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The Hangman's Noose
- Strange tales of executions and executioners
- By: Thomas Hardy, Ambrose Bierce, Bram Stoker, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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An exceptional collection of strange and uncanny tales which cast various slants on that most grisly of events, the execution.
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The Hangman's Noose
- Strange tales of executions and executioners
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-03-13
- Language: English
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The 12 Days of Christmas
- A Collection of Poetry
- By: Louise May Alcott, Henry Vaughan, Robert Herrick, and others
- Narrated by: Simon Cliffe
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Simon Cliffe reads some of the greatest Christmas poems for the 12 days of Christmas. Day 1 - Merry Christmas by Louise May Alcott. Day 2 - Christ's Nativity by Henry Vaughan. Day 3 - Ceremonies for Christmas by Robert Herrick. Day 4 - New Prince, New Pomp by Robert Southwell. Day 5 - Christmas Cheer by Thomas Tusser. Day 6 - Ring Out, Wild Bells by Lor Alfred Tennyson. Day 7 - The Oxen by Thomas Hardy. Day 8 - Nativity by John Donne. Day 9 - A Christmas Carol by G.K. Chesterton.
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The 12 Days of Christmas
- A Collection of Poetry
- Narrated by: Simon Cliffe
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 15-12-10
- Language: English
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A Laodicean
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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Our Laodicean Paula Power, the daughter of a wealthy Victorian railway engineer, is the sole inheritor of the ancient De Stancy Castle. The castle requires much modernization and repair so she sets about securing a young, up-and-coming architect, George Somerset, to undertake the project. Immediately captivated Somerset falls in love with our heroine but alas, he is not her only suitor. Paula, "the modern flower in a mediaeval flower-pot" while attracted to him yearns for the dashing Captain De Stancy and the aristocratic background he represents.
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- By Arrian on 26-01-25
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A Laodicean
- Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 10-04-14
- Language: English
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The Three Strangers
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 50 mins
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In The Three Strangers, Thomas Hardy offers a quietly ironic tale shaped by weather, custom, and the unpredictable drift of human fate. Set against the backdrop of rural Wessex, the story unfolds on the border between the ordinary and the uncanny — a place where identity flickers and appearances mislead. With his signature restraint, Hardy lets the narrative circle slowly inward, revealing not only the secret at its heart, but something of the way justice, chance, and character meet in the dark folds of the countryside.
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The Three Strangers
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 12-08-25
- Language: English
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The Top 10 Short Stories - Mens 1880s
- By: Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ian Holm, David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. This decade is resplendent with literature and its many prodigiously talented authors who write on as varied a range of subjects as might be thought possible. Yet each is studded with careful literary precision and narrative verve. It is a remarkable decade.
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The Top 10 Short Stories - Mens 1880s
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ian Holm, David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 25-03-25
- Language: English
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Under the Greenwood Tree
- A Rural Painting of the Dutch School
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Under the Greenwood Tree, Hardy's second novel, was published in 1872 and became the first of his great series of Wessex novels. The book, subtitled A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, tells the endearing tale of a group of church musicians who accompany the hymns at the local Mellstock parish choir and we follow the fortunes of one of its member, Dick Dewy, who falls in love with the new school mistress, Fancy Day.
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Under the Greenwood Tree
- A Rural Painting of the Dutch School
- Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-04-14
- Language: English
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Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
- By: Thomas Hardy
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Join Margery, a spirited milkmaid, as she crosses paths with a mysterious foreigner on the brink of despair. In a twist of fate, she saves him from a tragic end, and in gratitude, he offers her any reward she desires. With dreams of attending a grand ball, Margery embarks on an unexpected journey to a yeomans ball in a neighboring county, where her life takes a turn filled with intrigue and emotion. Torn between her loyalty to a local lad and the whirlwind of new experiences, Margerys story unfolds in true Hardy fashion—where not everything concludes as one might hope. (Summary by Phil ...
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Two On A Tower (Bbc Radio 4 Classic Serial)
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Blake Ritson, Maggie O'Neill
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of star-crossed lovers in the West Country. 'Two on a Tower' is Hardy's ninth novel and contains perhaps his most complete treatment of the theme of love across the class and age divide, and also the fullest...
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- By Cassie Tremblay on 21-08-18
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Two On A Tower (Bbc Radio 4 Classic Serial)
- Narrated by: Blake Ritson, Maggie O'Neill
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-11-10
- Language: English
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The British Classics Collection - Volume One: 20+ Stories from Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, & More
- Great Expectations, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, To the Lighthouse, Wuthering Heights, & More
- By: Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and others
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Joanne Froggatt, and others
- Length: 204 hrs and 10 mins
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The British Classics Collection: Volume One is a century-spanning collection of 24 classic works of fiction and poetry by British authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Joanne Froggatt, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, and many more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Charles Dickens; Emily Brontë; Jane Austen; Thomas Hardy; George Eliot; D.H. Lawrence; and Mary Shelley, amongst a host of others.
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The British Classics Collection - Volume One: 20+ Stories from Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, & More
- Great Expectations, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, To the Lighthouse, Wuthering Heights, & More
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Joanne Froggatt, Jonathan Keeble, Adjoa Andoh, Emma Gregory, Rachel Atkins, Lucy Scott, full cast
- Series: The British Classics Collection (SNR Audio)
- Length: 204 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 05-12-24
- Language: English
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Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces
- By: Thomas Hardy
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Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous novels as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd. Similar to his novels, the underlying themes of the majority of the poems in this collection are death, departure and unfulfilled love, while the central piece is comprised of the 15 short "Satires of Circumstance," funny poems with a bittersweet touch. The poems have been recorded by our trio of readers John Burlinson, Tomas Peter and Sonia. As an interesting touch, some poems can be ...
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Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (Selection)
- By: Thomas Hardy
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Hardy claimed poetry as his first love, and published collections until his death in 1928. Although not as well received by his contemporaries as his novels, Hardy's poetry has been applauded considerably in recent years. Most of his poems deal with themes of disappointment in love and life, and mankind's long struggle against indifference to human suffering. (Summary from Wikipedia).
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Bitter Lips, Sweet Heart
- A Poetry Collection
- By: Adriel Brandt, Lord Byron, Algernon Swinburne, and others
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Bitter Lips, Sweet Heart is a unique collection of romantic poetry first assembled by a group of young male college students who got together to read poetry and drink tea every week, thinking themselves spurned romantics and talented poets. Most of the original selections have been forgotten, and the collection has been updated for this simple release with a sense of irony and sheepishness in mature adulthood. May its angst, irony, lust, and innocent affection amuse and entertain you today, just as it did the four nerdy boys who assembled it to communicate.
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Bitter Lips, Sweet Heart
- A Poetry Collection
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 39 mins
- Release date: 17-03-22
- Language: English
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The Return of the Native
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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Eustacia Vye, sensuous and wild as the moors of Egdon Heath, brings nothing but misfortune to her lovers, Damon Wildeve and Clym Yeobright. This, contrasted with the kindness and faithfulness of the reddleman Diggory Venn, Thomasin, and the local furze cutters, all combine to form a gripping tale.
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The Return of the Native
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-11-13
- Language: English
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Stories for Winter Evenings
- By: Hugh Walpole, W. F. Harvey, Mary E. Braddon, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
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A haunting collection of strange and macabre short stories, ideal for listening to around the fire on a cold winter evening.... 'The Last Leaf' by O. Henry, 'On the Northern Ice' by Elia W. Peattie, 'The Fire' by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne, 'The Tiger' by Hugh Walpole, 'Cool Air' by H. P. Lovecraft, 'The Missing Model' by Lettice Galbraith, 'The Cold Embrace' by Mary E. Braddon, 'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole, 'Over an Absinthe Bottle' by W. C. Morrow, 'The Coffin Merchant' by Richard Middleton.
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Stories for Winter Evenings
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-11-15
- Language: English
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Comic and Curious Verse
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- By: A.E. Housman, J.K. Stephen, A.C. Swinburne, and others
- Narrated by: Benjamin Franklin King, Sir John Gielgud, Imogen Stubbs, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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A collection of the funny, curious verse written during the 19th and 20th centuries, read by some of Britain's most renowned actors. Humorous and whimsical verse are collated together in these timeless readings of poetry from our funniest writers. Performed by Sir John Gielgud; Imogen Stubbs; Tim Pigott-Smith; Peter Orr; Wendy Hillier.
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Comic and Curious Verse
- Argo Classics
- Narrated by: Benjamin Franklin King, Sir John Gielgud, Imogen Stubbs, Tim Pigott-Smith, Wendy Hillier
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Release date: 19-11-20
- Language: English
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Thomas Hardy: The Short Stories
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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Many giants of literature originate from the shores of these emerald isles: Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, The Bronte sisters, and Austen. Most people would willingly add the name Thomas Hardy to that list. Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess Of the D’Urbervilles, and The Mayor of Casterbridge are but three of his literary masterpieces. Lesser known, yet equally impressive, are his short stories. Enjoy this delightful collection, read for you by Richard Mitchley.
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Thomas Hardy: The Short Stories
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 14-04-12
- Language: English
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Hand of Ethelberta
- By: Thomas Hardy
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Ethelberta, raised in modest beginnings, finds herself thrust into a new world as a governess and, at just 18, marries into wealth. Tragically, her husband passes away just two weeks after their wedding, followed closely by the death of her father-in-law, Lord Petherwin. Now 21, Ethelberta resides with her mother-in-law, Lady Petherwin, who has indulged her with foreign travels and privileges, yet has also kept her estranged from her own family. As Ethelberta navigates life as a celebrated poetess and storyteller, she grapples with the challenge of supporting her loved ones while hiding the ...
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The Return of the Native
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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The Return of the Native (1878) is one of Hardy's most popular novels. Set on the brooding Egdon heath it traces the lives and loves of five people. Clym Yeobright, the native, returns to Egdon from a successful career in Paris to pursue a dream of educating the poorer local people. Eustacia Vye, a young woman unhappy with life on Egdon wishes for love and life in a city. Damon Wildeve, an innkeeper and ex-engineer is a young womaniser.
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The Return of the Native
- Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 22-04-14
- Language: English
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Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Mystery and Adventure. Vol. 4
- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle, the Arrow of Heaven by G. K. Chesterton, the Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Others
- By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, and others
- Narrated by: Chris Dabbs, Peter Coates, Carl Hughes, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Read the best mystery and adventure short stories. Be it cozy, historical, detective or murder mystery stories; our collection includes them all: The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Arrow of Heaven by G. K. Chesterton, The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton, The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, The Master of Mystery by Jack London.
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Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Mystery and Adventure. Vol. 4
- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle, the Arrow of Heaven by G. K. Chesterton, the Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Others
- Narrated by: Chris Dabbs, Peter Coates, Carl Hughes, Mark Bowen
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 23-10-24
- Language: English
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Unlikely Stories
- 44 Tales of the Weird and Fantastical
- By: Edith Wharton, Richard Middleton, Hugh Walpole, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 21 hrs and 13 mins
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A gripping collection of weird and fantastical stories of supernatural and unbelievable happenings. "Pomegranate Seed" by Edith Wharton; "The Tiger" by Hugh Walpole; "When I Was Dead" by Vincent O'Sullivan; "The Fire" by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne; "Satan's Circus" by Eleanor Smith; "The Coffin Merchant" by Richard Middleton; and more tall stories....
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Unlikely Stories
- 44 Tales of the Weird and Fantastical
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 21 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 16-11-15
- Language: English
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