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Chapter 09

In War and Peace, Book 01: 1805

Read by Richard Grove


Leo Tolstoy


War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

1770

In The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II

Read by Richard Ellwood


James Boswell


Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, edito…

Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis, part 2

In Ulysses (version 2)

Read by Richard Wallis


James Joyce


Ulysses is a groundbreaking novel in which Irish author James Joyce explores realism through stream-of-consciousness technique and shifting …

12 - Ch. 28: Francis I and Charles V, part 12

In A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 4

Read by Richard Carpenter


Francois Guizot and François Pierre Guillaume Guizot


François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prio…

Chapter 1.XXIII.—How Gargantua was instructed by Ponocrates, and in such sort d…

In Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I

Read by Richard Wallis


Francois Rabelais and François Rabelais


The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in th…

24 - Chapter 24

In The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today

Read by Richard Wallis


Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain


The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in po…

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