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Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
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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
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Henry James - Real Thing
The Real Thing is, on one level, a somewhat ironic tale of an artist and two rather particular models. Yet it also raises questions about the relationship between the notion of reality in our humdrum world, and the...
Nicholas Clifford
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Horror & Supernatural Fiction
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Henry James - Sir Edmund Orme
Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories — The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of his contemporaries? It's generally possible to find earthly interpretations,...
Nicholas Clifford
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Short Poetry Collection 080
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of June 2009.
David Duckett
and 20 more
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Horror & Supernatural Fiction
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Henry James - Last of the Valerii
An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god-daughter Martha, becomes the wife of Prince Marco Valerio. The young bride is eager to use some of her American...
Nicholas Clifford
1 hour
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Horror & Supernatural Fiction
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Henry James - Jolly Corner
«The Jolly Corner,» published in 1908, is considered by many to be a ghost story ranking second only to «The Turn of the Screw.» James’s protagonist, Spencer Brydon, is an American of 56, returned to New York after...
Nicholas Clifford
1 hour
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Literary Fiction
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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
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389
William Dean Howells - Little Swiss Sojourn
A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family traveling from England to Italy, has a sharp eye not only for scenery and...
Nicholas Clifford
1 hour
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Henry James - Figure in the Carpet
The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admirs the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows him that he – and all other critics – have in fact missed the great point of...
Nicholas Clifford
1 hour
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Henry James - Chaperon
What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker than water, and the daughter remains loyal to her erring parent, how far will...
Nicholas Clifford
1 hour
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General Fiction
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Henry James - Pupil
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an American couple living in Europe in a style not quite matched by their income. Mr....
Nicholas Clifford
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Henry James - Lord Beaupre
What is a young man to do, when because of his pleasant disposition, and (of course) his considerable wealth, he finds himself besieged by bevies of eligible young women, some beautiful, some less so (some, even, his...
Nicholas Clifford
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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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