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The Automaton Ear

In Short Science Fiction Collection 066

Read by Riley McGuire


Florence McLandburgh


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

The Voice of Science by Arthur Conan Doyle

In Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Read by Riley McGuire


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Librivox readers have come together to bring you another diverse collection of short stories. This anthology brings you selections from Thom…

Chapter XXXIII

In A Son At The Front

Read by Riley McGuire


Edith Wharton


This is an overlooked novel by the author of House Of Mirth, Age Of Innocence, and more. She already became the first woman to win the Pulit…

Love and duty

In The Lady's Mile

Read by Riley McGuire


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to …

The Worshipper of the Image

Read by Holly McGuire


Richard Le Gallienne


"The Worshipper of the Image," by Richard Le Galliene first published in 1900. The protagonist Antony, a poet buys a death mask i…

The Valley of Fear

Read by Katie Riley


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Doyle's final novel featuring the beloved sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, brings the detective and his friend to a country manor where they are pre…

Essays on Political Economy

Read by Katie Riley


Frédéric Bastiat


Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property. From this defin…

Sophisms of the Protectionists

Read by Katie Riley


Frédéric Bastiat


"To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them," Bastiat said and believed. He reasoned, employing repetition to various appl…

Fourteen Months in American Bastiles

Read by Katie Riley


Francis Key Howard


Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at th…

Conditional Cash Transfers in Bolivia: Origins, Impact, and Universality

In Latin American Centre

Read by James McGuire


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Bk 1: Song VII: The Perturbations of Passion

In The Consolation of Philosophy

Read by Hugh McGuire


Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (transl. James) and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius


Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

A Valentine (from an Old Lover) - Read by HBM

In A Valentine (From an old Lover)

Read by Holly McGuire


Emily Dickinson and Jessie Pope


Jessie Pope was an extremely patriotic English poet, writer and journalist, who remains best known for her patriotic motivational poems publ…