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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…

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 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…

Chapter 2

In Almayer's Folly (Version 3)

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad was born in former Poland, spent part of his childhood exiled in Russia because of his father's Polish nationalist political a…

Part 3, Chapter 1

In An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)

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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…

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