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The Seven Wonders of Galaxy Zoo

In Stargazing

Read by Becky Smethurst


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Romeo and Juliet

Read by Becky Miller


William Shakespeare


Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history. It co…

Selected Poems of Robert Frost

Read by Becky Miller


Robert Frost


Robert Frost, who lived from March 26, 1874 to January 29, 1963, was a winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes and one of America’s best loved poets. Th…

Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Read by Becky Miller


Emily Dickinson


Emily Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the quintessential poets of 19th century America. A very private poet with a very quiet an…

Daniel Deronda

Read by Becky Miller


George Eliot


In this enduring Victorian classic written in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's…

Woman and the New Race

Read by Becky Cook


Margaret Sanger


Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one poin…

A Boy's Will

Read by Becky Miller


Robert Frost


A Boy's Will is Robert Frost's first full volume of poetry. Issued when Frost was approaching forty, it established his reputation and creat…

The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

Read by Becky Cook


Robert W. Service


Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this …

Selected Lullabies of Eugene Field

Read by Becky Miller


Eugene Field


The sweetest songs the world has ever heard are the lullabies that have been crooned above its cradles. The music of Beethoven and Mozart, o…

XLVI

In Say and Seal, Volume 2

Read by Becky


Anna Bartlett Warner


The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mr…

Entitlement, belonging and outsiderness: Britain's Gypsy Travellers in the twent…

In Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Read by Becky Taylor


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

02 - Chapter II

In Afloat on the Ohio

Read by Becky Cook


Reuben Gold Thwaites


Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

Ch. 2 - Girlhood and its Sorrows

In Behind the Scenes

Read by Becky Cook


Elizabeth Keckley


This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…

Glooskap: Story 5

In The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Pass…

Read by Becky Cook


Charles Godfrey Leland


This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…

THE FALSE DAUPHINS IN FRANCE: AUGUSTUS MEVES

In Claimants to Royalty

Read by Becky Cook


John H. Ingram and John Henry Ingram


A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)