New This Month

Laurel Lefkow brings us Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s perennially popular novel about the March sisters, which has never lost its power to move and delight. Jonathan Keeble takes listeners on a voyage into outer space in H.G. Wells’s The First Men in the Moon, and Nicholas Boulton brings us Jezebel’s Daughter, a gripping Wilkie Collins novel in the sensation tradition of works such as The Woman in White. We also have Pragmatism and The Meaning of Truth – thought-provoking works by the philosopher and psychologist William James, read by Adam Sims.

Little Women, closely based on Louisa May Alcott’s own experience of family life, was first published in 1869 and follows the lives of the four March sisters and their mother…

Published in 1901, The First Men in the Moon is one of the earliest science-fiction novels in the English language. An impecunious businessman, Bedford, retreats to the Kent coast…

Set in the financial centres of 1820s Frankfurt and London, Jezebel’s Daughter (1880) tells the story of two widows: Madame Fontaine, who will go to any lengths to secure her…

William James was one of the most influential figures in 19th-century American philosophy and psychology. His Pragmatism is a set of lectures that he gave in 1906–07 in answer to…

The NAB Blog: Fairy Tales Without Fairies

‘George MacDonald… in his power to project his inner life into images, beings, landscapes which are valid for all, is one of the most remarkable writers of the nineteenth century.’ W.H. Auden George MacDonald, often lauded as the father of …

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