Literature
Under the Greenwood Tree
Read by Rachel Lintern
Thomas Hardy
This novel is subtitled The Mellstock Quire, A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. The Quire is the group of musicians who accompany the hym…
The Golden Bowl
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Henry James
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some cri…
Round the Sofa
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story tell…
My Lady Ludlow
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
This novella by the acclaimed Elizabeth Gaskell follows the reminiscences and life of aristocratic Lady Ludlow, told through the eyes of one…
A Problem in Modern Ethics
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John Addington Symonds
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.”…
The Red and the Black, Volume I
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Stendhal
Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Ba…
Barchester Towers
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Anthony Trollope
This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barche…
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
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Gaston Leroux
This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious wa…
The Golden Calf
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Cl…
Ethan Frome (version 2)
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Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of St…
Jude the Obscure
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Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…
Bible (KJV) NT 21-22: 1,2 Peter
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King James Version
The First Epistle of Peter, usually referred to simply as First Peter and often written 1 Peter, is a book of the New Testament. The author …
Washington Square
Read by Dawn
Henry James
Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Ma…
Wessex Tales
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Thomas Hardy
Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introdu…
The Vicar of Wakefield
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Oliver Goldsmith
Published in 1766, 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was Oliver Goldsmith's only novel. It was thought to have been sold to the publisher for £…
Agnes Grey
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Anne Brontë
The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to ca…
Vixen
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, ar…
The Moneychangers
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Upton Sinclair
A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague w…
Crucial Instances
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Edith Wharton
This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is w…
Jacob's Room
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Virginia Woolf
The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impres…