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Father Brown

de G. K. Chesterton ...

Narrado por Bill Wallis ...

Abreviado

2 hora 45 minutos

This wonderful creation by GK Chesterton is a familiar favourite to many as a TV series in the 70s with Kenneth More. Chesterton’s other works include ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much. These four stories test Father Brown in many ways creating headaches a plenty. However Father Brown is nothing if not redoubtable and whilst Chesterton’s stories are, in his own words, “very slight and improbable” his ... Leer más

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This wonderful creation by GK Chesterton is a familiar favourite to many as a TV series in the 70s with Kenneth More. Chesterton’s other works include ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much. These four stories test Father Brown in many ways creating headaches a plenty. However Father Brown is nothing if not redoubtable and whilst Chesterton’s stories are, in his own words, “very slight and improbable” his
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Disponible también en: eBook
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Resurrection of Father Brown, The

The inimitable Father Brown - from clues to criminals

de G.K. Chesterton ...

Narrado por Bill Wallis, Ghizela Rowe ...

Completo

44 minutos

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Campden Hill, Kensington on May 29th 1874.Originally after attending St Pauls School he went to Slade to learn the art of illustration. In 1896 he joined a small London publisher and began his journalistic career as a freelance art and literary critic and going on to writing weekly columns in the Daily News and the Illustrated London News.In 1901 he married ... Leer más

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Campden Hill, Kensington on May 29th 1874.Originally after attending St Pauls School he went to Slade to learn the art of illustration. In 1896 he joined a small London publisher and began his journalistic career as a freelance art and literary critic and going on to writing weekly columns in the Daily News and the Illustrated London News.In 1901 he married
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Blue Cross, The

The inimitable Father Brown - from clues to criminals

de G K Chesterton ...

Narrado por Bill Wallis, Ghizela Rowe ...

Completo

48 minutos

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Campden Hill, Kensington on May 29th 1874.Originally after attending St Pauls School he went to Slade to learn the art of illustration. In 1896 he joined a small London publisher and began his journalistic career as a freelance art and literary critic and going on to writing weekly columns in the Daily News and the Illustrated London News.In 1901 he married ... Leer más

$6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Campden Hill, Kensington on May 29th 1874.Originally after attending St Pauls School he went to Slade to learn the art of illustration. In 1896 he joined a small London publisher and began his journalistic career as a freelance art and literary critic and going on to writing weekly columns in the Daily News and the Illustrated London News.In 1901 he married
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - Revenge

The top ten short revenge stories of all time

de F Scott Fitzgerald, H G Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, O Henry, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Stephen Crane, Susan Glaspell, Vsevolod Garshin ...

Narrado por Elliot Fitzpatrick, Laurel Lefkow, Bill Wallis ...

Completo

5 hora 31 minutos

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Leer más

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Old Filth

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

de Jane Gardam ...

Narrado por Bill Wallis ...

Completo

9 hora 25 minutos

'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never fades' Amanda Craig'I love Jane Gardam, especially Old Filth' Nina Stibbe'Her work, like Sylvia Townsend Warner's, has that ... Leer más

$23.99 USD

'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never fades' Amanda Craig'I love Jane Gardam, especially Old Filth' Nina Stibbe'Her work, like Sylvia Townsend Warner's, has that
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BBC Radio Shakespeare: A Collection of Six Tragedies

de William Shakespeare ...

Narrado por Bill Wallis, Corin Redgrave, Full Cast, Geraldine James, Juliet Stevenson, Ken Stott, Kenneth Cranham, Michael Sheen, Siân Phillips, Sophie Dahl ...

Completo

16 hora 26 minutos

Six full-cast BBC Radio productions of Shakespeare's classic tragediesTreachery, betrayal and fatal power struggles are among the themes of these six iconic productions of Shakespeare's timeless tragedies. Featuring all-star casts, they are introduced by Sir Richard Eyre.HamletShakespeare's powerfully poetic tragedy of murder, madness and revenge stars Michael Sheen as the Prince of Denmark, with ... Leer más

$21.99 USD

Six full-cast BBC Radio productions of Shakespeare's classic tragediesTreachery, betrayal and fatal power struggles are among the themes of these six iconic productions of Shakespeare's timeless tragedies. Featuring all-star casts, they are introduced by Sir Richard Eyre.HamletShakespeare's powerfully poetic tragedy of murder, madness and revenge stars Michael Sheen as the Prince of Denmark, with
... Leer más
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13 Unlucky Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Perhaps the greatest short story writer ever

de Edgar Allan Poe ...

Narrado por William Dufris, Bill Wallis, Eric Meyers ...

Completo

8 hora 40 minutos

Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan.He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted although he now referred to himself as Edgar Allan Poe. His father alternatively spoiled or chastised him and tension was frequent over gambling debts and monies ... Leer más

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Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan.He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted although he now referred to himself as Edgar Allan Poe. His father alternatively spoiled or chastised him and tension was frequent over gambling debts and monies
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Mezzotint, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

de M R James ...

Narrado por Bill Wallis ...

Completo

28 minutos

Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with.James was born on 1st August 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate but at age 3 the family went to live at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia.From early childhood he had a passion for mediaeval books and antiques. He was educated ... Leer más

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Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with.James was born on 1st August 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate but at age 3 the family went to live at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia.From early childhood he had a passion for mediaeval books and antiques. He was educated
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The Murder Mystery

The ten best murder mystery short stories of all time

de Edgar Allan Poe, H G Wells, Guy De Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, H P Lovecraft, E T A Hoffman, W W Jacobs, F Marion Crawford, Arthur Machen, Robert W Chambers ...

Narrado por Bill Wallis, Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow ...

Completo

7 hora 56 minutos

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Leer más

$19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
... Leer más
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3 Stories - Madness to Murder

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

de Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Leonid Andreyev ...

Narrado por Elliot Fitzpatrick, Bill Wallis ...

Completo

1 horas 28 minutos

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Leer más

$9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Leer más
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3 Stories - Stream of Consciousness

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

de Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Virginia Woolf ...

Narrado por Christopher Ragland, Ghizela Rowe, Bill Wallis ...

Completo

1 horas 5 minutos

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Leer más

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Leer más
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Psychological Stories

Explore the human mind

de Amelia Edwards, Anton Chekhov, Barry Pain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, E T A Hoffman, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Nesbit, F Anstey, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostovesky, Kate Chopin, Katherine Mansfield, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather ...

Narrado por Liza Ross, Bill Wallis, Richard Mitchley ...

Completo

11 hora 53 minutos

What we have in front of us here in this volume is a simple premise but an author’s words may say one thing and mean another. With talents such as E T A Hoffman, Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, Mikhail Bulgakov and many others our minds are under almost permanent assault with words, characters and narratives that pursue us to the end.1 - Psychological Stories - An Introduction2 - The Dream of a ... Leer más

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What we have in front of us here in this volume is a simple premise but an author’s words may say one thing and mean another. With talents such as E T A Hoffman, Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, Mikhail Bulgakov and many others our minds are under almost permanent assault with words, characters and narratives that pursue us to the end.1 - Psychological Stories - An Introduction2 - The Dream of a
... Leer más