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Religion and the (Un)translatability of Cultures

In Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Read by Jan Assmann


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Christmas Angel

Read by Jan MacGillivray


Abbie Farwell Brown


Disagreeable old Miss Terry spends her Christmas Eve getting rid of toys from her childhood toy box. One by one she tosses them onto the sid…

The House of Mirth (Version 3)

Read by Jan Moorehouse


Edith Wharton


The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman who is torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mut…

Mary Cary, Frequently Martha

Read by Jan MacGillivray


Kate Langley Bosher


"My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orp…

The Spirit of Christmas

Read by Jan MacGillivray


Henry van Dyke


A short Christmas book by American author, educator, and clergyman Henry Van Dyke, including a short story, two essays, and two prayers for …

Recollections of Imperial Russia

Read by Jan Moorehouse


Meriel Buchanan


In this memoir, Meriel Buchanan (9-5-1886 to 2-6-1959) links the history of Russia to powerful, lingering memories of her years living there…

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Read by Jan Moorehouse


Various


This book is a compilation of scholarly lectures by distinguished experts delivered at Cambridge in August 1916. The titles of the lectures…

The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and other Stories

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Edith Wharton


Seven short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. "The Hermit and the Wild Woman" (rather differen…

Benigna Machiavelli

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Charlotte Perkins Gilman


In between "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) and Herland (1915), feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) wrote and published thi…

The Girls of Chequertrees

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Marion St. John Webb


Pamela Heath, a pleasant 16-year-old girl living quietly at home with her parents and siblings, receives a peculiar invitation one day. An o…

Now We Are Six

Read by Winnifred Assmann


A. A. Milne


Milne's second book of children's poetry: “We have been nearly three years writing this book. We began it when we were very young ... and no…

Surprise House

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Abbie Farwell Brown


Our story begins just after Nan Corliss, an eccentric old lady, dies and leaves her strange old house in Crowfield to her nephew, Dr. Owen C…

Knock Three Times!

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Marion St. John Webb


“Jack and Molly were twins, and this was their ninth birthday. Such a happy, exciting day it had been; it felt like a birthday all day long,…

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume One

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Edith Wharton


Five early short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. Includes “Kerfol,” “Mrs. Manstey's View,” “The Bolted Door…

The Crux

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Charlotte Perkins Gilman


"This story is, first, for young women to read; second, for young men to read; after that, for anybody who wants to. Anyone who doubts …

Follies in Fiction

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Stephen Leacock


A pamphlet from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, containing selections from Further Foolishness and Frenzie…

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, Version 2

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Stephen Leacock


A collection of humorous fiction by renowned Canadian writer, Stephen Leacock. Unlike the lighter Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town that pr…

Innere und äußere Politik - Sowjet-Dplomatie

In Sowjet-Rußland im Umbau

Read by JaN


Fritz Schotthöfer


Sammlung von Aufsätzen über die gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse im jungen Sowjet-Rußland. Der Autor bereiste als Journa…