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Part 3, Chapter 5

In White Fang

Read by Jessica Jeffries


Jack London


White Fang (1906) was written as a companion to Jack London's successful Call of the Wild (1903). It is the tale of a wild dog born in the …

The Warden (version 2)

Read by Jessica Louise


Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope sets the scene for his wonderful Chronicles of Barsetshire with this short novel about Septimus Harding's challenged eccles…

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

Read by Jessica Louise


Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope's autobiography will delight you whether or not you've read (or listened to) any of his many works. His honest if self-depr…

Cats by the Way

Read by Jessica Louise


Sarah E. Trueblood


Between these pages you will find only the good, old-fashioned, every-day cat. No Angora or thoroughbred has been entered here, unless it be…

Highways in Hiding

Read by Jessica Martin


George O. Smith


Mechanical engineer Steve Cornell lives in a world where ESP and telepathy are normal, and a spreading plague called Mekstrom’s Disease turn…

In the Wilderness (Version 2)

Read by Jessica Zdanowicz


Charles Dudley Warner


Warner’s main theme is how small and often-ridiculous the human being is when exploring in the wilderness. Warner’s love of nature and his c…

Comme tous les soirs

In Poèmes

Read by Jessica


Emile Verhaeren


La poésie du poète flamand Émile Verhaeren (1855-1916) est inspirée par son observation critique de la vie des g…

The Perception of Victory: Israel’s Recent Experiences of Winning and Losing th…

In Changing Character of War

Read by Tim Fawdry-Jeffries


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The first wife's wedding-ring

In Old Fashioned Fairy Tales

Read by Jessica Jones


Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing


Ogres, hillmen, and both fairies and fools abound by forest and town in this book by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing. Designed to cultivate imag…

Chapter IIIa, Part 1

In An American Vendetta: A Story of Barbarism in the United States

Read by Jessica Hendra


Theron Clark Crawford


The phrase "The Hatfields and McCoys" conjures up images of feudal warfare and Appalachian backwardness even to this day. This is …

The Red Shoes

In Faery Tales from Hans Christian Andersen

Read by Jessica Allen


Hans Christian Andersen


This is a 1910 edition of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. This volume is nicely mixed, containing both the most famous tales as …

XXXVI

In Say and Seal, Volume 2

Read by Jessica Hendra


Anna Bartlett Warner


The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mr…

Part 2, Chapter 7

In A Lost Lady (Verson 2)

Read by Jessica Hendra


Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


Charismatic Marian Forrester, the wife of a railroad pioneer, captures the heart of every person she meets. Niel Herbert is no exception. He…

34 - The Messengers

In The Islands of Magic

Read by Jessica Louise


Elsie Spicer Eells


LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beauti…

12 - Thoreau

In The Spirit of American Literature

Read by Jessica Louise


John Albert Macy


THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century …

03 - THE REFUGEES

In The Scarlet Pimpernel (Version 2)

Read by Jessica Potter


Baroness Emma Orczy


In the year 1792, the French Revolution is in the midst of its bloodiest stage. Aristocrats are being executed left and right by the Republi…