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Ezra Pound

In Great Writers Inspire

Read by Rebecca Beasley


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The War of the Worlds (version 2)

Read by Rebecca Dittman


H. G. Wells


War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells) was published in 1898 at a time when he wrote a series of novels related to a number …

From October to Brest-Litovsk

Read by Rebecca Dittman


Leon Trotsky


This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk tre…

The Adventures of Ulysses

Read by Rebecca Dittman


Charles Lamb


Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not…

Märchen

Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett


Oscar Wilde


Oscar Wildes Kunstmärchen bieten dem Leser (und Hörer) Zugang zu zauberhaften, filigran gestalteten Welten. Liebe, Leidenschaft, A…

Ferien vom Ich

Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett


Paul Keller


Rezept für eine leicht bekömmliche (Urlaubs-) Lektüre: Man nehme einen Arzt mit originellem Kur-Konzept, einen hiervon begeis…

Das letzte Märchen

Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett


Paul Keller


„Das letzte Märchen“, eine Geschichte, in der ein Journalist in ein unterirdisches Märchenreich eingeladen wird, um dort eine Zeit…

Mein Weg als Deutscher und Jude

Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett


Jakob Wassermann


Die Autobiographie "Mein Weg als Deutscher und Jude" skizziert die Lebens- und Sinnsuche des Schriftstellers Jakob Wassermanns. Di…

Selections from Josephus

Read by Rebecca Eden Walker


Flavius Josephus


Jewish historian, military leader and Roman citizen, Titus Flavius Josephus, provides the most thorough history of the 1st century Roman Emp…

The Grand Cañon of the Colorado

Read by Rebecca Eden Walker


John Muir


Nothing is ordinary in the world of John Muir, naturalist and author known as the Father of the US National Parks. In this short work, writ…

The Body and Being Network

Read by Rebecca Leach and Stanely Ulijaszek


Rebecca Leach and Stanely Ulijaszek


University of Oxford Podcasts

15 - Chapter XV

In The Golden Lion of Granpere

Read by Larry Beasley


Anthony Trollope


Time to do a short Continental trip with Trollope and see if we agree with Walpole. "...not only Trollope's very best shorter book, but…

18 - Book IV, Chapters 1-4

In Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

Read by Larry Beasley


The Venerable Bede


Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England is a work in Latin by Bede on the history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England gene…

Days - Read by LJB

In Days

Read by Larry Beasley


Ralph Waldo Emerson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 10, 2012.As a lectur…

06 - Section 06

In The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III

Read by Larry Beasley


James Boswell


This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this …

10 - Sir Magnus Mountjoy

In Mr Scarborough's Family

Read by Larry Beasley


Anthony Trollope


MR SCARBOROUGH, wealthy owner of Tretton Park in Staffordshire, is dying. His eldest son and heir Mountjoy has gambled away his inheritance …

Das tapfere Schneiderlein

In Märchen 5

Read by Rebecca


grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen die Brüder Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, traditionelle, bisher vor allem mündlich weitergegebene E…

The Daring Prince

In In the Nursery of My Bookhouse

Read by Rebecca


Olive Beaupre Miller, Walter de la Mare and Variousandolive Beaupre Miller


Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the "My Bookh…