Series III: Readings by Frederic Ewen
Language of Materials
English.
Scope and Contents
This series includes Ewen's private readings recorded on audiocassette tapes between 1954 and 1990. In these years, Ewen read and took notes on books and literary works, and recorded passages from many books and his comments about them on tape.
Allingham, William and Lady Emily Tennyson: William Allingham's Diaryand Lady Tennyson's Journal (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Annenkov, [Juri Lazarevich?] (90 minute tape) Damaged, undated, inclusive
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Arnold, Matthew: from Park Honan's Matthew Arnold: A Life- Tape 1 of 3 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Arnold, Matthew: from Park Honan's Matthew Arnold: A Life- Tape 2 of 3 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Arnold, Matthew: from Park Honan's Matthew Arnold: A Life- Tape 3 of 3 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Arnold, Matthew: Poetry (90 minute tape), Jul 1, 1986
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Balzac, Honoré de: Correspondence (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Borne, Karl Ludwig: Letters From Paris (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Brecht, Bertolt: from Walter Jens' " Poesie und Doktrin: Bertolt Brecht" in Statt einer Literaturgeschichte(approximately 30 minutes); [other unidentified excerpts] (90 minute tape) Side B is blank., Apr 1, 1963
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Browning, Robert - Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape) Damaged, undated, inclusive
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Browning, Robert and Charles Darwin: from Charles Darwin's Autobiography- Tape 2 of 2 (90 minute tape) Damaged, undated, inclusive
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Browning, Robert: from John Maynard's Browning's Youth- Parts 1 and 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Browning, Robert: from John Maynard's Browning's Youth- Parts 3 and 4 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Browning, Robert: from Donald Thomas's Robert Browning: A Life Within Life- Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Browning, Robert: from Donald Thomas's Robert Browning: A Life Within Life- Tape 2 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Carlyle, Thomas: from George Bernhard Tennyson's Sartor Called Resartus: The Genesis, Structure and Style of Thomas Carlyle's First Major Work (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Left-Wing Theater: from Morgan Himelstein's Drama Was a Weapon: The Left-Wing Theatre in New York, 1929-1941(approximately 50 minutes) Cervantes, Miguel de; from Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis' The Shadow of Cervantes(approximately 40 minutes) - Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Cervantes, Miguel de; from Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis' The Shadow of Cervantes-Tape 2 of 2; excerpts from Friedrich Hölderlin's letters - Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Hölderlin, Friedrich; from Friedrich Hölderlin's letters - Tape 2 of 2 (approximately 10 minutes); chapter on August Strindberg in Maurice Valency's The Flower and the Castle: An Introduction to Modern Drama(approximately 60 minutes); Ramón Menéndez-Pidal's essay "The Genesis of Don Quixote" in Cervantes across the Centuries, ed. Angel Flores and Màir José Bernardete - Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Cervantes, Miguel de; from Ramón Menéndez-Pidal's essay "The Genesis of Don Quixote" in Cervantes across the Centuries, ed. Angel Flores and Màir José Bernardete - Tape 2 of 2 (approximately 15 minutes); commentary by Ewen on journal Jewish Currents(approximately 10 minutes); excerpts from George Gibian's Interval of Freedom: Soviet Literature during the Thaw, 1954-57(approximately 30 minutes) (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Chekhov, Anton: Ward No. 6- Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Chekhov, Anton: Ward No.6 - Tape 2 of 2 (begins on Side A, continues after interruption on Side B); excerpts from Eric Bentley's The Life of the Drama; excerpts from Carl Viëtor's Die Briefe der Diotima[ an Friedrich Hölderlin] - Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Hölderlin, Friedrich: from Carl Viëtor's Die Briefe der Diotima[ an Friedrich Hölderlin] - Tape 2 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Chopin, Frederic: Selected Correspondence of Frederic Chopin(90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Clough, Arthur Hugh: from Evelyn Barish Greenberger's Arthur Hugh Clough: The Growth of a Poet's Mind (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Clough, Arthur Hugh: Poetry (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Dante Alighieri: InfernoI-VIII (Tape 1 of 3) (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Dante Alighieri: InfernoVIII, IX, X (Tape 2 of 3) (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Dante Alighieri: InfernoXIII-XV (Tape 3 of 3) (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Darwin, Charles: from Ronald W. Clark's The Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biography of a Man- Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Darwin, Charles: from Ronald W. Clark's The Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biography of a Man -Tape 2 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Darwin, Charles: from Loren Eiseley's Darwin's Century (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Darwin, Charles: from Howard Gruber's Darwin on Man(90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Darwin, Charles: from Francis Darwin's The Lifeand Letters of Charles Darwin(120 minute tape) Damaged, undated, inclusive
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Dickens, Charles: from Edward Johnson's Charles Dickens: An Introduction to His Novels (90 minute tape)Damaged, undated, inclusive
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Dickens, Charles: Letters and Speeches of Dickensvol. 1 (90 minute tape) Damaged, undated, inclusive
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Dickens, Charles: Letters and Speeches of Dickensvol. 2 (90 minute tape) Damaged, undated, inclusive
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Dickens, Charles: Letters and Speeches of Dickensvol. 3 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Dickens, Charles: from Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie's Dickens: A Life (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor: from Constantin Mochulsky's Dostoevsky: His Life and Work- Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape) [Note: the Dostoevsky reading does not begin until after the first minute of tape.], undated, inclusive
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Constantin Mochulsky's Dostoevsky: His Life and Work- Tape 2 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Christmas Tree and the Wedding (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor: House of the Dead, chapters V-VII - Tape 1 of 3 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor: House of the Dead, chapter VII - Tape 2 of 3 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor: House of the Dead, chapters 7-9 - Tape 3 of 3 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor: from Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859- Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor: from Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859- Tape 2 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky to His Family and Friends (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Droz, Jean Pierre - Tape 1 of 2 (missing), undated, inclusive
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Droz, Jean Pierre - Tape 2 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Eliot, George: from Gordon Haight's George Eliot and John Chapman, with Chapman's Diaries (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Eliot, George: Letters- Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Eliot, George: Letters- Tape 2 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Freud, Sigmund: from Louis Fraiberg's Psychoanalysis and American Literary Criticism(45 minute tape), undated [post-1960]
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Gaskell, Elizabeth: Ruthand Honoré de Balzac's Correspondence - Part 1 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Georg Morris Cohen Brandes's Wolfgang Goethe- Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Georg Morris Cohen Brandes's Wolfgang Goethe- Tape 2 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Goncharov, Ivan: Oblomov- Tape 1 of 10 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Goncharov, Ivan: Oblomovand Marshal Shatz's Soviet Dissent in Historical Perspective- Tape 2 of 10 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Goncharov, Ivan: Oblomov- Tape 3 of 10 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Goncharov, Ivan: Oblomov- Tape 4 of 10 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Goncharov, Ivan: Oblomov- Tape 5 of 10 (60 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Goncharov, Ivan: Oblomov- Tape 6 of 10 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Goncharov, Ivan: Oblomov- Tape 7 of 10 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Goncharov, Ivan: Oblomov- Tape 8 of 10 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Goncharov, Ivan: Oblomov- Tape 9 of 10 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Goncharov, Ivan: Oblomov- Tape 10 of 10 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus and Troy (60 minute tape) Damaged, undated, inclusive
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Hölderlin, Friedrich: poetic excerpts; excerpts from Walter Betzendörfer's Hölderlin,neuaufgefundene Jugendarbeiten; excerpts from Dr. Erich Hock's "Dort drüben, in Westphalen" : Hölderlins Reise nach Bad Driburg; excerpts from Walter Kirchner's Der Hochverratsprozess gegen Sinclair; [unidentified excerpts] (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Pirandello: Nell'albergo è morto un tale(90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Molière: Ewen's summary of The Misanthrope; excerpts from [Geoffrey Brereton's Jean Racine: A Critical Biography?] - Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape) Damaged, undated, inclusive
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Molière: The Misanthrope- Tape 2 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Ruskin, John: from John Dixon Hunt's The Wider Sea: The Life of John RuskinTape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape) Damaged, undated, inclusive
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Ruskin, John: from John Dixon Hunt's The Wider Sea: The Life of John RuskinTape 2 of 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Ruskin, John: Letters from Veniceand Correspondence with Trevelyan(90 minute tape), Aug 3, 1980
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Russian Literature: Alexsandr Pushkin, Boris Pilnyak and Konstantin Panstovsky (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Russian Literature: Aleksei Tolstoy's Masha(90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Shakespeare, William: Hamlet (2), Troilus and Cressida, Henry VIII, King John, Richard II, Richard III(90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Shakespeare, William: Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labors Lost, As You Like It, All's Well that Ends Well, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale(90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Shakespeare, William: Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar(60 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello(60 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Shakespeare, William: Sonnets1-47 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Shakespeare, William: Sonnets48-92 (60 minute tape) Damaged, undated, inclusive
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Shakespeare, William: Sonnets93-140 (60 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Shakespeare, William: Sonnets141-154 and Antony and Cleopatra(90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Shakespeare, William: from Ashley Thorndike's Shakespeare's Theater(90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Spanish Theater: Ewen commentary on Tirso de Molina (a.k.a. Gabriel Téllez) (approximately 10 minutes); excerpts from Geoffrey Brereton's Jean Racine: A Critical Biography(90 minute tape) Side B is blank., undated, inclusive
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Tennyson, Alfred: Letters, Vol. I (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Tennyson, Alfred: from Robert Bernard Martin's Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart- Parts 1 and 2 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Tennyson, Alfred: from Robert Bernard Martin's Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart- Parts 3 and 4 (90 minute tape) , undated, inclusive
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Tennyson, Alfred: from Robert Bernard Martin's Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart- Parts 5 and 6 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Tennyson, Alfred: from Hallam Tennyson's Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son(90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Gay, John: excerpts from [an unidentified] book on The Beggar's Opera; recording of reading by [unidentified author] of text critical of American policy in Southeast Asia; excerpts from Louis Fraiberg's Psychoanalysis and American Literary Criticism- Tape 1 of 2 (continued on OH 52-153); recording of performance of a play [by Erwin Piscator?] - Tape 1 of 2 (continued on OH 52-153) (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Piscator, Erwin: from chapter "The Theater of the German Revolution and Piscator" in Jürgen Rühle's Das gefesselteTheater: Vom Revolutionstheater zum sozialistischen Realismus; excerpts from a critical review of Robert Brustein's [ Critical Moments: Reflections on Theater and Society?]; excerpts from Robert Brustein's [ Critical Moments: Reflections on Theater and Society?] (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Piscator, Erwin[?]: recording of performance of a play [by Erwin Piscator?] - Tape 1 of 2 (continued from OH 52-151); reading from [an unidentified French text]; Ewen summary of Leslie Hotson's The First Night of Twelfth Night; excerpts from Louis Fraiberg's Psychoanalysis and American Literary Criticism- Tape 2 of 2 (continued from OH 52-151) (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: OH 52-153 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich: Letters, Vols. 1 and 2 - Tape 1 of 3 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich: Letters, Vols. 1 and 2 - Tape 2 of 3 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich: Letters, Vols. 1 and 2 - Tape 3 of 3 (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich: from Patrick Waddington's Turgenev and England (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
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von Berlichingen, Goetz: Synopsis (90 minute tape) Damaged, undated, inclusive
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Wilde, Oscar: The Nihilists- 1 of 2 (90 minute tape) Damaged, undated, inclusive
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Wilde, Oscar: The Nihilists- 2 of 2 (90 minute tape) Damaged, undated, inclusive
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