reader:"Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)"

Part romance, part mystery, part courtroom and quasi-courtroom drama. Young love reignites itself after a hiatus of some years. Or does it? …

Lord Beaupre

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Henry James

What is a young man to do, when because of his pleasant disposition, and (of course) his considerable wealth, he finds himself besieged by b…

The American

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Henry James

One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least …

The Pupil

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

Henry James

Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…

Witching Hill

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E. W. Hornung

The adventures of two young men, which may or may not have to do with the supernatural. - Summary by Nicholas Clifford

Domestic Manners of the Americans

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

Frances Milton Trollope

Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least noto…

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 …

Ravensdene Court

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J. S. Fletcher

Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…

The Chaperon

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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 Vanishing Man

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R. Austin Freeman

A young doctor, former student of the legal and medical expert Dr. John Thorndyke, finds himself almost accidentally drawn into a case in wh…

The Aspern Papers

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Henry James

One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…

The Papers

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Henry James

Today the world is awash with “celebrities” whose only accomplishment is being celebrated by the media in all its various forms. Henry James…

The Figure in the Carpet

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Henry James

The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admires the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows h…

Das Spinnennetz

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Joseph Roth

Theodor Lohse beschließt den 1. Weltkrieg als unbedeutender Leutnant und findet Arbeit als Hauslehrer beim reichen Juden Efrussi. Dort…

The Problem of China

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Bertrand Russell

In 1920-21 Bertrand Russell lived and taught in Peking (Beijing), publishing this book on his return to England. In 1920 he had visited Bols…

Seed Thoughts

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Joseph Caryl

There is a work which few men possess, and which we are assured that no man alive ever ventured to read through. It is in two mighty folios,…

Paul Clifford

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-educa…

Sir Dominick Ferrand

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Henry James

"Levity" is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of…

The Birthplace

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Henry James

Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to …

Anyhow Stories: Moral and otherwise

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Lucy Clifford

A collection of stories and poems for children by British novelist, journalist, and playwright Lucy Lane Clifford, better known during her l…

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