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Victorian Literature
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Clement Shorter
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and cri…
Books Fatal to Their Authors
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Peter Hempson Ditchfield
This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a per…
Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall
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Decline and Fall A six-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's dazzling first novel. Adapted by Jeremy Front 1: Theology undergraduate Paul Pennyf…
More Lost Memories
Read by Teel McClanahan III
Teel McClanahan III
A collection of short stories, each connected to Forget What You Can't Remember by a minor character, a passing situation, or an unanswered …
EDYL - The Reading Department
Read by Mark Capell
Mark Capell
It's 2046 and Jake Radley has the career opportunity of a lifetime. But to take it he needs to acquire a strange, mysterious new skill. A s…
Sheila Hodgson The Lodestone
The Lodestone Wed 19th Apr 1989, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Sheila Hodgson M.R. James, the distinguished Cambridg…
The Swoop!
Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)
P. G. Wodehouse
The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. I…
The Young Colonists: A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars
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G. A. Henty
In this book, Henty explores the wars of the British empire in Africa. His sympathies may be entirely with the English (as is our young pro…
Recollections of Old Liverpool by a Nonagenarian
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James Stonehouse
These reflections of a 93 year old Liverpudlian provide a unique view of life in late 19th to mid19th century Liverpool. They were transcrib…
Extracts from 'The New and Complete Newgate Calendar', Vol. 1
Read by Roy Schreiber
William Jackson
Volume One of the New and Complete Newgate Calendar, covering the years 1700 through 1723, relates stories of British trials, the persons ac…
Hindle Wakes
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Stanley Houghton
Alan Jeffcote, son of Nat Hawthorn, Hindle's richest factory owner, meets Fanny Hawthorn, daughter of Nat's 'slasher' and oldest friend, in …
R D. Wingfield The Tenth Anniversary
Cleverly resolves an unexplained murder ten years after its commission. Every year on the anniversary of the famous Monkstead murders, Det-I…
R D. Wingfield Daylight Robbery
Miss Pickering: “Elderly lady living alone in remote house, willing to take in paying guests." When Miss Pickering puts this advertisem…
Shorty McCabe
Read by Scotty Smith
Sewell Ford
Yes, it's been a couple of years since I quit the ring. . . . I slid into a quiet corner for a month or so, and then I dropped into the only…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
R. D. Wingfield A Touch Of Frost
Frost is tough, rough and rude. His superiors don't like him. He has a habit of doing things his way - and getting results. Detective Inspec…
Our Little Australian Cousin
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Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
Another delightful look back at how people and children lived in the late 1800s in this part of the British Empire. This book introduces us …
David Copperfield (version 3)
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Charles Dickens
David Copperfield, like all of Dickens' novels, is filled with many memorable characters (because they are hyperbolic representations of cha…
