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Design for the Reconstruction: housing Exhibitions and the QT8 Model District at…

In Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

Read by Elena Dellapiana


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

12 - December

In A Chesterton Calendar

Read by Elena


G. K. Chesterton


Go through the year, day by day, with the wit and wisdom of G.K. Chesterton! Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C', both in verse and in pro…

01 - Schoolroom and Meeting-House

In A New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory

Read by Elena


Lucy Larcom


Lucy Larcom was an American poet, teacher, and mill-worker. According to Wikipedia: "Larcom served as a model for the change in women's…

01 - The Tenant of the Silent House

In The Silent House

Read by Elena


Fergus Hume


A mystery about a "locked door" murder committed in a house that has a reputation for being haunted. In the first half of the book…

Chapter 4: The Voice of Nature

In A Modern Utopia

Read by Elena


H. G. Wells


H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the …

Chapter 17 - Lyceums and lecturers

In Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

Read by Elena


Elizabeth Cady Stanton


Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the premier movers in the original women’s rights movement, along with Susan B. Anthony, her best friend f…

The Princess and the Pea

In Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection 003

Read by Elena Geiser


Ганс Христиан Андерсен and Hans Christian Andersen


In LibriVox’s Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain fairy tales. This is a collection o…

La Cattura

In Novelle per un Anno, vol. 11: La Giara

Read by Elena Pol


Luigi Pirandello


Novelle per un anno è una raccolta di 241 novelle scritte da Luigi Pirandello. Originariamente sono state pubblicate sul Corriere del…

The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, part 2

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 2

Read by Elena Pol


Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…

Original Sin

In A Book of Bargains

Read by Corinne Elena


Vincent O'Sullivan


This is a volume of short horror stories by American-born short story writer, poet and critic Vincent O'Sullivan. Sometimes considered the l…

Doing business by making news or making news by doing business?

In Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Read by Elena Raviola


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

El monte de las ánimas

In Leyendas

Read by Elena del Valle


Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer


Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, aparte de su importante obra lírica, escribió narraciones del género leyenda, muchas de …

Chapter 10

In War and Peace, Book 07: 1810-1811

Read by Elena the Quiet


Leo Tolstoy


War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

Conclusions and Impressions

In The Montessori Method

Read by Elena the Quiet


Maria Montessori


In the early 1900's Dr. Maria Montessori began to reform educational methods with her work the 'Case dei Bambini' in Rome, Italy. Montessori…