Machiavelli's leading political and philiosophical treatise on the nature of power and the State in Renaissance Florence which continues to be relevant to modern political...

M.R. James redefined the classic ghost stories and this collection of short stories of widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. Three stories from the collection...

Whilst best remembered as the author of Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë was also a celebrated poet. Here, Emma Topping reads her finest poetry.

The re-written Shakespeare tale of Twelfth Night by Charles and Mary Lamb.

Seven of Saki's finest short stories including The Treasure Ship, The Quince Tree and Tobymory

Written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi and read by Emma Topping.

Brother and sister team Charles and Mary Lamb originally wrote these stories for children in 1807, based on Shakespeare's most famous plays. Here is their version of Romeo and...

Emma Topping reads two of the most popular stories from The Jungle Book: "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and "Toomai of the Elephants."

Tales of the Supernatural by M.R. James, Ambrose Bierce, Hume Nisbet, Vincent O'Sullivan and Charles Dickens

A collection of short stories written by some of the greatest female writers of all time including Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, Katherine Mansfield and Winifred Holtby