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Ball of Fat (Boule de suif) Version 2

Read by Bob Neufeld


Guy de Maupassant


Boule de Suif (1880) is a short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story, …

The Perfect Wagnerite

Read by Bob Neufeld


George Bernard Shaw


The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring (originally published London, 1898) is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagne…

In the Fog

Read by Bob Gonzalez


Richard Harding Davis


The story is set in London, at an elite gentleman’s club called "The Grill," where an American gentleman arrests the attention of …

Mudfog and Other Sketches

Read by Bob Neufeld


Charles Dickens


The Mudfog Papers was written by Victorian era novelist Charles Dickens and published from 1837–38 in the monthly literary serial Bentley's …

Master Flea

Read by Bob Neufeld


E. T. A. Hoffmann


Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776 – 1822), better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Ro…

Whispering Smith

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


Whispering Smith, like most of Frank Spearman's western novels (and some non-fiction as well) are set in the world of railroads, in the late…

Vintage Verse Rhapsody: A Poetry Collection

Read by Bob Gonzalez


Various


A collection of poetry selected and performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode. Rhapsodes of Ancient Greece were “song-stitchers,” performing selec…

The Crossing

Read by Bob R


Winston Churchill


This is an historical fiction novel. Many real characters of history are included, as well as fictitious ones. The saga takes place in the p…

Laramie Holds The Range

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


As with most of Frank Spearman's novels (and non-fiction), "Laramie Holds the Range" is set in the West during our early railroad …

The Country House

Read by Bob R


John Galsworthy


In “The Country House”, John Galsworthy explores many of the themes he would later expand upon in his better known, nine-novel, “The Forsyth…

The Painted Veil

Read by Bob R


W. Somerset Maugham


This Maugham classic is set in England and Hong Kong and in a cholera --ridden Chinese village in the 1920's. A committed, principled, epide…

The Winning of Barbara Worth

Read by Bob R


Harold Bell Wright


This is a fairly substantial western, written in 1911 by Harold Bell Wright, then a major bestselling author. (His best-known novel is “The …

The Conquest of Canaan

Read by Bob R


Booth Tarkington


Small town middle America in early 1900's---Ne'er-do-well Joe Louden loves daughter of wealthy judge, from afar---leaves town, goes to law s…

Robert Kimberly

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


The novel is set among the wealthy of the Northeast in the USA of the early 1900's. A close knit group of about ten couples in high society …

The Daughter of a Magnate

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


This is an American Western without any bad guys. The main characters are trains, and the elements---snow, terrain, weather and water. Fra…

Jabez: Conceived in Pain, Delivered in Victory

Read by Bob Rench


Bob Rench


The Old Testament of the Bible contains many mysterious passages. In 1 Chronicles 4:9-10, we find a short prayer uttered by an obscure man: …

The Rising of the Tide

Read by Bob R


Ida M. Tarbell


The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…

Poor White: a Novel

Read by Bob R


Sherwood Anderson


This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…

Helen of the Old House

Read by Bob R


Harold Bell Wright


Helen is not the main character; it is the mill, in this small town in the first half of the 20th century. This is a story of labor strife, …

Ocean Circulation and Climate: Observing and Modelling the Global Ocean

In Complexity and Systemic Risk: Hilary Term Seminar Series 2010

Read by David Marshall


Various


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