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These are the last four Cantos of his mock epic that Byron completed in the year before his death at the age of 36 in Messolonghi, Greece, w…

The Blue Cat of Castle Town

Read by Peter Eastman

Catherine Cate Coblentz

"The mother cat had been quite upset when she first saw the blue kitten. She had looked fearfully then toward the river. For, like all …

Highways and Byways in Sussex

Read by Peter Yearsley

E. V. Lucas

A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…

Hume's Central Principles

Read by Peter Millican

Peter Millican

University of Oxford Podcasts

The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Read by Peter Tucker

Sir Walter Scott

An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lad…

Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2)

Read by Peter Yearsley

Bliss Carman

Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.…

This Is the End

Read by Peter Eastman

Stella Benson

Some books have plots that drive relentlessly toward a conclusion. Others, like "This Is The End", just meander. It is the story o…

Bible (KJV) 18: Job (version 2)

Read by Peter Tucker

King James Version

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.&…

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