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Little Johannes
Read by Phil Benson
Frederik van Eeden and Frederik Van Eeden
In this allegory of childhood and youth, a series of increasingly sinister mentors - Windekind, Wistik, Pluizer and Dr. Cypher - guide the a…
The Festive Wreath
Read by Phil Benson
Various
The Festive Wreath, edited by John Bolton Rogerson, and subtitled 'A Collection of Contributions Read at a Literary Meeting Held in Manchest…
Venice
Read by Phil Benson
Mortimer Menpes and Dorothy Menpes
Following his assignment to South Africa as Black and White Magazine's war artist, Mortimer Menpes travelled extensively, becoming the artis…
The Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District
Read by Phil Benson
Nikolai Leskov
In Mzinsk, a remote Russian town, adultery is Katerina's relief from boredom. Before long she has developed a passion for he lover, Sergei, …
Orlando, A Biography (version 3)
Read by Phil Benson
Virginia Woolf and John Cowper Powys
Virginia Woolf's most successful novel recounts the extraordinary biography of Orlando from his youth in the reign of Elizabeth I to her lif…
Ancient Songs and Ballads of Lancashire
Read by Phil Benson
John Harland
Traditional songs and ballads from Lancashire in the north-west of England from the opening section of John Harland's collection, Ballads an…
Froth
Read by Phil Benson
Armando Palacio Valdés
Clementina is losing her youth in the fashionable world of late-nineteenth century Madrid and takes a younger lover. Meanwhile her father, t…
Two Tales about Aviation
Read by Phil Benson
Rudyard Kipling
Two science fiction stories in which Rudyard Kipling imagined a future world controlled by the Aërial Board of Control with its motto, …