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Oblomov

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Ivan Goncharov


Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the nove…

A Hero of Our Time

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov


A Hero of Our Time is indeed a portrait, but not of one man. It is a portrait built up of all our generation's vices in full bloom. You will…

Poems from the Divan of Hafiz

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Hafiz and Hafez


Hafiz was a Persian poet. His collected works (Divan) are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature. While influenced by Islam, his mysti…

Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Varioustranslated Bybabette Deutsch


This volume...aims to present the lyrical poetry of Russian for the last hundred years by a selection of poems translated by the editors...T…

Idle Days in Patagonia

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


William Henry Hudson


Hudson traveled to Patagonia to study the birds, but shortly upon arrival accidentally shot himself in the knee, requiring a lengthy period …

Kriloff's Fables

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Ivan Krylov


Herein is a collection of 86 fables translated into English from the 201 written by Kriloff. Some of Kriloff's fables are translations from …

How a British Subject Became President of the United States

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Arthur P. Hinman


In 1880, the New York Times reported a curious story from St. Albans, Vermont, about a mysterious figure, an attorney and Democratic operati…

Addressing water security risks: can we leapfrog carbon?

In Water Security, Risk and Society Conference

Read by Robert Bell


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

“Not for Glory, not for Gain!” The Czech Glass Spartakiad Figurine, 1955

In Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

Read by Rebecca Bell


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Boat Race Naming Ceremony 2009

In University Life

Read by John Bell


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Crime and immigration

In Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Read by Brian Bell


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Foreign correspondent Bethany Bell (Keble, 1987)

In Alumni Voices

Read by Bethany Bell


Bethany Bell


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Passing of the Constellations

In Curiosities of the Sky

Read by Greg Bell


Garrett Serviss and Garrett P. Serviss


Astronomy is known as the oldest of the sciences, and it will be the longest-lived because it will always have arcana that have not been pen…

The Villefort Family Vault

In The Count of Monte Cristo

Read by Clarke Bell


Alexandre Dumas


The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …

Book 2, Chapter 1

In Hard Times

Read by Stuart Bell


Charles Dickens


Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the r…

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