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Roderick Hudson

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of J…

The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love (version 2)

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


William Le Queux


A mysterious burgary of the British Consulate at Leghorn, coupled with the even more mysterious visit of an English yacht, leads to a trail …

The Princess Casamassima

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Princess Casamassima can be read on several levels: first, as a political and social novel, exploring the anarchistic and revolutionary unde…

The Pupil

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…

Democracy - An American Novel

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry Brooks Adams


Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great …

Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Edward Whymper


Scrambles Amongst the Alps is one the great classics (some would say the greatest) of early mountaineering literature, and Edward Whymper (1…

A Hazard of New Fortunes

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


William Dean Howells


Howell’s novel is set in New York of the late nineteenth century, a city familiar to readers of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Basil March, …

The Spoils of Poynton

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


The recently widowed Adela Gereth, a lover of beauty and passionate collector of fine objects, strikes up a friendship with the young Fleda …

Lord Beaupre

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


What is a young man to do, when because of his pleasant disposition, and (of course) his considerable wealth, he finds himself besieged by b…

The Reverberator

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Another Jamesian look at Americans in Paris. What happens when a reporter for an American scandal sheet (The Reverberator) is looking for a …

Sir Dominick Ferrand

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


"Levity" is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of…

A Little Tour in France

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


A splendid example of travel writing at its best, in this description of six week tour in France -- from Touraine, down to Provence, then ba…

The Chaperon

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…

The Vicar of Tours

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Honoré de Balzac


Over twenty years before Anthony Trollope wrote The Warden, in which the gentle but unfortunate Rev. Septimus Harding becomes the prey of an…

The Lesson of the Master

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


A promising young writer meets an older man whose works have inspired him, as well as a highly intelligent and attractive young woman, at a …

The Siege of London

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


In this work, first published in 1883, James once again writes of an American trying to settle in England. The woman at the center, however,…

The Last of the Valerii

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god-daughter Martha, becomes the wife of Prin…

A Little Swiss Sojourn

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


William Dean Howells


A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family travelin…

Peccavi

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


E. W. Hornung


How does a man who as committed a heavy sin — not a crime, but a sin with terrible consequences — atone for his behaviour? What if the man i…

Another Study of Woman

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Honoré de Balzac


A series of tales -- told by men, of course -- about women. Though the book first appeared in 1842, Balzac later added to it as an addenfum …

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