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Tom was Goin' for a Poet.

In Farm Ballads

Read by Abigail Johnston

Will Carleton

Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where…

Chapter XXXIV, part 1

In Principles of Geology

Read by Abigail Johnston

Charles Lyell

Principles of Geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation is a b…

A Good Seed Cake

In A History of and Suggestions in the Making of Biscuits, Quick Breads and Cake

Read by Abigail Johnston

Claudia Quigley Murphy

This is a very short treatise on breads and cakes, published in 1921. The author is Claudia Quigley Murphy, a notable American journalist an…

The Story of King Arthur - Part 1: Of Arthur's Birth and How He Became King

In The Junior Classics Volume 4: Heroes and Heroines of Chivalry

Read by Abigail Johnston

William Patten

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

Geek is Good - planning an exhibition programme

In Illuminating the Museums conference 2014

Read by Stephen Johnston

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

21 - Troubles in the Fold--A Message

In Far from the Madding Crowd

Read by E. Plein

Thomas Hardy

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so…

Whenas in Silks

In Short Poetry Collection 029

Read by E. Plein

Robert Herrick

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 029: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Religion in the Home

In The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book

Read by E. Tavano

William F. Bigelow

A collection of articles from Good Housekeeping magazine, The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book focuses on the subject of marriage. With instr…

Part 2 - The Mending Apparatus

In The Machine Stops

Read by E. Tavano

E. M. Forster

The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the sur…

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