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Breastpump technology and 'natural' motherly milk in Enlightenment France

In Anthropology

Read by Margaret Carlyle


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Fifty-one Tales (version 2)

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


Lord Dunsany


A multitude of very short stories populated with things that lurk in the dark corners of human imagination. Wonderfully crafted and sometime…

Aesop's Fables - new translation

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


Aesop


284 fables on a wide range of subjects, written by the famous author Aesop.

Kittens and Cats: A Book of Tales

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


Eulalie Osgood Grover


This book consists of fifty-two very short fictitious stories about cats and kittens, which have been written for children. Many of the stor…

Fabeloj

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


Hans Christian Andersen


This is a book which includes five short classic stories by Hans Christian Andersen. These have been translated into Esperanto, with effort …

A Little Book for a Little Cook

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


L. P. Hubbard


This charming little book compiles together a number of recipes, set out in an easy to understand manner, along with a poetic story about th…

Phantasmagoria and other poems

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


Lewis Carroll


This is a collection of numerous lesser known poems by Lewis Carroll, with a tendency towards entertaining nonsense verses and unusual appro…

Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks (version 2)

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


Jean de la Fontaine


This is a short book which collects together 18 charming fables, written in rhyme and intended to be enjoyed by children. Based on stories w…

The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (version 2)

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


Arthur Scott Bailey


This charming collection of short stories features a bumblebee called Buster, his (extensive) family, and a great number of other animals wh…

Middlemarch (version 2)

Read by Margaret Espaillat


George Eliot


Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh n…

The Moneychangers

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Upton Sinclair


A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague w…

The Fruit of the Tree

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Edith Wharton


When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due t…

Mistakes of Moses

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Robert G. Ingersoll


Robert G. Ingersoll was an extremely popular humanist orator in the late nineteenth century, and he wrote Mistakes of Moses after many bootl…

Bunner Sisters

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Edith Wharton


“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverish…

Royal Highness

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Thomas Mann


Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live…

Eminent Victorians

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Giles Lytton Strachey


On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also help…

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Henry Morgenthau


Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…

Martyred Armenia

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Fa'Iz El-Ghusein


This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His ac…

Our Old Home

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Nathaniel Hawthorne


These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a …

Contending Forces

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins


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

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