Classic Women’s Short Stories

The Garden Party | Daughters of the Late Colonel | Lilacs | Ma’ame Pelagie | A Mark on the Wall

Read by Carole Boyd, Liza Ross & Teresa Gallagher

unabridged

Five stories from influential women writers of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. New Zealand-born Katherine Mansfield settled in England where she wrote a series of short stories that are widely recognised as among the finest of the twentieth century for their economy, clarity, sensitivity and effect. ‘The Garden Party’ is one of her most famous, while ‘Daughters of the Late Colonel’ shows a wonderful sense of wit. Kate Chopin, writing in the last years of the nineteenth century, broke new ground with her daring view of women as individuals with human needs. ‘Lilacs’ and ‘Ma’ame Pelagie’ are sympathetic portraits of women with differing dilemmas. Woolf’s ‘A Mark on the Wall’ shows, in short story form, the turmoil within the stillness which became such a mark of her later novels.

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ISBN:	978-962-634-238-1
Digital ISBN:	978-962-954-476-8
Cat. no.:	NA223812
Download size:	39 MB
BISAC:	LCO019000
Released:	August 2001

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Carole Boyd trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama where she won the principal national prize for voice, the Carleton Hobbs Award, and immediately joined the BBC Radio Drama Company. Vocal versatility is her speciality, from her creation of the notorious character of Linda Snell in The Archers to Poetry Please and all the female characters in Postman Pat. She has won prestigious awards for her reading of Roy’s The God of Small Things and Huth’s Landgirls. She has written and recorded her own audiobook, Lynda Snell’s History of Ambridge. Carole Boyd has also recorded Eliot’s Middlemarch for Naxos AudioBooks.

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Liza Ross has appeared on stage in the West End and in repertory across the country, including Wings and The Front Stage at the Royal National Theatre. Her many TV appearances include After the War, Poor Little Rich Girl, Two’s Company and The Month of the Doctors. Her film work has included Batman and the Shadowchasers. She works extensively as a voice artist. Among her Naxos AudioBooks recordings are: The Awakening, Anne of Green Gables, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Alice’s Advertures in Wonderland.

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Teresa Gallagher

Teresa Gallagher has performed in many leading roles in both plays and musicals across the country, London’s West End and Broadway. In addition, she is a well-known voice to listeners of BBC Radio Drama. Her work on film includes The Misadventures of Margaret and Mike Leigh’s Topsy Turvy. For Naxos AudioBooks she has recorded the Biography of Jane Austen and selections from The Decameron by Boccaccio. She has also read Classic Women’s Short Stories, Heidi, The Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, The Story of Jesus, and Thailand from after the quake.

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The Garden Party
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
Lilacs
Ma’ame Pelagie
The Mark on the Wall

Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin & Virginia Woolf

Classic Women’s Short Stories

Read by Carole Boyd, Liza Ross & Teresa Gallagher

unabridged

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