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In St Edmund Hall

Read by Stewart Lee


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Moby Dick, or the Whale

Read by Stewart Wills


Herman Melville


Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel …

Lord Jim

Read by Stewart Wills


Joseph Conrad


A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in…

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer…

Read by Claude Stewart


T. D. Bonner


James P. Beckworth, born in Virginia at the dawn of our Nation, moved with his family to eastern Missouri settling a few miles below what is…

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Read by Claude Stewart


James Hogg


The author calls this a religious parable and it is called an allegory in the book itself. A young, 18th century Scottish boy is converted t…

The Magnificent Adventure (Version 2)

Read by Claude Stewart


Emerson Hough


In The Magnificent Adventure-Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman, by Emerson Hou…

Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography

Read by Claude Stewart


Edwin Eastman


Best described as a fictional autobiography, Clark Johnson authored the following adventure to promote the sale of his brand of Homeopathic …

A German Deserter's War Experience

Read by Lee Smalley


Anonymoustranslated Byjulius Koettgen


The author of this 1917 narrative, who escaped from Germany and military service after 14 months of fighting in France, did not wish to have…

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Read by Lee Smalley


Frederick Douglass


Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892.…

The Angel of Terror

Read by Lee Elliott


Edgar Wallace


When this was written, literary traditions still decreed beauty to be the outward sign of inner saintliness, whereas evil characters tended …

The Golden Dream

Read by Lee Elliott


R. M. Ballantyne


Thoroughly engaging, at times even harrowing, adventure tale set in the San Francisco gold rush. Detailed depiction of its time and place, c…

Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass

Read by Lee Smalley


Frederick Douglass


These two articles were reproduced as an e-book by Project Gutenberg in 2008 to supplement "...several articles by Frederick Douglass,…

Doctor Izard

Read by Lee Smalley


Anna Katharine Green


The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one…

The Permanent Husband

Read by Lee Smalley


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


THE PERMANENT HUSBAND, also published as The Eternal Husband, is a psychological novella by the acclaimed Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Richardson


Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a her…

The Bishop's Apron

Read by Lee Smalley


W. Somerset Maugham


"Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose." Maugham could have add…

The de Bercy Affair

Read by Lee Smalley


Louis Tracy


A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. C…

Diary of a Suicide

Read by Lee Smalley


Wallace E. Baker


“Mr. B. Russell Herts, c/o International Magazine, New York City.Under separate cover I am sending you a record of a young man who is about …

100%: The Story of a Patriot

Read by Lee Smalley


Upton Sinclair


"100%: The Story of a Patriot" dramatically recounts the adventures of a poor uneducated young man who lives by his wits and guile…

The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

Read by Lee Elliott


Nat Love


Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as …

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