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The Book of the Cheese

Read by Peter Yearsley


Thomas Wilson Reid


"Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese" is a pub on Fleet Street, London. It was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666, and has been frequented …

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1

Read by Peter Tucker


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …

Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

Read by Peter Dann


George Borrow


This unusual narrative by eccentric self-taught English linguist, traveller and one-time bible salesman George Borrow combines elements of a…

Last Post

Read by Peter Dann


Ford Madox Ford


This is the last novel in Ford Madox Ford's "Parade's End" tetralogy. Its predecessors "Some Do Not", "No More Para…

The Improvement of Human Reason

Read by Peter Tucker


Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufail and Muhammad Ibn 'Abd Al-Malik Ibn Tufail


The story revolves around Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, a little boy who grew up on an island in the Indies under the equator, isolated from the people, …

The Rover (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


Possessed "of a passion weary of itself", elderly ex-privateer Peyrol is driven by "a sudden impulse of scorn, of magnanimity…

The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict.

Read by Peter Yearsley


Thomas Archer


"Bare, unpicturesque, and sordid as are the conditions of poverty, there are sights in London which everybody may and should see - sigh…

Notes on Life and Letters

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a "one-man show" comprising "Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conr…

Begbroke Science Park, Site Activities

Read by Peter Dobson


Peter Dobson


University of Oxford Podcasts

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 2

Read by Peter Tucker


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


This is the second half of the novel by Goethe (the first half, Volume 1, has been recorded separately).It describes the completion of Meist…

The Romany Rye

Read by Peter Dann


George Borrow


"The Romany Rye" is a direct continuation of George Borrow's "Lavengro", taking up the latter's story immediately where …

The Mystery of Mary

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Grace Livingston Hill


Handsome young Tryon Dunham has just returned home on the train from a business trip one evening when he's accosted by a beautiful young wom…

Understood Betsy

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Dorothy Canfield Fisher


Understood Betsy is a 1916 novel for children by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The story tells of Elizabeth Ann, a 9-year-old orphan who goes fro…

Henry Ford's Own Story

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Rose Wilder Lane


Rose Wilder Lane was a newspaper reporter, free-lance writer, political activist, and the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the &q…

The Right Way to Do Wrong

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Harry Houdini


Harry Houdini, master illusionist and contortionist, unmasks the various ways that criminals take advantage of their victims. (Summary by Le…

The Golden Bowl

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Henry James


The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some cri…

The Bobbsey Twins in the Country

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Laura Lee Hope


The second book in The Bobbsey Twins series finds the two sets of twins experiencing life in the country during the first part of their summ…

Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Edna Ferber


Dawn O’Hara, the Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber’s first novel. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Mich…

The Lodger

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Marie Belloc Lowndes


"The story is about a Jack the Ripper-type murderer known only as "The Avenger" in London, who has been killing young blonde …

The Europeans

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Henry James


The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitud…

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