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Virginia

Read by Jim Locke


Ellen Glasgow


Virginia does everything right: she attends a finishing school, marries the first man who proposes, and devotes her life to her husband and …

The Benefit of the Doubt

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Arthur Wing Pinero


The plot resolves around a young woman being cited in court as "The Other Woman" in a divorce case, and how her family reacts to i…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 065

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Various


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. A review of William Carlos Williams' "Kora in Hell" by Robert McAlmon is one …

The Gentle Persuasion

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Alan Gray


Twelve stories from the author's life in Scotland, by Robert Cuthbert Johnstone, writing as Alan Gray. For more information on the author se…

The Regent

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Arnold Bennett


'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…

To The Lighthouse

Read by Cori Samuel


Virginia Woolf


The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

The Chaperon

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…

The Annals of Ann

Read by CJ Plogue


Kate Trimble Sharber


As the only “surviving” child of her parents, Ann is considered by close friends and family to be an overly indulged child. Some say she is …

The Common Reader

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Virginia Woolf


A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were or…

On Our Selection

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Steele Rudd


The humorous account of Dad and Dave and the rest of the Rudd clan as they attempt to carve a farming 'selection' out of the Australian wild…

There and Back

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George MacDonald


An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in …

Murder In The Maze

Read by Howard Skyman


Alfred Walter Stewart


This is another story written by Walter Stewart under the pseudonym of J.J. Connington. His character of Sir Clinton Driffield, the chief co…

Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism

Read by Jim Locke


John Middleton Murry


Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…

The Lesson of the Master

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


A promising young writer meets an older man whose works have inspired him, as well as a highly intelligent and attractive young woman, at a …

Taken at the Flood

Read by Celine Major


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Brought up by a parish schoolmaster with a hidden past, Sylvia Carew dreams of a future devoid of poverty. Will she be faithful to the man s…

Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Roche…

Read by InTheDesert


Gilbert Burnet


I believe that the good Bishop of Salisbury's account of the last days of poor young Rochester would, if carefully read, make more impressio…

Concerning Grace and Free Will

Read by InTheDesert


Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and Saint Bernard Of Clairvaux


The subject of the treatise was suggested, as is plain from the text itself, as the result of a public, or at any rate semi-public, discussi…

The Tyranny of Weakness

Read by Roger Melin


Charles Neville Buck


Torn between her love for her aging father, a minister steeped in the puritanical values of old New England, and the young Virginian who was…

Bill Lyons Will And Testament


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Will and Testament By Bill Lyons A moderately unhappily married couple, and a girl fed up with looking after a sick mother - what on earth c…

Dutch Courage and Other Stories

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Jack London


Jack London was quoted as saying, "I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall writ…

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