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Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 12m
This is a story about a Worm who turned. Though the name of this story's exceedingly pretty protagonist is Henry Augustus Ramsey Fusan, the narrative refers to him as 'The Worm'. The Worm is found unhappy in this classic India-set tale, as he finds himself at odds with the shakaris regiment, a group to whom one must be able to prove himself by abil...
View BookAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 9m
This story of a love triangle in British India sees a young lady choosing between a young and handsome and an old and ugly suitor. Her Mother makes her choosing clear, but when the situation boils down to an archery competition, the result is not as might have been expected. A typically Kiplingesque study and quasi-acceptance of the strange and int...
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 11m
The story is an illustration of the power of Mrs Hauksbee. (It is Kipling's third story about her in book form.) Tarrion, a "clever and amusing" young officer in an unfashionable regiment, longs for a permanent appointment in Simla. There he has the good fortune to do Mrs Hauksbee a favour, and in return is due his reward.
View BookAuthor: Robert Graves
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Author Robert Graves
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 53m
Robert Graves relates his time in the trenches. Robert Graves's writing is versatile and intense. Famous as a war poet, his prose works are on a stage of their own, especially this piece, which is an autobiographical account of Grave's school days and life as a soldier in the trenches in World War 1. Political as well as personal, the piece is imp...
View BookJust William: Home For the Holidays
Author: Richmal Crompton
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Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 15m
Home for the Holidays' is a wonderful story of everyone's favourite loveable scamp William Brown. Taken from its namesake collection from CSA Word, this unabridged story is a chucklesome treat that sees William getting up to his trademark mischief and driving the adults around him to distraction and despair - even if he does have dubiously good int...
View BookJust William: The Hidden Treasure
Author: Richmal Crompton
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Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 14m
Jimmy's brother Roger and Roger's two friends Charles and Bill are an inseparable trio who call themselves 'The Three Musketeers'. One morning, they set out in search of an adventure, hoping to find some valuable hidden treasure. There's only one small set-back: they don't know where to look for it, although their preparation is second-to-none. Cha...
View BookJust William: Commonsense About Holidays
Author: Richmal Crompton
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Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 9m
Holidays need to be reformed. Children work really hard at school but don't get enough time off from school to rest their brains. The sometimes- irascible William Brown holds great stock in these statements. He believes that he sorely needs to rest his brain and that altering the school holidays time to term time, and term time to holiday time is a...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 41m
A short story first published in the United States in The Saturday Evening Post on November 28, 1916, and in the United Kingdom in the April 1923 edition of Strand Magazine. Its first book publication. From 'Carry on, Jeeves'. Uncle Willoughby guest-stars in this story of engagement, surprise and of course, a whole lot of raucous comedy.
View BookJeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum: Jeeves
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 18m
Hapless and often hopeless romantic Bingo Little has fallen for yet another young lady in this Jeeves and Wooster story of terrible cravats, far-from-fine dining and love's perhaps-not-so-young dream. Bertie is rather confounded by Bingo's love for a girl below his rightful station, so long-suffering Jeeves is roped in to talk to Bingo's uncle, who...
View BookJeeves and the Unbidden Guest: Jeeves
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 37m
Bertie is feeling really rather spiffing, when he receives a surprise visit from the writer Lady Malvern and her son Wilmot. A friend of Bertie's Aunt Agatha, Lady Malvern requests that Wilmot stay with Bertie for a couple of weeks whilst she is away in America. Whilst not perfectly happy with the idea, Bertie agrees, to find that the seemingly mil...
View BookJeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 36m
A comical romp of an adventure involving Jeeves, Wooster and 'Bicky', whose uncle, the Duke of Chiswick, has the potential to be a wealthy benefactor to his nephew. Unfortunately, the Duke is what's known in the right circles as a 'hard-boiled egg' - ie 'notoriously the most prudent spender in England'. When Bicky contacts Bertie, our jaunt begins,...
View BookAuthor: Richmal Crompton
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Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 51m
Seventeen favourite stories about the irrepressibleWilliam Brown, specially selected and read by Martin Jarvis. Whether a long-standing fan or a first time listener, this collection of stories is the ultimate Just William audio experience. With over four hours of laugh-out-loud stories, including two stories performed to a live audience, Just Will...
View BookAuthor: Richmal Crompton
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Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesJust William, Book 1
Duration 4h 51m
This collection of stories follows the adventures of that irrepressible and ageless schoolboy William Brown. Perpetually scruffy, mud-stained and mischievous, he is a lovable scamp whose pranks end in distaster - for his elders at least!
View BookAuthor: Jeffrey Archer
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Author Jeffrey Archer
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 7h 26m
On July 19, 2001, Jeffrey Archer - international best-selling author - is sentenced to four years in prison for perjury. He becomes Prisoner FF8282 and spends the first twenty-two days of his sentence in a high-security prison that house some of Britain's most violent criminals. During those twenty-two days, Archer contemplates suicide; he is allow...
View BookAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 10m
The Kipling story Kidnapped was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on March 21st 1887, in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection.
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 18m
Two sisters, Edith and Maud, are both in love with Saumarez. They have "a strong likeness between them in look and voice", and it is only a matter of time before they are mistaken for each other by the unlucky man. This was one of Rudyard Kipling's earlier tales, and made its first appearance in 'Plain Tales From the Hills', one of his celebrated c...
View BookClustering Round Young Bingo: Jeeves and Wooster
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 45m
Bingo Little, friend of butler Jeeves' master Bertie Wooster and a member of the Drones Club, is also a hopeless romantic. Our heroes Jeeves and Wooster often try to help him into or out of romantic entanglements but to little avail, or at least they often make matters worse! Sublime comedy from the master of humor.
View BookAuthor: Robert Graves
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Author Robert Graves
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 5h
Robert Graves's classic autobiography tells the story of his life at public school and as a young officer during the First World War in an engaging diary style. Graves describes the military hierarchy, camaraderie (in particular his friendship with Siegfried Sassoon), trench warfare and his increasing disillusionment with war in a fascinating insig...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 17h 30m
A mysterious benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. However, not everything lives up to his dreams.
View BookAuthor: Joanna Trollope
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Author Joanna Trollope
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 12m
Our narrator stays on a Mediterranean island much longer than he intended to for a number of reasons. One reason is to prove his mother and his girlfriend wrong, who both say that to decamp to an island for a whole winter to write a novel is melodramatic and rather a clich‚. Most nights, to abate loneliness and pass the time, he talks to the...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 1h 19m
Part of the P. G. Wodehouse Blandings series. When a valuable scarab belonging to an American millionaire is absent-mindedly stolen by Lord Emsworth, young writers Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine are tasked with infiltrating Blandings Castle to retrieve it. Meanwhile, vacuous Freddie Threepwood worries that some compromising letters may scupper his...
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