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Tales of Unrest
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is …
The Charterhouse of Parma
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Stendhal
In an astounding act of literary improvisation, Stendhal dictated this complex and innovative novel, combining political and psychological r…
No More Parades
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Ford Madox Ford
When No More Parades was first published in 1925, a critic in The Observer wrote of the first 100 pages that they "easily surpass in tr…
Moll Flanders
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Daniel Defoe
This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most…
The Rescue
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Joseph Conrad
"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan arc…
The Nigger of the Narcissus
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Joseph Conrad
Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic repu…
The Garden Party, and Other Stories
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Katherine Mansfield
The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection published in Mansfield's lifetime, is clearly livin…
A Set of Six
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Joseph Conrad
Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American…
'Twixt Land and Sea
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Joseph Conrad
While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place o…
A Personal Record
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Joseph Conrad
Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way thr…
The Mirror of the Sea
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Joseph Conrad
"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages,…
Gulliver's Travels
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Jonathan Swift
First published in 1726, Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" presents, as a mock travel tale, a series of thought experiments mi…
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Henry Fielding
"I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults; but they are all the faults of wildness and of youth; faults which he may, na…
Bliss
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Katherine Mansfield
"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…
Chance
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Joseph Conrad
"You are the expert in the psychological wilderness," the nominal narrator of this engaging tale says at one point to Marlow, who …
Youth
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Joseph Conrad
This short tale was first published in book form alongside 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The End of the Tether', the three tales representing you…
Moby Dick
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Herman Melville
This great, genre-bending novel nominally centres on the quest of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab to gain revenge for the loss of his leg to a…
Typhoon and Other Stories
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Joseph Conrad
An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…
A Man Could Stand Up
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Ford Madox Ford
'A Man Could Stand Up' is the third, and culminating, part of Ford Madox Ford's 'Parade's End' tetralogy of novels, which begins with 'Some …
Tales of Hearsay
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Joseph Conrad
In the time of Napoleon, a thoughtful and romantic young Russian officer finds himself asked to do something unthinkable. In 1868, a Polish …