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Alarms and Discursions
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, p…
Pipefuls
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Christopher Morley
A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…
Thomas Carlyle
Read by David Wales
G. K. Chesterton
A short biography (1902) of a famous writer (Carlyle) by another famous writer (Chesterton). The first half exhibits Chesterton’s sly wit a…
Writing Wrongly
Read by Thomas Corfield
Thomas Corfield
When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…
Richard Cory
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
This was the weekly poetry project for 3 June 2006. Many “character” poems cut straight to the inmost psychology of their subjects, but here…
Senator North
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Gertrude Atherton
"When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever claims he may have to public confidence, becomes a member o…
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
Read by Jim Locke
John Middleton Murry
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
George and Robert Stephenson
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Samuel Smiles
George Stephenson did not invent the steam engine, that was due to Newcomen and later to James Watt. He did not invent the steam locomotive,…
Lord Kitchener
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“The paradox of all this part of his life lies in this--that, destined as he was to be the greatest enemy of Mahomedanism, he was quite exce…
The History of Britain
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE a…
Tremendous Trifles
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us ex…
The Aspern Papers
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Henry Fielding
"I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults; but they are all the faults of wildness and of youth; faults which he may, na…
Joseph Andrews
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Henry Fielding
"Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the…
A Cousin's Conspiracy
Read by Abigail Rasmussen
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Ernest Ray is a young boy who sets out to reclaim the inheritance that was unjustly with held from his father and given to a cousin. (Introd…
Das Spinnennetz
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Joseph Roth
Theodor Lohse beschließt den 1. Weltkrieg als unbedeutender Leutnant und findet Arbeit als Hauslehrer beim reichen Juden Efrussi. Dort…
We
Read by mleigh
Yevgeny Zamyatin
We is considered to be one of the first dystopian novels and the inspiration for later novels in the genre such as George Orwell's 1984 and …
Chatterton The Allington Solution
Afternoon Play: Chatterton: the Allington Solution Thu 1st May 2008, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM The first radio play b…
Penrod
Read by Jonathan Burchard
Booth Tarkington
Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, a…
An Essay on Man
Read by Martin Geeson
Alexander Pope
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…