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Tales of Hearsay

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


In the time of Napoleon, a thoughtful and romantic young Russian officer finds himself asked to do something unthinkable. In 1868, a Polish …

The Last Days of Pekin

Read by Peter Tucker


Pierre Loti


The author was an officer in the French navy. This book is a compilation of his experiences when stationed in China in 1900 during and immed…

Virgin Soil Volume 2

Read by Peter Tucker


Ivan Turgenev


The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the …

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…

Dreams of a Spirit-Seer

Read by Peter Tucker


Immanuel Kant


Analysis of the writings of Kant's contemporary, the spiritualist religious philosopher Swedenborg, whose ideas still have a following in pr…

Typhoon and Other Stories

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Joseph Conrad


An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…

Bliss, and Other Stories

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Katherine Mansfield


"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…

A Man Could Stand Up

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Ford Madox Ford


'A Man Could Stand Up' is the third, and culminating, part of Ford Madox Ford's 'Parade's End' tetralogy of novels, which begins with 'Some …

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…

Wonderful London

Read by Peter Yearsley


Anonymous


"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essay…

Within The Tides

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Joseph Conrad


A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the South Pacific in hope of locating the daughter's wrongl…

Neoplatonism

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Charles Bigg


This monograph focusses predictably on the theories and teachings of Plotinus but precedes this with a review of foregoing schools of philos…

Under Western Eyes (version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


"But it is a vain enterprise for sophisticated Europe to try and understand these doings." Set in St Petersburg and Geneva, this a…

Moll Flanders - Version 2

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Daniel Defoe


This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most…

Underground London

Read by Peter Yearsley


John Hollingshead


From the Preface: "This book contains an account, more or less readable, of most things belonging to "Underground London", pa…

In a German Pension, Version 2

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Katherine Mansfield


Katherine Mansfield was only 22 years old when these stories were first published in book form. Mansfield was later reluctant to see them re…

The Shadow-Line (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


In this engaging and well-crafted novella, an older man recalls how a combination of obscure personal impulses and diabolical co-incidences …

Victory (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


After spending some years wandering about the East and engaging in various adventures, Axel Heyst, a man of independent means who feels litt…

The Book of the Cheese

Read by Peter Yearsley


Thomas Wilson Reid


"Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese" is a pub on Fleet Street, London. It was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666, and has been frequented …

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …

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