reader:"Simon C. Benjamin and Victoria Watson"

On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also help…

The Pupil

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

Henry James

Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…

Modern Essays

Read by David Wales

Christopher Morley

Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…

Literature and Form

Read by Catherine Brown

Catherine Brown

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George Eliot

Read by Catherine Brown

Catherine Brown

University of Oxford Podcasts

Recompence

Read by Simon Evers

Robert Keable

The book is a sequel to ‘Simon called Peter’ by the same author. It picks up the separate stories of Peter and Julie, at first in South Afri…

The Common Reader

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Virginia Woolf

A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were or…

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3)

Read by Mark F. Smith

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered d…

The Watsons

Read by Gesine

Jane Austen

This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen in 1804 and remained untitled and unpublished until her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh…

Northanger Abbey (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett

Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine s…

Aurora Floyd

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is…

A London Life

Read by Deborah Percy

Henry James

A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-Ame…

Consequences

Read by Caroline Driggs

E. M. Delafield

Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. R…

The Scotch Twins

Read by Hannah Mary

Lucy Fitch Perkins

Jean and Jock are twelve years old when they hear news that could change their lives forever. Will they really have to leave their "lit…

Pipefuls

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

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…

Notwithstanding

Read by Simon Evers

Mary Cholmondeley

The book starts with Annette Georges choosing between two fates: suicide and running away with a disreputable stranger. She is rescued by a …

Tension

Read by Helen Taylor

E. M. Delafield

When the role of ‘Lady Superintendent’ becomes available at the Commercial and Technical College for South West England, the calm and capabl…

John Marchmont's Legacy

Read by Cate Barratt

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has alwa…

The Patrician

Read by Simon Evers

John Galsworthy

The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she …

The History of David Grieve

Read by Simon Evers

Mary Augusta Ward

The book follows the life and times of David Grieve, from his childhood on a remote farm in the Peak District to Manchester, Paris and back …

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