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The French Revolution: A History. Volume 1: The Bastille (Version 2)

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…

A Waterbiography

Read by Peter Kelleher


Robert C. Leslie


Robert C. Leslie (1826-1901) was an artist and writer who, at an early age fell in love with the sea, the sea of Sail, not of Steam. He desc…

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

Read by Peter Yearsley


H. G. Wells


A collection of Wells' short stories, with a short introductory essay by the author- "Essentially it is a miscellany of inventions, man…

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…

The Story of Rimini

Read by Peter Tucker


Leigh Hunt


A long poem telling the tragic story of Francesca da Rimini, the duped and adulterous bride, inspired by the character in Dante's Inferno. P…

Lord Jim (version 2)

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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 …

The Short Life

Read by Peter Eastman


Francis Donovan


At two years old, Timmy was an imbecile, incapable of talking or controlling his own body. At four years old, he abruptly stood up and bega…

Some Do Not...

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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…

En Route

Read by Peter Tucker


Joris-Karl Huysmans


The second book by Huysmans concerning the religious development of the novelist Durtal, who in the first book ("La-bas") experien…

Madame Chrysantheme

Read by Peter Tucker


Pierre Loti


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…

A Text-book of Assaying

Read by Peter Yearsley


Cornelius Beringer and Cornelius Beringerandjohn Jacob Beringer


This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At firs…

The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1

Read by Peter Tucker


John Dryden


The first of two volumes of collected poetry by this revered and highly influential English restoration poet and playwright. The poems, many…

The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2)

Read by Peter Tucker


William Butler Yeats


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 Cathedral

Read by Peter Tucker


Joris-Karl Huysmans


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…

The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes

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…

Almayer's Folly (Version 3)

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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…

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard

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Eleanor Farjeon


The wandering minstrel Martin Pippin finds a lovelorn ploughman who begs him to visit the orchard where his beloved has been locked in the w…

Rome

Read by Peter Tucker


Émile Zola


The Abbe Pierre Froment, after his experiences in Lourdes, has written a book expressing a vision of a new enlightened papacy. He visits Rom…

Phallic Worship

Read by Peter Yearsley


Hargrave Jennings


A fairly scholarly, short survey of religious sexual symbols and practices from ancient times to the near-present, and within various countr…

Twilight in Italy

Read by Peter Tucker


D. H. Lawrence


This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…

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