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Three Short Works

Read by David Barnes


Gustave Flaubert


Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheo…

Holy Sonnets

Read by David Barnes


John Donne


John Donne (1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works, nota…

Union and Communion - or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon

Read by David Barnes


J. Hudson Taylor


This little book, whose design is to lead the devout Bible student into the Green Pastures of the Good Shepherd, thence to the Banqueting Ho…

The Riot Act

Read by David Barnes


Parliament Of The United Kingdom Of Great Britain


The Riot Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1714, the first year of the reign of George I, and came into effect in August 1715. Thi…

Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 1

Read by David Barnes


John Clare


John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England’s greatest nature po…

Selection from The Temple

Read by David Barnes


George Herbert


George Herbert (April 3, 1593 – March 1, 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and a priest. Throughout his life he wrote religious poems character…

Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch

Read by David Barnes


General Sir John Miller Adye


"The subject of our policy on the North-West frontier of India is one of great importance, as affecting the general welfare of our East…

Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 2

Read by David Barnes


John Clare


John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England's greatest nature po…

Global governance, local governments

In Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Read by Pascal Lamy, Ian Goldin and Lord Patten of Barnes


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Ukraine and its Place in the World

In European Studies Centre

Read by Aleksander Kwasniewski, Javier Solana, Gwendolyn Sasse and Chris Patten


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

On Our Selection

Read by Son of the Exiles


Steele Rudd


The humorous account of Dad and Dave and the rest of the Rudd clan as they attempt to carve a farming 'selection' out of the Australian wild…

Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection)

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Steele Rudd


Chapters XV through XIX of "Our New Selection""The wheat was in, and Dad decided to take a trip to Brisbane. For seven or eig…

Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme

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C. J. Dennis


Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a w…

Bill & Doreen's Courtship (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke")

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C. J. Dennis


"The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke" is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The work was first published in …

Digger Smith

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C. J. Dennis


“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and…

Bill & Doreen's Married Life

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C. J. Dennis


"Bill & Doreen's Married Life (Selections from "Doreen")" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship"…

Bill & Doreen Get Hitched (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke")

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C. J. Dennis


"Bill & Doreen Get Hitched" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship". "The Songs of a Sentimental Blok…

Bible (KJV) 20: Proverbs

Read by Michael Packard


King James Version


The book of Proverbs is referred to as wisdom literature along with several others: the book of Job, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, and …

Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

Read by Michael Armenta


Aesop


Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Gree…

The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories

Read by Michael Yard


P. G. Wodehouse


The Man With Two Left Feet, and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on …

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