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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, …
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…
Neoplatonism
Read by Peter Tucker
Charles Bigg
This monograph focusses predictably on the theories and teachings of Plotinus but precedes this with a review of foregoing schools of philos…
Dreams of a Spirit-Seer
Read by Peter Tucker
Immanuel Kant
Analysis of the writings of Kant's contemporary, the spiritualist religious philosopher Swedenborg, whose ideas still have a following in pr…
The Last Days of Pekin
Read by Peter Tucker
Pierre Loti
The author was an officer in the French navy. This book is a compilation of his experiences when stationed in China in 1900 during and immed…
Virgin Soil
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 …
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…
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Read by Peter Tucker
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …
Captain Fracasse
Read by Peter Tucker
Théophile Gautier
The story, set in the 17th Century during the reign of Louis XIII in France, concerns the progress of an impoverished nobleman as he venture…
The Improvement of Human Reason
Read by Peter Tucker
Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufail and Muhammad Ibn 'Abd Al-Malik Ibn Tufail
The story revolves around Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, a little boy who grew up on an island in the Indies under the equator, isolated from the people, …
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Read by Peter Tucker
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the second half of the novel by Goethe (the first half, Volume 1, has been recorded separately).It describes the completion of Meist…
The Prelude
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…
The Old Ladies
Read by Peter Williams
Hugh Walpole
Experience the poignant tale of three elderly residents in a Polchester boarding-house in this adaptation of Hugh Walpole's novel, The Old L…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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…
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 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…
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…
Grim Tales
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. Nesbit
A collection of gentle stories that draw us into that hidden world where fear is just around the next corner, and where loving hands can tou…
The King in Yellow
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…