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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Read by Peter Bobbe
James Joyce
This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to …
Aus 65
Read by Peter Burgis
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 65 features the remarkable Peter Smith Dawson, an Australian bass-baritone and songwriter known for hi…
Paraffin Winter
Read by Peter Chowney
Peter Chowney
The winter of 1963 was the coldest winter of the century in the UK, at a time when post-war austerity and social class divisions made for a …
Madame Bovary
Read by Peter Dann
Gustave Flaubert
Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acut…
The Odyssey
Read by Peter Dann
Homer
Homer's "The Odyssey" forms the template of practically every adventure story that has been told in the West since it was composed…
Heart of Darkness
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small…
Nostromo
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a…
The Iliad
Read by Peter Dann
Homer
This great and terrifying poem about the final weeks of a long war fought between the Greeks and the Trojans before the city of Troy (here r…
The Good Soldier
Read by Peter Dann
Ford Madox Ford
First published in 1915, The Good Soldier might be characterised as a melodrama of English upper class infidelities, cut into little pieces,…
The Secret Agent
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, Lond…
The French Revolution: A History
Read by Peter Dann
Thomas Carlyle
Subtitled "The Bastille", Volume 1 of Thomas Carlyle's three volume "The French Revolution: A History" was first publish…
The End Of The Tether
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
At an age when he should, by rights, be embarking on a well-deserved and comfortable retirement, Captain Whalley, a sailor of the old school…
Lord Jim
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
While it's not often described as such, "Lord Jim" can be viewed as a kind of love story whose real theme is the close bond which …
Some Do Not...
Read by Peter Dann
Ford Madox Ford
Set immediately before and during the Great War, Some Do Not... is a tale of social cruelty among the English upper classes that pits real h…
The Red and the Black
Read by Peter Dann
Stendhal
It is a brave author indeed who gives his hero as many flaws as Stendhal bestows upon young Julien Sorel, an ambitious young carpenter's son…
The French Revolution: A History
Read by Peter Dann
Thomas Carlyle
The second volume of this famous and idiosyncratic history covers events from October 1789, after Louis XVI has been 'persuaded' to leave Ve…
Almayer's Folly
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was born in former Poland, spent part of his childhood exiled in Russia because of his father's Polish nationalist political a…
Don Quixote
Read by Peter Dann
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
It is a curious paradox that while the two volumes of Don Quixote have been described as the "best novel of all time" and the &quo…
The Arrow of Gold
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to ru…
The French Revolution: A History
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…