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Part 2, Chapter 3

In The Caxtons: A Family Picture

Read by Peter Dann


Edward Bulwer-Lytton


The quiet country life of the Caxton family is interrupted by a visit to London. There the son, Pisistratus, is offered the position of secr…

Lenore

In The Castle of Twilight

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Margaret Horton Potter


"Wistfully I deliver up to you my simple story, knowing that the first suggestion of “historical novel” will bring before you an image …

Chapter 24 part 2

In Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

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Austen Layard


Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace re…

Chapter 1

In The Secret Agent (Version 3)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, Lond…

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