reader:"John King, Margaret MacMillan and Leigh Payne"

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, despite an impressive record of productivity and creativity as a novelist, playwright, short fiction writer, edit…

Arthur Mervyn

Read by Margaret Espaillat

Charles Brockden Brown

Arthur Mervyn is the story of a young man from the country who arrives in a city stricken with Yellow Fever. He soon comes down with the ill…

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…

Philosophy - Ethics of the New Biosciences

Read by James King

James King

University of Oxford Podcasts

Oriel College

Read by John Stevenson and Moira Wallace

John Stevenson and Moira Wallace

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 House by the Churchyard

Read by John

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Murder, mystery, mayhem, romance and relationships. Our classic who-done-it takes place in olde Dublin, Ireland in the village of Chapelizod…

The Gold of Fairnilee

Read by John

Andrew Lang

A fairy story set in Scotland about Jean and Randal and what happens when Randal disappears into fairyland. This is Lang's second fairy tal…

The Submarine Boys and the Smugglers

Read by John

Victor G. Durham

Three American naval officers are assigned to a newly commissioned submarine, the Grant. The US navy wants commander Jack, ensigns Hal and E…

The Spy Company, a Story of the Mexican War

Read by John

Archibald Clavering Gunter

The Exciting adventures of a beautiful Texan debutante. She was raised in New York City high society and attended the best schools. When her…

Purgatory

Read by John

Rev. Francois Xavier Schouppe

Purgatory by FX Schouppe, SJ, a french Catholic theologian who died in November, 1904 details the place where saved souls go before Heaven. …

The Art of Dying Well

Read by John

St. Robert Bellarmine

The Art of Dying Well is a guide book for people who want to go to heaven. It was written over 400 years ago by Saint Robert Bellarmine in l…

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