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Java Head

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Joseph Hergesheimer


Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was…

Merton of the Movies

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Harry Leon Wilson


Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to H…

Atlantis

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Gerhart Hauptmann


Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career h…

Effi Briest (abridged)

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Theodor Fontane


Effi Briest is a classic of Prussian Realism, relatively unknown in the English speaking world, but widely taught in German schools. This tr…

Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Walt Whitman


This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the worl…

Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes

Read by Margaret Espaillat


William Alexander Gerhardi


From the preface written by Edith Wharton:Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of …

Come Out of the Kitchen!

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Alice Duer Miller


A novel about a man who rents a house for the season and keeps having problems with the servants, especially the attractive cook. - Summary …

The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Robert Henry Newell


These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. The…

Origins of Nature

Read by Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


University of Oxford Podcasts

Jesus College

Read by Niall Ferguson, Richard Evans and Lord Bragg


Niall Ferguson, Richard Evans and Lord Bragg


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Confederacy of Heaven

Read by Margaret R. Taylor


Margaret R. Taylor


Nasan Rattlingbones was supposed to die. That’s what exile means in a post-apocalyptic Canada that hasn’t seen rain in almost two hundred y…

Grizelda

Read by Margaret R. Taylor


Margaret R. Taylor


In the Republic of Corvain, anybody who has a hint of magical power is rounded up and thrown into prison. They’re doing it to defend the ne…

The Amber Treasure

Read by Richard Denning


Richard Denning


Cerdic is the nephew of a great warrior who died a hero of the Anglo-Saxon country of Deira. Growing up in a quiet village, he dreams of the…

A Tale of Two Cities (Version 5)

Read by Richard Reiman


Charles Dickens


Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is a novel that views the eighteenth century French Revolution through the lens of nineteenth century…

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Version 6)

Read by Richard Reiman


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The baronet of Baskerville Hall is found dead, possibly a victim of a supernatural hound, the fulfillment of an old family legend. Holmes an…

Laddie's Magical Glowing Balls Of Colored Gas

Read by Richard Stephenson


Richard Stephenson


Laddie is a schizophrenic inmate who lives in the violent, obscene environment of a maximum security prison. Delusions swirl in his mind li…

William Penn

Read by Richard Vogel


George Hodges


Biography of William Penn - Summary by Richard Vogel

The Story of George Fox

Read by Richard Vogel


Rufus Jones


A biography of George Fox, founder of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). - Summary by Richard Vogel

The World of Unicellular

Read by Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo


Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo


It is the next book of an author of apocalyptic books. It may be said that this book is an adapted version of “Book of Rescue from the Dooms…

Richard Ovenden and Diarmaid MacCulloch in Conversation

In Alumni Weekend

Read by Richard Ovenden and Diarmaid MacCulloch


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

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