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The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 3: The Queen's Necklace (Version 2)

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


This 3rd volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins a decade after the close of "The Mesmerist’s Victim” and is based on a real sca…

Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


This 4th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins several years after the close of "The Queen’s Necklace.” It describes the event…

On the Future of Our Educational Institutions (Version 2)

Read by John Van Stan


Friedrich Nietzsche


These are lectures on the education system of Nietzsche's day. He states that "This book is intended for calm readers, for those who ha…

A Christmas Carol (Version 14)

Read by Peter John Keeble


Charles Dickens


A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob …

The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI a…

The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story

Read by John R Moore


H. Rider Haggard


Haggard's interest in spiritualism and reincarnation underlie this tale of life, death, and "working out [one's] destiny." - Summa…

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Doctor Jack's Soapbox Seminars

Read by John C. Adler, Ph.D.


John C. Adler, Ph.D.


What if the cataclysmic Tunguska explosion of 1908 was caused, not by a meteor or a comet, but by a microscopic black hole? ... Well, like a…

Mice & Other Poems

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Gerald Bullett


Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote bot…

Oriel College

Read by John Stevenson and Moira Wallace


John Stevenson and Moira Wallace


University of Oxford Podcasts

Launch of Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network: Dr Wang Xiaolin

In Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative

Read by Wang Xiaolin


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Paul and the Confidence Gang

In The Queen of Appalachia

Read by Felicia Wang


Joe H. Borders


A Lost Race novel set unusually in the eastern USA, where a civilization made up of descendants of early American pioneers has established a…

09 - The Giant Who had no Heart in his Body

In East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Read by Anqi Wang


Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen


Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty chil…

11 - The Mysterious Boudoir

In Belinda

Read by Mimi Wang


Maria Edgeworth


When Belinda was published in 1801, it became both controversial and popular. Controversial because of the inter-racial marriage presented i…

A Collection of Letters, Part 3 (Letter the Fifth and Scraps)

In Jane Austen's Juvenilia

Read by Mimi Wang


Jane Austen


Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various w…

10 - Lucy Robarts

In Framley Parsonage

Read by Mimi Wang


Anthony Trollope


Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in se…

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