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Lord Jim (version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


While it's not often described as such, "Lord Jim" can be viewed as a kind of love story whose real theme is the close bond which …

The Short Life

Read by Peter Eastman


Francis Donovan


At two years old, Timmy was an imbecile, incapable of talking or controlling his own body. At four years old, he abruptly stood up and bega…

Some Do Not...

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Ford Madox Ford


Set immediately before and during the Great War, Some Do Not... is a tale of social cruelty among the English upper classes that pits real h…

En Route

Read by Peter Tucker


Joris-Karl Huysmans


The second book by Huysmans concerning the religious development of the novelist Durtal, who in the first book ("La-bas") experien…

Madame Chrysantheme

Read by Peter Tucker


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…

A Text-book of Assaying

Read by Peter Yearsley


Cornelius Beringer and Cornelius Beringerandjohn Jacob Beringer


This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At firs…

The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1

Read by Peter Tucker


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 Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2)

Read by Peter Tucker


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…

The Cathedral

Read by Peter Tucker


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…

The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes

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Joseph Conrad


In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to ru…

Almayer's Folly (Version 3)

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Joseph Conrad


Joseph Conrad was born in former Poland, spent part of his childhood exiled in Russia because of his father's Polish nationalist political a…

Rome

Read by Peter Tucker


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…

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard

Read by Peter Eastman


Eleanor Farjeon


The wandering minstrel Martin Pippin finds a lovelorn ploughman who begs him to visit the orchard where his beloved has been locked in the w…

Phallic Worship

Read by Peter Yearsley


Hargrave Jennings


A fairly scholarly, short survey of religious sexual symbols and practices from ancient times to the near-present, and within various countr…

Twilight in Italy

Read by Peter Tucker


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…

The French Revolution: A History. Volume 2: The Constitution (Version 2)

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Thomas Carlyle


The second volume of this famous and idiosyncratic history covers events from October 1789, after Louis XVI has been 'persuaded' to leave Ve…

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

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George Gissing


This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death…

A Short History of Greek Philosophy

Read by Peter Tucker


John Marshall


History of Ancient Greek philosophy from pre-Socratics to Aristotle and on to the Sceptics and the Stoics. - Summary by Peter Tucker

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…

Tales of Unrest (version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is …

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