Wilde’s Charmides and Other Poems Another new release on Audible: First published in 1913, more than a decade after the author’s death, Charmides and Other Poems is a collection including the long narrative poem Charmides (1881) – the author’s longest and most controversial poem – and a number of shorter poems, and sonnets, many written […]
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Another title to finally emerge after long delay from the turbid depths of Audible: Dickens most famous historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities explores the horrors of the French Revolution, and the injustices that brought it about, through the history of the […]
Pack your bags! Two more that recently oozed to the top of Audacity’s inbox, this time a couple of traveller’s tales: First, in Around the World in Eighty Days, solitary and mechanical clubman Mr Phileas Fogg, accepting a challenge from fellow members of the Reform Club, wagers the fantastic sum of £20,000, half of his […]
A brace of new releases, to see out the Old Year… First, Charles Dickens’ classic Great Expectations features many of the author’s most memorable characters and scenes. The story follows the narrator, Pip, as he grows from a frightened child of the marsh country, to be transmuted into a prosperous young gentleman by a mysterious […]
