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Gobseck
Read by James E. Carson
Honoré de Balzac
Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/m…
The Firm of Nucingen
Read by James E. Carson
Honoré de Balzac
Part of the Comedie Humane and a "supplementary" tale to go with Father Goriot and Gobseck. Nucingen is the married family name of…
The Magic Skin
Read by James E. Carson
Honoré de Balzac
Something along the lines of Dorian Gray as part of the Comedies Humane Philosophique, this is Balzac's first successful novel. He even wrot…
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures
Read by James Grant
James Grant
University of Oxford Podcasts
Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions
Read by James Grant
James Grant
University of Oxford Podcasts
Men Without Women
Read by James Hutchisson
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's second collection of short fiction, first published in 1927, including many of his best-known stories, including "Hills Lik…
Meet Mr. Mulliner
Read by James Hutchisson
P. G. Wodehouse
A collection of short stories, originally published in periodicals, featuring the character Mr. Mulliner. - Summary by James Hutchisson
Free, and other stories
Read by James Hutchisson
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser's first collection of short fiction, published in 1918. Dreiser was known primarily as a novelist (Sister Carrie, An Americ…
Hawthorne
Read by James Hutchisson
Henry James
A brief biographical sketch and critical analysis of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the preeminent writers of the nineteenth-centu…
White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War
Read by James K. White
Herman Melville
This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities…
Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart
Read by James K. White
Maria W. Stewart
Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery a…
Bertram Cope's Year
Read by James K. White
Henry Blake Fuller
This novel was perhaps the most daring and affirmative LGBT literature of the first two decades of the 20th century in America. In this stor…
The Life and Adventures of Alexander Selkirk
Read by James K. White
John Howell
This work was the true story of Alexander Selkirk (1676 to December 13, 1721), a Scottish sailor who was employed in a number of different t…
Three Years In Europe
Read by James K. White
William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave--his father a white man who never acknowl…
My Southern Home or, The South and Its People
Read by James K. White
William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never ack…
Thirty Years A Slave
Read by James K. White
Louis Hughes
Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly…
The Monk: A Romance
Read by James K. White
Matthew Lewis
Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk: A Romance is a story of frustrated and unrequited desire between mentor and pupil mixed with elements of t…
The Colored Cadet at West Point
Read by James K. White
Henry Ossian Flipper
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end…
Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography
Read by James K. White
John Relly Beard
François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revol…