Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

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Literary Fiction

485

E. W. Hornung - Peccavi

How does a man who as committed a heavy sin — not a crime, but a sin with terrible consequences — atone for his behaviour? What if the man is a priest of the Church of England? That is the central question of E. W....

Nicholas Clifford 11 hours 11 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

462

E. W. Hornung - Witching Hill

The adventures of two young men, which may or may not have to do with the supernatural. — Summary by Nicholas Clifford

Nicholas Clifford 5 hours 56 minutes

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Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love (version 2)

Crime & Mystery Fiction

443

William Le Queux - Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love (version 2)

A mysterious burgary of the British Consulate at Leghorn, coupled with the even more mysterious visit of an English yacht, leads to a trail of espionage and underground criminal activity that carries to reader to...

Nicholas Clifford 9 hours 55 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

458

J. S. Fletcher - In the Mayor's Parlour

“Rotten borough” is a term that goes back to the 18th century, and it used to mean a parliamentary constituency in which a few property owners, or sometimes a single one, could choose the local member of parliament....

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 49 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

519

J. S. Fletcher - Ravensdene Court

Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court on the Northumbrian coast. There, Francis Raven, the owner, recently retired...

Nicholas Clifford 8 hours 43 minutes

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Literary Fiction

527

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady (version 3)

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 estimation; others disagree) yet of rich imagination, high ideals and a thirst for...

Nicholas Clifford 25 hours 5 minutes

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Literary Fiction

529

Henry James - Siege of London

In this work, first published in 1883, James once again writes of an American trying to settle in England. The woman at the center, however, is not a product of the Boston or New York upper classes, but of the...

Nicholas Clifford 3 hours 36 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

489

A. E. W. Mason - Witness for the Defence

Part romance, part mystery, part courtroom and quasi-courtroom drama. Young love reignites itself after a hiatus of some years. Or does it? Much can change in that time — both to the people themselves, and to the...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 57 minutes

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Literary Fiction

469

Honoré de Balzac - Grande Bretèche

La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table. This one, given to the guests at about two in the morning, is tale of marital...

Nicholas Clifford 52 minutes

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Honoré de Balzac - Another Study of Woman

A series of tales — told by men, of course — about women. Though the book first appeared in 1842, Balzac later added to it as an addenfum a tale of 1831, La Grande Bretèche. That will be read later, keeping it...

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 38 minutes

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Literary Fiction

502

Benjamin Disraeli - Coningsby, or The New Generation

Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the political turmoil following the passage of the Great Reform Bill by the Whigs in...

Nicholas Clifford 17 hours 53 minutes

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Political Science

484

Bertrand Russell - Problem of China

In 1920-21 Bertrand Russell lived and taught in Peking (Beijing), publishing this book on his return to England. In 1920 he had visited Bolshevik Russia, talked to Lenin, and was unimpressed by what he had seen....

Nicholas Clifford 8 hours 18 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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