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A Universe of Books

Introductions to World Literature by Peter Whitfield

Writer and cyclist Peter Whitfield discusses some of the gems of world literature. Do you want to know about Dante’s Divine Comedy or the novels of Jane Austen or Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick?

Listen to these accessible and entertaining introductions. We will be regularly adding new subjects. They may help you decide which classic to listen to next – and even if you know the work, you may find these short but illuminating essays worth hearing.

Here are this month’s free downloads:

The Poems of Emily Dickinson (7 mins, MP3, 2.6 MB)
– See also: The Great Poets – Emily Dickinson

Tennyson – The Poems of 1842 (10 mins, MP3, 3.7 MB)
– See also: The Great Poets – Alfred Lord Tennyson

You can also listen to or download all the previous introductions:

Le Morte d’Arthur (8 mins, MP3, 2.7 MB)
– Le Morte d’Arthur is available in an abridged version

Homer’s Odyssey (9 mins, MP3, 3 MB)
– The Odyssey is available in abridged and unabridged versions

The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (8 mins, MP3, 2.7 MB)
– Gerard Manley Hopkins is available as part of the Great Poets series

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (8 mins, MP3, 2.9 MB)
– Dracula is available in an abridged version

Ivanhoe (9 mins, MP3, 3 MB)
– Ivanhoe is available in an abridged version

The Lives of the Painters (10 mins, MP3, 3.4 MB)
– The Lives of the Artists is available in an abridged version

The Life of Samuel Johnson (9 mins, MP3, 3.3 MB)
– A Life of Johnson is available in an abridged version

Thoreau’s Walden (8 mins, MP3, 2.6 MB)
– Walden is available in an abridged version

The Life of the Buddha (13 mins, MP3, 4.5 MB)
– See also: The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path, The Voice of the Buddha

Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (8 mins, MP3, 2.8 MB)
– Anna Karenina is available in an abridged version

The Brothers Grimm (10 mins, MP3, 3.4 MB)
– See also: Grimms’ Fairy Tales – Volume 1, Grimms’ Fairy Tales – Volume 2

The Life of Beethoven (11 mins, MP3, 3.9 MB)
– See also: The Life and Works of Beethoven

Shakespeare’s First Folio (10 mins, MP3, 3.4 MB)
– See also: Shakespeare on Naxos AudioBooks

The Bible – Genesis and Apocalypse (15 mins, MP3, 5.2 MB)
– See also: The Old Testament, The New Testament

Pepys’s Diary (11 mins, MP3, 3.7 MB)
– See also: Selections from The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Seven Pillars of Wisdom (11 mins, MP3, 3.7 MB)
– Seven Pillars of Wisdom is available in an abridged version

Jane Austen – from Northanger Abbey to Persuasion, (9 mins, MP3, 3.3 MB)
– See also: Jane Austen on Naxos AudioBooks

Melville’s Moby Dick, (9 mins, MP3, 3.0 MB)
– Moby Dick is also available abridged and unabridged

The Life of Man – The Life of Books, (18 mins, MP3, 6.3 MB)

Dante’s Divine Comedy, (10 mins, MP3, 3.5 MB)
– The Divine Comedy is available in an unabridged version

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Peter Whitfield has collected all the essays in handsomely illustrated volume:

A Universe of Books
Readings in World Literature
by Peter Whitfield

Published by Wychwood Editions
248 pages, ISBN: 978-095-148-383-1

Buy from Amazon.co.uk

or buy from: Wychwood Editions, Tachbrook, Charlbury, OX7 3PS

Telephone: 01608 810 837

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