Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

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Anthony Trollope - Duke's Children

In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, finding himself in charge of his three children. The eldest, Lord Silverbridge, has...

Nicholas Clifford and 11 more 22 hours 42 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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445

Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors

A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family. The project became...

Tom Lennon and 11 more 7 hours 32 minutes

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477

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 38 minutes

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523

W. Somerset Maugham - On a Chinese Screen

This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times and 7 more 5 hours 8 minutes

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General Fiction

521

Henry James - Spoils of Poynton

The recently widowed Adela Gereth, a lover of beauty and passionate collector of fine objects, strikes up a friendship with the young Fleda Vetch, when both of them find themselves guests in the tasteless house of...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 14 minutes

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540

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 1 hour 52 minutes

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532

Henry James - Sir Dominick Ferrand

«Levity» is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of Peter Baron, a poor, young struggling writer of adequate, if not transcendent,...

Nicholas Clifford 2 hours 20 minutes

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663

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 39 minutes

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General Fiction

614

Anthony Trollope - Prime Minister

The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new characters. A respectable young girl forsakes the man her family had always...

Nicholas Clifford and 9 more 28 hours 28 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

501

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 35 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Henry James - Aspern Papers

One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, but now dead, American poet. His attempts to secure them from the poet’s former...

Nicholas Clifford 3 hours 51 minutes

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Poetry

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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 1 hour 14 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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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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