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Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection
Read by Barbara Baker
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His…
Frederic the Great
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Macaulay's review essay on Frederick the Great of Prussia is found in vol. iii of his Critical and Historical Essays, and concentrates prima…
The Vicar of Tours
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Honoré de Balzac
Over twenty years before Anthony Trollope wrote The Warden, in which the gentle but unfortunate Rev. Septimus Harding becomes the prey of an…
Warren Hastings
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …
Rupert of Hentzau
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Anthony Hope
This is the sequel to 'The Prisoner of Zenda'. Five years have passed. The King has become jealous of Rudolf Rassendyll and suspicious of th…
Erzählungen aus 'Die Leute von Seldwyla'
Read by Hans Hafen
Gottfried Keller
Die Leute von Seldwyla ist ein zweiteiliger Novellenzyklus des Schweizer Dichters Gottfried Keller. Es umfasst zehn "Lebensbilder"…
A Little Swiss Sojourn
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
William Dean Howells
A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family travelin…
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Read by Sibella Denton
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was at one time Ambassador to the Hague, negotiated the second Treaty of Vienna, was a founding gover…
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.…
Bacon
Read by Bill Boerst
Richard William Church
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…
The Portrait of a Lady (version 3)
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Our central character is Isabel Archer of Albany, New York, a young woman of no great means, and no great beauty (that is, by her own estima…
The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
Read by Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock
Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock
University of Oxford Podcasts
The Spoils of Poynton
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
The recently widowed Adela Gereth, a lover of beauty and passionate collector of fine objects, strikes up a friendship with the young Fleda …
Unterm Birnbaum
Read by Karlsson
Theodor Fontane
"Unterm Birnbaum" von Theodor Fontane ist eine in Novellenform verfasste Kriminalgeschichte. Abel Hradscheck, Dorfkrämer und …
Eminent Victorians
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Giles Lytton Strachey
On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also help…
La Grande Bretèche
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Honoré de Balzac
La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table…
A History of Astronomy
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Walter W. Bryant
In this book, Walter W. Bryant traces the history of astronomy through the ages. We start at the very beginning, where astronomy was an occu…
Alarms and Discursions
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, p…
The Old Man in the Corner
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Baroness Emma Orczy
Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man in the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detecti…
Forty-One Letters on Religious Subjects
Read by InTheDesert
John Newton
Among the excellences which appear in all the published letters of Newton, we may mention:In the first place, the grand design — the high an…