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Golf in America

In The Complete Golfer

Read by Ryan Powell


Harry Vardon


Here is the complete book about golf, as played in the early 1900s. The author was a successful competitive golfer, winning The Open Champio…

The Logic of Hegel

Read by Ryan Smallwood


Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


This is the William Wallace translation of the first part of Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences on logic. This is an outline…

King Alfred of England

Read by Ryan Cherrick


Jacob Abbott


The life and accomplishments of England's sole title holder of "The Great." King Alfred defended England from Viking invasions an…

Slab City Blues: A Hymn to Gods Long Dead

Read by Anthony Ryan


Anthony Ryan


The Slab. A vast orbiting slum where sweat falls in rain and the gene-spliced come in all shapes and sizes. Inspector Alex McLeod, recently…

Legends of Norseland

Read by Ryan Williams


Mara L. Pratt


Collection of tales from the Norse legends, from the beginning of the golden kingdom of the Aesir, to it's end within the flames of Ragnarok…

A Lad of Mettle

Read by Ryan Jakob


Nat Gould


When Edgar Foster came to Redbank School he was sixteen, small for his age, but muscular and active. Alumni of the school included accomplis…

Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part E…

In European Studies Centre

Read by Charles Powell


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Lost Hearts by M. R. James

In Lovecraft's Influences and Favorites

Read by JMH Powell


M. R. James


In 1927, H. P. Lovecraft wrote a long essay on "Supernatural Horror in Literature" in which he discussed the history of what came …

Chapter 8

In Abandoned

Read by Kevin Powell


Jules Verne


Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a …

Chapter V

In A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln

Read by Rob Powell


John G. Nicolay and John George Nicolay


John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive …

Something Natural

In Early Poems

Read by Kevin Powell


James Russell Lowell


This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…

Chapter 10 Part (1) THE ESCAPE

In Moonfleet

Read by Rob Powell


J. Meade Falkner and John Meade Falkner


The novel is set in a fishing village in Dorset during the mid 18th century. The story concerns a 15 year old orphan boy, John Trenchard, wh…

The Doctors of Hoyland, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

In The Doctor's Red Lamp

Read by Bruce Powell


Charles Wells Moulton


A fictional series of short stories from various authors, each containing stories of doctors. The compiled set of stories has various ranges…

Ch 1 - On the Banks of the Orange River

In Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa

Read by Ryan


Jules Verne


Three Englishmen and Three Russians travel across the width of South Africa to measure a meridian. The outbreak of the Crimean War makes th…

Ode

In The Poetry of South Africa

Read by Ryan


Alexander Wilmot


Alexander Wilmot was a Cape Town politician and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of the History of the Zulu War 1…

Book 1, ch. 01

In The History of the Peloponnesian War

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Thucydides


The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led …