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Nineteen Eighty-Four


George Orwell


Depiction of a dystopian society in the future in which manipulative social control is exercised on a gullible population… (summary by Peter…

Nostromo (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a…

On a Chinese Screen

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W. Somerset Maugham


This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Her Dark Inheritance

Read by Sharon Kilmer


Mrs. E. Burke Collins


A story of obsessive love and desperation that hid many secrets. This cliffhanger will keep you guessing until the very end. Summary by Shar…

Men of the Deep Waters

Read by Ben Tucker


William Hope Hodgson


Directly afterwards, a shrill, yelling noise seemed to fill the whole sky with a deafening, piercing sound. I glanced hastily over the port …

Joseph Conrad Heart Of Darkness 2021


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Heart of Darkness First broadcast: Sun 17th Jan 2021, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW By Joseph Conrad Adapted by Anita Sul…

First From the Front

Read by Steve C


Harold Ashton


In this brief book I have lifted a very small corner of the curtain of war, to tell of my adventures — a week in the North Sea, and a breath…

A Journey from This World to the Next

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Henry Fielding


The narrator dies in the first sentence. Through relating his travels in the afterlife, Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and Joseph Andre…

Eternity

Read by Casey S Townsend


Casey S Townsend


The world you know has changed. Science has been replaced by dark, supernatural forces and those that know how have harnessed them to contro…

The Lost Parchment

Read by Sharon Kilmer


Fergus Hume


Murder and mayhem turn a quiet English village on its head. Complete with twists and turns that will keep you entertained til the very end. …

Timothy Crump's Ward

Read by Sharon Kilmer


Horatio Alger, Jr.


A poor family is surprised with an infant on their doorstep on New Year’s Eve with a note and monetary support requesting them to raise the …

Astounding Stories 18, June 1931

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Ray Cummings


This issue containsThe Man from 2072 by Sewell Peaslee Wright ~ Out of the Flow of Time there appears to Commander John Hanson a Man of Myst…

Romance

Read by Mark Leder


Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford


Second of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. The hero and narrator, John Kemp, gets involved with smugglers, Caribbean pirates, …

The Return of the Native (version 2 dramatic reading)

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Thomas Hardy


Clym Yeobright returns home to Egdon Heath, a scattered collection of houses on the isolated Wessex moors, and is caught up in a "love …

The Garden of Eden

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


Max Brand


Ben Connor is a gambler who knows horses. He goes out west to get away from the gambling life he has been leading in New York. There he di…

The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Henry Fielding


This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…

Double Crossed

Read by Howard Skyman


Wilfrid Douglas Newton


Clement Seadon is a young man of free spirit and a lust for a life of independence. However after receiving an odd request from a lawyer he …

The Pilot

Read by Jim Locke


James Fenimore Cooper


The work, which was admired by Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad for its authentic portrayal of a seafaring life and takes place during the …

The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


Burton Egbert Stevenson


Three men are dead. Killed by a very powerful poison. Their deaths seem to be connected to a very old cabinet purchased in France and a noto…

The Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages,…

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