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The Man Who Was Thursday (Version 2)

Read by Anthony Ogus


G. K. Chesterton


Subtitled by the author as a "Nightmare", this is a fantasy, comic thriller about a plot to end the world by a group of anarchists…

England, My England

Read by Anthony Ogus


D. H. Lawrence


A book of ten short stories, written with Lawrence's typical sensibility to and awareness of social mores, set around the period of the Firs…

Typhoon (version 2)

Read by Anthony Ogus


Joseph Conrad


A seafaring novella in which those manning ships are pitted against the forces of nature. A typical Conrad exploration of human beings under…

The Third Person

Read by Anthony Orr


Henry James


The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come …

Non-Combatants and Others

Read by Anthony Ogus


Rose Macaulay


Through a variety of experiences of the effects of the First World War, an art student is drawn into pacifism. Rose Macaulay's satirical no…

Ghetto Comedies

Read by Anthony Ogus


Israel Zangwill


A series of tales, poignant as well as comic, set in the Jewish East End of London by the writer known as the "Dickens of the ghetto&qu…

The Diaries of John Evelyn Volume I

Read by Anthony Ogus


John Evelyn


John Evelyn was a 17th century polymath, with interests in the fine arts, architecture, gardening, as well as anatomy and the natural scienc…

The Hole in the Wall

Read by Anthony Ogus


Arthur Morrison


A lively story about a pub, and those who ran it, at the end of the 19th century in the East End Dockland of London, with its poverty-strick…

Moonskin

Read by Anthony J. Zingales


Anthony J. Zingales


“Space is the cure to careless savagery, to stagnant two-party politics, to the fear that condemns visionary science to the dusty shelves of…

The Hardy Boys: The Shore Road Mystery (version 2)

Read by Anthony St. Pierre


Franklin W. Dixon


The Hardy Boys track down a ring of car thieves - summary by Anthony St. Pierre

Origins of Nature

Read by Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


University of Oxford Podcasts

Coco Bolo Rex

In Coco Bolo: King of the Floating Island

Read by Deanna


Sidford Frederick Hamp


Sisters Margaret and Frances wait for their younger brother Edward to go for a nap before embarking on the adventure of trying to stand on t…

Book 6, Chapter 26

In Anna Karenina, Book 6

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Leo Tolstoy


Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…

Chapter 07

In Agnes Grey (Dramatic Reading)

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Anne Bronte and Anne Brontë


Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn money to care for herself, she takes one o…

Eating

In The Depths of the Soul

Read by Deanna Strauss


Wilhelm Stekel


Wilhelm Stekel was an Austrian physician and psychologist and one of Freud’s earliest followers. This title, originally published in 1921, w…

01 - Volume 1. Chapter 1 - In The Lobby

In The Rebel Rose

Read by Deanna Bovee


Justin McCarthy and Rosa Campbell Praed and Justin Mccarthy


The Rebel Rose is the story of Mary Stuart Beaton, a descendant of Mary Queen of Scots who has come to London in the hope of having her fami…

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