Literature
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 1
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Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in n…
An Essay on Man
Read by Martin Geeson
Alexander Pope
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…
The Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1)
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John Galsworthy
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Pro…
The American
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least …
The Passionate Friends
Read by Peter Eastman
H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells is best known for his science fiction, but some of his greatest works were in other genres. The Passionate Friends is a love sto…
Oliver Twist (version 2)
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Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The…
Persuasion (version 5)
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Jane Austen
Persuasion is a regency Cinderella-esque tale of a young woman, the beautiful Anne Elliot, who is persuaded from marrying the Naval officer …
The Greater Inclination
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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…
Adam Bede
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George Eliot
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously,…
Where Angels Fear to Tread
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E. M. Forster
On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy …
King Coal
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Upton Sinclair
King Coal is a book by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1917, that exposes the dirty working conditions in the coal mining industry in the…
Sister Carrie
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Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carr…
Hunger
Read by Greg W.
Knut Hamsun
Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. The novel has been hail…
The Regent
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Arnold Bennett
'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…
The Aspern Papers
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…
The Song of the Western Men
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Robert Stephen Hawker
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Song of the Western Men by Robert Stephen Hawker.This was the Weekly Poetry project for Au…
Writing Quebec [Readings]
SANWAL CBC
A ten part series of readings of remarkable Quebec Literature, Fiction and Poetry, focusing on post-war writing. Heather Brown Between The C…
Choosing a Mast
Roy Campbell
LibriVox volunteers bring you 4 recordings of Choosing a Mast by Roy Campbell This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 18th, 200…
Omar Resung
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Charles G. Blanden
Most of the translations of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam have been in verse. However, there have been three notable exceptions to this conve…
Robert Weaver The Godfather Of Can Lit
Robert Weaver The Godfather of Canadian Literature Ideas CBC Radio Monday, January 26, 2009 Alice Munro , Austin Clarke &n…