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Biographia Literaria
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Aubrey Tanqueray marries a woman with a past which he believes will not matter in society. "I know you think me a fool, Cayley—you need…
Follies in Fiction
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Stephen Leacock
A pamphlet from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, containing selections from Further Foolishness and Frenzie…
Cobb's Anatomy (version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Irvin S. Cobb
Irving S. Cobb discusses the human body and its various strange parts in his own inimitable hilarious style. He discusses the tummy and th…
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect
Read by Phil Benson
Various
A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of …
The Belfry Pigeon
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Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writer…
Washington Irving in London
Read by Greg Giordano
Washington Irving
Washington Irving's name is synonymous with such classics as "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." He est…
The Curious Book of Birds
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Abbie Farwell Brown
Now the interesting facts about birds we have always with us. We can find them out for ourselves, which is a very pleasant thing to do, or w…
The Defense of Poesy
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Sir Philip Sidney
Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …
Of All Things (Version 2)
Read by Aaron Sproule
Robert C. Benchley
A collection of exaggerated stories about the common man. Dry and deadpan style of humor. Dedicated to my father, Michael Earl Sproule. (19…
My First Book (Version 2)
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Various
Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literat…
Maarten Chuzzlewit
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
De familie Chuzzlewit is op jacht naar de erfenis van de oude Maarten Chuzzlewit. De kleinzoon, Martin Chuzzlewit, heeft daarnaast ook zijn …
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Columbia Workshop, CBS, 1946)
CBS
A radio adaptation of Robert Browning's classic poem, broadcast on Columbia Workshop on July 21, 1946 with David Ogden Stewart as the …
Dick Lawrence - Press Agents
Dick Lawrence via James Vaughan
part of the series of radio shows created by Dick Lawrence about American history, entertainment and characters: from the collection of Rich…
White Cockades: An Incident of the "Forty-Five"
Read by Elin
Edward Prime-Stevenson and Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
In the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, the young Andrew Boyd meets a fugitive from the redcoats, a man whom Andrew soon grows to ad…
A Mathematician's Holiday
Read by Thomas Woolley and William Binzi
Thomas Woolley and William Binzi
University of Oxford Podcasts
Arthur Wing Pinero, Playwright - A Study
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Hamilton Fyfe
A discussion about the life and works of the playwright Arthur Wing Pinero. The perfect accompaniment to the plays by Pinero available here …