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In Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience

Read by Joel Williams


Ike Matthews


No big city without rats, particularly back in Ike Matthews' time. The professional rat catcher explains to us in this little volume the bes…

The Confessions of Nat Turner, The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampt…

Read by Joel Kindrick


Thomas R. Gray


This is a detailed description of the massacre that took place on August 21-23, 1831 that became known as Nat Turner's Rebellion. Nat Turner…

The Heidenmauer; or, The Benedictines. A Legend of the Rhine

Read by Joel Kindrick


James Fenimore Cooper


This is a story that is set in 16th century Germany. Characters representing the various classes of the remnants of feudalism and the rising…

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

Social Media and Faith

Read by Robin Dunbar, Jenny Rutherford, Graham Ward and Joel Harrison


Robin Dunbar, Jenny Rutherford, Graham Ward and Joel Harrison


University of Oxford Podcasts

Chapter 4

In Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret

Read by Joel Graff


Nathaniel Hawthorne


Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is…

Second Period: Second Narrative I

In The Moonstone

Read by Joel Poortenga


Wilkie Collins


The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday.The b…