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The Spoils of Poynton

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


The recently widowed Adela Gereth, a lover of beauty and passionate collector of fine objects, strikes up a friendship with the young Fleda …

The Ambassadors

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American ab…

A Hazard of New Fortunes

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


William Dean Howells


Howell’s novel is set in New York of the late nineteenth century, a city familiar to readers of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Basil March, …

A Brief Account of the Bahai Movement

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Ethel J. Rosenberg


“Many believe that we, in this century,” writes Ethel Rosenberg, “ are witnessing the dawn of a new spiritual epoch or era. A renewal of the…

Coningsby, or The New Generation

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Benjamin Disraeli


Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the polit…

Democracy - An American Novel

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry Brooks Adams


Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great …

The Portrait of a Lady (version 3)

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Our central character is Isabel Archer of Albany, New York, a young woman of no great means, and no great beauty (that is, by her own estima…

The Birthplace

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to …

The Universal Religion: Bahaism - Its Rise and Social Import

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney


“Bahaism is not a new religion,” writes Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney, “It is religion renewed… it does not pretend to represent the whole Truth;…

Mr. Standfast

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


John Buchan


This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, during World Wa…

At the Villa Rose

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


A. E. W. Mason


Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a va…

On the Eve

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Ivan Turgenev


On the Eve appeared in 1860, two years before Fathers and Sons, Turgenev's most famous novel. It is set in the prior decade (by the end of t…

Domestic Manners of the Americans

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Frances Milton Trollope


Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least noto…

The Vanishing Man

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


R. Austin Freeman


A young doctor, former student of the legal and medical expert Dr. John Thorndyke, finds himself almost accidentally drawn into a case in wh…

Running Water

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


A. E. W. Mason


Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times),…

The Aspern Papers

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…

The Jolly Corner

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


"The Jolly Corner," published in 1908, is considered by many to be a ghost story ranking second only to "The Turn of the Scre…

Sybil, or the Two Nations

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Benjamin Disraeli


Sybil is one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century, taking as its subject the "condition of England"…

12 - The Little Bill

In Framley Parsonage

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Anthony Trollope


Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in se…

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