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Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

Read by Peter Dann

George Borrow

This unusual narrative by eccentric self-taught English linguist, traveller and one-time bible salesman George Borrow combines elements of a…

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Ford Madox Ford

This is the last novel in Ford Madox Ford's "Parade's End" tetralogy. Its predecessors "Some Do Not", "No More Para…

The Rover (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad

Possessed "of a passion weary of itself", elderly ex-privateer Peyrol is driven by "a sudden impulse of scorn, of magnanimity…

Notes on Life and Letters

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Joseph Conrad

Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a "one-man show" comprising "Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conr…

The Romany Rye

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George Borrow

"The Romany Rye" is a direct continuation of George Borrow's "Lavengro", taking up the latter's story immediately where …

Chapter 24 part 2

In Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

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Austen Layard

Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace re…

Part First, Chapter 3

In Nostromo (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad

In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a…

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