reader:"Peter McDonald and David Robertson"

"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages,…

Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village (version 2)

Read by Peter Yearsley

Tickner Edwardes

Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…

The Iliad (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann

Homer

This great and terrifying poem about the final weeks of a long war fought between the Greeks and the Trojans before the city of Troy (here r…

Chance (version 2)

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

"You are the expert in the psychological wilderness," the nominal narrator of this engaging tale says at one point to Marlow, who …

Youth (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

This short tale was first published in book form alongside 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The End of the Tether', the three tales representing you…

Tales of Hearsay

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

In the time of Napoleon, a thoughtful and romantic young Russian officer finds himself asked to do something unthinkable. In 1868, a Polish …

An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional ten…

The Last Days of Pekin

Read by Peter Tucker

Pierre Loti

The author was an officer in the French navy. This book is a compilation of his experiences when stationed in China in 1900 during and immed…

Virgin Soil Volume 2

Read by Peter Tucker

Ivan Turgenev

The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the …

The Odyssey (Version 4)

Read by Peter Dann

Homer

Homer's "The Odyssey" forms the template of practically every adventure story that has been told in the West since it was composed…

Typhoon and Other Stories

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…

Dreams of a Spirit-Seer

Read by Peter Tucker

Immanuel Kant

Analysis of the writings of Kant's contemporary, the spiritualist religious philosopher Swedenborg, whose ideas still have a following in pr…

Bliss, and Other Stories

Read by Peter Dann

Katherine Mansfield

"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…

A Man Could Stand Up

Read by Peter Dann

Ford Madox Ford

'A Man Could Stand Up' is the third, and culminating, part of Ford Madox Ford's 'Parade's End' tetralogy of novels, which begins with 'Some …

Wonderful London

Read by Peter Yearsley

Anonymous

"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essay…

Within The Tides

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the South Pacific in hope of locating the daughter's wrongl…

Neoplatonism

Read by Peter Tucker

Charles Bigg

This monograph focusses predictably on the theories and teachings of Plotinus but precedes this with a review of foregoing schools of philos…

Moll Flanders - Version 2

Read by Peter Dann

Daniel Defoe

This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most…

Underground London

Read by Peter Yearsley

John Hollingshead

From the Preface: "This book contains an account, more or less readable, of most things belonging to "Underground London", pa…

Under Western Eyes (version 2)

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

"But it is a vain enterprise for sophisticated Europe to try and understand these doings." Set in St Petersburg and Geneva, this a…

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