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C.K. Williams: A Life in Poems (2010 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture)

In Rothermere American Institute

Read by C.K. Williams


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Legends of Norseland

Read by Ryan Williams


Mara L. Pratt


Collection of tales from the Norse legends, from the beginning of the golden kingdom of the Aesir, to it's end within the flames of Ragnarok…

The Story of Red Feather

Read by Mira Williams


Edward S. Ellis


The fierce chieftain Red Feather is leading a raiding party of Sioux across the Montana frontier, and the Clarendon homestead is directly in…

Coleshanger

Read by Norman E Williams


Norman E Williams


“Coleshanger people are pretty bad,” said Uncle Edward. “They won’t cross water after sunset. And they have to be in bed by midnight, otherw…

Lilith

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


George MacDonald


Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its lat…

Undine

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Friedrich De La Motte Fouqué


Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to …

The Expressman and the Detective

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Allan Pinkerton


Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, …

Hymns to the Night

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Novalis


"Hymns to the Night" is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philoso…

Origins of Nature

Read by Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


University of Oxford Podcasts

Chapter 29

In Harrigan

Read by Cate Williams


Max Brand


A gripping nautical tale set in Hawaii and upon the open sea. What starts out as a chance meeting between two men turns into a heated race f…

In Undying Loneliness

In Wisdom's Daughter

Read by Ryan Williams


H. Rider Haggard


A strange manuscript in an unknown language is found among the effects of the late Professor Horace Holly. Its translator discovers that whi…

Preface

In Heart of Spring

Read by Kay Williams


Shaw Neilson


John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was n…

Chapter 12

In Original Stories from Real Life

Read by Cate Williams


Mary Wollstonecraft


Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the early promoters of gender equality long before other crusaders took up the cause. She is perhaps best kno…

The Private Memoirs Part 7

In The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Version 2)

Read by Kay Williams


James Hogg


An early example of a psychological mystery and modern crime fiction, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner details the …

With Intent to Steal Part 1

In The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

Read by Danni Williams


Algernon Blackwood


An anthology of short, chilling stories from Algernon Blackwood. They will make you start at noises in the night and wonder about your neigh…

XIII

In Say and Seal, Volume 2

Read by Mira Williams


Anna Bartlett Warner


The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mr…

Military Pyrotechny

In Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making

Read by Ryan Williams


Alan St. Hill Brock


Captain St. Hill Brock presents here, in Part I, a brief history of pyrotechnics from origins in the East through the present. Part II delv…