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A Hunger Artist
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 24 mins
- Unabridged
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"A Hunger Artist" is a short story by Franz Kafka first published in Die neue Rundschau in 1922. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist, the last book Kafka prepared for publication, which was printed by Verlag Die Schmiede shortly after his death. The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft, is typically Kafkaesque: an individual marginalized and victimized by society at large.
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A Hunger Artist
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 05-02-25
- Language: English
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The Sayings of Mencius
- The Sayings of Mencius, Book 1
- By: Mencius
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sayings of Mencius has been revered for well over 2,000 years, and is arguably the most influential of the Si Shu (Four Books) which form the foundation of traditional Chinese education. 'Master Meng' was born during the turbulent Warring States period, and was a tireless advocate of Confucian thought, defending and expanding its tenets as a means of achieving peaceful relations between individuals and competing kingdoms. The sage spent most of his life journeying from court to court, always seeking a Ruler sufficiently principled to apply his teachings. Few were found worthy.
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The Sayings of Mencius
- The Sayings of Mencius, Book 1
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 25 mins
- Release date: 16-05-25
- Language: English
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Chinese philosophy. The classic collection
- The Analects, Tao Te Ching, Musings of a Chinese Mystic, The Sayings of Mencius, The Art of War
- By: Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, Confucius, and others
- Narrated by: Kenneth Elliot, Alfred Costa, Peter Coates
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Chinese Philosophy: The Classic Collection is a comprehensive anthology that explores the rich philosophical traditions of ancient China. This book features key texts such as "The Analects," which contains the teachings of Confucius, and "Tao Te Ching," a foundational text of Taoism. It also includes "Musings of a Chinese Mystic," offering insights from the enigmatic sage Chuang Tzu, as well as "The Sayings of Mencius," presenting the ethical and political philosophy of Mencius. Lastly, "The Art of War" provides strategic wisdom from the renowned military strategist Sun Tzu.
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Chinese philosophy. The classic collection
- The Analects, Tao Te Ching, Musings of a Chinese Mystic, The Sayings of Mencius, The Art of War
- Narrated by: Kenneth Elliot, Alfred Costa, Peter Coates
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 16-05-25
- Language: English
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The Diary of Mr. Poynter
- By: M. R. James
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A gentleman stumbles upon a curious old diary—an innocent discovery, or the key to something far more disturbing? In The Diary of Mr. Poynter, M. R. James once again conjures an atmosphere thick with dread, beauty, and the uncanny. This is a tale where the most ordinary object can become a gateway to forces beyond reason, and where curiosity may lead to quiet terror. With James's trademark subtlety and scholarly unease, the story whispers rather than screams—unsettling the soul long after the final word. Haunting, intricate, and elegantly unnerving.
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The Diary of Mr. Poynter
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 25 mins
- Release date: 15-05-25
- Language: English
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The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
- By: M. R. James
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The Treasure of Abbot Thomas draws its listener into a labyrinth of ancient secrets, cryptic clues, and a warning that should never have been ignored. In this masterwork of antiquarian dread, M. R. James summons a world where curiosity is a dangerous impulse, and knowledge—particularly the hidden kind—has its price. With echoes of stone chambers and whispered Latin, this is a tale not merely of treasure, but of the peril that guards it. Let your ears adjust to the dark—and beware what answers back.
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The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 15-05-25
- Language: English
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An Evening's Entertainment
- By: M. R. James
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 24 mins
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An Evening's Entertainment is a tale that lives up to its deceptively quaint title, offering not comfort, but a slow, tightening dread. In the hands of master ghost-storyteller M. R. James, a quiet rural setting becomes the stage for something far more sinister—where folklore whispers, tradition conceals, and the past refuses to stay buried. Dripping with unease and the chill of things half-seen, this is a story to be heard in silence, with the lights low and the wind outside. It is not simply entertainment—it is an invocation. Let the evening begin.
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An Evening's Entertainment
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 15-05-25
- Language: English
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The Uncommon Prayer-book
- By: M. R. James
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 33 mins
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A sacred volume, a forgotten ritual, and the lingering presence of something not entirely gone— The Uncommon Prayer-book whispers of devotion turned to dread. M. R. James crafts a world where piety and peril overlap, where quiet study leads not to understanding, but to unease. This tale moves with the hush of cloisters and the rustle of ancient pages, all the while drawing the listener ever closer to an encounter best left unwritten. Dark, refined, and utterly disquieting.
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The Uncommon Prayer-book
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 33 mins
- Release date: 15-05-25
- Language: English
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An Episode of Cathedral History
- By: M. R. James
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 36 mins
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An Episode of Cathedral History is one of M. R. James's most quietly chilling tales—a masterwork of subtle horror, antiquarian mystery, and creeping dread. Behind the stone walls of a venerable English cathedral, the past stirs with a presence that should have remained undisturbed. In this haunting narrative, the mundane slips imperceptibly into the macabre. A scholar's inquiry unlocks a forgotten secret; shadows lengthen; and something long sealed away begins to wake.
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An Episode of Cathedral History
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 15-05-25
- Language: English
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Number 13
- By: M. R. James
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 34 mins
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There is no Number 13 at the hotel. At least, there isn't supposed to be. But when shadows stretch in the wrong direction and the architecture begins to forget its own shape, what starts as a quiet academic stay becomes something else entirely. Elegant, unsettling, and steeped in the unseen, Number 13 is M. R. James at his most refined—where the floorplan of reality folds, and one door too many stands ajar.
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Number 13
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 34 mins
- Release date: 15-05-25
- Language: English
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The Torrents of Spring
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
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"The Torrents of Spring" is a novella by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1926. It serves as a satirical commentary on the literary world and the nature of artistic creation. Set against the backdrop of post-World War I America, the story follows the journey of two main characters, the aspiring writer and the disillusioned author, as they navigate their personal and professional lives.
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The Torrents of Spring
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-05-25
- Language: English
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The Shield of Heracles
- By: Hesiod
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 33 mins
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The Shield of Heracles is an archaic Greek epic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. The subject of the poem is the expedition of Heracles and Iolaus against Cycnus, the son of Ares, who challenged Heracles to combat as Heracles was passing through Thessaly. It has been suggested that this epic may reflect anti-Thessalian feeling after the First Sacred War (595–585 BCE): in the epic, a Thessalian hero interfering with the Phocian sanctuary is killed by a Boeotian hero (Heracles), whose mortal father Amphitryon had for allies Locrians and Phocians.
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The Shield of Heracles
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 33 mins
- Release date: 23-04-25
- Language: English
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The Lightning-Rod Man
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 18 mins
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A man sits at his hearth as thunder shakes the mountains. Then—a knock. A stranger steps in, soaked and shivering, armed not with warmth or need, but with polished copper and an urgent offer. He doesn't sell comfort. He sells protection—against the very sky. The Lightning-Rod Man is Herman Melville at his most compact and cunning. This sharply drawn tale uses one room, one storm, and two voices to stage a quiet war between reason and fear, independence and submission, belief and the glittering promise of safety. It's a sales pitch wrapped in a sermon, disguised as a fable.
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The Lightning-Rod Man
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 18 mins
- Release date: 23-04-25
- Language: English
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Boule de Suif
- By: Guy de Maupassant
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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A snowbound coach. Ten strangers. One woman who doesn't fit in—and never tries to. In Boule de Suif, Guy de Maupassant doesn't just tell a story—he dissects society with a scalpel dipped in irony. The setting is wartime France, the passengers are a cross-section of "respectable" society, and the tension isn't just political, it's personal. Class, hypocrisy, and the polite savagery of moral convenience bubble just beneath the surface. She's not like them. And that's the problem. Or maybe the solution. She feeds them when they're hungry.
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Boule de Suif
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Release date: 23-04-25
- Language: English
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Collected works of Benjamin Franklin. The Autobiography and Other Writings
- By: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Stacey Patterson, Peter Coates
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Benjamin Franklin is the only one of America's founding fathers to have signed all three of their foundational documents: The Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the 1783 Treaty of Paris. These documents underpinned the establishment of the United States of America as a sovereign country. In addition to being a prominent politician, Benjamin Franklin was a prolific writer, fervent naturalist, and determined inventor. This collection of writing reflects Franklin's varied activities and manifold talents.
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Collected works of Benjamin Franklin. The Autobiography and Other Writings
- Narrated by: Stacey Patterson, Peter Coates
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 18-04-25
- Language: English
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History
- Essays - First Series
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 55 mins
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Time does not hold history—people do. Emerson's History is not a chronicle of names and dates, not a reverence for the past, but a revelation: every life is a vessel of all that came before. The individual is not separate from history but its continuation, its living pulse. Emerson does not ask his readers to study history; he asks them to recognize themselves within it. Every triumph, every downfall, every flash of genius from ages past is not distant—it is ours, woven into the mind that thinks, the hand that writes, the heart that dares.
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History
- Essays - First Series
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 55 mins
- Release date: 10-04-25
- Language: English
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10 Great Russian Short Stories
- Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Leonid Andreyev
- By: Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and others
- Narrated by: Peter Coates, Michael Goodrick, Sharon Plummer, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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This audiobook includes 10 Great Russian Short Stories: The Mantle by Nikolai Gogol, Mumu by Ivan Turgenev, First love by Ivan Turgenev, An Avenger by Anton Chekhov, Darkness by Anton Chekhov, The Death of Ivan Illyich by Leo Tolstoy, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Little Angel by Leonid Andreyev, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Troublesome Visitor by Anton Chekhov.
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- By Mr. A. P. Docker on 25-07-25
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10 Great Russian Short Stories
- Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Leonid Andreyev
- Narrated by: Peter Coates, Michael Goodrick, Sharon Plummer, Richard Williams, Mike Hogan, Belinda Hillman, Trevor O'Hare
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 17-07-24
- Language: English
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