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The Country House

Read by Bob R


John Galsworthy


In “The Country House”, John Galsworthy explores many of the themes he would later expand upon in his better known, nine-novel, “The Forsyth…

The Painted Veil

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W. Somerset Maugham


This Maugham classic is set in England and Hong Kong and in a cholera --ridden Chinese village in the 1920's. A committed, principled, epide…

The Winning of Barbara Worth

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Harold Bell Wright


This is a fairly substantial western, written in 1911 by Harold Bell Wright, then a major bestselling author. (His best-known novel is “The …

The Conquest of Canaan

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Booth Tarkington


Small town middle America in early 1900's---Ne'er-do-well Joe Louden loves daughter of wealthy judge, from afar---leaves town, goes to law s…

Robert Kimberly

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Frank H. Spearman


The novel is set among the wealthy of the Northeast in the USA of the early 1900's. A close knit group of about ten couples in high society …

The Daughter of a Magnate

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Frank H. Spearman


This is an American Western without any bad guys. The main characters are trains, and the elements---snow, terrain, weather and water. Fra…

Poor White: a Novel

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Sherwood Anderson


This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…

The Rising of the Tide

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Ida M. Tarbell


The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…

Helen of the Old House

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Harold Bell Wright


Helen is not the main character; it is the mill, in this small town in the first half of the 20th century. This is a story of labor strife, …

Oxford Physics Research

Read by Chris Lintott, Roger Davies, Jo Dunkley and katherine blundell


Chris Lintott, Roger Davies, Jo Dunkley and katherine blundell


University of Oxford Podcasts

Tincture, An Apocalyptic Proposition

Read by Matthew D. Jordan


Matthew D. Jordan


Rhamuel and the last of his family, Abranyah, travel their barren world, shack to shack, selling tinctures to keep a full belly and evading …

KIRINS: The Spell of No'an

Read by James D. Priest


James D. Priest


A race of tiny, magical beings lives on Earth today. They dwell in elaborate tree homes and mysterious underground sanctuaries. Because of a…

Tincture, And The Devil Pulls Six-Guns

Read by Matthew D. Jordan


Matthew D. Jordan


After the events in the Shimmer Town, Abranyah and her family are left with more responsibility than she believes they can handle - both in …

Star Surgeon

Read by Scott D. Farquhar


Alan Edward Nourse and Alan E. Nourse


Dal Timgar had always wanted to be a doctor. As a Garvian and the first non-human to study medicine on Hospital Earth, he must face enormous…

KIRINS: The Flight of the Ain

Read by James D. Priest


James D. Priest


A race of tiny magical beings lives on Earth today. They are kirins. Because of an ancient dispute, however, humans are unaware of their hi…

The Mystery of Pain

Read by Ethan D. Gilkey


James Hinton


This book is addressed to the sorrowful, ... to whom their own or others' pain is a daily burden, upon whose hearts it weighs with an intole…

The Dragon of Wantley

Read by D. A. Frank


Owen Wister


The "true" story of the Wantley Dragon. Set at Christmas time, it is a tale of a Baron, his daughter, a brave knight, True Love, a…

Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection

Read by Douglas D. Anderson


Various


This collection includes 40 different Christmas carols collected and read by Douglas D. Anderson, the creator of The Hymns and Carols of Chr…

Raven's Gift

Read by Tobias D. Robison


Tobias D. Robison


When Raven comes to Redthwen to meet her mentor Orvannon, she encounters a vicious traveler, a hag with an extraordinary Voice of Command, a…

La Mirinda Sorĉisto de Oz

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L. Frank Baum


La mirinda sorĉisto de Oz (aŭ originale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) estas libro de L. Frank Baum, eldonita en 1900. La rakonto estas pri la …

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