Peter Tucker
Poems 1817
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John Keats
Early poems of this famous English lyric poet, in which he openly expresses indebtedness to, and reverence for, his poetic predecessors, esp…
The Story of Rimini
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Leigh Hunt
A long poem telling the tragic story of Francesca da Rimini, the duped and adulterous bride, inspired by the character in Dante's Inferno. P…
The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2)
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William Butler Yeats
A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady…
Bible (KJV) 18: Job (version 2)
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King James Version
Job was a prosperous landowner who encountered a series of misfortunes, leading him to question himself and his relation to his God. A gran…
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
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Sir Walter Scott
An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lad…
Rainer Maria Rilke: Poems
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Rainer Maria Rilke
A selection of poems by this renowned German poet. - Summary by Peter Tucker
A Voyage to the Moon
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Cyrano De Bergerac
This is an edition by Professor Curtis Page of the Lovell translation of a seminal work of science fiction by Cyrano de Bergerac. Arguably …
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1
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John Dryden
The first of two volumes of collected poetry by this revered and highly influential English restoration poet and playwright. The poems, many…
The Fortune of the Rougons
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Émile Zola
The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monument…
Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field
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Sir Walter Scott
Marmion is an epic poem in six cantos, written in emulation of the ancient Scottish minstrel style which was of such great interest to Scott…
Madame Chrysantheme
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Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti (a nom de plume) was for many years an officer in the French Navy, giving him the opportunity to sample and analyze different na…
Evolution Creatrice
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Henri Bergson
Creative Evolution (French: L'Évolution créatrice) is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation…
Là-bas
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Joris-Karl Huysmans
The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief…
The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis
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Sigmund Freud
A series of lectures given in the USA by Freud in German, later translated into English - Summary by Peter Tucker
En Route
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Joris-Karl Huysmans
The second book by Huysmans concerning the religious development of the novelist Durtal, who in the first book ("La-bas") experien…
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is de…
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Version 2)
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George Berkeley
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (commonly called Treatise when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work, in Eng…
The Cathedral
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Joris-Karl Huysmans
It is the third of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author. He had already featured the c…
Lourdes
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Émile Zola
This book describes a five day national pilgrimage to the holy shrine of Lourdes, where miracle cures are hoped for. The central character i…
The Late Mattia Pascal
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Luigi Pirandello
Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, a…
The Major Symptoms of Hysteria
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Pierre Janet
In this series of lectures delivered in English by the author while visiting the USA, Janet summarises the (at the time) cutting edge perspe…
Rome
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Émile Zola
The Abbe Pierre Froment, after his experiences in Lourdes, has written a book expressing a vision of a new enlightened papacy. He visits Rom…
Twilight in Italy
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D. H. Lawrence
This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…
Prometheus Illbound
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André Gide
There is a witty and absurdist character to this contemporary setting of the plight of Prometheus, in which Zeus appears as a tremendously w…
Virgin Soil Volume 1
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Ivan Turgenev
Turgenev's last and longest novel presents the story of a group of young people in late nineteenth century Russia, who because of disillusio…
Virgin Soil Volume 2
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Ivan Turgenev
The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the …
The Bagpipers
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George Sand
A story of two sets of lovers and the development of their relationships, set in rural France in the mid 19th century. - Summary by PeterTuc…
The Captives
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Hugh Walpole
A story of alienation from the society which holds one captive, told from the standpoint of a young woman whose life is suddenly disrupted, …
A Short History of Greek Philosophy
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John Marshall
History of Ancient Greek philosophy from pre-Socratics to Aristotle and on to the Sceptics and the Stoics. - Summary by Peter Tucker
Metamorphoses (Howard Version)
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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…
The Last Days of Pekin
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Pierre Loti
The author was an officer in the French navy. This book is a compilation of his experiences when stationed in China in 1900 during and immed…
Discourse on Metaphysics
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
This is a relatively short treatise by the highly influential and admired philosopher and polymath Leibniz. It presents his views on metaphy…
The Improvement of Human Reason
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Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufail and Muhammad Ibn 'Abd Al-Malik Ibn Tufail
The story revolves around Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, a little boy who grew up on an island in the Indies under the equator, isolated from the people, …
Dreams of a Spirit-Seer
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Immanuel Kant
Analysis of the writings of Kant's contemporary, the spiritualist religious philosopher Swedenborg, whose ideas still have a following in pr…
Neoplatonism
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Charles Bigg
This monograph focusses predictably on the theories and teachings of Plotinus but precedes this with a review of foregoing schools of philos…
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 2
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the second half of the novel by Goethe (the first half, Volume 1, has been recorded separately).It describes the completion of Meist…
Science and the Modern World
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Alfred North Whitehead
It is fortunate that in the twentieth century, science and philosophy are beginning to be united in the same person as they were in the seve…
The Prelude, Version 2
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William Wordsworth
Wordsworth's celebrated poetic summary of his creative life and development, from childhood to old age, in which he examines his motives, in…