reader:"Sue Dopson, Andrew Hamilton and Peter Piot"

Job was a prosperous landowner who encountered a series of misfortunes, leading him to question himself and his relation to his God. A gran…

I Am A Cat (excerpt)

Read by Peter Eastman

Sōseki Natsume

These are the first two chapters of Natsume Sōseki's masterpiece, "I Am A Cat" (Wagahai wa Neko de Aru). It is recognized as a lan…

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Read by Peter Tucker

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is de…

Heart of Darkness (version 4)

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small…

Nostromo (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a…

Don Juan, Canto 5

Read by Peter Gallagher

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Juan, captured by Turkish pirates and sold into slavery is bought by a beautiful Princess as her toy-boy. Dressed as an odalisque, he is smu…

Anthem (Version 5)

Read by Peter Kuhn

Ayn Rand

Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom…

The Good Soldier (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann

Ford Madox Ford

First published in 1915, The Good Soldier might be characterised as a melodrama of English upper class infidelities, cut into little pieces,…

Lourdes

Read by Peter Tucker

Émile Zola

This book describes a five day national pilgrimage to the holy shrine of Lourdes, where miracle cures are hoped for. The central character i…

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Version 2)

Read by Peter Tucker

George Berkeley

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (commonly called Treatise when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work, in Eng…

Ketchup

Read by Peter Yearsley

A. W. Bitting

The Bittings have written a number of books on canning and home preparation of food. This short volume includes a brief description of the p…

Breaking Point

Read by Peter Eastman

James Edwin Gunn

Machines are infallible. Humans are not. The crew of The Ambassador knew their ship could not possibly fail, but what of themselves? And how…

London Labour and the London Poor Volume I

Read by Peter Yearsley

Henry Mayhew

Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…

Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field

Read by Peter Tucker

Sir Walter Scott

Marmion is an epic poem in six cantos, written in emulation of the ancient Scottish minstrel style which was of such great interest to Scott…

The Secret Agent (Version 3)

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, Lond…

The French Revolution: A History. Volume 1: The Bastille (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann

Thomas Carlyle

Subtitled "The Bastille", Volume 1 of Thomas Carlyle's three volume "The French Revolution: A History" was first publish…

A Waterbiography

Read by Peter Kelleher

Robert C. Leslie

Robert C. Leslie (1826-1901) was an artist and writer who, at an early age fell in love with the sea, the sea of Sail, not of Steam. He desc…

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

Read by Peter Yearsley

H. G. Wells

A collection of Wells' short stories, with a short introductory essay by the author- "Essentially it is a miscellany of inventions, man…

The End Of The Tether

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

At an age when he should, by rights, be embarking on a well-deserved and comfortable retirement, Captain Whalley, a sailor of the old school…

The Story of Rimini

Read by Peter Tucker

Leigh Hunt

A long poem telling the tragic story of Francesca da Rimini, the duped and adulterous bride, inspired by the character in Dante's Inferno. P…

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