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Research Seminar: Michelangelo: A Life on Paper

In History of Art

Read by Leonard Barkan


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Spirit of the Border

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Zane Grey


This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters an…

John Keats: Selected Poems

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


John Keats


John Keats is perhaps the most talented poet of the English Romantic Period. Although his life was cut short by disease at the age of 25, he…

Kazan

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


James Oliver Curwood


Kazan (sometimes published with the subtitle The Wolf Dog) is a once very popular novel by environmentalist and author James Oliver Curwood.…

Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Percy Bysshe Shelley


The English Romantic Period in literature featured a towering group of excellent poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. If …

Orley Farm

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Anthony Trollope


Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English langua…

Evangeline

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Evangeline is one of Longfellow’s most popular poems and was once a great favorite with the American people. For many years almost every sch…

The Courtship of Miles Standish

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbe…

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Mark Twain


The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took t…

Selected Poems

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and his sister Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) played important roles in the artistic milieu of V…

Indian Summer

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


William Dean Howells


In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of…

Aucassin and Nicolette

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Andrew Lang, Unknowntranslated Byandrew Lang and Translated Byandrew Lang


Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the earl…

Amoretti: A sonnet sequence

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Edmund Spenser


The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for …

Conflict Culture

In First World War: New Perspectives

Read by Matthew Leonard


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Ways of speaking, ways of knowing

In Anthropology

Read by Stephen Leonard


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Declining Fertility Rates in Japan and Other Low Fertility Nations: Can We Diagn…

In Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Read by Leonard Schoppa


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

CSAE Conference 2014 - Interview with Leonard Wantchekon

In Centre for the Study of African Economies Conference

Read by Leonard Wantchekon


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

One two three more: challenges to describing a warmer world

In 4 Degrees and Beyond International Climate Conference

Read by Leonard Smith


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Ending Wars in a Wilsonian World: Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1…

In Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

Read by Leonard Smith


Various


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10 - CHAPTER X - SHY NEIGHBOURHOODS

In The Uncommercial Traveller

Read by John Leonard


Charles Dickens


The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new …

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