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A Text-book of Assaying

Read by Peter Yearsley


Cornelius Beringer and Cornelius Beringerandjohn Jacob Beringer


This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At firs…

The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2)

Read by Peter Tucker


William Butler Yeats


A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady…

The Cathedral

Read by Peter Tucker


Joris-Karl Huysmans


It is the third of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author. He had already featured the c…

The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to ru…

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard

Read by Peter Eastman


Eleanor Farjeon


The wandering minstrel Martin Pippin finds a lovelorn ploughman who begs him to visit the orchard where his beloved has been locked in the w…

Rome

Read by Peter Tucker


Émile Zola


The Abbe Pierre Froment, after his experiences in Lourdes, has written a book expressing a vision of a new enlightened papacy. He visits Rom…

Almayer's Folly (Version 3)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


Joseph Conrad was born in former Poland, spent part of his childhood exiled in Russia because of his father's Polish nationalist political a…

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Read by Peter Eastman


George Gissing


This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death…

Phallic Worship

Read by Peter Yearsley


Hargrave Jennings


A fairly scholarly, short survey of religious sexual symbols and practices from ancient times to the near-present, and within various countr…

Twilight in Italy

Read by Peter Tucker


D. H. Lawrence


This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…

The Late Mattia Pascal

Read by Peter Tucker


Luigi Pirandello


Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, a…

The French Revolution: A History. Volume 2: The Constitution (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Thomas Carlyle


The second volume of this famous and idiosyncratic history covers events from October 1789, after Louis XVI has been 'persuaded' to leave Ve…

A Short History of Greek Philosophy

Read by Peter Tucker


John Marshall


History of Ancient Greek philosophy from pre-Socratics to Aristotle and on to the Sceptics and the Stoics. - Summary by Peter Tucker

The Rescue

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan arc…

Virgin Soil Volume 1

Read by Peter Tucker


Ivan Turgenev


Turgenev's last and longest novel presents the story of a group of young people in late nineteenth century Russia, who because of disillusio…

Tales of Unrest (version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is …

No More Parades

Read by Peter Dann


Ford Madox Ford


When No More Parades was first published in 1925, a critic in The Observer wrote of the first 100 pages that they "easily surpass in tr…

The French Revolution: A History. Volume 3: The Guillotine

Read by Peter Dann


Thomas Carlyle


Of this third, and final, phase of the French Revolution, including that period known as The Terror, Carlyle comments "It is unfortunat…

The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic repu…

The Bagpipers

Read by Peter Tucker


George Sand


A story of two sets of lovers and the development of their relationships, set in rural France in the mid 19th century. - Summary by PeterTuc…

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