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Literary Taste: How to Form It

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Arnold Bennett


Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…

Jane Eyre (version 3 dramatic reading)

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Charlotte Brontë


Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of eponymous Jane Eyre, her growth to adulthood, and he…

Hilda Lessways

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Arnold Bennett


This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story …

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…

I Say No

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Wilkie Collins


Emily Brown is an orphan girl that almost no one can help but love when they meet her. She is pursued by two worthy men: Mr. Alban Morris, t…

Riceyman Steps

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Arnold Bennett


Arnold Bennet's masterly novel is a gritty tale about a bookseller whose life and love of a woman are afflicted by miserliness. It is set in…

Jane Eyre, die Waise von Lowood

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Charlotte Brontë


Jane Eyre. Eine Autobiographie (Originaltitel: Jane Eyre. An Autobiography), erstmals erschienen im Jahr 1847 unter dem Pseudonym Currer Bel…

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…

Pride and Prejudice (version 4)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a sing…

Pollyanna (version 4)

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Eleanor H. Porter


Spinster Polly Harrington is perfectly content to be in control of her comfortable life, even if is she alone in a big house. But then a le…

Miss Mackenzie

Read by Kirsten Wever


Anthony Trollope


The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself wi…

Northanger Abbey (version 4)

Read by Tony Addison


Jane Austen


If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reve…

Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Brontë


Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn't quite fit. Once finished wit…

Hope

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Emily Brontë


Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of…

The Englishwoman in America

Read by Sibella Denton


Isabella L. Bird


Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chica…

Aunt Jane's Hero

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Elizabeth Prentiss


Aunt Jane is a good and loving woman, important to everyone except herself, always willing to give good advice. Her "hero", Horace…

Harrington

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Maria Edgeworth


Harrington follows the protagonist of the same name who tries to explore his memories in order to understand his views on Jews. It begins wi…

Village Life in America

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Caroline Cowles Richards Clarke


A diary of a young school girl in Canandaigua, New York during the Civil War. (Summary by MaryElizabeth)

Le Petit Nord

Read by Sean Michael Hogan


Anne Maclanahan Grenfell


A collection of letters from Anne (MacLanahan) Grenfell, future wife of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, regarding her year of missionary service at th…

The Greater Inclination

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Edith Wharton


This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriag…

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