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Pélerinage d'un nommé Chrétien, Le : écrit sous l'allégorie d'un songe

Read by Ezwa


John Bunyan


« Le pélerinage d'un nommé Chrétien » est un roman allégorique de John Bunyan, publié en 1678…

The Duel (version 2)

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Anton Chekhov


Known for his plays and short stories, Anton Chekhov also wrote a series of novellas, astonishing for their psychological complexity and com…

Exotics and Retrospectives

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Lafcadio Hearn


Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings a…

The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

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Henry Murger and Henri Murger


As much as any other work of literature, Henri Murger’s 1851 collection of witty sketches Scènes de la vie de bohème shaped th…

Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable

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Daniel Defoe


Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers c…

Från barnaår till silfverhår. Första afdelningen

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Anders Ramsay


"Från barnaår till silfverhår" (From childyears to silverhairs) by Anders Ramsay (1832-1910) is one of the most …

The Kobzar of the Ukraine

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Taras Shevchenko


In these poems speaks the struggling soul of a downtrodden people. To our western folk, reared in happier surroundings there is a bitter tan…

The Red and the Black

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Stendhal


It is a brave author indeed who gives his hero as many flaws as Stendhal bestows upon young Julien Sorel, an ambitious young carpenter's son…

Small Souls

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Louis Couperus


Constance van der Welcke returns to the Hague and the bosom of her family after a twenty year exile caused by a marital indiscretion and div…

Poetry Everywhere

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W. S. Gilbert


Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as t…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 077

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Various


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. President Theodore Roosevelt, in a 1903 speech, declared that "The future welfare …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085

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Various


"A regard for decency, even at the cost of success, is but the regard for one's own dignity" was novelist Joseph Conrad's take on …

Chekhov In Siberia


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Chekhov In Siberia Devised and Performed  by Michael Pennington Chekhov regarded literature as his mistress and medicine as his legal w…

James Joyce and Me


RTÉ Radio 1


James Joyce and Me   Presented by Professor Declan Kiberd A six-part series of programmes where presenter Professor Declan Kiberd will …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102

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Various


"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…

Michael Frayn Clouds



Michael Frayn - Clouds "They're all the same these places... guided tour of collective farms, National folk-dance company, Kindergarten…

Sarah Wooley Festival



Afternoon Drama: Festival First broadcast: Tue 31st Jul 2018, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Sarah Wooley A comedy dram…

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Read by John Greenman


Harriet Beecher Stowe


Among the most “banned” books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beeche…

Demian, The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

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Hermann Hesse


Somewhat autobiographical, this "coming of age" novel unfolds an introspective boy's formative years in pre-World War 1 Germany, f…

The Golden Age

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Kenneth Grahame


The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally published in book form in 1895, in L…

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