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Eugénie Grandet

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would…

Father Goriot (version 2)

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Honoré de Balzac


Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Pa…

The Rise of Silas Lapham

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William Dean Howells


The Rise of Silas Lapham is the most widely read of W.D. Howells’ novels. An example of literary realism, the story is about a farmer (Silas…

Pete Kelley Blues


Richard Breen


Pete Kelley Blues (1951) arrived on radio almost two years after Jack Webb reached stardom in Dragnet. All the Webb trademarks were here: th…

Cousin Pons

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


Cousin Pons is one of the final works in Balzac's long novel series titled The Human Comedy. It was published in 1847, along with Cousin Bet…

Old Chants

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Walt Whitman


LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Old Chants by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.Walter &…

The Ball at Sceaux

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


The novella “The Ball at Sceaux” is part of Balzac’s great life work — the expansive fiction series titled “The Human Comedy.” The central c…

15 The Dead


Drama On One RTÉ Radio 1


James Joyce - Dubliners   15 Dubliners - The Dead The fifteenth story in James Joyce’s Dubliners. Gabriel Conroy attends a party, and l…

Cousin Betty

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his …

The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour

Read by Sue Anderson


Sir Alfred Edward East


Sketching from Nature, Equipment, Colour, Composition, Trees, Skies, Grass, Reflections, Distance -- chapters rich with timeless oil paintin…

The Spook Ballads

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William Theodore Parkes


This is a volume of ghost stories in verse by William Theodore Parkes. The poems in this volume are often humorous, and written in a parody …

The Mabinogion, Volume 1

Read by Martin Geeson


Anonymoustranslated Bycharlotte Guest


Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest:On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flo…

Three Soldiers

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John Dos Passos


Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First Worl…

The Fair Rewards

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Thomas Beer


"The Fair Rewards" by Thomas Beer . . . is a really distiguished novel. The writing is far above the average: it has style and sop…

Muslin

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George Moore and George Logan Moore


Muslin, better known as A Drama In Muslin, is a realistic novel by George Moore. It describes the lives of five Irish girls after their grad…

The Charterhouse of Parma

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Stendhal


In an astounding act of literary improvisation, Stendhal dictated this complex and innovative novel, combining political and psychological r…

02 An Encounter


Drama On One  RTÉ Radio 1


James Joyce - Dubliners   02/15 Dubliners - An Encounter The second story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Two schoolboys playing truant enc…

04 Eveline


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James Joyce - Dubliners   04/15 Dubliners - Eveline The fourth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. A young woman weighs her decision to f…

05 After The Race


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James Joyce - Dubliners   05/15 Dubliners - After The Race The fifth story in James Joyce's Dubliners.  College  student Jimm…

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