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The Congo

Read by Fox in the Stars


Vachel Lindsay


The Congo is one of the best-known poems by American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931). It was revolutionary in its use of sounds and rhythms …

Bill & Doreen's Courtship (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke")

Read by Son of the Exiles


C. J. Dennis


"The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke" is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The work was first published in …

A Calendar of Sonnets

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Helen Hunt Jackson


Helen Hunt Jackson is probably most famous for her work on behalf of Native Americans’ rights. However, this short volume presents a sonnet …

Digger Smith

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C. J. Dennis


“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and…

Bill & Doreen's Married Life

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C. J. Dennis


"Bill & Doreen's Married Life (Selections from "Doreen")" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship"…

Bill & Doreen Get Hitched (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke")

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C. J. Dennis


"Bill & Doreen Get Hitched" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship". "The Songs of a Sentimental Blok…

Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value--Chapter XV: Machinery and Modern…

In Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Vol 1

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Karl Marx, transl. Moore and Aveling and Karl Marx


Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his …

"The next day you are on the street": The tactics of time in managing welfare su…

In Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Read by Elaine Chase and Jenny Allsopp


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Chapter 3, Part 1

In Heart of Darkness (version 3)

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Joseph Conrad


Heart of Darkness tells the story of an English seaman, Charles Marlow, who embarks on a voyage up the Congo River and into the African wild…

Frivolities

In The "Mind The Paint" Girl

Read by Christine


Louis Tracy


"The "Mind The Paint" Girl, by Louis Tracy, is a delightful novelization of Sir Arthur Pinero's sparkling comedy now having a…

Chapter 11- Part 3

In The Rainbow (Version 3)

Read by Christine


D. H. Lawrence


The Rainbow is the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a sexual and religious collection of incidents that eventually shows t…

The Damned Thing

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 043

Read by Christine


Ambrose Bierce


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

The Lost Lenore

In The Castle of Twilight

Read by Christine


Margaret Horton Potter


"Wistfully I deliver up to you my simple story, knowing that the first suggestion of “historical novel” will bring before you an image …

Chapter 13, Table Etiquette

In The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness

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Florence Hartley


A COMPLETE HAND BOOK FOR THE USE OF THE LADY IN POLITE SOCIETY. CONTAINING FULL DIRECTIONS FOR CORRECT MANNERS, DRESS, DEPORTMENT, AND CONVE…

The Star Mouse

In Short Science Fiction Collection 071

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Fredric Brown


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

07 - The Mother of Pansies, part 1

In The Book of Ghosts

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Sabine Baring-Gould


Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he publis…

The Statue

In Poems of Optimism

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


This is a volume of Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The topic of this volume is "optimism". - Summary by Carolin

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