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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Read by Martin Geeson


Thomas De Quincey


“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty Opium!”Though apparently presenting the reader with a collage of poignant memori…

The Diary of a Superfluous Man

Read by Martin Geeson


Ivan Turgenev


Turgenev's shy hero, Tchulkaturin, is a representative example of a Russian archetype - the "superfluous man", a sort of Hamlet no…

First Love

Read by Martin Geeson


Ivan Turgenev


The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, …

Queen Lucia

Read by Martin Clifton


E. F. Benson


E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was th…

A Problem in Modern Ethics

Read by Martin Geeson


John Addington Symonds


“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.”…

Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel

Read by Martin Geeson


Guy de Maupassant


“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to …

The Vicar of Wakefield

Read by Martin Clifton


Oliver Goldsmith


Published in 1766, 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was Oliver Goldsmith's only novel. It was thought to have been sold to the publisher for £…

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Read by Martin Geeson


Samuel Johnson


In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the H…

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…

Tales of the Five Towns

Read by Martin Clifton


Arnold Bennett


This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of t…

Confessions, volumes 5 and 6

Read by Martin Geeson


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a w…

Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions

Read by Martin Geeson


Frank Harris


Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" t…

Confessions, volumes 3 and 4

Read by Martin Geeson


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.”Here again is …

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Read by Martin Geeson


Laurence Sterne


After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it …

Farewell

Read by Martin Geeson


Honoré de Balzac


In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, c…

Bible (KJV) NT 11: Phillippians

Read by Victoria Martin


King James Version


Bible scholars believe that this letter was written by the Apostle Paul (A.D. 5-A.D. 67) to the church at Philippi. It is a wonderful letter…

The Girl with the Golden Eyes

Read by Martin Geeson


Honoré de Balzac


Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts th…

Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures

Read by Martin Clifton


Douglas William Jerrold


Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a pl…

A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity

Read by Scarlett Martin


John Bunyan


Written in the late 1600s by John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress, this treatise exhorts Christians to holy living. Bunyan takes as…

Against The Grain, or Against Nature

Read by Martin Geeson


Joris-Karl Huysmans


“THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of Huysmans’ cult no…

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