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Long before 1900 there began a fusion of African and European musical forms from which, at the end of the nineteenth century, "jazz” em…

Scanners Live In Vain

Read by Ben Tucker

Cordwainer Smith

This story deals with science-fiction's oldest subject—space-travel. Yet the author's treatment of the subject is so completely different th…

An Essay Upon Wind, with Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peuters

Read by Ben Tucker

Charles James Fox

Purported to be written by noted British Parliamentarian Charles James Fox as a result of a wager, this important and engaging essay is a me…

The Black Drama

Read by Ben Tucker

Manly Wade Wellman

A strange weird story about the eery personality known as Varduk, who claimed descent from Lord Byron, and the hideous doom that stalked in …

Lilith

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA

George MacDonald

Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its lat…

Undine

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA

Friedrich De La Motte Fouqué

Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to …

The Expressman and the Detective

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA

Allan Pinkerton

Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, …

Hymns to the Night

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA

Novalis

"Hymns to the Night" is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philoso…

Christie's Old Organ

Read by Esther ben Simonides

Mrs. O. F. Walton

Christie is all alone in the world after his mother dies. He lives in a boarding house and every night creeps up the attic stairs to hear an…

Poppy's Presents

Read by Esther ben Simonides

Mrs. O. F. Walton

One day, Poppy gets told her mother has a present for her. But the neighbors laugh and say there is such a thing as too much of a good thing…

Joel, a Boy of Galilee

Read by Esther ben Simonides

Annie Fellows Johnston

Joel, a crippled boy, cannot play with the children and has nothing to care about. Rabbi Phineas helps him to find something he can do and t…

The Haunted Room

Read by Esther ben Simonides

Charlotte Maria Tucker

Mr. Trevor inherits a piece of land in the country called Myst Court, and plans to move there with his three children: Emmie, Bruce, and Vib…

The Spanish Cavalier

Read by Esther ben Simonides

Charlotte Maria Tucker

Jarwin and Cuffy

Read by Esther ben Simonides

R. M. Ballantyne

Jarwin is an English sailor who has been shipwrecked. He is stranded on a raft with only his dog Cuffy, and land is nowhere in sight. Their …

Coming to the King

Read by Esther ben Simonides

Frances Ridley Havergal

A collection of poems by Frances Ridley Havergal and others, all describing different aspects of our walk with God, from 'Coming to the King…

A Queen

Read by Esther ben Simonides

Ottilie Wildermuth

Maggie is an orphan who depends on the charity of the farmer she lives with. She tries to be cheerful and helpful to everyone where she is. …

Origins of Nature

Read by Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny

Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny

University of Oxford Podcasts

Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa

In Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

In Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening participation in the Hum…

Read by Abigail Williams

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