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Wongo And The Wise Old Crow

Read by David Wales


Grace Moon


Stories of an Indian boy and his friends told by a children’s author of yesteryear, published 1923. - Summary by david wales

The Lost Art of Reading

Read by Joseph Tabler


Gerald Stanley Lee


Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…

The Black Monk

Read by Daniel Davison


Anton Chekhov


Aspiring academic Andrei Kovrin, while summering in the countryside per the advice of a physician, is haunted by the apparition of a black m…

Letter from China

Read by Peter James Froning


Peter James Froning


This is a poignant and irreverent diary of the author's yearlong (2001-2) experience of teaching English to college students in Beijing, Peo…

The Mirror Of Kong Ho

Read by David Wales


Ernest Bramah


This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience…

All Things Considered

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These r…

US China Relations: An Introduction

Read by Rosemary Foot


Rosemary Foot


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Tao Teh King

Read by Eric S. Piotrowski


Laozi 老子 and Lao Tzu


Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King illuminates The Tao: a guiding principle of the universe and all within it. By exploring the nature of dualities and …

Dr. Nikola’s Experiment

Read by Peter John Keeble


Guy Boothby


Guy Boothby's fourth novel of five about the svelte mysterious anti-hero Dr Nikola sees him progress further on his search for immortality. …

The Chinese Dragon

Read by David Wales


Luther Newton Hayes


The subject of this little book [1923] is of general interest to people who are acquainted with things Chinese. The dragon has played a larg…

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 …

Crome Yellow, Version 2

Read by Expatriate


Aldous Huxley


Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. T…

Sense Memory

Read by Brion J. Humphrey


Brion J. Humphrey


If our memory is the thing that shapes and defines us, that informs who we are at our very core, then God help us all...for memory, is a wic…

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Read by Dan Robinson


Dan Robinson


University of Oxford Podcasts

Reading: An Essay

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu

Read by laineyben


Sax Rohmer


Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr Fu-Manchu when they s…

Black Oxen

Read by Lynne T


Gertrude Atherton


Lee Clavering, a young playwright falls in love with an Austrian countess, not noticing the adoring glances from the outgoing flapper, Janet…

La Caza Mayor

Read by gobline


Isaac Asimov


MUY BUEN LIBRO.

Tremendous Trifles

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us ex…

Reid's Critique of Hume

Read by Dan Robinson


Dan Robinson


University of Oxford Podcasts

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