Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

74 books

New Discussed TOP By time

Historical Fiction

477

Anatole France - Gods are Athirst

The Gods Are Athirst (French: Les dieux ont soif, also translated as The Gods Are Thirsty or The Gods Will Have Blood) is a 1912 novel by Anatole France. The story follows the young Parisian painter Évariste...

Nicholas Clifford and 12 more 8 hours 32 minutes

No comments

Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories

Short Stories

478

Anthony Trollope - Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories

A collection of five stories by Anthony Trollope: Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices; The Lady of Launay; Christmas at Thompson Hall; The Telegraph Girl; and Alice Dugdale — Summary by Nicholas Clifford

Nicholas Clifford 10 hours 56 minutes

No comments

Crime & Mystery Fiction

480

R. Austin Freeman - Vanishing Man

A young doctor, former student of the legal and medical expert Dr. John Thorndyke, finds himself almost accidentally drawn into a case in which a man has vanished. Perhaps he has died; perhaps not;but the issue is...

Nicholas Clifford 9 hours 50 minutes

No comments

Literary Fiction

519

Henry James - Lady Barbarina

Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to prop up the waning strength of the aristocracy, was almost a staple of late...

Nicholas Clifford 3 hours 53 minutes

No comments

Historical Fiction

504

Ivan Turgenev - On the Eve

On the Eve appeared in 1860, two years before Fathers and Sons, Turgenev's most famous novel. It is set in the prior decade (by the end of the novel, the Crimean War (1853-56) has already broken out. It centers on the...

Nicholas Clifford 6 hours 10 minutes

No comments

Single Author Collections

497

Edith Wharton - Tales of Men and Ghosts

Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and the last two in the Century Magazine. Despite the title, the men outnumber...

Nicholas Clifford 9 hours 34 minutes

No comments

General Fiction

527

Henry James - Lesson of the Master

A promising young writer meets an older man whose works have inspired him, as well as a highly intelligent and attractive young woman, at a gathering in a country house. Anxious to learn all he can from the older...

Nicholas Clifford 2 hours 29 minutes

No comments

Culture & Heritage Fiction

438

Edith Wharton - Descent of Man and Other Stories

This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as practiced in the upper reaches of New York...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 8 minutes

No comments

Romance

504

Benjamin Disraeli - Sybil, or the Two Nations

Sybil is one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century, taking as its subject the «condition of England» question. That phrase was first used by Thomas Carlyle in an essay of 1839 on...

Nicholas Clifford 16 hours 51 minutes

No comments

General Fiction

495

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 1 hour 4 minutes

No comments

Romance

662

Anthony Trollope - Small House at Allington

Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her two marriageable daughters, Lily and Bell. The two girls, of course, have...

Nicholas Clifford and 13 more 25 hours 15 minutes Barsetshire Series by Anthony Trollope

No comments

Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69

Sports & Recreation

392

Edward Whymper - Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69

Scrambles Amongst the Alps is one the great classics (some would say the greatest) of early mountaineering literature, and Edward Whymper (1840-1911) one of the leading figures of the early years of Alpine climbing....

Nicholas Clifford 10 hours 4 minutes

No comments

New

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

Show all