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CHAPTER 64
Read by Bruce Pirie
Charles Dickens
In The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Ni…
Selected works
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Matthew Arnold
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Selected excerpts
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Charles Blanc
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Preface by A.B. Fuller
Read by Bruce Pirie
Margaret Fuller
In Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nin…
09 - Counterparts
Read by Bruce Pirie
James Joyce
In Dubliners
Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)
Selected excerpts
Read by Bruce Pirie
Charles Dudely Warner, ed. and Frédéric Bastiat
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Jane Austen
Read by Bruce Pirie
Virginia Woolf
In The Common Reader
A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were or…
A first confidence
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
In Ursula
“Ursula,” first published in French in 1841 as “Ursule Mirouët,” is part of Balzac’s great suite of novels, collectively titled “The Hu…
Bk 06 Ch 07-09
Read by Bruce Pirie
Victor Hugo, transl. Hapgood and Victor Hugo
In Les Misérables, Volume 3
This is book 3 of 5.An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the wa…
For a Cynic
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
Selected excerpts
Read by Bruce Pirie
Thomas Carlyle
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 08
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
06 - Hawthorne
Read by Bruce Pirie
John Albert Macy
In The Spirit of American Literature
THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century …
From a Letter
Read by Jacquelyn Bengfort
Clark Ashton Smith
In Ebony and Crystal
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…
Amos Barton - 06
Read by Bruce Pirie
George Eliot
In Scenes of Clerical Life
Scenes of Clerical Life, which appeared in book form in 1858 (after serial publication in the previous year), was the first published fictio…
Fourth Book: Poems 250-255
Read by Bruce Pirie
Francis T. Palgrave
In The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Pieces In the English Language
Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (186…
Selected poems, part 1
Read by Bruce Pirie
Robert Browning
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 06
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Canada's Answer
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Temple Scott
In Recruiting Songs
This rousing collection of poems is sure to bring out patriotic sentiments in us all. These works were written with the glories of victory i…
Fragment
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Anne Brontë
In Complete Poems
Anne Brontë was the youngest of the three famous literary sisters and is best known for her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She wrot…
II: A Fragment
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Geoffrey Bache Smith
In A Spring Harvest
G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He w…
Peribonka
Read by Bruce Pirie
Louis Hémon
In Maria Chapdelaine (version 2)
The novel Maria Chapdelaine portrays life in rural Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century. Published first in French in 1913, it is a f…