Audiobooks Narrated by Richard Mitchley

Wonder Of Women - To Make A Long Story Short

"Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed. 1 - Women of Wonder - To Make A Long Story Short - An Introduction2 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin3 - The Story of Sir Bertrand by Anna Laetitia Barbauld4 - All Souls Eve by Dora Sigerson Shorter5 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts6 - Conversation on Conversation by Harriet Beecher Stowe7 - The Preacher at Hill Station by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman8 - The Palace of Death by Emily Bronte9 - The Lie by Holloway Horn10 - The Readjustment by Mary Austin11 - Suggestion by Mrs Ernest Leverson12 - A Pen and Ink Effect by Frances E Huntley13 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart14 - My Flirtations by Ella Hepworth Dixon writing as Margaret Wynham15 - The Three Kisses by Violet Quirk16 - A Redeeming Sacrifice by Lucy Maud Montgomery17 - Many Waters Cannot Quench Love by Louisa Baldwin18 - Aunt Hetty on Matrimony by Fanny Fern, the writing pseudonym for Sarah Payton Parton19 - Aunt Lindy. A Story Founded on Real Life by Victoria Earle Matthews20 - Cousin Mary by Mary Russell Mitford21 - Cuchulain of Muirthemne. The Only Son of Aoife by Lady Augusta Gregory22 - The Peterkins Decide to Learn the Languages by Lucretia Peabody Hale23 - My Honoured Master by Catherine Anne Dawson Scott24 - The Man With No Face by Gertrude Minnie Robins25 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson26 - In No Strange Land by Katharine Butler27 - The Mystery of the Gables by Elsie Norris28 - Guests Unexpected. A Thanksgiving Story by Maude K Griffin29 - Breaking the Color Line by Annie McCary30 - The Casualty List by Winifred Holtby31 - The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare32 - A Knot of Ribbon by Laurence Alma-Tadema33 - A Dream of Wild Bees by Olive Schreiner34 - A Lost Masterpiece by Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright writing as George Egerton35 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd36 - The Shape of Fear by Elia W Peattie37 - Fear by Catherine Wells38 - The Little Skeleton by Mary Anne Atherstone writing as M A Bird39 - Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte40 - The Tyburn Ghost by Wilhelmina FitzClarence, The Countess of Munster41 - When the Devil Was Well by Gertrude Atherton.wav"

Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Annie McCary, Catherine Anne Dawson Scott, Catherine Wells, Charlotte Bronte, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Elia W Peattie, Ella Hepworth Dixon writing as Margaret Wynham, Elsie Norris, Emily Bronte, Fanny Fern, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Frances E Huntley, Georgia F Stewart, Gertrude Atherton, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Holloway Horn, Katharine Butler, Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman, L.M. Montgomery, Lady Augusta Gregory, Laurence Alma-Tadema, Louisa Baldwin, Lucretia Peabody Hale, Mary Anne Atherstone writing as M A Bird, Mary Anne Hoare, Mary Austin, Mary Butts, Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright writing as George Egerton, Mary Russell Mitford, Maude K Griffin, Mrs Ernest Leverson, Olive Schreiner, Ruth D Todd, The Countess of Munster, Victoria Earle Matthews, Violet Quirk, Wilhelmina FitzClarence, Winifred Holtby, the writing pseudonym for Sarah Payton Parton (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Kelly Burke, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Wonder Of Women - Supernatural Romance Stories

"Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed."

Amelia B. Edwards, Clothilde Graves, Edith Nesbit, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Lisa Bowerman, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Wonder Of Women - Stories About Affairs

"Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed. 1 - Women of Wonder - Affairs - An Introduction2 - The Storm by Kate Chopin3 - From the Dead by Edith Nesbit4 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton5 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf6 - The Pleasant Husband by Marjorie Bowen7 - Lucy Wren by Ada Radford8 - Lena Wrace by May Sinclair9 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow10 - Behind the Curtain by Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens11 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin"

Ada Radford, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens, Kate Chopin, Marjorie Bowen, May Sinclair, Virginia Woolf (Author), Janet Maw, Liza Ross, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Wonder Of Women - Murder Stories

"Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed. 1 - Women of Wonder - Murder - An Introduction2 - The Murder In Saltashe Woods by Baroness Orczy3 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell4 - In The Dark by Edith Nesbit5 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards6 - Mrs Raeburn's Waxwork by Lady Eleanor Smith7 - Talma Gordon by Pauline E Hopkins8 - A Twin Identity by Edith Stewart Drewery9 - Why Herbert Killed His Mother by Winifred Holtby10 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd11 - An Expiation by Arabella Kenealy12 - Water Running Out by Ethel Lina White13 - Ben Pitcher's Elly by Mary E Mann14 - No 5 Branch Line. The Engineer by Amelia Edwards15 - The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railroad by Baroness Emmuska Orczy16 - The 4.15 Express by Amelia Edwards"

Amelia B. Edwards, Arabella Kenealy, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy, Edith Nesbit, Edith Stewart Drewery, Ethel Lina White, Lady Eleanor Smith, Mary E Mann, Pauline E Hopkins, Ruth D Todd, Susan Glaspell, Winifred Holtby (Author), Laurel Lefkow, Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Wonder Of Women - Ghost Stories

"Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed. 1 - Women of Wonder - Ghost Stories - An Introduction2 - Man Size In Marble by Edith Nesbit3 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton4 - The Story of Salome by Amelia Edwards5 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman6 - A Spirit Elopement by Clotilde Graves7 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps8 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood9 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards10 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton11 - The Ghost at the Rath by Rosa Mulholland12 - Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor House by Clara Venn13 - The Ghost by Catherine Wells14 - The Ghost in the Clock Room by Hesba Stretton15 - The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne16 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant17 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant18 - To Let by B M Croker19 - Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley.wav20 - The Runaway by Marion Hepworth-Dixon21 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards22 - The 4 15 Express by Amelia Edwards23 - The Token by May Sinclair24 - The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton25 - The Readjustment by Mary Austin26 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon27 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell28 - Dionea - Part 1 by Vernon Lee29 - Dionea - Part 2 by Vernon Lee30 - John Charrington's Wedding by Edith Nesbit"

Amelia B. Edwards, B M Croker, Catherine Wells, Clara Venn, Clotilde Graves, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Gertrude Atherton, Hesba Stretton, Madeline Yale Wynne, Margaret Oliphant, Marion Hepworth-Dixon, Mary Austin, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, May Sinclair, Mrs Ellen Wood, Rhoda Broughton, Rosa Mulholland, Vernon Lee (Author), Elliot Fitzpatrick, Lisa Bowerman, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - Suicide

"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 immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.Those taken away by their own hand leave many questions and many sorrows. In this volume ten of our vaunted authors share stories of tragedy and the early demise of characters who take a tortured path of no return.01 - The Top 10 - Suicide - An Introduction02 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka03 - Suicides by Guy de Maupassant04 - The Victory by Rabindranath Tagore05 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather06 - Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo07 - The Mourner by Mary Shelley08 - A Slav Soul by Alexander Kuprin09 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy10 - A Passion in the Desert by Honoré de Balzac11 - The Quadroons by Lydia Maria Child"

Alexander Kuprin, Amy Levy, Franz Kafka, Guy De Maupassant, Honoré De Balzac, Lydia Maria Child, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Rabindranath Tagore, Victor Hugo, Willa Cather (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Lagoon

"Joseph Conrad was born on 3rd December 1857 in Berdychiv in the Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. His birthplace had been part of Poland which its neighbours dismembered into their own Empires.Conrad’s early years were spent in constant movement, his father was politically active and frequently in trouble trying to help re-ignite a Polish state which meant arrests and exile and the young Conrad himself suffered from ill-health, spending a year at a retreat in Kyiv recovering. By 11 he was orphaned. His education was mainly private and although he was a voracious reader, he was a poor academic student. Now, being raised by an uncle who wanted Conrad to have a worthwhile job, it was hoped that a merchant-marine career might bring out the best of him.At 16 he was sent to Marseille to embark on that adventure. Conrad himself was determined to be both a sailor and a great writer.Life on board a ship was full of adventures and experiences which included gun-running and close quarter encounters with political conspiracies.By his mid 30’s Conrad had returned to shore permanently to add his prodigious literary talents to full time writing. Although he wrote with a comprehensive command in English his spoken English was often cited as ‘horrible’. He was now also a British Citizen. Conrad brought to English Literature both narrative mastery, compelling prose and fully formed characters as well as a deeper examination of the human psyche in a wealth of work. He wrote many novels, short stories, nonfiction, and memoirs which are rightly regarded today as some of the finest in English literature. Jospeh Conrad died on the 3rd August 1924 at Bishopsbourne, Kent in England. He was 66."

Joseph Conrad (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Jewish Author - A Short Story Collection

"We love to stereotype, to typecast and to pigeon hole. It’s one of our organising traits that serves many uses but also serves to stain and segregate, to find fault and to point out blame.In this volume we see if that servant can have two masters and two functions.The Jewish culture has been a mesmerizing source of life, art, tragedy, and beauty for millennia.To be Jewish is not a simple example of one person or one family; it is a collective form of identity. Jewish history has often been rightfully portrayed as turbulent, as a people being unfairly oppressed and downtrodden; marked out for discrimination and even death. But Jewish history also has darker notes against others when in its own ascendancy. Within this volume of short stories we have exampled people who thought of themselves as Jewish and wove that together with their literary skills to create some quite dazzling and unexpected works. These short stories explore and examine society and the lives all around them in times when the Jewish authors themselves were being closely watched. 1 - The Jewish Author - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka3 - Rooms by Gertrude Stein4 - My First Goose by Isaac Babel5 - Gods in Exile by Heinrich Heine6 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy7 - Jezebel of Valley Farm by E Philips Oppenhein8 - The Converts by Israel Zangwill9 - The Hoodoo by Martha Gruening10 - Chopin Op 47 by Stanley Victor Makower11 - August by Bruno Schulz12 - The Book Binder of Hort by Leoplod von Sacher-Masoch"

Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Isaac Babel (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Hound of Heaven

"A gloriously talented poet who although now almost forgotten wrote verse that is still powerful and prescient"

Francis Thompson (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Grey King

"Will is the last-born of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to saving the world from the forces of evil. And now it is Will's task to wake--with the golden harp--the six who must be roused from their long slumber in the Welsh hills to prepare for the last battle between the Dark and the Light."

Susan Cooper (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Foundations of Fiction - Werewolves

"A dog may be man's best friend. It is also one of his worst nightmares. The idea that humans could suddenly present themselves as demonic werewolves can only have come from the deepest, darkest and most diabolical recesses of an author's mind.In this volume we present a roll-call of classic authors including Rudyard Kipling, Saki, Arthur Conan Doyle, Catherine Crowe and many others who short story by short story establish the building blocks of this horrific yet thrilling genre. Here all manner of characters and narratives weave together to bring a unique yet intricate account of the beginnings of this most troubling of literary genres.1 - Foundations of Fiction - Werewolves - An Introduction2 - Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling3 - A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle4 - Tarnhelm or The Death of My Uncle Robert by Hugh Walpole5 - Gabriel-Ernest by Saki6 - The She-Wolf by Saki7 - The Lame Priest by Susan Morrow writing as S Carleton8 - The Thing in the Forest by Bernard Capes9 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman10 - A Story of a Weir-Wolf by Catherine Crowe"

Bernard Capes, Catherine Crowe, E T A Hoffman, Hugh Walpole, Rudyard Kipling, Saki, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Foundations of Fiction - The Murder Mystery

"In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving. Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the surest way to reach a hungry readership is to build on the fortune and flair of your literary colleagues. The Whodunit is one of the great themes of literary fiction. We all believe that given the right clue at the right time we can deduce and logically unmask the killer. Unfortunately, our authors are not the most helpful of co-workers in this regard. With their more than liberal use of plot twists, red herrings and McGuffins they merrily ensure that the only one who really knows is them and them alone until it is time to reveal who really did the deed, and how.01 - Foundations of Fiction - Murder Mystery - An Introduction2 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe3 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson4 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London5 - The Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens6 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell7 - Better Dead by J M Barrie8 - The Cone by H G Wells9 - The Hounds of Fate by Saki10 - The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railroad by Baroness Emmuska Orczy11 - The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce12 - The Corpse Light by J E Preston Muddock writing as Dick Donovan13 - A Thing That Glistened by Frank R Stockton14 - Nightmare in Yellow by Fredric Brown15 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards16 - A Twin Identity by Edith Stewart Drewery17 - In A Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa18 - The Snow by Hugh Walpole19 - August Heat by W F Harvey20 - Allelulia by T F Powys21 - Juggernaut by D K Broster22 - The Bundle of Letters by Móritz Jókai23 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe"

Ambrose Bierce, Amelia B. Edwards, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Charles Dickens, D.K. Broster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Stewart Drewery, Frank R Stockton, Fredric Brown, H.G. Wells, Hugh Walpole, J. M. Barrie, Jack London, Móritz Jókai, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Saki, Susan Glaspell, T F Powys, W F Harvey (Author), Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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