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This recording contains four of Katherine Mansfield's best stories. In The Daughters of the Late Colonel, two sisters are recently bereaved; while in Her First Ball a young girl attends her first dance. The Singing Lesson features Miss Meadows, a music teacher in turmoil; and in The Stranger, a middle-aged couple are reunited.

Dame Peggy Ashcroft reads poems by Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson, Shakespeare and Chaucer.

Un chef-d’œuvre incontournable de la littérature française, enfin disponible en livre audio !

Hailed by Arthur Miller as ‘the mad inventor of modern theatre’, Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, poet and novelist whose groundbreaking works mingled naturalism and psychology and paved the way for Expressionist drama. A prolific writer – penning over 60 plays, 19 novels and nine autobiographies – his turbulent life was marked by emotional conflict. This wide-ranging collection brings together 13 of his most important dramas and a semi-autobiographical ‘occult diary’, enhanced through stunning soundscapes and music composed by Strindberg himself.

Dans Sido, Colette rend un hommage bouleversant à sa mère, cette femme libre, fantasque et passionnée de nature, dont l’empreinte marquera à jamais son œuvre. Entre souvenirs d’enfance, évocations sensorielles et portraits familiaux, l’autrice nous transporte dans un univers tendre, bucolique et intensément vivant.

Une initiation sensuelle et délicieusement impertinente à l’amour, dans une version livre audio pleine de charme.

Un roman pétillant, impertinent et profondément féministe, signé par la plume libre et raffinée de Colette. À découvrir en livre audio !

Un grand classique de la littérature française, à savourer dans une version audio captivante.

Award-winning author Dame Susan Hill is best known for her hit ghost story The Woman in Black and her popular ‘Simon Serailler’ detective series, but she has also written extensively for radio. This audio anthology includes full-cast adaptations of two of her early novels, plus an additional 12 BBC Radio plays, many of them available for the very first time since their original broadcasts.

La Ferme des animaux de George Orwell est une fable politique qui dénonce les dérives du pouvoir et la corruption des idéaux révolutionnaires. En racontant l’histoire d’animaux qui renversent leur maître humain pour établir une société égalitaire, Orwell propose une critique profonde des régimes totalitaires et de la manipulation politique.

Hear the finest actors who have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company perform some of the Bard's most treasured speeches. This recording includes world-class actors John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft, and Edith Evans in a collection of favourite Shakespearean scenes.