Hugh Walpole
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
Read by David Wales
Twenty-four short stories by famous and not-so-famous British authors. (Summary by David Wales) Note: A shortened section 21 was replaced on…
Jeremy
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With affectionate humor, Mr. Walpole tells the story of Jeremy and his two sisters, Helen and Mary Cole, who grow up in Polchester, a quiet …
The Cathedral
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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (1884 – 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the c…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 036
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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…
The Green Mirror
Read by Simon Evers
Three generations of the Trenchard family, ruled over by the indomitable Mrs Trenchard, live together in comfortable domesticity until Kathe…
The Thirteen Travelers
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The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expen…
Joseph Conrad
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This is a literary biography of Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) who is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English. He was granted Brit…
The Old Ladies
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“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old…
The Duchess of Wrexe
Read by Simon Evers
Rachel, a spirited young girl, has to choose between Francis Breton, her difficult cousin who has been disowned by the family, and Roddy Sed…
The Secret City
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Written in the first person, The Secret City is a novel in three parts of a journey through post World War I Russia and the Revolution, duri…
The Gods and Mr Perrin
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The book is probably better known under the title ‘Mr Perrin and Mr Traill’, later made into a well-known film in 1948. Perrin and Traill ar…
The Golden Scarecrow
Read by Cynthia Moyer
Toying with the distinctions between reader and narrator, author and character, imagination and perception, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole's The G…
The Wooden Horse
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Walpole’s first novel (1909), The Wooden Horse is the story of the Trojans, a family which accepted tranquilly the belief that they were the…
The Prelude To Adventure
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Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole noveliz…
Hugh Walpole: Selected Short Stories
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Eleven short stories from The Windsor Magazine in the 1920s, Best British Short Stories of 1922, and Best British Short Stories of 1923. - S…
Jeremy And Hamlet: A Chronicle Of Certain Incidents In The Lives Of A Boy, A Do…
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Hamlet is Jeremy’s dog. This 1923 book is Hugh Walpole’s second volume in his Jeremy semi-autobiographical trilogy (Jeremy (1919 available a…
The Captives
Read by Peter Tucker
A story of alienation from the society which holds one captive, told from the standpoint of a young woman whose life is suddenly disrupted, …
A Christmas Miscellany 2020
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Nine stories, chapters, or essays about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by David Wales
Harmer John; An Unworldly Story
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Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name…
Portrait Of A Man With Red Hair; A Romantic Macabre
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Is the father insane or merely sadistic, a man entombed in a spirit of malevolence? This 1925 novel by a perceptive observer explores the te…
First Chapter Collection 005
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LibriVox First Chapter Collection 005 - a collection of the first chapters of 15 different books, fiction and nonfiction, mostly English but…
My Religion
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This 1926 collection of sixteen essays on religion by well-known people (mostly authors) in the early 20th century brings together articles …
Christmas Short Works Collection 2015
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This year's Christmas collection of short stories, poems and non-fiction features readings in English, French, German and Romanian - Summary…
Jeremy At Crale; His Friends, His Ambitions And His One Great Enemy
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This 1927 work is the third and final in Walpole’s Jeremy series. (The others are Jeremy and Jeremy And Hamlet.) Jeremy’s home is in Polches…
Reading: An Essay
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A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales