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Neoplatonism
This monograph focusses predictably on the theories and teachings of Plotinus but precedes this with a review of foregoing schools of philos…
The Captives
A story of alienation from the society which holds one captive, told from the standpoint of a young woman whose life is suddenly disrupted, …
Captain Fracasse
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…
Dreams of a Spirit-Seer
Analysis of the writings of Kant's contemporary, the spiritualist religious philosopher Swedenborg, whose ideas still have a following in pr…
Prometheus Illbound
There is a witty and absurdist character to this contemporary setting of the plight of Prometheus, in which Zeus appears as a tremendously w…
Virgin Soil
Turgenev's last and longest novel presents the story of a group of young people in late nineteenth century Russia, who because of disillusio…
Madame Chrysantheme
Pierre Loti (a nom de plume) was for many years an officer in the French Navy, giving him the opportunity to sample and analyze different na…
The Cathedral
It is the third of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author. He had already featured the c…
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
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 Wild Swans at Coole
A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady…
The Improvement of Human Reason
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, …
The Prelude
Wordsworth's celebrated poetic summary of his creative life and development, from childhood to old age, in which he examines his motives, in…
Virgin Soil
The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the …
The Old Ladies
Experience the poignant tale of three elderly residents in a Polchester boarding-house in this adaptation of Hugh Walpole's novel, The Old L…
The People of the Abyss
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 …
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
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…
The King in Yellow
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…
Grim Tales
Grim Tales by E. Nesbit invites listeners into a realm where the ordinary meets the extraordinary, and the supernatural lurks just beyond th…
Life in a Mediaeval City
A short and gentle overview of mediaeval life in a large city. It lightly covers the class structure of society, local government, guilds, p…
The Country of the Blind
A collection of Wells' short stories, with a short introductory essay by the author- "Essentially it is a miscellany of inventions, man…