© Chris Baker
Gordon Griffin absolvierte seine Schauspielausbildung am "Rose Bruford College". Er arbeitet für Funk und Fernsehen, ist Sänger, schreibt Theaterkritiken und unterrichtet Aussprache, Theater und Schauspiel. Gordon Griffin hat mehr Hörbücher gesprochen als jeder andere Sprecher in Europa. Derzeit sind es 340 Titel von renommierten Autoren wie Donna Leon, David Lodge, Andrew Miller, Nikolai Gogol oder William Thackeray. Er wurde mehrfach ausgezeichnet.
A narrator arrives at the House of Usher, a very creepy mansion owned by his boyhood friend Roderick Usher.
Every afternoon, after school, the children used to go and play in the Giant's yard. One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years.
The little Alice has new adventures. This time she climbs behind a mirror, where the world is like a big chessboard. There she meets talking flowers, singing walrus and the grumpy Humpty Dumpty.
When the boy who never grows up takes the three Darling children - Wendy, John, and Michael - away to Never Land, they embark on an adventure they will never forget.
The collection "Detective Stories" combines two stories of British authors - Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Reeder and Father Brown investigate spectacular cases.
C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris, who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken.
The story "The Jungle Book" takes place in a tropical jungle where people are obviously absent. But one day Bagheera the Panther discovers a baby in the wreck of a boat.
This 18th century short novel explores society behavior as Lady Susan, a recent widow, plots to find an advantageous marriage for herself while marrying her daughter off as well.
The short stories are about English persons, who are members of the ancient nobility, about the true love, inheritance and other interesting occurrences.
All the people said that the Canterville Chase was hunted, but Mr. Otis, the American Ambassador, decided however to buy it because he did not mind about ghosts.
