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In Erewhon

Read by Grant Petersen


Samuel Butler


Erewhon, or Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly d…

Llewelyn Sec 1

In Confessions of Two Brothers

Read by Grant Petersen


Llewellyn Powys and John Cowper Powys


A short self portrait of Powys’ beliefs, temperament and peculiarities which prefigures his later, greater Autobiography. (Summary by Keri F…

The Voyage Out

Read by Grant Hurlock


Virginia Woolf


The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Wool…

Prester John

Read by Grant Hurlock


John Buchan


This classic adventure novel by the author of Greenmantle and The Thirty-Nine Steps relates the first-person exploits of young David Crawfur…

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures

Read by James Grant


James Grant


University of Oxford Podcasts

Rangy Pete

Read by Grant Hurlock


Guy Morton


Canadian novelist Guy Morton's Rangy Pete is one of a trio of westerns he wrote in the 1920s (the other two being Black Gold and Wards of th…

Hagar of the Pawn-Shop

Read by Grant Hurlock


Fergus Hume


Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly Lo…

The Lark

Read by Grant Hurlock


E. Nesbit


"The Lark" has all the charm and freshness which have made Miss Nesbit's former novels so justly popular, and yet the story ts ent…

Kashtanka

Read by Grant Hurlock


Anton Chekhov


"Kashtanka," a shaggy-dog story penned by Anton Chekhov in seven parts and first published in 1887, relates the experiences of its…

The Princess Passes

Read by Grant Hurlock


Charles Norris Williamson


An American heiress nicknamed the Manitou Princess (after her daddy's richest silver mine) is devastated to find that her fiancé only…

Find the Woman

Read by Grant Hurlock


Frank Gelett Burgess


Who was Belle Charmion? If you really care to know, as John Fenton did, you must go with him on his quest, hither and yon over New York, int…

The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars

Read by Grant Hurlock


Bampfylde Moore Carew


The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant w…

Miss Pim's Camouflage

Read by Grant Hurlock


Dorothy Tennant


Mid-WWI, staid Englishwoman Miss Perdita Pim suffers a sunstroke gardening & gains the power of invisibility. She becomes a super-secre…

The Night Side of New York

Read by Grant Hurlock


Various


This nonfiction collection of sketches, by "members of the New York press," takes the reader on a tour of 1866 New York City after…