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Frances Stewart describes key findings of Dynamic Comparison workshop

In Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative

Read by Frances Stewart


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories

Read by Carolyn Frances


Louisa May Alcott


Here are tales of love and war, modesty and frivolity, laughter and tears. Louisa May Alcott wrote many, many short stories. This collection…

Little Bear

Read by Carolyn Frances


Laura Rountree Smith


A story for children about a little bear with no name, “there were not enough names to go round,” and his adventures in finding one. (Summar…

Moby Dick, or the Whale

Read by Stewart Wills


Herman Melville


Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel …

Lord Jim

Read by Stewart Wills


Joseph Conrad


A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in…

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer…

Read by Claude Stewart


T. D. Bonner


James P. Beckworth, born in Virginia at the dawn of our Nation, moved with his family to eastern Missouri settling a few miles below what is…

The Magnificent Adventure (Version 2)

Read by Claude Stewart


Emerson Hough


In The Magnificent Adventure-Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman, by Emerson Hou…

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Read by Claude Stewart


James Hogg


The author calls this a religious parable and it is called an allegory in the book itself. A young, 18th century Scottish boy is converted t…

Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography

Read by Claude Stewart


Edwin Eastman


Best described as a fictional autobiography, Clark Johnson authored the following adventure to promote the sale of his brand of Homeopathic …

A Ballade of the "How To" Books

In Short Poetry Collection 050

Read by Carolyn Frances


John James Davies


LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 050: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Republic - Book 7 - The Allegory of the Cave

In Favourite Chapters Collection 003

Read by Carolyn Frances


Plato


A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderf…

The Turnings of a Bookworm

In Short Story Collection Vol. 018

Read by Carolyn Frances


Carolyn Wells


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 018: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.