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Love and Mr Lewisham

Read by Anthony Ogus


H. G. Wells


The teaching profession, science and politics in late 19th century England. H. G. Wells’ humorous early novel, drawing on his own life, show…

The New Machiavelli

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H. G. Wells


About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure, this novel by H.G. Wells generated controversy when it…

An Amiable Charlatan

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…

Non-Combatants and Others

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Rose Macaulay


Through a variety of experiences of the effects of the First World War, an art student is drawn into pacifism. Rose Macaulay's satirical no…

The Life of Anthony (Version 2)

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Athanasius of Alexandria


The Life Of St. Anthony the Great.

Certain Personal Matters

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H. G. Wells


Although best known for his works of science fiction, social commentary and history, H.G. Wells here gives us humorous and light-hearted pi…

England, My England

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D. H. Lawrence


A book of ten short stories, written with Lawrence's typical sensibility to and awareness of social mores, set around the period of the Firs…

Philebus

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Plato


Philebus (ΦΙΛΗΒΟΣ) discusses pleasure, wisdom, soul and God. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)

An Eye for an Eye

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Anthony Trollope


A short but typical Trollope romance in which a young nobleman is torn between love for an impoverished Irish girl and the expectations of h…

Pictures from Italy

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Charles Dickens


Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descr…

Kipps

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H. G. Wells


Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles b…

Nina Balatka

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Anthony Trollope


A romance set in Prague between a Catholic and a Jew. In this short novel, Trollope moves away from his usual milieu to explore a theme whic…

Phaedrus

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Plato


“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they…

The Hole in the Wall

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Arthur Morrison


A lively story about a pub, and those who ran it, at the end of the 19th century in the East End Dockland of London, with its poverty-strick…

Critias

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Plato


This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

Theaetetus

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Plato


Theaetetus (Ancient Greek: Θεαίτητος) discusses concepts including perception, true judgment and knowledge. Socrates compares the human mind…

The Life of Cicero, Vol. I

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Anthony Trollope


Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the tu…

Remarks

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Bill Nye


"The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained i…

Putting the Most Into Life

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Booker T. Washington


The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…

Alice Dugdale

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Anthony Trollope


An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a…

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