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Salem Witchcraft. Part 2

In An Essay on Demonology, Ghosts and Apparitions, and Popular Superstitions

Read by Kay Hill-Johnson


James Thacher


An essay on demonology, ghosts and apparitions, and popular superstitions, also, an account of the witchcraft delusion at Salem, in 1682. - …

Beef

In A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House

Read by Kay Hill-Johnson


Jessie Conrad


This book of British recipes and cooking advice was compiled by Jessie Conrad, wife of celebrated author Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim, Heart of D…

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AND "THE SCARLET LETTER"

In Studies in Classic American Literature

Read by Kay Hill-Johnson


D. H. Lawrence


The staid academic title belies the freewheeling prose of D.H. Lawrence's essays, which are as contrarian, penetrating, and sometimes unpala…

Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940

Read by Lois Hill


Ray Bradbury and Variousandray Bradbury


A collection of short science fiction stories, edited by Ray Bradbury. Authors include Lyle Monroe, J. E. Kelleam, Hank Kuttner, J. H. Hagga…

Lady Baltimore

Read by Lois Hill


Owen Wister


Augustus visits King's Port, South Carolina, at the request of his Aunt Carola, and at her expense. She wants him to research genealogies an…

The Wanderer's Necklace

Read by Annyiee Hill


H. Rider Haggard


The Wanderer’s Necklace is classic Haggard, filled with adventure, intrigue, and steadfastness in the face of overwhelming obstacles. “The E…

The Story of the Treasure Seekers (version 3)

Read by Sarah Hill


E. Nesbit


This story follows the six Bastable Children; Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius, on their adventures to help their widowe…

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

Critias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

Protagoras

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

Troilus and Criseyde

Read by Kevin Johnson


Geoffrey Chaucer


Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set …

Alcibiades I

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …

Lesser Hippias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

The Vikings

Read by Kevin Johnson


Allen Mawer


This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University o…

The Son of Man

Read by CW Johnson


CW Johnson


Imagine they set out to clone the Son of God. Imagine they succeed... The Holy Blood Altar, an elaborate shrine whose centerpiece is said to…

Running Fox

Read by Drew Johnson


Elmer Russell Gregor


Having reached the age of sixteen winters, Running Fox, the son of Black Panther, a famous Delaware war-chief, determined to establish his r…

The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

Read by A. Bryan Johnson


Alexander Dunlop Lindsay


Born in Scotland, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay was a teacher of philosophy at a number of universities in England in the early 1900s. This brief…

My Brother's Story

Read by Allen Johnson Jr.


Allen Johnson Jr.


The Blackwater Novels are set in the 1930s along the Blackwater Swamp, near the fictional town of Turpentine, Georgia. Get in trouble with t…

5 SOLDIERS - The Body Is The Frontline

In Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

Read by Rosie Kay


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Structural cell biology of virus infection

In Translational Medicine

Read by Kay Grunewald


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

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