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Nicholas Nickelby Band 6
Read by josvanaken
Charles Dickens
Der junge Nikolas Nickleby muss sich Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts in England durch den Verlust seines Vaters plötzlich in einer gefä…
Stories by English Authors: London
Read by Kirsten Wever
F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill
This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …
Delia Blanchflower
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
Delia Blanchflower’s father has died, leaving her a considerable inheritance. However, she has become caught up in the militant wing of the …
Ravensdene Court
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
J. S. Fletcher
Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…
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…
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…
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…
The Lost Art of Reading
Read by Joseph Tabler
Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
De Zonde in het deftige dorp
Read by Anna Simon
Johan De Meester
“Een vertelling van menschen en zeden.”Stork is de dorpsdokter, die van dichtbij de reactie van zijn dorpsgenoten observeert als bekend word…
Michael Kohlhaas (Version 2)
Read by Hans Hafen
Heinrich von Kleist
Die Novelle spielt in der Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts und handelt vom Pferdehändler Michael Kohlhaas, der gegen ein Unrecht, das man ihm…
The Clicking of Cuthbert
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P. G. Wodehouse
Join the Oldest Member...whether you like it or not...and be carried on a magic carpet ride through the world of golf, love, and...aunts...a…
A Miscellany of Men
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world's most prolific writers who incorporated relentless logic, wonderful humor, and a clear view of…
The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent and Other Essays
Read by Beeswaxcandle
John Erskine
In different ways the four essays set forth one theme—the moral use to which intelligence might be put, in rendering our admirations and our…
Kipps
Read by Anthony Ogus
H. G. Wells
Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles b…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume II
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Henry Mayhew
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
William Again
Read by David Wales
Richmal Crompton
Fourteen more stories about William Brown. William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzz…
Septimus
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
The book concerns the tangled lives of four people: Zora, a young widow who seeks some purpose in her life; Septimus Dix, an other-wordly bu…
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses a…
Read by Claudia Salto
Franz Von Dingelstedt
This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join hi…
Juffrouw Lirriper's Legaat
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
De kerstverhalen van Charles Dickens uit het jaar 1864. Hoofdstuk 1 en 7 vormen een doorlopend verhaal dat het vervolg is van hoofdstuk 1 en…