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Author: Rudyard Kipling
Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 13m
Kipling story which appeared as part of Plain Tales from the Hills - Strickland, a police officer with a deep knowledge of the local Indian people falls in love with Miss Youghal but her parents don't approve of the match.
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Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
Author Sabine Baring-Gould
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 33m
A young man's suicide doesn't put paid to a young lady's ideas of going to a dance, despite the derision of her chaperone, who suspects that she is, at least in part, to blame. On the journey, a great breeze whips up in the ladies' carriage, and the young lady suffers a mishap, and auditory hallucinations...what is happening, and can it be explaine...
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The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
Author: Thomas Hardy
Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 42m
A tale by Hardy, master of human tragedy, about a girl's sacrifice for her long-engagement and her doomed love for a visiting soldier.
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Author: Mark Twain, F Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, Various
Author Mark Twain, F Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, Various
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 52m
A wonderful selection of stories to make you laugh, cry and shiver! Featuring stories from Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saki amongst a great many famous others, this collection is a must for anyone who enjoys listening to a wide variety of stories from a diverse range of voices.
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Author: Virginia Woolf
Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 20m
In "The Legacy," Gilbert Clandon is a widower whose wife has left him the collection of diaries she has kept since their marriage began. The diaries reveal that the wife he thought was completely devoted to him has been in love with another man. With this discovery also comes the realization that her death may not have been accidental, as he previo...
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Author: We Aytoun
Author We Aytoun
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 15m
This truly perturbing story starts from harmless enough beginnings to give a blow-by-blow account of a terrifying encounter between one young man and and the cause of his many nightmares thenceforth. A bell-ringer climbs up to remove a muffler from a bell, so that practice can resume. However, his partner is called off on urgent business, and our h...
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Author: W W Jacobs
Author W W Jacobs
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 25m
An old soldier visiting the Whites gives Mr White a monkey's paw, fabled to grant three wishes to three different men, but warns of the misery it can bring on the lives of those who use it.
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Short Stories: The Thinking Man's Collection
Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 20m
Following the success of its 'Best of Women's Short Stories' collections, CSA Word now compliments its oeuvre of critically-acclaimed short stories with a collection that celebrates and studies MEN in all their forms. Inspirational, weird, wonderful, intriguing and even extraordinary men feature in this collection.
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Author: William Locke
Author William Locke
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 47m
A gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, Andrea is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the co...
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Author: Charles Dickens
Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 32m
The Bagman's Story is an uncharacteristically happy story taken from 'The Pickwick Papers'. Dealing with themes of marriage and having an overall positive tone, this tale is uplifting and gentle, with a reassuring and welcome direction.
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Author: Colin Dexter
Author Colin Dexter
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 14m
Neighborly concern about a suspicious stranger sets a new puzzle for Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse.
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Author: E F Benson
Author E F Benson
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 22m
This ghost story recounts in vivid detail the experiences of a man's stay in a 'haunted' villa, terrorized by strange and hideous apparitions.
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Author: Fay Weldon
Author Fay Weldon
Narrator Julie Christie
Duration 28m
Mark and Molly, a married couple, share the same birthday although occupy different positions on the astrological chart. Molly is fastidious, devoted and frugal and hopes that Mark can appreciate her approach to life and adopt it for the sake of their growing family. A poignant story about the innate power of nature over nurture and the pointlessne...
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The Bottom Line and the Sharp End
Author: Fay Weldon
Author Fay Weldon
Narrator Julie Christie
Duration 21m
Written with biting satire, much humor and a pervading melancholy, this story is a fine example of Fay Weldon's exquisite and accomplished talent for short story writing.
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Author: G K Chesterton
Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Jack Shepherd
Duration 45m
A classic and puzzling Father Brown mystery to amaze and delight with twists and turns galore and wonderful characterization by Edward Hardwicke - TV's Dr. Watson from The Adventures of Sherock Holmes. Hardwicke's gravelly low tones are a perfect suit to any detective story and a reader will be totally captured after his first few words.
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Author: Gerald Griffin
Author Gerald Griffin
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 15m
This chilling classic Irish short story is one of the best in the genre and is read in a fitting Irish brogue by T.P. McKenna. The very beautiful Nora Guare and her Mother live in the lonesome district of West Munster in Ireland. Their cabin is the only one within a three mile radius. One day along comes the Brown man on his Brown horse wearing Bro...
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Author: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 7m
Legal loopholes, mistaken identity and unreliable evidence all feature in this story of a murder trial where all is not as 'cut and dried' as it seems. An old woman has been murdered, but who did it, and will retribution be forthcoming?
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 2h 56m
A selection of fictional murders committed by reason of love and hate: crimes passionnel. Stories: Mad / de Maupassant First Hate / Algernon Blackwood A Double Tragedy / Louisa M. Alcott Inside Information / Stephen Phillips Who Killed Zebedee? / Wilkie Collins. A thrilling and involving collection of blood-thirsty and psychologically intreguing cr...
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Author: James Joyce
Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 16m
After an automobile race outside Dublin, a 26-year-old Irishman named Jimmy, the son of a wealthy former butcher, accompanies the French team back into the city. Then follows an evening of eating, drinking, yachting and gambling, which Jimmy, or more likely his wallet, may live to rue.
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Author: James Joyce
Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 16m
A coming-of-age story of sorts, which follows a boy from Dublin as he fantasises over his friend's sister. Also a tale of disillusionment and 'growing up', the story is a skilful expose of the naivety of youth and the unrealistic expectations we place on others. A stunning examination of an adolescent mind and the conflicts between youth and adulth...
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Author: James Joyce
Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 19m
Mrs. Mooney, separated from her husband, a butcher who descended into alcoholism, runs a boarding house for working men. Her daughter Polly entertains the boarders by singing and flirts with them. When Mrs. Mooney learns that her daughter is having an affair with one of the men, she starts to wonder how she may manipulate the situation. An interest...
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