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Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions

Read by James Grant


James Grant


University of Oxford Podcasts

Meet Mr. Mulliner

Read by James Hutchisson


P. G. Wodehouse


A collection of short stories, originally published in periodicals, featuring the character Mr. Mulliner. - Summary by James Hutchisson

The House on the Cliff (Version 3)

Read by Harley James


Franklin W. Dixon


In this early Hardy Boys book (the second to be published), the boys journey to a haunted house where a murder took place, and upon entering…

The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song

Read by Marya James


Frederick Walker Mott


From the Preface: "The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution "On th…

Anthology of Early Mormon Doctrine and Apologetics

Read by James Bleckley


Various


A collection of shorter works written during the early decades of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often known in that time …

Key to the Science of Theology (Version 2)

Read by James Bleckley


Parley Pratt


Written by Parley P. Pratt, a prominent early member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as Mormons, "Ke…

Free, and other stories

Read by James Hutchisson


Theodore Dreiser


Theodore Dreiser's first collection of short fiction, published in 1918. Dreiser was known primarily as a novelist (Sister Carrie, An Americ…

Hawthorne

Read by James Hutchisson


Henry James


A brief biographical sketch and critical analysis of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the preeminent writers of the nineteenth-centu…

Huntingtower

Read by Simon Evers


John Buchan


Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English p…

The Grand Babylon Hotel

Read by Anna Simon


Arnold Bennett


Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds …

A Silent Witness

Read by Anna Simon


R. Austin Freeman


In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…

Patricia Brent, spinster

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because s…

Lady Anna

Read by Simon Evers


Anthony Trollope


When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the readi…

Malcolm Sage, Detective

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


A collection of short stories that chronicles the first year of the Malcolm Sage Detective Bureau.Sequel or companion story of John Dene of …

The Praise of Folly

Read by Anna Simon


Desiderius Erasmus


The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of Folly, Dut…

The Return of Alfred

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


The hero of the book is at a loose end, weary and bored of his old life after returning from the Great War. After an argument with his uncle…

Anarchy

Read by Anna Simon


Errico Malatesta


Anarchy explained by the anarchist Errico Malatesta. (Summary by Vineshen Pillay)

The Rain-Girl

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…

Anthony Trent, Master Criminal

Read by Anna Simon


Wyndham Martyn


In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes…

The Hand of Ethelberta

Read by Simon Evers


Thomas Hardy


Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband …

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