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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
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 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…
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
Read by Peter Dann
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
Read by Peter Yearsley
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
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…
The Major Symptoms of Hysteria
Read by Peter Tucker
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
Read by Peter Dann
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
Read by Peter Dann
Stendhal
In an astounding act of literary improvisation, Stendhal dictated this complex and innovative novel, combining political and psychological r…
Metamorphoses (Howard Version)
Read by Peter Tucker
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
Read by Peter Dann
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)
Read by Peter Dann
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)
Read by Peter Dann
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
Read by Peter Tucker
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)
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…
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