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The Dangers and Miseries of Literary Eminence

In Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

Read by Barbara Baker


Samuel Johnson


This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The …

Mr Cheesacre's Disappointment

In Can You Forgive Her?

Read by Giles Baker


Anthony Trollope


“Can You Forgive Her?” is the first in a series of six Trollope novels dealing broadly with 19th Century English political scene. It introdu…

Handel and Music, part 1

In The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

Read by Barbara Baker


Henry Festing Jones and Samuel Butler


Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he …

To My Dream-Love - Read by JCB

In To My Dream-Love

Read by Joy Baker


Walter Richard Cassels


Walter Richard Cassels is the speculated author of the anonymous work Supernatural Religion.He wrote poetry and was an art collector. Never …

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In The Wars of the Jews

Read by John Baker


Josephus and Flavius Josephus


The Wars of the Jews (or The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem, or as it usually appears in modern English translations, The Jewish Wa…

Ch. 1 The Origins of the English Language - Pt 1

In The English Language

Read by Barbara Baker


Logan Pearsall Smith


A description and history of the development of the English Language and reflections on the influences that changed the language. - Summary …

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