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The Aspern Papers
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
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 Jolly Corner
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
"The Jolly Corner," published in 1908, is considered by many to be a ghost story ranking second only to "The Turn of the Scre…
The Figure in the Carpet
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admires the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows h…
Sir Dominick Ferrand
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
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 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…
The Spoils of Poynton
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
The recently widowed Adela Gereth, a lover of beauty and passionate collector of fine objects, strikes up a friendship with the young Fleda …
A Little Swiss Sojourn
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
William Dean Howells
A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family travelin…
Doctor Thorne
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personali…
The American
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
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 …
Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Edward Whymper
Scrambles Amongst the Alps is one the great classics (some would say the greatest) of early mountaineering literature, and Edward Whymper (1…
The Real Thing
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
The Real Thing is, on one level, a somewhat ironic tale of an artist and two rather particular models. Yet it also raises questions about th…
The Ambassadors
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American ab…
The Breaking Point
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shor…
The Birthplace
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
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 …
Democracy - An American Novel
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry Brooks Adams
Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great …
Running Water
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
A. E. W. Mason
Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times),…
Roderick Hudson
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of J…
At the Villa Rose
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
A. E. W. Mason
Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a va…
Sir Edmund Orme
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories -- The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of…
The Last of the Valerii
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god-daughter Martha, becomes the wife of Prin…