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Simon the Jester

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


Simon de Gex, a wealthy and successful MP, is diagnosed with a terminal illness and decides to use his last few months using his wealth and …

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2

Read by Jim Locke


William Cabell Bruce


His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 1

Read by Jim Locke


William Cabell Bruce


His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

The Mountebank

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


Andrew Lackaday, an English orphan, was born and brought up in a French circus. He becomes a highly skilled mimic and juggler. He plies his …

The Pupil

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…

Recompence

Read by Simon Evers


Robert Keable


The book is a sequel to ‘Simon called Peter’ by the same author. It picks up the separate stories of Peter and Julie, at first in South Afri…

The Glory of Clementina Wing

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


The book follows the adventures of two main characters - Clementina Wing, a talented artist in her mid 30's with no social graces and Ephrai…

Modern Essays

Read by David Wales


Christopher Morley


Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…

The Life of Benjamin Franklin

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Samuel G Goodrich


Ravensdene Court

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


J. S. Fletcher


Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…

Idols

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


The novel centres around four people: Gerard and Irene Merriam, their inseparable friend Hugh Colman who once saved Gerard’s life, and Minna…

A Great Man: a Frolic

Read by Simon Evers


Arnold Bennett


Subtitled 'A Frolic', this light-hearted book follows the fortunes of Henry Shakespeare Knight who, rather to his own surprise, writes a bes…

Writing Wrongly

Read by Thomas Corfield


Thomas Corfield


When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…

Stephen Mitchell's Journey

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Pansy


Stephen Mitchell is a young man without a place in the world. He hates farming, although he works endless hours on the poor family farm. He …

A Man from the North

Read by Simon Evers


Arnold Bennett


Richard Larch, a young man from the north of England, arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has…

The White Dove

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


Sylvester Lanyon, a doctor, is mourning the early death of his wife. His young daughter Dorothy is living with his father, Matthew, also a w…

The Lost Art of Reading

Read by Joseph Tabler


Gerald Stanley Lee


Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…

Double Crossed

Read by Howard Skyman


Wilfrid Douglas Newton


Clement Seadon is a young man of free spirit and a lust for a life of independence. However after receiving an odd request from a lawyer he …

Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism

Read by Jim Locke


John Middleton Murry


Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…

Sense Memory

Read by Brion J. Humphrey


Brion J. Humphrey


If our memory is the thing that shapes and defines us, that informs who we are at our very core, then God help us all...for memory, is a wic…

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