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Hunting and Fishing

In Ontario Public School Geography

Read by Bryce Allen


Unknown


This Ontario Public School textbook, published in 1922, contains some fascinating facts of a world which no longer exists. It seems politica…

Fried Green Zombies

Read by John Allen


John Allen


Chett and Harry are two recently unemployed construction workers on their way to a weekend of beer, Southern Comfort, and frog gigging at th…

The Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2)

Read by George Allen


Virgil


The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…

Donal Grant

Read by Devorah Allen


George MacDonald


After leaving home in search of work, Donal Grant accepts a position as tutor to a young boy who lives in a sprawling castle, which also hou…

Malcolm

Read by Devorah Allen


George MacDonald


Malcolm MacPhail has lived, for all of his twenty or so years, in a fishing village on the north coast of Scotland. He lives with his grandf…

Little Miss Grasshopper

Read by Devorah Allen


Johanna Spyri


The Feland family go on a holiday in Switzerland. While there, their impulsive younger daughter gets into a scrape that teaches the whole fa…

Symbolism

Read by Jeff Allen


Johann Adam Möhler


Johann Adam Möhler was professor theology at the Tübingen University where both Catholics and Protestants taught and studied. In 1…

Human Sacrifice

Read by Jeff Allen


John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton


This was one of Lord Acton's essays, that was in response to the publication of the letters between Sir Robert Peel and Lord Macaulay. Lord…

Dymer

Read by Devorah Allen


C. S. Lewis


This is a narrative poem written by C.S. Lewis, begun in his teen years and published when he was a tutor at Oxford. It appeared in print un…

The Marquis of Lossie

Read by Devorah Allen


George MacDonald


This book is the sequel to Malcolm.Having now learned the truth of his own parentage, and some important facts regarding the birth of his la…

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…

The Basis Of Morality

Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf


Arthur Schopenhauer


In 1837, the Danish Royal Society of Sciences offered a prize to any essayist who could satisfactorily answer the question, "Is the fou…

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya, Volume 1

Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf


Bādarāyaṇaandadi Shankara


The Vedanta Sutras, or Brahma Sutras as they are also known, is a Sanskrit text attributed to the sage Badarayana (also known as Vyasa) writ…

Animals’ Rights Considered In Relation To Social Progress (Version 2)

Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf


Henry Salt


Published in 1892, this pioneering book presents early philosophical and ethical arguments for the compassionate treatment of animals and cr…

Asparagus

In Miscellaneous Essays of G. K. Chesterton

Read by Bryce Albertson


G. K. Chesterton


These eleven files are miscellaneous short essays or stories from G.K. Chesterton. They were chosen for not only their brevity but also for …

Bryce McLeod, a Life in Mathematics In conversation with John Ball

In The Secrets of Mathematics

Read by Bryce McLeod and John Ball


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

A Scientist Rises

In Short Science Fiction Collection 016

Read by dana-allen


Desmond Winter Hall


Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

24 - Christ Clothed with the True Substance of Human Nature

In Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 2

Read by dana-allen


John Calvin


Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western worl…

Pillar 4. Community Policing and Crime Reduction, part 2

In Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing

Read by Devorah Allen


President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing and President'S Task Force On 21St Century Policing


In light of recent events that have exposed rifts in the relationships between local police and the communities they protect and serve, on D…