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Science and the Modern World
Read by Peter Tucker
Alfred North Whitehead
It is fortunate that in the twentieth century, science and philosophy are beginning to be united in the same person as they were in the seve…
The Prelude, Version 2
Read by Peter Tucker
William Wordsworth
Wordsworth's celebrated poetic summary of his creative life and development, from childhood to old age, in which he examines his motives, in…
Secret Chambers and Hiding Places
Read by Peter Yearsley
Allan Fea
“Secret Chambers and Hiding Places” is a collection of concealments and their uses, almost all within England, although a very few passages …
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Read by Peter Yearsley
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …
The Parenticide Club
Read by Peter Yearsley
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), best known as journalist, satirist and short story writer. Cynical in outlook, economical in style; Bierce va…
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Read by Peter Yearsley
M. R. James
Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be rea…
The King in Yellow (part 1)
Read by Peter Yearsley
Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, sho…
The Natural History of Selborne
Read by Peter Yearsley
Gilbert White
The Reverend Gilbert White was the curate of the village of Selborne, a village in Hampshire, from 1784 to his death in 1793, living most of…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 3)
Read by Peter Yearsley
Lewis Carroll
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do ..." .. and from that mom…
Life in a Mediaeval City, Illustrated by York in the XVth Century
Read by Peter Yearsley
Edwin Benson
A short and gentle overview of mediaeval life in a large city. It lightly covers the class structure of society, local government, guilds, p…
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
Read by Peter Yearsley
M. M. Pattison Muir
A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cuttin…
Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2
Read by Peter Yearsley
Rabindranath Tagore
A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: "in the…
The Five Jars
Read by Peter Yearsley
M. R. James
The Five Jars is the only novel written by James, who is best known for his ghost stories. It is a peculiarly surreal fantasy apparently wri…
Three Men on the Bummel
Read by Peter Yearsley
Jerome K. Jerome
Some time after "Three Men in a Boat", George, Harris and Jerome decided to go on a cycling holiday through Germany.This relaxed a…
The Song of Hiawatha
Read by Peter Yearsley
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I sing the Song of Hiawatha,Brave of heart and strong of arm.Daughter's son of old Nokomis,Fathered by the harsh West Wind.With its regular,…
The People of the Abyss
Read by Peter Yearsley
Jack London
Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly …
The Ghosts of Piccadilly
Read by Peter Yearsley
G. S. Street
Nothing spooky or supernatural, but a very personal gathering of gossip, letters, and fragments of biography of famous people who have lived…
About Orchids, a Chat
Read by Peter Yearsley
Frederick Boyle
This is not a manual of instruction for orchid growers; though there are many hints on cultivation, and a few paragraphs on how to hybridize…
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Read by Peter Yearsley
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mostly a collection of story-telling poems told by a group of friends in a tavern late one night. "Tales" includes the famous Paul…
Highways and Byways in Sussex
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. V. Lucas
A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…