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Phallic Worship

Read by Peter Yearsley


Hargrave Jennings


A fairly scholarly, short survey of religious sexual symbols and practices from ancient times to the near-present, and within various countr…

Twilight in Italy

Read by Peter Tucker


D. H. Lawrence


This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…

The French Revolution: A History. Volume 2: The Constitution (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Thomas Carlyle


The second volume of this famous and idiosyncratic history covers events from October 1789, after Louis XVI has been 'persuaded' to leave Ve…

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Read by Peter Eastman


George Gissing


This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death…

A Short History of Greek Philosophy

Read by Peter Tucker


John Marshall


History of Ancient Greek philosophy from pre-Socratics to Aristotle and on to the Sceptics and the Stoics. - Summary by Peter Tucker

The Late Mattia Pascal

Read by Peter Tucker


Luigi Pirandello


Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, a…

Tales of Unrest (version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is …

The French Revolution: A History. Volume 3: The Guillotine

Read by Peter Dann


Thomas Carlyle


Of this third, and final, phase of the French Revolution, including that period known as The Terror, Carlyle comments "It is unfortunat…

Virgin Soil Volume 1

Read by Peter Tucker


Ivan Turgenev


Turgenev's last and longest novel presents the story of a group of young people in late nineteenth century Russia, who because of disillusio…

The Rescue

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan arc…

No More Parades

Read by Peter Dann


Ford Madox Ford


When No More Parades was first published in 1925, a critic in The Observer wrote of the first 100 pages that they "easily surpass in tr…

Metamorphoses (Howard Version)

Read by Peter Tucker


Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso


Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…

The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic repu…

On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp

Read by Peter Yearsley


William Brooke O'Shaughnessy


The author investigated the uses of cannabis resin as an anticonvulsant and relaxant in cases of tetanus, cholera, and infantile convulsions…

A Set of Six

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Joseph Conrad


Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American…

The Rookeries of London

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Thomas Beames


Rev. Thomas Beames (1815 – 1864) was a preacher at St. James, Westminster in London. He compiled his own eye-witness accounts of the most no…

The Charterhouse of Parma

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Stendhal


In an astounding act of literary improvisation, Stendhal dictated this complex and innovative novel, combining political and psychological r…

Dissertation on Oriental Gardening

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William Chambers


A little essay on the Chinese style of gardening, as opposed to the continental style, which the author finds too formal with too many strai…

The Bagpipers

Read by Peter Tucker


George Sand


A story of two sets of lovers and the development of their relationships, set in rural France in the mid 19th century. - Summary by PeterTuc…

Prometheus Illbound

Read by Peter Tucker


André Gide


There is a witty and absurdist character to this contemporary setting of the plight of Prometheus, in which Zeus appears as a tremendously w…

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