 24: A View From a Hill 
  Track 25: A Neighbour's Landmark 
  Track 26: The Uncommon Prayer-Book 
  Track 27: The Haunted Dolls' House 
  Track 28: Wailing Well 
  Track 29: There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard 
  Track 30: Rats 
  Track 31: After Dark in the Playing Fields 
  Track 32: The Experiment 
  Track 33: The Malice of Inanimate Objects 
  Track 34: A Vignette 
  Track 35: The Fenstanton Witch 
  Track 36: Appendix

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  The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

  Hugh Lofting

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  Doctor Dolittle and his friends travel to South America to meet the greatest naturalist in the New World. A note to listeners: This book was written in a different time, and as such, contains language and sentiments that are offensive to modern sensibilities.Produced by Devin LawerenceEdited by Macc KayProduction executive Avalon GiulianoEden Garret Giuliano, born February 2008 in Bangkok. Eden is an accomplished actor, model, narrator and rising international gymnast.  He has travelled and lived on almost  every continent and has been educated everywhere from the United States, rural India, Great Britain and Thailand.  Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret Giuliano

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  Wee Willie Winkie (Unabridged)

  Rudyard Kipling

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  "Wee Willie Winkie" is an short story by Rudyard Kipling: His full name was Percival William Williams, but he picked up the other name in a nursery-book, and that was the end of the christened titles. His mother's ayah called him Willie-Baba, but as he never paid the faintest attention to anything that the ayah said, her wisdom did not help matters.

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  Malachi's Cove

  Anthony Trollope

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  Born in London on 24th April 1815 Anthony Trollope is considered a giant of English literature.  His early schooling was at Harrow and Sunbury.  Here was often bullied due to the family’s reduced financial means.  His bad tempered father seemed to be full of energy but unable to execute any idea into a regular income.     
   
  In 1834 Trollope moved with his family to Bruges in Belgium to escape the debt collectors pursuing his father.   With an offer of work for the General Post Office he returned to London later that same year.  The next 7 years were, by his own account, unproductive and miserable.  However, in 1841 a chance to move to Ireland for the GPO availed itself and he took it.   
   
  During his long travels around Ireland he now began to write extensively often setting himself a schedule about how many words to write in a day.  
   
  In 1851 he was sent to England to organise rural delivery in part of the country.  In this period he began to nurture the first of the six Barsetshire novels “The Warden’ which was published in 1855.     
   
  In his prolific career he wrote 47 novels as well as many short stories and travel books. 
    
  On December 6th, 1882 he died in London and is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery in London.

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  Twice Told Tales

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the second in 1842. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name.Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that town. Hawthorne entered Bowdoin College in 1821 and graduated in 1825. He published his first work in 1828, the novel Fanshawe; he later tried to suppress it, feeling it was not equal to the standard of his later work.[He published several short stories in periodicals, which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. The following year, he became engaged to Sophia Peabody. He worked at the Boston Custom House and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires, then to The Wayside in Concord. The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, followed by a succession of other novels. A political appointment as consul took Hawthorne and family to Europe before their return to Concord in 1860. Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, and was survived by his wife and their three children.

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