Tony Addison
Island Nights' Entertainments
A marvelous depiction of two sides of South Sea Islands' life through three separate tales. One, the experience of the incoming British kee…
The Crocodile
Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is swallowed alive by a crocodile at a sideshow. Finding life inside the be…
Pearl (Coulton translation)
A companion piece to From Jerusalem to Revelations in the Librivox catalogue (https://librivox.org/jerusalem-to-revelations-a-quartet-of-spi…
The Way It Came
Best known under the title "The Friends Of The Friends" and chosen under that title for his classic fantasy anthology "Black …
Bible (KJV) 18: Job (version 3)
The Book of Job, memorably conceived of by C G Jung as the story of one man's struggle to make conscious the undifferentiated contents of th…
The Beast in the Jungle (version 2)
One of James's last great stories, it is not actually a ghost story but has every claim to be considered such with its mysterious spectral e…
Northanger Abbey (version 4)
If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reve…
Measure For Measure
Described as a "problem play" Measure for Measure is only as much a problem as life itself is- that is, are there any easy answers…
The Last Essays of Elia
Discursive ramblings of a generous mind, no-one would know from Lamb's conversational button-holing of you and telling you whatever is on hi…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Weston Translation)
King Arthur lies at Camelot upon a Christmas-tide and will not eat until he hears tell of a marvel of knightly feats. In among them rides th…
The Bacchae (Solo Version)
Euripides' Bacchae tells of Dionysus, the God, come to the city of Thebes, there to drive mad those who refuse participation in his ecstatic…
The Village That Voted The Earth Was Flat
Possibly as relevant today as it ever was, this story tells the tale of an English village, Huckley, that is beguiled into voting the Earth …
The Jolly Corner (Version 2)
"A miraculous masterpiece" it seemed to Henry James, who wrote it. What actually happens in this most remarkable story (though at…
The Moonstone (version 2)
Said to be the first detective novel ever written, it is wonderful for its blending of the intrigues of romance with the conventional sleigh…
Lady Into Fox (Version 2)
An everyday tale of a young Victorian housewife who turns into a fox and the troubles her husband then has in dealing with her increasingly …
The Horse Shoe
An hilarious telling in verse of the tale of St. Dunstan and the Devil, in which the Saint, angered by the Devil's mocking of his music-maki…
The Woman in White - version 2
Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and settin…
The Bridge Builders
A tale of the revenge of the earth, in this case, specifically, Mother Gunga, Goddess of the River Ganga, against the men who confine her po…
The Temptation Of St. Anthony
An extraordinary work of the aesthetic imagination, cast in the form of a psycho-drama detailing the events of one night in the life of the …
Jerusalem to Revelations - A Quartet of Spiritual Explorations
A Four Quartets for the End of Time, these works stretch from the death and rebirth of a living land, England/Albion, to the death of the wo…