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Book the Third - Mrs. Farnaby's Foot - Chapter IV

In The Fallen Leaves

Read by Paul Thomas


Wilkie Collins


Amelius Goldenheart, the hero of this story, is expelled from a Utopian community in New England and finds himself in London. His story is d…

Andrew Smith MP pays tribute to Jim Callaghan

In The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)

Read by Andrew Smith


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Goldilocks and the origin of animals - insights from the far north

In Kellogg College

Read by Paul Smith


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Oriental Tales and Their Influence

In Interviews on Great Writers

Read by Ros Ballaster and Marina Warner


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Battle of the Boyne

In The Book of Irish Poetry, part I

Read by Ed


Varioustranslated Byalfred Perceval Graves


Edited and largely translated into English by Alfred Perceval Graves, this book contains a remarkably large collection of Irish poetry. This…

Ch.27 The Legal Position of Hare and his Wife

In The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times

Read by Catherine Emerson


George Macgregor


From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an…

The Stratagems, Book 1, Part 3

In The Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome

Read by Emerson Wells


Sextus Julius Frontinus


Frontinus' Stratagems is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, which the author comments based on h…

Chapter II — GREEK MEDICINE, Alexandrian School

In The Evolution of Modern Medicine

Read by Catherine Emerson


Sir William Osler and Sir William Osler


This is the manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in 1913…

Georgic I

In The Georgics: A Poem of the Land

Read by George Emerson


Virgil


A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such ma…

Fir-cone Mushroom to Maned Mushroom

In Mushrooms and Toadstools (Third Edition)

Read by Catherine Emerson


Worthington George Smith


This is a useful, but not comprehensive description of both edible and poisonous fungi found in Great Britain. Although the book is well ill…

Wingfold and Barbara

In There and Back

Read by George Emerson


George MacDonald


An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in …

Easter Tuesday.—Paul's Sermon on the Power and Blessings of Christ's Resurrecti…

In Epistle Sermons, Volume 2

Read by Laura Emerson


Martin Luther


Sermons from Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost preached by the famous German reformer Martin Luther.All who retain the good old custom of the f…

Section 32: Bruadar and Smith and Glinn

In Legends of Saints and Sinners

Read by Laurel Emerson


Douglas Hyde


"I have called the present volume "Legends of Saints and Sinners," which to a certain extent it is; but I mean it for a book …

There is an Air of Majesty

In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems

Read by George Emerson


Alfred Castner King


"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…

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