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The Chicago Connection

Read by John R. Swift


John R. Swift


A teenager in Prohibition Chicago, haunted by disasters, breaks all his childhood vows of clean living and becomes a minor hoodlum. When he …

Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


This 4th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins several years after the close of "The Queen’s Necklace.” It describes the event…

On the Future of Our Educational Institutions (Version 2)

Read by John Van Stan


Friedrich Nietzsche


These are lectures on the education system of Nietzsche's day. He states that "This book is intended for calm readers, for those who ha…

A Christmas Carol (Version 14)

Read by Peter John Keeble


Charles Dickens


A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob …

The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI a…

The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story

Read by John R Moore


H. Rider Haggard


Haggard's interest in spiritualism and reincarnation underlie this tale of life, death, and "working out [one's] destiny." - Summa…

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Doctor Jack's Soapbox Seminars

Read by John C. Adler, Ph.D.


John C. Adler, Ph.D.


What if the cataclysmic Tunguska explosion of 1908 was caused, not by a meteor or a comet, but by a microscopic black hole? ... Well, like a…

Mice & Other Poems

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Gerald Bullett


Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote bot…

Oriel College

Read by John Stevenson and Moira Wallace


John Stevenson and Moira Wallace


University of Oxford Podcasts

War, Law and the Cold War: Making the European Convention on Human Rights

In Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

Read by Anne Deighton


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Section 15

In Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and Others of the Family

Read by John


B. P. Shillaber


Mrs. Partington, not unlike Mrs. Malaprop, is prone to using the wrong words when expressing her sentiments. However, the "inappropriat…

I: Over the Sierras Nevadas, Part 1

In Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 1

Read by John


Thomas Stevens


Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Franc…

099 - Attempted Murder and Suicide.

In The Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas

Read by John


Thomas Mayne Reid


The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing …

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