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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…

Prefaces to First and Second Editions

In The Odyssey (Version 4)

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Homer

Homer's "The Odyssey" forms the template of practically every adventure story that has been told in the West since it was composed…

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