Literary Fiction
The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
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 Shooting Party
Read by Bryn Roberts
Anton Chekhov
"The Shooting Party" is a mystery, set in the Russian countryside. The story revolves around the murder of a beautiful young woman…
Lost Diaries
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Maurice Baring
Within these pages find passages from the "lost diaries" of a wide range of people: royal, regular, famous, infamous, historical…
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny
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Alexandre Dumas
This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI a…
All the Sad Young Men
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
A collection of short stories featuring a suite of wealthy protagonists navigating the perceived hardships of 1920s society. The themes cent…
Backwater (Pilgrimage, Vol. 2)
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Dorothy Richardson
"Backwater" is the second volume of "Pilgrimage," a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson con…
Riallaro: The Archipelago of Exiles
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Godfrey Sweven
John Macmillan Brown was born in New Zealand and a University professor, wrote under the pseudonym Godfrey Sweven. An excerpt from the Int…
The Sylph
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgianna Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire was one of the leading ladies of her time. There for, her novel, which contains many autobiograp…
Antic Hay
Read by Jim Locke
Aldous Huxley
The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall wi…
Silas Marner (Version 3)
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George Eliot
Silas Marner is a hermit-style weaver who keeps to himself and is eyed with suspicion by those in the nearby town of Raveloe. Dispelled from…
To the Lighthouse (Version 3)
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Virginia Woolf
In three parts, this modern classic explores the life of an English family, the Ramsays, at their Scottish summer house both before and afte…
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
This is a collection of well-written engaging short stories written by "Q", the pen name of the prolific and eccentric Sir Arthur …
The Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2
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Katherine Mansfield
The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection published in Mansfield's lifetime, is clearly livin…
The Beast in the Jungle (version 2)
Read by Tony Addison
Henry James
One of James's last great stories, it is not actually a ghost story but has every claim to be considered such with its mysterious spectral e…
Vignettes of San Francisco
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Almira Bailey
A collection of observations and stories about San Franciscan life - the people, the buildings, the parks, the food, the street-cars, the ba…
The Prelude To Adventure
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Hugh Walpole
Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole noveliz…
Mr. Waddington of Wyck
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May Sinclair
May Sinclair’s 1921 novel tells the story of the ridiculous Mr. Horatio Bysshe Waddington, a pompous, self-deluded poser making his way thro…
The Master's Violin
Read by Daryl Wor
Myrtle Reed
Originally published in 1904, “The Master’s Violin” is the seventh novel by Myrtle Reed. It is set in a German town of Pennsylvania, East La…
The Immortal Moment
Read by Kirsten Wever
May Sinclair
This is one of the later works of May Sinclair – a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist – famous in Britain and the US af…
'Twixt Land and Sea
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Joseph Conrad
While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place o…