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Relationships and the Internet

In Oxford Internet Institute

Read by William Dutton, Nicole Ellison, Bernie Hogan, Joseph B. Walther, Barry Wellman and Monica Whitty


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Presentation and Perception on Online Dating Sites

In Oxford Abridged Short Talks

Read by Joseph Walther and Nicole Ellison


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Rain (Version 2)

Read by Linda Hogan


W. Somerset Maugham


Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction b…

The Yoruba-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Selections from

Read by Faith Abiola-Ellison


Alfred Burdon Ellis


British Army officer and ethnographer AB Ellis was known for his writings on West Africa. His final publication takes an anthropological mag…

A Mathematician's Holiday

Read by Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Ordeal of Mark Twain

Read by Lucretia B.


Van Wyck Brooks


This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attribu…

Priče iz Davnine

Read by Josip B.


Ivana Brlić Mažuranić


Priče iz davnine, glasovita zbirka od osam pripovijetki-bajki Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić, u kojima je autorica ostvarila svoj književni vrhunac.[…

Canadian Wonder Tales

Read by Sean Michael Hogan


Cyrus Macmillan


This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Iris…

The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice

Read by Sean Michael Hogan


Stephen Leacock


This lengthy political essay by noted Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock was written while he was professor of political economy at McGill U…

Adrift on an Ice-Pan

Read by Sean Michael Hogan


Sir Wilfred Grenfell


This autobiographical work describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay …

Le Petit Nord

Read by Sean Michael Hogan


Anne Maclanahan Grenfell


A collection of letters from Anne (MacLanahan) Grenfell, future wife of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, regarding her year of missionary service at th…

Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea

Read by Sean Michael Hogan


Bliss Carman


This collection of lyric poems evokes the sea in every line, from birth (A Son of the Sea) to death (Outbound). The smells, sights and sound…

The Mucker

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Grown and raised on the streets of Chicago; a ruthless, brawling beast of a man who detests all that “class” and “highbrow society” has to o…

The Return of the Mucker

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, law enforcement arrests Billy Byrne…The Mucker… as he returns to the streets of Grand Aven…

The Man-Eater

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Africa: The land of savagery and splendor. Where a marriage between an adventurer and a missionary's daughter is cut short by invading local…

The Girl from Farris's

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Ever want to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, only to have the whole world fight to keep you down? Ever been upstanding and righteous, o…