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Planning Future War

In Changing Character of War

Read by Rob Johnson


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

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…

Twelve Years a Slave

Read by Rob Marland


Solomon Northup


Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for…

The Beast in the Jungle

Read by Rob James


Henry James


'The Beast in the Jungle' is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. Almost universally c…

Aristotle's Masterpiece

Read by Rob Marland


Pseudo-Aristotle


Aristotle's Masterpiece, also known as The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher, is a sex manual and a midwifery book that was popular…

Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship

Read by Rob Marland


Robert Sherard


Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. The Story of an Unhappy Friendship was the first of his four biogr…

The Life of Oscar Wilde

Read by Rob Marland


Robert Sherard


Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. The Life of Oscar Wilde was the second of his four biographies of …

Prisoner for Blasphemy

Read by Rob Marland


George William Foote


George William Foote, a British secularist, was convicted and imprisoned on the charge of blasphemy after founding "The Freethinker&quo…

A Lost Lady

Read by Rob Marland


Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


The young Niel Herbert idolizes Marian Forrester, the beautiful and charismatic wife of a pioneering railroad magnate. After discovering Mrs…

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (1868-1890)

Read by Rob Marland


Oscar Wilde


This first collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde begins with the Irish playwright's earliest extant letter, thanking his mother fo…

Oscar Wilde and Myself

Read by Rob Marland


Lord Alfred Douglas


The first memoir by the poet Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas was written 14 years after the death of Oscar Wilde and in the aftermath of Douglas…

Oscar Wilde: The Complete Interviews

Read by Rob Marland


Various


This complete collection of Oscar Wilde’s English language interviews gives listeners the opportunity to hear one of history’s greatest conv…

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