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Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions

Read by Martin Geeson


Frank Harris


Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" t…

Farewell

Read by Martin Geeson


Honoré de Balzac


In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, c…

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Read by Martin Geeson


Laurence Sterne


After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it …

Bible (KJV) NT 11: Phillippians

Read by Victoria Martin


King James Version


Bible scholars believe that this letter was written by the Apostle Paul (A.D. 5-A.D. 67) to the church at Philippi. It is a wonderful letter…

The Girl with the Golden Eyes

Read by Martin Geeson


Honoré de Balzac


Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts th…

Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures

Read by Martin Clifton


Douglas William Jerrold


Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a pl…

A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity

Read by Scarlett Martin


John Bunyan


Written in the late 1600s by John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress, this treatise exhorts Christians to holy living. Bunyan takes as…

The Trespasser

Read by Martin Geeson


D. H. Lawrence


Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde - on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for on…

Against The Grain, or Against Nature

Read by Martin Geeson


Joris-Karl Huysmans


“THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of Huysmans’ cult no…

A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare

Read by Martin Clifton


William Shakespeare


This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) a…

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…

Samson Agonistes

Read by Martin Geeson


John Milton


“The Sun to me is darkAnd silent as the Moon,When she deserts the nightHid in her vacant interlunar cave.”Milton composes his last extended …

Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

Read by Martin Geeson


Robert Louis Stevenson


“Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal …

A Chautauqua Idyl

Read by Scarlett Martin


Grace Livingston Hill


The trees, flowers, and animals of a peaceful pasture meet together to discuss and learn of theology. Summary by Scarlett Martin.

The Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum)

Read by Martin Geeson


Pierre Abélard


Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating.Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, a…

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…

Hero and Leander

Read by Martin Geeson


Christopher Marlowe


“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague…

The Deleted Ones

Read by Martin Kolacek


Martin Kolacek


The Earth is no longer ruled by humans but by Pleasurebots, androids created for pleasure. The main hero, a former human terrorist, is thrus…

Torah (JPSA) 05: Deuteronomy

Read by Scarlett Martin


Jewish Publication Society Of America


According to Jewish tradition the 5 books of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) are read and studied each year. In …

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…

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