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A Letter from Ethelred's Mamma

In Ethelred Preston; or, The Adventures of a Newcomer

Read by Tim Quinn


Francis J. Finn, S.J.


Ethelred Preston is a story for boys written by Fr. Finn, SJ. The hero, Ethelred, while on his way to college, meets Packy Jarloe, a peddler…

14 - Count Pateroff

In The Claverings

Read by Tim Quinn


Anthony Trollope


"I consider the story as a whole to he good, though I am not aware that the public ever corroborated that verdict." - the author T…

01 - Jean Bouchon

In The Book of Ghosts

Read by Tim Quinn


Sabine Baring-Gould


Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he publis…

Chapter 12

In Percy Wynn, or Making a Boy of Him

Read by Tim Quinn


Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.


In this volume, which follows the author's popular book "Tom Playfair", a new boy is just arriving at St. Maure's boarding school.…

Cheating the Gallows

In Grotesques and Fantasies

Read by Tim Quinn


Israel Zangwill


A set of often funny, sometimes tragic stories by Israel Zangwill. Most famous for his scathingly accurate portrayals of the Jewish ghetto, …

To Stand, or Not to Stand

In The Three Clerks

Read by Tim Quinn


Anthony Trollope


The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a…

17 - Chapter XVII - Miss Altifiorla Rises In The World.

In Kept in the Dark

Read by Tim Quinn


Anthony Trollope


Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th century English novelist Anthony Trollope. It was published in eight monthly installments in 1882, a…

Chapter 15

In The Countess of Rudolstadt

Read by Tim Quinn


George Sand


This sequel to Consuelo picks up not long after the striking conclusion of the first novel. Consuelo is enjoying a brilliant singing career…

Mrs. Blencarrow's Confession

In The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow

Read by Tim Quinn


Margaret O. Oliphant


The location is the English Lake District and the characters very ordinary people. Mrs. Blencarrow is a widow with five children and control…

The Cyclone

In When the World Shook

Read by Tim Quinn


H. Rider Haggard


A fictional memoir of Humphrey Arbuthnot of Devonshire, we are taken on a voyage to the island of Orofena, in the South Seas, together with…

21 - Book 2, Chapter 10 - A Light-Giving Word

In The Mermaid

Read by Tim Quinn


Lily Dougall


"'What a fool I was not to go where she beckoned!' mused Caius. 'Where? Anywhere into the heart of the ocean, out of this dull, sordid …

Christmas Chemistry Show 2010

In So you want to study Chemistry?

Read by Hugh Cartwright and Malcolm Stewart


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Media Law after Leveson: Opening Remarks

In Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

Read by Denis Galligan and Hugh Tomlinson


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Another case of heart trouble

In Oxford Sparks: adventures in science

Read by Hugh Watkins and Anna Michell


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

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