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20'000 Leagues Under the Sea

20'000 Leagues Under the Sea

Originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation and wildly acclaimed on it's release, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea is perhaps Jules Verne most well known...

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

The Dickens timeless classic, narrated by Michael Ward. Duration - 2h 55m. Author - Charles Dickens. Narrator - Michael Ward. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 1843 Charles Dickens ©.

When an elderly widower takes up lodgings in London she develops an interest in the mysterious house to let across the way. What follows are a collection of stories and poetry of the houses previous occupants, that gradually build up the history of...

A Kidnapped Santa Claus

A Kidnapped Santa Claus

First published in the December 1904 edition of The Delineator, two years after Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, this short parable tells the tale of Santa Claus beset by envious demons, but ultimately triumphant.Narrated by Michael Ward...

A Princess of Mars

A Princess of Mars

The first in Edgar Rice Burrough's Science Fantasy Barsoom series. A Princess of Mars introduces former Civil War captain John Carter, who through mysterious means finds himself on Mars amongst strange and savage alien beings. Gifted with great...

A Washington Irving Collection of Short Stories

A Washington Irving Collection of Short Stories

A volume of selected stories from Washington Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Praised by Walter Scott and Lord Byron for its prose, this collection consists of his most famous works, "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy...

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the...

Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days

This famous classic of Jules Verne details the grand adventure of the french valet Passpartout and his unflappable master, one Phileas Fogg in their journey around the world in eighty days, with Mr Foggs whole fortune at stake.Narrated by Michael Ward...

Jean Muir is young, charming, and talented. As she diligently works as the Governess of young Bella Coventry, the men of the house seem to fall about her, won over by her charm and mysterious air. But is she really all that she seems...?Written by...

This well known classic, an autobiography of the horse Black Beauty, beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he...

C.S. Lewis: Christology and Cosmology

C.S. Lewis: Christology and Cosmology

Peek into the mesmerizing imagination of C. S. Lewis with the world's leading authority on the beloved author.With more than 100 million copies printed in 47 languages, The Chronicles of Narnia is one of the best-selling book series ever. Its enduring...

A Gothic Horror of the Vampire, predating Dracula by some 26 years. Carmilla is a tale of creeping horror, narrated by a young girl, who finds herself beset by a mysterious illness, that her newfound and mysterious friend, Carmilla surely can't have...

Diary of a Nobody

Diary of a Nobody

An english comic novel, The Diary of a Nobody, reproduces the diary entries of one Charles Pooter, a city clerk, his scrapes, his attempts to reach high society, his despair of his son ever finding a decent position, of his friends Cummings and...

“Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!” - and with these words, the English lawyer Johnathan Harker is drawn into a world of infamous and legendary horror... A genre defining gothic horror classic, of the fight between modern and...

Five Children and It

Five Children and It

After moving into a house in kent, five children go exploring and in a gravel pit, find a Sand Fairy, known as a "Psammead" who says he will give them one wish each day. What follows are eleven misadventures where it is discovered that making a good...

Victor Frankenstein has no idea the horrors he is to unleash when at the University Town of Ingolstadt he creates a living being from dead tissue. This begins a cycle of death, remorse, murder and horror that only his death will put to an end....

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth

This timeless classic of Jules Verne, depicts the tale of Axel Liedenbrock and his impatient and irascible uncle The Professor as they attempt a journey to the very centre of the Earth. After the Professor finds a coded message by the obscure...

This classic of Robert Louis Stevenson, charts the tale of David Balfour in the Year 1751: Who upon arriving at his uncles house after his Fathers death, is then promptly kidnapped on his orders. All seems lost until a chance encounter with one Alan...

King Solomons Mines

King Solomons Mines

"What was it that you heard about my brother's journey at Bamangwato?" asked Sir Henry, as I paused to fill my pipe before replying to Captain Good. "I heard this," I answered, "and I have never mentioned it to a soul till to-day. I heard that he was...

Alistair Maclean is a soldier in the employ of Lee's Regiment and an agent of Bonnie Prince Charlie at the height of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Amidst seeking support from the English Grandees for his masters cause, he finds himself embroiled in...

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austens tongue in cheek Coming of Age story, Northanger Abbey tells the story of Catherine Moorland and her first entry into society at Bath, and then of her time in the titular Northanger Abbey.Narrated by Michael Ward. Duration - 7h 42m. Author...

Washington Irvings collected Christmas tales, telling of the Author and his holiday in a rustic country seat, Surrounded by all the good cheer and tradition the Geogian times can muster. A fine tale for the seasonal period!Narrated by Michael Ward....

Jane Austens last ever published work, Persuasion is a tale reconnection, romance and the virtues of maturity. When mature and sensible Anne Elliot's spendthrift father: The Baronet Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall is forced to rent the property and...

George Bernard Shaws most well known work, adapted multiple times by film and stage, such as My Fair Lady and Pretty Woman, "Pygmalion" premiered in Vienna in 1913 before coming to england in 1914 on London's West End. This 5 act play introduces us to...

Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Opening with the poem that made Poe a household name overnight, this collection of his short works includes the narrative poem "The Raven", the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", and the first of Poe's "ratiocination" tales: "The Murders in...