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The Vicar of Wakefield
Read by Martin Clifton
Oliver Goldsmith
Published in 1766, 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was Oliver Goldsmith's only novel. It was thought to have been sold to the publisher for £…
Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel
Read by Martin Geeson
Guy de Maupassant
“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to …
An Essay on Man
Read by Martin Geeson
Alexander Pope
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Read by Martin Geeson
Samuel Johnson
In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the H…
Tales of the Five Towns
Read by Martin Clifton
Arnold Bennett
This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of t…
Confessions, volumes 5 and 6
Read by Martin Geeson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a w…
Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions
Read by Martin Geeson
Frank Harris
Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" t…
Confessions, volumes 3 and 4
Read by Martin Geeson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.”Here again is …
Farewell
Read by Martin Geeson
Honoré de Balzac
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, c…
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Read by Martin Geeson
Laurence Sterne
After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it …
Bible (KJV) NT 11: Phillippians
Read by Victoria Martin
King James Version
Bible scholars believe that this letter was written by the Apostle Paul (A.D. 5-A.D. 67) to the church at Philippi. It is a wonderful letter…
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Read by Martin Geeson
Honoré de Balzac
Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts th…
Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures
Read by Martin Clifton
Douglas William Jerrold
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a pl…
A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity
Read by Scarlett Martin
John Bunyan
Written in the late 1600s by John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress, this treatise exhorts Christians to holy living. Bunyan takes as…
The Trespasser
Read by Martin Geeson
D. H. Lawrence
Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde - on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for on…
Against The Grain, or Against Nature
Read by Martin Geeson
Joris-Karl Huysmans
“THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of Huysmans’ cult no…
A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare
Read by Martin Clifton
William Shakespeare
This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) a…
Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality
Read by Martin Geeson
Stuart Mason
“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?”“We are dom…
Samson Agonistes
Read by Martin Geeson
John Milton
“The Sun to me is darkAnd silent as the Moon,When she deserts the nightHid in her vacant interlunar cave.”Milton composes his last extended …
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
Read by Martin Geeson
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal …
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