reader:"Sue Dopson, Andrew Hamilton and Peter Piot"

Of this third, and final, phase of the French Revolution, including that period known as The Terror, Carlyle comments "It is unfortunat…

Virgin Soil Volume 1

Read by Peter Tucker

Ivan Turgenev

Turgenev's last and longest novel presents the story of a group of young people in late nineteenth century Russia, who because of disillusio…

The Rescue

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan arc…

No More Parades

Read by Peter Dann

Ford Madox Ford

When No More Parades was first published in 1925, a critic in The Observer wrote of the first 100 pages that they "easily surpass in tr…

Metamorphoses (Howard Version)

Read by Peter Tucker

Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso

Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…

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…

On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp

Read by Peter Yearsley

William Brooke O'Shaughnessy

The author investigated the uses of cannabis resin as an anticonvulsant and relaxant in cases of tetanus, cholera, and infantile convulsions…

A Set of Six

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American…

The Rookeries of London

Read by Peter Yearsley

Thomas Beames

Rev. Thomas Beames (1815 – 1864) was a preacher at St. James, Westminster in London. He compiled his own eye-witness accounts of the most no…

The Charterhouse of Parma

Read by Peter Dann

Stendhal

In an astounding act of literary improvisation, Stendhal dictated this complex and innovative novel, combining political and psychological r…

Dissertation on Oriental Gardening

Read by Peter Yearsley

William Chambers

A little essay on the Chinese style of gardening, as opposed to the continental style, which the author finds too formal with too many strai…

The Bagpipers

Read by Peter Tucker

George Sand

A story of two sets of lovers and the development of their relationships, set in rural France in the mid 19th century. - Summary by PeterTuc…

Prometheus Illbound

Read by Peter Tucker

André Gide

There is a witty and absurdist character to this contemporary setting of the plight of Prometheus, in which Zeus appears as a tremendously w…

The Red and the Black

Read by Peter Dann

Stendhal

It is a brave author indeed who gives his hero as many flaws as Stendhal bestows upon young Julien Sorel, an ambitious young carpenter's son…

A Personal Record

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way thr…

The Captives

Read by Peter Tucker

Hugh Walpole

A story of alienation from the society which holds one captive, told from the standpoint of a young woman whose life is suddenly disrupted, …

The Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2

Read by Peter Dann

Katherine Mansfield

The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection published in Mansfield's lifetime, is clearly livin…

'Twixt Land and Sea

Read by Peter Dann

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…

Discourse on Metaphysics

Read by Peter Tucker

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

This is a relatively short treatise by the highly influential and admired philosopher and polymath Leibniz. It presents his views on metaphy…

The Major Symptoms of Hysteria

Read by Peter Tucker

Pierre Janet

In this series of lectures delivered in English by the author while visiting the USA, Janet summarises the (at the time) cutting edge perspe…

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