Uppläsare Frederick Davidson

In 1904, Great Britain was at the height of its prosperity; but G. K. Chesterton saw the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy eating away at the eccentricity and spontaneity of the human spirit. In The Napoleon of Notting Hill, his first novel, ...

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With insights from Pascal, Dostoevsky, and Solzhenitsyn, Malcolm Muggeridge offers reason to rejoice despite the crumbling of the world around us.Malcolm Muggeridge contends that Christendom is quite different from Christianity. Christ said that h...

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';To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.' from ';Auguries of Innocence'At the end of his life, William Blake gave up hope of being widely understood, but the...

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Says Charles Pooter, ';I fail to seebecause I do not happen to be a ';somebody'why my diary should not be interesting.' Surprisingly, Mr. Pooter's life is fascinating. The fascination is two-fold: firstly, his astounding arrogance that we should c...

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The epitome of the Romantic literary hero, Lord Byron was as well-known in his time for the revolutionary panache with which he lived as for his extremely popular verse. ';As a myth,' wrote Bertrand Russell, ';his importance, especially on the con...

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Although the poet John Donne lived so long ago, some phrases from his writing still linger with us today, such as "e;no man is an island,"e; "e;death be not proud,"e; and "e;for whom the bell tolls,"e; which provided the ti...

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William Wordsworth (17701850) is one of the most popular and enduring of the English poets. His poetry is beloved for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, and its celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace. Toge...

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One of the most distinctive periods in poetry occurred in England early in the 1800s. This is now referred to as the age of romanticism, a movement which rebelled against the neoclassical forms and celebrated the imagination as a spiritual force. ...

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Compelling, exotic, and suspenseful, Heart of Darkness is far more than just an adventure story. The novel explores deep into the dark regions of the hearts and souls of its characters and into the conflicts prevalent in more "e;primitive"...

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Perhaps more than any other book The Thirty-Nine Steps has set the pattern for the story of the chase for a wanted man. And, of the many writers who have attempted this kind of thing since Buchan, only a very few, like Graham Greene, have managed ...

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Two American travelers have been killed-one with poison, the other with a knife through the heart-and the only clues at the scene are a woman's wedding ring and the German word for "e;vengeance"e; written in blood. The military surgeon Dr....

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Admired by J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis and considered by W. H. Auden to be ';the only English children's book in the same class as the Alice books,' The Princess and the Goblin is a classic example of nineteenth-century children's literary fa...

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If you've never read anything by Jerome K. Jerome, you'd be well advised to heed this warning by the Glasgow Herald: ';It would be dangerous to [listen to] this book in any placesay a full railway compartmentwhere the reader was not at perfect lib...

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';A ';Bummel,'' I explained, ';I should describe as a journey, long or short, without end.' However wonderful this may sound, it is often necessary to arrive back at the starting point. And, for the three fearless friends whose earlier adventures ...

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Robert Browning was a deeply religious man who wrestled to obtain and keep his Christian faith. His conviction was that life in this world is so riddled with evil and sorrow that only a future life can make sense out of it. He viewed life as a tra...

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E. M. Forster's first novel explores the comic and tragic effects of culture clash between insular, provincial British personalities and sensual Italian culture and atmosphere.Lilia Herriton, an impulsive thirty-three-year-old widow from London, t...

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"e;Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered, "e;Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound."e;The "e;luminous, ghostly, and spectral"e; hound of fami...

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St. Augustine was the greatest Western philosopher for 1,000 years and a dominant influence on the history of Christian theology. From his conversion in 386 to his death in 430, he remained a great teacher, church statesman, and polemical theologi...

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This rollicking semi-autobiographical novel weaves a tale of Wodehouse's early days as a writer, romance gone awry, and the colorful characters he encountered.James Orlebar Cloyster, in order to marry his true love, embarks on a scheme of such cle...

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In 1898, a struggling author wrote this novel about a fabulous Atlantic liner, far larger than any that had ever been built, that sinks after it collides with an iceberg. The details of the book bear a chilling resemblance to the Titanic disaster ...

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In this spirited and romantic saga of high adventure, a young heir named David Balfour meets his miserly uncle Ebenezer, who has illegally taken control of the Balfour estate. Ebenezer kidnaps David and plots to have him seized and sold into slave...

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Detective fans of all races and creeds, of all tastes and fancies will delight in the exploits of this wise and whimsical padre. Father Brown's powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes, but he is also ';in all senses a most ...

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G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown is perhaps the most lovable amateur detective ever created. This short, shabby priest with his cherubic, round face attracts situations that baffle everyoneexcept Father Brown and his rather nave wisdom.The twelve e...

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E. M. Forster's celebrated social comedy explores romantic intrigue and prim propriety among a colorful cast of Edwardian characters. Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman traveling in Italy with her stuffy chaperone aunt, finds herself constrai...

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James Joyce paints vivid portraits of the poorer classes of Dublin in a collection of stories whose larger purpose, he said, was to depict a "e;moral history of Ireland."e; From the first story, in which a young boy encounters death to the...

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P.G. Wodehouse is at his whimsical best as the characters of Belpher Castle muddle through impending catastrophes and ill-considered love affairs in this comedy of errors. George Bevan, an American composer of musicals, is in England to attend the...

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The eccentric Phileas Fogg, a distinguished but sedentary member of London's Reform Club, takes up a wager that he can circle the globe in just eighty days-an amazing feat in the 1870s. What follows is a lively narrative recounting the journey by ...

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Americans fiercely defend the right to privacy, yet we open our homes, our lives, and our minds to a constant barrage of messages from television and film. This book helps us analyze the impact of these media on us and our children. Billingsley ta...

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Since its first publication in 1989, Matt Kramer's extraordinarily accessible guide to wine has become a classic. Where others talk jargon about centrifuges, steel tanks, and acidity levels, Kramer talks about wine itself. The result is an enrichi...

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This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. Charles Strickland, a stock broker in London, seems like a good, honest man. But one day, at the age of forty, heleaves his business, his wife, and his chi...

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