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The Secret Agent (Version 3)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, Lond…
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
Read by Peter Dann
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…
The Good Soldier (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Ford Madox Ford
First published in 1915, The Good Soldier might be characterised as a melodrama of English upper class infidelities, cut into little pieces,…
Some Do Not...
Read by Peter Dann
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…
No More Parades
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Ford Madox Ford
When No More Parades was first published in 1925, a critic in The Observer wrote of the first 100 pages that they "easily surpass in tr…
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…
The French Revolution: A History. Volume 1: The Bastille (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Thomas Carlyle
Subtitled "The Bastille", Volume 1 of Thomas Carlyle's three volume "The French Revolution: A History" was first publish…
The End Of The Tether
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
At an age when he should, by rights, be embarking on a well-deserved and comfortable retirement, Captain Whalley, a sailor of the old school…
The French Revolution: A History. Volume 2: The Constitution (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
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 French Revolution: A History. Volume 3: The Guillotine
Read by Peter Dann
Thomas Carlyle
Of this third, and final, phase of the French Revolution, including that period known as The Terror, Carlyle comments "It is unfortunat…
The Rescue
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan arc…
Heart of Darkness (version 4)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small…
Madame Bovary (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Gustave Flaubert
Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acut…
Almayer's Folly (Version 3)
Read by Peter Dann
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…
A Personal Record
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way thr…
An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional ten…
The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic repu…
Tales of Unrest (version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
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 …
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 …
Youth (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
This short tale was first published in book form alongside 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The End of the Tether', the three tales representing you…