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Book XIV: Agamemnon proposes retreat

In The Iliad

Read by Kelly Dougherty


Homer, trans. Butler and Homer


The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated t…

The Unseen Foes Of Wild Life

In Our Vanishing Wild Life

Read by Kelly Dougherty


William T. Hornaday


We are weary of witnessing the greed, selfishness and cruelty of "civilized" man toward the wild creatures of the earth. We are si…

40 - Chapters 69-70

In Don Quixote - Vol. 2

Read by Kelly Dougherty


Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra (transl. John Ormsby) and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in …

Lift Off !

Read by Kelly Clous


Kelly Clous


Lift Off is the ultimate game - a game of strength, speed, strategy, and teamwork! After several intense competitions, a seventh grader, Kyl…

Fairy Fingers

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Madelaine is the poor cousin of the aristocratic de Gramont family in France of the 1850’s. She is cherished by the beautiful young Bertha a…

The Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Mowatt wrote The Fortune Hunter to be submitted to a contest held by the New World newspaper. (The novel won the $100 prize.) Contest rules…

Italian Life and Legends

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


A mix of short works written by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie during her residence in Florence from 1864-65, this collection was edited and prepa…

Evelyn; or A Heart Unmasked

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Evelyn is a two-volume novel told in an epistolary style – alternating between letters from the point of view of a trusted, unmarried female…

The Mute Singer, a Novel

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Sylvie de la Roche is the daughter of a destitute former nobleman and his wife living in the slums of Paris circa 1847. Her magnificent sing…

Autobiography of an Actress; or Eight Years on the Stage

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Anna Cora Mowatt was the author of the first Broadway comedy hit written by a woman. Her 1845 play “Fashion” is still performed today. She w…

Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain is a collection of three narratives about life in the theater based on Mowatt’s career on stage…

The Little Robinson of Paris, or, Industry's Triumph

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Eugénie Foa


In this Victorian era children’s novel, haughty Breton aristocrats unjustly reject and cruelly abandon the young orphan Cecil after the deat…

Pelayo: or Cavern of Covadonga, A Romance

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


This epic poem tells the dramatic story of King Pelayo, an Asturian ruler in Northern Spain who lead his people to a hard-fought victory ove…

Reviewers Reviewed

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


This satirical text was a response to the drubbing the fledgling poet received at the hands of the critics to her debut work, “Pelayo, or th…

An internalist, evidentialist, foundationalist, reductionist, egoist and otherwi…

In Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment

Read by Trent Dougherty


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Hooded Merganser

In Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 3, March 1899

Read by Linda Dougherty


Various


"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…

My Comforter / The Little White Dog

In A Dog's Book of Verse

Read by Linda Dougherty


J. Earl Clauson


It is not surprising that dogs, beloved by so many, have received many poetic tributes throughout history. Here the author has gathered tog…

Happy Jack Gets a Warning

In Happy Jack

Read by Linda Dougherty


Thornton W. Burgess


The adventures and perils of Happy Jack the Squirrel in the Green Forest, co-starring Happy Jack's cousins Chatterer the Red Squirrel and St…

The Donkey's Ears

In The Runaway Donkey and Other Rhymes for Children

Read by Andrew Dougherty


Emilie Poulsson


This volume contains 21 poems for children by Emilie Poulsson. In her own words, "In the belief that such rhymes as are herein offered …