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

Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…

The Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages,…

Moll Flanders - Version 2

Read by Peter Dann

Daniel Defoe

This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most…

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…

Wonderful London

Read by Peter Yearsley

William James Mcglothlin

"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essay…

Youth (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

This short tale was first published in book form alongside 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The End of the Tether', the three tales representing you…

The Last Days of Pekin

Read by Peter Tucker

Pierre Loti

The author was an officer in the French navy. This book is a compilation of his experiences when stationed in China in 1900 during and immed…

Chance (version 2)

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

"You are the expert in the psychological wilderness," the nominal narrator of this engaging tale says at one point to Marlow, who …

Bliss, and Other Stories

Read by Peter Dann

Katherine Mansfield

"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…

Neoplatonism

Read by Peter Tucker

Charles Bigg

This monograph focusses predictably on the theories and teachings of Plotinus but precedes this with a review of foregoing schools of philos…

Dreams of a Spirit-Seer

Read by Peter Tucker

Immanuel Kant

Analysis of the writings of Kant's contemporary, the spiritualist religious philosopher Swedenborg, whose ideas still have a following in pr…

Tales of Hearsay

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

In the time of Napoleon, a thoughtful and romantic young Russian officer finds himself asked to do something unthinkable. In 1868, a Polish …

Virgin Soil Volume 2

Read by Peter Tucker

Ivan Turgenev

The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the …

A Man Could Stand Up

Read by Peter Dann

Ford Madox Ford

'A Man Could Stand Up' is the third, and culminating, part of Ford Madox Ford's 'Parade's End' tetralogy of novels, which begins with 'Some …

Typhoon and Other Stories

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…

An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional ten…

Underground London

Read by Peter Yearsley

John Hollingshead

From the Preface: "This book contains an account, more or less readable, of most things belonging to "Underground London", pa…

Man and Maid

Read by Peter Yearsley

E. Nesbit

A collection of the author's short stories for adults, with some supernatural ones. - Summary by Peter Yearsley

Within The Tides

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the South Pacific in hope of locating the daughter's wrongl…

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann

Henry Fielding

"I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults; but they are all the faults of wildness and of youth; faults which he may, na…

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