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Living with Flooding: Science, democracy and the complex challenge of managing e…

In Alumni Weekend

Read by Sarah Whatmore


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Blazing World

Read by Sarah Terry


Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle and Margaret Lucas Cavendish


The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is, all at once, a satire, a treatise on natural philosophy, a work of proto-science fiction, and a …

How to Camp Out

Read by Sarah Jennings


John Mead Gould


Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern reader…

A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

Read by Sarah Jennings


E. Louise Smythe


This is a book of simple, classic stories for beginning readers. It is included in Year 1 of the Ambleside reading list. There are short lis…

The Spirit of the Curé of Ars

Read by Sarah Cain


Alfred Monnin


St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney (known in English as St. John Vianney), was a French priest that lived from 1786-1859. He would later become…

The Tell-Tale Heart

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 015

Read by Sarah


Edgar Allan Poe


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

The Burghers' Gathering

In The Poetry of South Africa

Read by Sarah


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…

The Storyteller

In Ballads of Peace in War

Read by Sarah


Michael Earls


This is a collection of poetry by Michael Earls, a Jesuit priest, writer, poet, teacher, and administrator. This collection of poetry concer…

The Pearl Necklace, part 2

In Deeds of Daring done by Girls

Read by Sarah


Hannah Hudson Moore


Do not think, dear girls, that because you are girls you may not have as much courage as your brothers. I believe that quite as stout hearts…

47 - Snow-white and Rose-red

In The Fairy Ring

Read by Sarah Jennings


Kate D. Wiggin and Nora A. Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin


The Fairy Ring, originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites…

Section 6

In Write it Right

Read by Sarah Jennings


Ambrose Bierce


Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, though…

08 - The Plains of Abraham September 13, 1759

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 11 - The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe

Read by Sarah Jennings


William Wood


Any life of Wolfe can be artificially simplified by treating his purely military work as something complete in itself and not as a part of a…

Lessons

In An Old-Fashioned Girl (version 2)

Read by Sarah Gutierrez


Louisa May Alcott


Country-girl Polly Milton visits her fashionable cousins in the city, who make fun of her old-fashioned values. Will Polly adapt to city lif…

A Home View

In Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Version 2)

Read by Sarah McClanahan


Margaret Sidney


The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew tells the story of how the Peppers live, learn, and play in their little brown house. They are poo…

30 - Chapter XXX

In The Egoist

Read by Sarah Prusoff


George Meredith


The Egoist is a tragi-comical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patte…

17 - Chapter 16 - Belvane Enjoys Herself

In Once on a Time

Read by Sarah LuAnn


A. A. Milne


When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle …