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No More Parades

Read by Peter Dann


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…

The French Revolution: A History. Volume 3: The Guillotine

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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 Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2)

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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…

The Bagpipers

Read by Peter Tucker


George Sand


A story of two sets of lovers and the development of their relationships, set in rural France in the mid 19th century. - Summary by PeterTuc…

On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp

Read by Peter Yearsley


William Brooke O'Shaughnessy


The author investigated the uses of cannabis resin as an anticonvulsant and relaxant in cases of tetanus, cholera, and infantile convulsions…

A Set of Six

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Joseph Conrad


Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American…

Prometheus Illbound

Read by Peter Tucker


André Gide


There is a witty and absurdist character to this contemporary setting of the plight of Prometheus, in which Zeus appears as a tremendously w…

The Captives

Read by Peter Tucker


Hugh Walpole


A story of alienation from the society which holds one captive, told from the standpoint of a young woman whose life is suddenly disrupted, …

Dissertation on Oriental Gardening

Read by Peter Yearsley


William Chambers


A little essay on the Chinese style of gardening, as opposed to the continental style, which the author finds too formal with too many strai…

The Rookeries of London

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Thomas Beames


Rev. Thomas Beames (1815 – 1864) was a preacher at St. James, Westminster in London. He compiled his own eye-witness accounts of the most no…

A Personal Record

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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…

The Major Symptoms of Hysteria

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Pierre Janet


In this series of lectures delivered in English by the author while visiting the USA, Janet summarises the (at the time) cutting edge perspe…

'Twixt Land and Sea

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Joseph Conrad


While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place o…

The Charterhouse of Parma

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Stendhal


In an astounding act of literary improvisation, Stendhal dictated this complex and innovative novel, combining political and psychological r…

Metamorphoses (Howard Version)

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso


Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…

The Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2

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Katherine Mansfield


The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection published in Mansfield's lifetime, is clearly livin…

The Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)

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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,…

Chance (version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


"You are the expert in the psychological wilderness," the nominal narrator of this engaging tale says at one point to Marlow, who …

Virgin Soil Volume 2

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Ivan Turgenev


The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the …

An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)

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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…

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