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Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries o…
Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin
Read by Mark Philp, David O’Shaughnessy and Ellen Sandford O'Neill
Mark Philp, David O’Shaughnessy and Ellen Sandford O'Neill
University of Oxford Podcasts
Victorian Literature
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Clement Shorter
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and cri…
Areopagitica (Version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor o…
The History of Britain
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE a…
More Misrepresentative Men
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Harry Graham
A collection of humorous verse covering a variety of men.
The Chronicles of America Volume 12 - Washington and his Comrades in Arms
Read by Jim Locke
George Wrong
This twelfth volume in the Chronicles of America (series) follows the lengthy and difficult war against England for independence as led by G…
The Free Press
Read by Sean McClain
Hilaire Belloc
I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and i…
The Spinster Book
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Myrtle Reed
A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling m…
The Pupil
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…
Who Did It?
Read by Phil Benson
Nat Gould
Following the dissolution of the New South Wales government, Henry Bryce is ready to take on the Labour Party for the seat of Balmain East. …
The Orphan
Read by Mark Nelson
Clarence Edward Mulford
Many men swore that The Orphan was bad, and many swore profanely and with wonderful command of epithets because he was bad, but for obvious …
The Thread of Flame
Read by Simon Evers
Basil King
Edward wakes up on board a ship crossing the Atlantic, on his return from the Great War – however, he finds that his memory of who he is and…
The Coryston Family
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
Lady Coryston has inherited her husband’s estate but surprisingly has not left it on her death to Coryston (known as Corry) her oldest son. …
The Side of the Angels
Read by Simon Evers
Basil King
The book is set in New England in the early 20th century in an old established community where times are rapidly changing but nonetheless th…
The Analogy of Religion to the Constitution and Course of Nature
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Joseph Butler
Joseph Butler's great work is the Analogy, published in 1736, and from that day read and admired by every highly-cultivated mind. He was ind…
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett (Incomplete Set)
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning
"In considering the question of publishing these letters, which are all that ever passed between my father and mother, for after their …
Seven Men
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Max Beerbohm
In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively…