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Confessions, volumes 3 and 4
Read by Martin Geeson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.”Here again is …
The Greek View of Life
Read by Martin Geeson
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the…
Confessions, volumes 5 and 6
Read by Martin Geeson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a w…
The Mabinogion, Volume 1
Read by Martin Geeson
Anonymoustranslated Bycharlotte Guest and William James Mcglothlin
Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest:On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flo…
Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality
Read by Martin Geeson
Stuart Mason
“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?”“We are dom…
The Soul of Man
Read by Martin Geeson
Oscar Wilde
“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.”Published originally …
A Problem in Modern Ethics
Read by Martin Geeson
John Addington Symonds
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.”…
The Dancing Mania
Read by Martin Geeson
Justus Hecker
Numerous theories have been proposed for the causes of dancing mania, and it remains unclear whether it was a real illness or a social pheno…
Bible (Wycliffe) 21: Ecclesiastes
Read by Martin Geeson
Wycliffe Bible and Wycliffe Bibletranslated Byjohn Wycliffe
“... an alemaunde tre schal floure, a locuste schal be maad fat, and capparis schal be distried; for a man schal go in to the hous of his eu…