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Cupid in Africa

Read by Kevin Green


Percival Christopher Wren



Bertram Greene, brilliant student, aesthete, intellectual and shy, decides to make his military father proud of him at last and joins the co…

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

Read by Kevin Green


Robert Smith Surtees



Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure …

Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel

Read by Kevin Green


Margaret Herschel



For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scen…

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato



This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

Critias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato



This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

Protagoras

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato



Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

Alcibiades I

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato



As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …

Lesser Hippias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato



This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

The Vikings

Read by Kevin Johnson


Allen Mawer



This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University o…

Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

Read by Kevin LaVergne


Mark Twain



"Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" is a short-story written by American writer Mark Twain and published in 1909. The story fol…

A Wodehouse Miscellany

Read by Kevin McAsh


P. G. Wodehouse



Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known toda…

Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders

Read by Kevin McAsh


Victor Appleton



Tom Swift is the young protagonist in a series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the early twentieth century and continue to the p…

Founder of New France

Read by Kevin McAsh


Charles W. Colby



For Canada, Champlain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our her…

CBS Radio Mystery Theater

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater



Kevin McCarthy stars in the Sherlock Holmes drama about a devilish hound from hell, that threatens the life of the heir to Baskerville Hall.

The Real McCoy's

Read by Kevin O'Gorman




"The Real McCoy's" was a weekly feature of Melbourne Radio station 3KZ, hosted by Kevin O'Gorman. The show featured "The McCo…

One Hundred Verses from Old Japan

Read by Kevin Steinbach


Teika No Fujiwara



In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prize…

Russian Fairy Tales

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


William Ralston Shedden-Ralston



Russian Fairy Tales is an anthology of stories by a noted Russian scholar and translator. The 51 stories are thematically organized with int…

The Daughter of the Commandant

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Alexander Pushkin



"The Daughter of the Commandant" (better known as "The Captain's Daughter") is a historical novel by the Russian writer …

Peasant Tales of Russia

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko



Collection of Russian peasant tales:"The Deserted Mine" - The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken …

Oblomov

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Ivan Goncharov



Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the nove…

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