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Chapter V

In The wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the Man who lost his Shadow

Read by Megan Lam


Adelbert von Chamisso


Peter Schlemihl is an ordinary man until one day he bargains with the devil: He trades his shadow for a bottomless purse. While this sounds …

A Departure in a 'Dug-Out'

In The Wild Huntress

Read by Megan Lam


Thomas Mayne Reid


Marian and Lilian are two sisters living in the backwoods, somewhere in America, with their father as squatters. One May morning a man show…

Sir Walter Raleigh - His Last Words on the Scaffold

In The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I

Read by Megan Lam


William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey and Various,William Jennings Bryan


In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations…

Their Yesterdays

Read by Megan Kunkel


Harold Bell Wright


The story of a man and a woman, as they experience The Thirteen Truly Great Things of Life: Dreams, Occupation, Knowledge, Ignorance, Religi…

Mother

Read by Megan Kunkel


Kathleen Norris


With seven children and a home to take care of, Margaret wondered how her Mother could be so happy living a life that seemed all drudgery. A…

Book 4, Chapter 3

In History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 1

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Niccolò Machiavelli


History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli. Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal…

Malvern Hill

In Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

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Herman Melville


"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville. Published in 1866, the v…

How can you adapt?

In UK Climate Impacts Programme Training

Read by Megan Gawith


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Displacement, transitional justice and reconciliation: assumptions, challenges a…

In Refugee Studies Centre

Read by Megan Bradley


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Eating NatureCulture: material feminism and maternal obesity

In Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

Read by Megan Waren


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Heron Who Was Hard To Please

In Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks

Read by Megan Kunkel


Jean de la Fontaine, W. T. Larned (trans.) and Jean de la Fontaine


Several of La Fontaine's fables, translated into English by W. T. Larned. (Summary by bge1234)

Vanishing Point

In Short Science Fiction Collection 032

Read by Megan Argo


C.C. Beck and C. C. Beck


Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…