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The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories

Read by James K. White


Guy de Maupassant


This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White.

The Colonel's Dream

Read by James K. White


Charles Waddell Chesnutt


In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former st…

Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart

Read by James K. White


Maria W. Stewart


Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery a…

The Coming Wrath

Read by John K. Reed


John K. Reed


A world lost in time and history. The earth as it was before the world wide flood destroyed the face of the planet almost five thousand year…

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs

Read by James K. White


Stanley Lane-Poole


A history of the pirating activities along and around the "Barbary coast" between the 15th and 19th centuries, from the time of th…

South American Jungle Tales

Read by James K. White


Horacio Quiroga


The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact …

Six Months In Mexico

Read by James K. White


Nellie Bly


This is an account of Nellie Bly's travels through Mexico in 1885. The book was originally a series of individual articles that she submitte…

Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.

Read by James K. White


Washington Irving


The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1824) is a compilation of eight humorous and observational letters written by American writer, Wash…

Bertram Cope's Year

Read by James K. White


Henry Blake Fuller


This novel was perhaps the most daring and affirmative LGBT literature of the first two decades of the 20th century in America. In this stor…

Mardi Vol. 2

Read by James K. White


Herman Melville


Mardi is Melville's first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates man's beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over …

Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun

Read by James K. White


Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun


This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun's childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the fortuitous break that introduced h…

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Volume 1

Read by James K. White


Robert Paltock


This is a story about a Cornish man who becomes stranded on an island and survives much like Robinson Crusoe did. Although he finds enough t…

Violets And Other Tales

Read by James K. White


Alice Dunbar Nelson


This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and…

Marion, the Story of an Artist's Model

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Onoto Watanna


In this Asian/Canadian perspective on "foreignness," Marion (the protagonist) eventually leaves the cruelty of racial discriminati…

Stanton White: A Romance of the New South

Read by James K. White


Asa Zadel Hall


In this tome the Northern narrator, Harold Edson, visits the American South with his college friend, Stanton White, in order to study first …

Award Ceremony 2014: guest speaker Joanne Pearce

In Department for Continuing Education Award Ceremony 2014

Read by Joanne Pearce


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Eyes Have It

In Short Science Fiction Collection 066

Read by Nathaniel Pearce


James McKimmey, Jr.


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Societies in Transition: Farming in Island Southeast Asia

In Societies in Transition

Read by Graeme Barker


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Leather Funnel

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 006

Read by Graeme Dunlop


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


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

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