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The Borough
Read by David Wales
George Crabbe
English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe …
Howards End
Read by Elizabeth Klett
E. M. Forster
The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of …
The Coast of Bohemia
Read by Expatriate
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable soci…
Les Enfants du capitaine Grant
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Jules Verne
Lord et Lady Glenarvan font une excursion au large de Glasgow à bord de leur yacht. L'équipage pêche un requin dans le v…
Saxby: a tale of old and new England
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Emma Leslie
Set in the 17th Century, this book tells of the backdrop to the settlement of New England in the American Colonies: the struggles of the Chu…
The Welsh And Their Literature
Read by Eric Metzler
George Borrow
Originally an article in the US Edition of the London Quarterly Review, George Borrow offers a sweeping history of Welsh literature, beginni…
Victorian Literature
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Clement Shorter
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and cri…
A Year Amongst the Persians
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Edward Granville Browne
Edward Granville Browne, born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and …
Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection
Read by Barbara Baker
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His…
By the Marshes of Minas
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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
The Acadians around the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada, were removed by the British forcibly, leading to a French presence in several E…
Le Loup blanc
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Paul Féval, père and Paul Féval, Père
France Bretagne Roman HistoireRoman d’aventures, en Bretagne, au 18ème siècle.Histoire de France et de Bretagne. Le statut de …
Studies of Death
Read by Ben Tucker
Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock
Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock was an eccentric character to say the least. Maintaining a veritable zoo on his estate populated with the lik…
Les Oiseaux de passage
Jean Richepin
Au Fil des Lectures. Poésie de Jean Richepin lue par Éric (9min). « C’est une cour carrée et qui n’a rien d’&eacu…
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect
Read by Phil Benson
Various
A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of …
Days with the Great Composers
Read by David Wales
May Gillington Byron
An imagined day in the life of each composer gives the anonymous author scope to describe each one's work and life, sketchily, of course, bu…
The Early Diary of Frances Burney, Vol. 2
Read by Barbara Baker
Frances Burney
The diaries give a lively and accurate account of the author's experiences in the literary and courtly worlds of Georgian England. Summary b…
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Read by Sibella Denton
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was at one time Ambassador to the Hague, negotiated the second Treaty of Vienna, was a founding gover…
Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures
Read by Martin Clifton
Douglas William Jerrold
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a pl…
Wyllard's Weird
Read by Lynne T
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic la…