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Paraffin Winter

Read by Peter Chowney


Peter Chowney


The winter of 1963 was the coldest winter of the century in the UK, at a time when post-war austerity and social class divisions made for a …

The Mirror of the Sea

Read by Peter Kelleher


Joseph Conrad


The Mirror of the Sea (collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines 1904-6), 1906 (Summary from Wikipedia)

Rainer Maria Rilke: Poems

Read by Peter Tucker


Rainer Maria Rilke


A selection of poems by this renowned German poet. - Summary by Peter Tucker

Siddhartha (Version 2)

Read by Peter Kuhn


Hermann Hesse


A major preoccupation of Hesse in writing Siddhartha was to cure his "sickness with life" (Lebenskrankheit) by immersing himself i…

De Agra-Schat

Read by Peter Zinn


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Het verhaal speelt zich af in 1887 of 1888, en draait deels om de Oost-Indische Compagnie en de Muiterij van Sepoy.Sherlock Holmes en Dr. Wa…

Making a Rock Garden

Read by Peter Yearsley


Henry Sherman Adams


A short look at building a rock garden, right from the rocks themselves and how to arrange them, to choosing and placing the plants, touchin…

Là-bas

Read by Peter Tucker


Joris-Karl Huysmans


The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief…

Evolution Creatrice

Read by Peter Tucker


Henri Bergson


Creative Evolution (French: L'Évolution créatrice) is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation…

The Natural History of Selborne

Read by Peter Yearsley


Gilbert White


The Reverend Gilbert White was the curate of the village of Selborne, a village in Hampshire, from 1784 to his death in 1793, living most of…

The Windy Hill

Read by Peter Eastman


Cornelia Meigs


When two children come to stay with their cousin, they immediately realize something is wrong, but no one will tell them what. Their cousin …

The Fortune of the Rougons

Read by Peter Tucker


Émile Zola


The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monument…

A Voyage to the Moon

Read by Peter Tucker


Cyrano De Bergerac


This is an edition by Professor Curtis Page of the Lovell translation of a seminal work of science fiction by Cyrano de Bergerac. Arguably …

Poems 1817

Read by Peter Tucker


John Keats


Early poems of this famous English lyric poet, in which he openly expresses indebtedness to, and reverence for, his poetic predecessors, esp…

Status Quo

Read by Peter Eastman


Dallas Mccord Reynolds and Mack Reynolds


Larry Woolford is a government agent, tasked with investigating subversive activity. He does everything an ambitious young man should do if…

Madame Bovary (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Gustave Flaubert


Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acut…

Mr. Britling Sees It Through

Read by Peter Eastman


H. G. Wells


"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" is H. G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an …

Don Juan, Cantos 13 - 16

Read by Peter Gallagher


George Gordon, Lord Byron


These are the last four Cantos of his mock epic that Byron completed in the year before his death at the age of 36 in Messolonghi, Greece, w…

The Blue Cat of Castle Town

Read by Peter Eastman


Catherine Cate Coblentz


"The mother cat had been quite upset when she first saw the blue kitten. She had looked fearfully then toward the river. For, like all …

Hume's Central Principles

Read by Peter Millican


Peter Millican


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Highways and Byways in Sussex

Read by Peter Yearsley


E. V. Lucas


A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…

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