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Helen of Troy – myth or reality?

In Faculty of Classics

Read by Bettany Hughes


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Part 1 of The Argonauts: How the Centaur Trained the Heroes on Pelion

In The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children

Read by Jennie Hughes


Charles Kingsley


The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonaut…

The Knife and the Naked Chalk

In Rewards and Fairies

Read by Meredith Hughes


Rudyard Kipling


Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his ch…

Bk1 Ch4 Pt2

In This Side of Paradise

Read by Chris Hughes


F. Scott Fitzgerald


This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke po…

Chapter 09

In Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Read by Chris Hughes


Jerome K. Jerome


Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Th…

Chapter 02

In At the Back of the North Wind

Read by Meredith Hughes


George MacDonald


Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in…

Chapter 04

In The Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)

Read by Chris Hughes


LibriVox NaNoWriMo 2007 and Librivox Volunteers


An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Eli…

Chapter 6c beginning with The Two-leaved Pine

In The Yosemite

Read by Meredith Hughes


John Muir


John Muir's adventure guide for the Yosemite Valley.

No3 - The Arctic Cruise: Part 3

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 3-5

Read by Andre Hughes


Charles Herbert Stockton and National Geographic Society


National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 3:The Arctic Cruise of the U.S.S. Thetis in the Summer and Autumn of 1889.The Law of Storms, co…

Peter Breaks Through

In Peter Pan

Read by Meredith Hughes


J. M. Barrie


Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fa…

Endymion--Orion--Aurora and Tithonus--Acis and Galatea

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Read by Meredith Hughes


Thomas Bulfinch


Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

Mowgli's Brothers (part 1)

In The Jungle Book

Read by Meredith Hughes


Rudyard Kipling


This classic children's book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves: his escapades and adventures with h…

Part 3. Babylonians and Assyrians

In The World’s Story Volume XIV: An Outline of Universal History

Read by Jennie Hughes


Karl Ploetz


The fourteenth volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story has a different concept than the previous books edited by Eva March Tappan. …

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