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Study Skills

Read by Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


University of Oxford Podcasts

English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the Englis…

Read by Tony Oliva


William J. Long


This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has thr…

The Spinster Book

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Myrtle Reed


A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling m…

English Literature

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Geraldine Hodgson


This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…

Best Way to Read a Book

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Edgar A. Guest


LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Best Way to Read a Book by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Septem…

The Type-Writer Girl

Read by Grant Hurlock


Grant Allen


(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …

Great Writers Inspire


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Jack and Jill (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Louisa May Alcott


When Jack and Jill tumble off their sled on the first good snow of the season, their injuries cause them to be bedridden for many months, pu…

The Annals of Ann

Read by CJ Plogue


Kate Trimble Sharber


As the only “surviving” child of her parents, Ann is considered by close friends and family to be an overly indulged child. Some say she is …

Centre for the Study of the Book


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher

Read by Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock


Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock


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 Duchess of Wrexe

Read by Simon Evers


Hugh Walpole


Rachel, a spirited young girl, has to choose between Francis Breton, her difficult cousin who has been disowned by the family, and Roddy Sed…

Children's Language and Literacy Impairments

Read by Dorothy Bishop


Dorothy Bishop


University of Oxford Podcasts

Interviews on Great Writers


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Metaphor: Philosophical Issues

Read by James Grant


James Grant


University of Oxford Podcasts

Digital Magic

Read by Philippa Ballantine


Philippa Ballantine


Penherem is a quaint, sleepy English village where people go to escape the 21st Century. Hiding from the world of laptop computers, the Inte…

The Art of Fiction

Read by Julie VW


Henry James


A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…

Eleanor's Victory

Read by Eleanor Howard


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's ey…

More About Pixie

Read by Judi Mason


Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


Pixie is older, her world becomes wider. The stories of her sister Bridgie and her brother Jack emerge, and also that of an intriguing neigh…

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