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Victorian Literature
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Clement Shorter
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and cri…
The Outline of Science, Vol 3
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J. Arthur Thomson
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…
Eliza
Read by Nigel Boydell
Barry Pain
A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of brief anecdotes, that follow the mundane, though surprisingly hazard strewn lives of our rathe…
Emma
Read by Sherry Crowther
Jane Austen
Sherry reads Jane Austen’s sparkling comedy of manners with wit and vivacity, and brings the characters to life. Mr. Woodhouse worries and f…
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…
The Gleam in the North
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D. K. Broster
Six years have passed since the failed Jacobite rising of 1745. Ewen Cameron's quiet life on his Scottish Highland estate is threatened when…
English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the Englis…
Read by Tony Oliva
William J. Long
This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has thr…
James Pickles The Cross Examiner
SANWAL
Saturday-Night Theatre Sat 2nd Mar 1985, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM The Cross-Examiner by James Pickles During a low point …
Study Skills
Read by Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson
Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson
University of Oxford Podcasts
Hindle Wakes
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Stanley Houghton
Alan Jeffcote, son of Nat Hawthorn, Hindle's richest factory owner, meets Fanny Hawthorn, daughter of Nat's 'slasher' and oldest friend, in …
Consequences
Read by Caroline Driggs
E. M. Delafield
Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. R…
Scilly and its Legends
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Henry John Whitfield
A travel journal to the Scilly Islands written in the Nineteenth Century. It records Scillonian legends and folklore. There are brief divers…
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2)
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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…
Remarks
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Bill Nye
"The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained i…
Essays and Literary Studies
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Stephen Leacock
A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacoc…
Gulliver's Travels (Version 3)
Read by Peter Dann
Jonathan Swift
First published in 1726, Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" presents, as a mock travel tale, a series of thought experiments mi…
Sense and Sensibility
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Jane Austen
The two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gi…
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Edith Œnone Somerville
This is the first of three novels which Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin wrote about the English Major Sinclair Yates who leave…
Just William
Read by David Wales
Richmal Crompton
William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzzled by him. The humor is gentle and pleasin…
Sense and Sensibility (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Jane Austen
This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriag…