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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is James Joyce's groundbreaking debut novel, offering a semi-autobiographical glimpse into the forma…
Aus 65
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
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 …
The Odyssey
Homer's "The Odyssey" forms the template of practically every adventure story that has been told in the West since it was composed…
Moby Dick
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…
Heart of Darkness
In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small…
The Red and the Black
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…
Moll Flanders
This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most…
Madame Bovary
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 Iliad
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…
Gulliver's Travels
First published in 1726, Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" presents, as a mock travel tale, a series of thought experiments mi…
Don Quixote
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 Good Soldier
First published in 1915, The Good Soldier might be characterised as a melodrama of English upper class infidelities, cut into little pieces,…
Lord Jim
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 …
The French Revolution: A History
Subtitled "The Bastille", Volume 1 of Thomas Carlyle's three volume "The French Revolution: A History" was first publish…
Almayer's Folly
Joseph Conrad was born in former Poland, spent part of his childhood exiled in Russia because of his father's Polish nationalist political a…
Nostromo
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 Nigger of the Narcissus
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 History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
"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…
The End Of The Tether
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…