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Brief Lives Volume I

Read by Nicole Lee


John Aubrey


A collection of sparkling gossipy biographical pieces of Aubrey's contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


This is the first volume of Chateaubriand's Memoires d'Outre Tombe, in a Victorian translation. It covers the period from his birth, includi…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1663

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Pepys


Another jam-packed year for Pepys, making provisions for Tangier, indulging his passion for the theatre, always thoroughly engaged in his re…

Brief Lives Volume II

Read by Nicole Lee


John Aubrey


Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1664

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Pepys


Pepys continues to live life to the hilt, juggling extra-marital shenanigans with a complicated homelife, difficulties with staff, power str…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1665

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Pepys


Pepys' diary continues with his trademark engaging frankness, as he jockeys for favour, criticises his colleagues on the Navy Board for thei…

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume II

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


Volume II of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, translated by Teixeira de Mattos. This volume covers the period from his return t…

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume III

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


The third volume of Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb covers the spectacular fall, exile, and …

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume IV

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


After the extinction of Napoleon's comet on St Helena, Chateaubriand covers the Bourbon Restoration in this volume, meeting a dazzling array…

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume V

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


The memoirs of Chateaubriand continue in Volume 5, with the author, now a grand hommes des lettres, still in the thick of political events, …

Lud-in-the-Mist

Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf


Hope Mirrlees


Nathaniel Chanticleer, staid and respectable mayor of Lud-in-the-Mist, wants nothing more than to preserve the traditions of his city and th…

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient

Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf


Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens


A collection of folklore gathered from India, China, Japan, the Philippines, and Persia. - Summary by Nicole J. LeBoeuf

Orlando. A Biography (version 2)

Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf


Virginia Woolf


Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the aut…

What Dreams May Come

Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf


Gertrude Atherton


For Harold Dartmouth and Weir Penrhyn, it's love at first sight; love, and an uncanny feeling of recognition which neither understand. Nor d…

The Story of the Wind

In Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 4, 1854 to 1859

Read by Michelle Tan


Hans Christian Andersen


A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristin…

05 - PRINCE SNEEZE

In The Firelight Fairy Book

Read by Valerie Tan


Henry Beston


One pleasant summer day, as the fairy-tale lover sat reading a book beneath the low spreading branches of an oak tree, he heard a hum of win…

Section XV - Explanation of the Foregoing Phenomena

In Theory of Colours

Read by Michelle Tan


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Newton's observations on the optical spectrum were widely accepted but Goethe noticed the difference between the scientific explanation and …

Of certain Passages upon the Moor

In Micah Clarke

Read by Michelle Tan


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


This book tells the story of Micah Clarke's adventures. As a boy he follows his rather romantic notions of what it means to be a soldier and…

Chapter 13

In Ellen Middleton

Read by Michelle Tan


Georgiana Fullerton


Ellen Middleton had a happy childhood with her uncle and aunt. She grew up alongside her cousin Julia. Suddenly, something happened. Her lif…

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