Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

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Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69

Sports & Recreation

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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

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

485

Émile Gaboriau - Monsieur Lecoq Part 1: The Inquiry

Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story : Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's...

Margaret Espaillat and 8 more 11 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

489

Henry James - American

One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least inexperienced, American abroad, seeking to come to terms with the social...

Nicholas Clifford 14 hours 1 minute

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Detective Fiction

457

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Dangerous Days

Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central Powers in the first world war. Clayton Spencer, a successful industrialist...

Nicholas Clifford 12 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

438

Henry James - Reverberator

Another Jamesian look at Americans in Paris. What happens when a reporter for an American scandal sheet (The Reverberator) is looking for a good story, though one which might interfere with the marriage plans of a...

Nicholas Clifford 5 hours 29 minutes

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General Fiction

447

Frances Milton Trollope - Domestic Manners of the Americans

Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least notorious) dissection of manners and morals of the United States. The work was a...

Nicholas Clifford 11 hours 50 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

407

John Buchan - Mr. Standfast

This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, durinig World War I, it deals Brigadier-General Hannay's recall from the Western Front, to...

Nicholas Clifford 11 hours 52 minutes

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Literary Fiction

474

Xueqin Cao - Dream of the Red Chamber Book I

The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone ) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the greatest of them all. Almost 40 main characters and some 500 minor...

Jing Li and 7 more 19 hours 20 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

465

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 15 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

447

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 1 hour 8 minutes

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Detective Fiction

409

A. E. W. Mason - At the Villa Rose

Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a vacation at Aix-les-Bains. There he meets, and immediately falls in love with,...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

496

Anthony Trollope - Is He Popenjoy ?

Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in «Doctor Thorne,» the issues are complicated by the specter of possible illegitimacy. Lord George Germain, a...

Barry O'Neill and 11 more 20 hours 40 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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