Showing results by author "saki" in All Categories
-
-
Ten Tales from the Artist's Studio
- By: Barry Pain, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A colourful palette of short stories featuring artists and their love of paintings. "Rose Rose" by Barry Pain, "The Cat" by E. F. Benson, "The Model Millionaire" by Oscar Wilde, "A Queer Night in Paris" by Guy de Maupassant, "Portrait of a Lady" by Jerome K. Jerome, "Miss Harriet" by Guy de Maupassant, "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe, "My Adventure at Chislehurst" by A. J. Alan, "The Stalled Ox" by Saki, "The Room in the Tower" by E. F. Benson.
-
Ten Tales from the Artist's Studio
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 02-03-15
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £7.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £7.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Reticence of Lady Anne
- By: Hector Hugh Munro, Saki
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), who wrote under the pseudonym "Saki" tells the story of an unusual three-way domestic dispute between Egbert, his wife Lady Anne, and Don Tarquinio the cat. As often happens with Saki, there is a cynical twist at the end.
-
The Reticence of Lady Anne
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 20-01-15
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £1.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £1.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Halloween Stories
- By: Edgar Allan Poe, Saki
- Narrated by: Bart Wolffe, Emma Topping, Laurence Olivier
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Classic spine-tingling tales to thrill you including Tobermory by Saki and The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.
-
Halloween Stories
- Narrated by: Bart Wolffe, Emma Topping, Laurence Olivier
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 10-11-14
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £7.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £7.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Tobermory
- By: Saki
- Narrated by: Anna Thalbach
- Length: 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Was passiert, wenn eine Katze zum Tee gebeten wird? Und diese dann auch noch sprechen kann? Sie enthüllt alle Peinlichkeiten einer feinen englischen Gesellschaft.
-
Tobermory
- Narrated by: Anna Thalbach
- Length: 18 mins
- Release date: 29-10-14
- Language: German
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £0.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £0.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Literary Feline
- Seven Cat Tales
- By: Edgar Allan Poe, Morley Robert, Ambrose Bierce, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A collection of seven classic short stories in which felines play a central role. Includes: "Tobermory the Cat That Walked by Himself", "The Vampire Cat", "The Young Man Who Stroked Cats", "A Cargo of Cat", "The Black Cat", and "The Paradise of Cats".
-
The Literary Feline
- Seven Cat Tales
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 08-07-14
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £7.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £7.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Image of the Lost Soul
- By: Saki
- Narrated by: Glenn Hascall
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Two outcasts seemed well suited to each other. While one is a carved image no one likes, the other is a songbird that receives no welcome. This classic short story from Saki embraces the notion that each of us need others and that the joy we find is often in the seeking and finding of another. Narrated by Glenn Hascall.
-
The Image of the Lost Soul
- Narrated by: Glenn Hascall
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 28-05-14
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £3.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £3.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Uncommon Stories
- By: Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stacy Aumonier, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 20 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A captivating anthology of some of the more unusual short stories written by well-known classic writers. 1. "A Witch in the Peak" by R. Murray Gilchrist. 2. "War" by Sherwood Anderson. 3. "Self-Help" by W. W. Jacobs. 4. "The Wolf" by Guy de Maupassant. 5. "Makes the Whole World Kin" by O. Henry. 6. "The Stone Dragon" by R. Murray Gilchrist. 7. "The New Englander" by Sherwood Anderson. 8. "Berenice" by Edgar Allan Poe. 9. "The Man with the Watches" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 10. "The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace" by G. F. Forest.
-
Uncommon Stories
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 20 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 14-04-14
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £39.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £39.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Beastly Stories
- An Anthology of Classic Animal Tales
- By: O. Henry, Mark Twain, W. W. Jacobs, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A beastly collection of animal stories from the great storytellers of the world. •The Black Poodle by F. Anstey •Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger by Saki •Pickled Herring by W. W. Jacobs •Curried Cow by Ambrose Bierce •The She-Wolf by Saki •The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe •The Elk by Saki •The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain •Memoirs of a Yellow Dog by O. Henry •Sredni Vashtar by Saki •The Grey Parrot by W. W. Jacobs •The Mouse by Saki •The Talking Horse by F. Anstey •Laura by Saki
-
Beastly Stories
- An Anthology of Classic Animal Tales
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-10-13
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £15.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £15.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Open Window
- By: Saki, Hector Hugh Munro
- Narrated by: Kirk Diedrich, Sandy J. Hotchkiss, Lesley K. Peasrson, and others
- Length: 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Unknowingly, a man arrives on the anniversary of the “Great Tragedy” that led to his host having her large French window wide open onto the lawn on an October afternoon in the vain hope that her husband and brothers - whom he learns have been dead three years - will return through it. To his horror, the man shares in the terrors of the day.
-
The Open Window
- Narrated by: Kirk Diedrich, Sandy J. Hotchkiss, Lesley K. Peasrson, L. J. Stevens, Heather Wood, K. Anderson Yancy
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 14-01-13
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £2.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £2.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Timeless Short Stories
- By: Kate Chopin, Saki, Katherine Mansfield, and others
- Narrated by: Emma Hignett, Bart Wolffe, Emma Topping
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A collection of 11 classic short stories by authors including Kate Chopin, Saki, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, and Thomas Hardy.
-
Timeless Short Stories
- Narrated by: Emma Hignett, Bart Wolffe, Emma Topping
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 02-01-13
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £7.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £7.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Very Best Classic Short Stories - Volume 2
- By: James Joyce, Saki, Katherine Mansfield, and others
- Narrated by: Emma Topping, Emma Hignett
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the realm of narrative literature, the appeal of the short story is that it provides nearly immediate satisfaction. Here is a collection of wonderful classic short stories by such great authors as Saki, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield and Kate Chopin.
-
The Very Best Classic Short Stories - Volume 2
- Narrated by: Emma Topping, Emma Hignett
- Series: The Very Best Classic Short Stories, Book 2
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 26-06-12
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £6.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £6.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Beasts on the Lawn
- By: Saki, Sean Grundy (Adapted by)
- Narrated by: Nick Mohammed, Pippa Haywood
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Beasts on the Lawn is a collection of Edwardian short stories by Saki (H. H. Munro) recycled and restaged in a modern-day gated community for the far-too-wealthy-for-their-own-good. The tales are woven together by the character of Clovis, a security guard. She recalls the events of strange days and long nights. The five stories are: "Tobermory", "The Interlopers", "Sredni Vashtar", and "Gabriel Ernest and Mrs Packletide's Tiger".
-
Beasts on the Lawn
- Narrated by: Nick Mohammed, Pippa Haywood
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-06-12
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £7.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £7.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Saki: 'Music on the Hill', 'The Cobweb', 'The Interlopers', and 'The Hounds of Fate'
- By: Saki
- Narrated by: Patrick Barlow
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Saki was the pen-name of Hector Hugh Munro. One of the wittiest of all short-story writers, he was born in 1870 in Burma where his father, a Scots army officer, was stationed. He was one when the family returned to England to live in North Devon. When his mother died his father, returning to serve in India, put Hector and his brothers and sisters into the care of his own mother and two sisters. The children’s childhood with their aunts was miserable. The aunts hated each other, quarrelled fiercely, and bullied the children mentally.
-
Saki: 'Music on the Hill', 'The Cobweb', 'The Interlopers', and 'The Hounds of Fate'
- Narrated by: Patrick Barlow
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 13-09-11
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £5.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £5.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Storyteller
- By: Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Finding himself trapped in a compartment with a set of unruly children, the Storyteller decides to take revenge by narrating a tale with a most immoral twist. This is a wonderful example of Hector Hugh Munro’s witty and multi-layered storytelling, satirizing British Edwardian society. The listener is drawn into the story along with the children and is equally horrified and delighted by the unexpected ending.
-
The Storyteller
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 04-05-11
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £1.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £1.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Curious Animal Tales
- By: Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A quartet of short stories by Britain’s raconteur supreme, Hector Hugh Munro, better known under his pseudonym “Saki”. This collection brings together four of his most curious and amusing tales, all of which involve animals. Saki’s satirical take on the morals and eccentricities of Edwardian society, combined with a compelling narrative and an unexpected ending draw keep the reader hanging on until the very last word.
-
Curious Animal Tales
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 02-05-11
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £4.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £4.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Sredni Vashtar
- By: Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Conradin is a sickly and introverted child who hates his guardian, Mrs. De Ropp. When she takes away his pet hen and threatens to do the same with his pole-cat, whom he worships like a god, Conradin makes a special prayer and his sinister wish is answered. Hector Hugh Munro (aka Saki) at his most sinister and macabre. Superb!
-
Sredni Vashtar
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 02-05-11
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £1.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £1.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Tales of the Macabre
- By: Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A quartet of short stories by the British master of the macabre, Hector Hugh Munro, better known under his pseudonym “Saki”. This collection brings together four of his most macabre tales, all of which will surprise the listener with an uncanny twist at the end.
-
Tales of the Macabre
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 44 mins
- Release date: 02-05-11
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £4.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £4.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Tales of Naughty Pranks
- By: Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A quartet of short stories by the mastermind of practical jokes, Hector Hugh Munro, better known under his pseudonym “Saki”. This collection brings together four of his most ingenious tales, all of which involve one character playing a prank on the others. The results range from the comic to the macabre… but all are brilliantly narrated with Saki’s superb ironic wit. The Stampeding of Lady Bastable.
-
Tales of Naughty Pranks
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 44 mins
- Release date: 02-05-11
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £4.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £4.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Esme
- By: Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Baroness recounts a hunting story with a twist. Instead of a fox, the quarry turns out to be an escaped hyena, which adopts her and Constance Broddle and leads them to cover up a heinous killing. Hector Hugh Munro at his most macabre.
-
Esme
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 13 mins
- Release date: 02-05-11
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £1.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £1.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Mrs. Packletide's Tiger
- By: Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Mrs. Packletide is determined to shoot a tiger in order to get one up on her arch rival Loona Bimberton. In a comical and at times ironic sequence of events, Mrs. Packletide finds herself at the mercy of another rival, just when she had least expected it. Hector Hugh Munro at his most witty and ironic. A masterpiece!
-
Mrs. Packletide's Tiger
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 02-05-11
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Regular price: £1.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: £1.99 or 1 Credit
-