Essays on Modern Novelists
William Lyon Phelps
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A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote in English, but three foreign authors are also discussed. Phelps taught a course on novels at a university and he added to those biographical essays some of his ideas about the importance of novels in the process of teaching about literature. (Summary by Piotr Nater) (6 hr 38 min)
Chapters
| WILLIAM DE MORGAN | 49:56 | Read by Anna Simon |
| THOMAS HARDY | 38:05 | Read by Jim Locke |
| WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS | 37:59 | Read by Jim Locke |
| BJÖRNSTJERNE BJÖRNSON | 25:14 | Read by Jim Locke |
| MARK TWAIN | 26:09 | Read by Jim Locke |
| HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ | 25:10 | Read by Piotr Nater |
| HERMANN SUDERMANN | 36:42 | Read by Kalynda |
| ALFRED OLLIVANT | 22:43 | Read by Jim Locke |
| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON | 30:29 | Read by Jim Locke |
| MRS. HUMPHRY WARD | 29:24 | Read by Jim Locke |
| RUDYARD KIPLING | 32:10 | Read by Jim Locke |
| ''LORNA DOONE'' | 21:24 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| APPENDIX A NOVELS AS A UNIVERSITY STUDY | 9:44 | Read by Jim Locke |
| APPENDIX B THE TEACHER'S ATTITUDE TOWARD CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE | 8:38 | Read by Jim Locke |
| APPENDIX C TWO POEMS | 5:00 |