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58 - The Cross-grainedness of Men.

In The Last Chronicle of Barset

Read by Barry O'Neill


Anthony Trollope


Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar…

Chapter 23 – A Strike for Liberty

In Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Read by Laura O'Neill


Anna Sewell


Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir o…

08 - Harry Annesley Takes a Walk

In Mr Scarborough's Family

Read by Barry O'Neill


Anthony Trollope


MR SCARBOROUGH, wealthy owner of Tretton Park in Staffordshire, is dying. His eldest son and heir Mountjoy has gambled away his inheritance …

I.—The Old House

In The Gold of Fairnilee

Read by John


Andrew Lang


A fairy story set in Scotland about Jean and Randal and what happens when Randal disappears into fairyland. This is Lang's second fairy tal…

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