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The White Peacock

Read by Simon Evers


D. H. Lawrence


The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2)

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James Weldon Johnson


The story of a biracial man living in the deep south after the reconstruction era. He is young and talented. Yet, in order for him to avoid …

The Little White Bird

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J. M. Barrie


"A children's book, sharp social commentary and sad psychological thriller about a man's search for a sense of belonging. All in one am…

The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt


Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim …

James Watt

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Andrew Carnegie


This biography of the inventor James Watt covers his early years, successes and failures, and legacy. (Summary by Bill Boerst)

Washington Square

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Henry James


Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Ma…

Metaphor: Philosophical Issues

Read by James Grant


James Grant


University of Oxford Podcasts

Jonathan Myerson You Choose


SANWAL


You Choose by Jonathan Myerson Encountering an old flame on the Tube, Zoe's comfortable life begins to disintegrate as Simon's dark vision s…

Stories in Black and White

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Various


This is a collection of short mystery stories, written in very different styles by eight different authors. - Summary by Carolin

The Bostonians, Vol. 1 & 2

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Henry James


This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chance…

The American

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least …

The White Man's Burden

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Rudyard Kipling


Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United …

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave

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Henry Bibb


Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother …

Red Men And White

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Owen Wister


These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so …

The Divine Companion (Version 2)

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James Allen


It cannot be said of this book that James Allen wrote it at any particular time or in any one year, for he was engaged in it over many years…

Short Stories for Colored People Both Old and Young

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Silas X. Floyd


Several short stories relating to young African Americans. Summary by kirk202

Dark Princess

Read by Verla Viera


W. E. B. Du Bois


This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black medical student, is dismissed from medical school because the white board has de…

The Ambassadors

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American ab…

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 Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

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Various


From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored c…

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