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The Papers
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Today the world is awash with “celebrities” whose only accomplishment is being celebrated by the media in all its various forms. Henry James…
Ravensdene Court
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
J. S. Fletcher
Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…
The Lesson of the Master
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
A promising young writer meets an older man whose works have inspired him, as well as a highly intelligent and attractive young woman, at a …
Lord Clive
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India…
Sir Dominick Ferrand
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
"Levity" is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of…
Peccavi
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
E. W. Hornung
How does a man who as committed a heavy sin — not a crime, but a sin with terrible consequences — atone for his behaviour? What if the man i…
Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Edward Whymper
Scrambles Amongst the Alps is one the great classics (some would say the greatest) of early mountaineering literature, and Edward Whymper (1…
The Last of the Valerii
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god-daughter Martha, becomes the wife of Prin…
In the Mayor's Parlour
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
J. S. Fletcher
“Rotten borough” is a term that goes back to the 18th century, and it used to mean a parliamentary constituency in which a few property owne…
Sir Edmund Orme
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories -- The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of…
The Breaking Point
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shor…
The Problem of China
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Bertrand Russell
In 1920-21 Bertrand Russell lived and taught in Peking (Beijing), publishing this book on his return to England. In 1920 he had visited Bols…
Lady Barbarina
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to p…
Roderick Hudson
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of J…
The Princess Casamassima
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Princess Casamassima can be read on several levels: first, as a political and social novel, exploring the anarchistic and revolutionary unde…
The American
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least …
The Pupil
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…
Warren Hastings
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …
Doctor Thorne
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personali…
Tales of Men and Ghosts
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Edith Wharton
Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and …
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