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09 - The Giant Who had no Heart in his Body

In East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Read by Anqi Wang


Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen


Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty chil…

Chapter 7 - Two Famous Versions of the Scriptures

In The Bible in Its Making

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Mildred Duff and Noel Hope and Mildred Duff


One great universal law runs through the realm of nature. Our Saviour gave it in a sentence: 'First the blade, then the ear, after that the …

Poem 222 - 贫女 (Mandarin)

In 唐诗三百首 卷四 Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 4

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Qin Taoyu


Compiled around 1763, 'Three Hundred Tang Poems' is the standard collection of the poetic art of the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907). Volume Four …

Chapter 50

In Robbery Under Arms

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Rolf Boldrewood


A tale of cattle duffing, horse stealing and bushranging in the New South Wales outback with Captain Starlight.To quote the author "tho…

1 - 13 - Book the First, Chapter 13

In The Black Robe

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Wilkie Collins


The church has lost out on a valuable piece of land through wars and transfers. Father Benwell is determined to reclaim that property by the…

51 - Book 6, Chapter 6 Part 2

In History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 2

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Henry Charles Lea


Volume 2 of Lea’s monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. Volume 2 discusses the organizational structure of the Inquisition, methods us…

Launch of Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network: Dr Wang Xiaolin

In Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative

Read by Wang Xiaolin


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Carmen Sylva, par Pierre Loti

In La Lecture, tome 4

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Various


La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…

Paul and the Confidence Gang

In The Queen of Appalachia

Read by Felicia Wang


Joe H. Borders


A Lost Race novel set unusually in the eastern USA, where a civilization made up of descendants of early American pioneers has established a…

11 - The Mysterious Boudoir

In Belinda

Read by Mimi Wang


Maria Edgeworth


When Belinda was published in 1801, it became both controversial and popular. Controversial because of the inter-racial marriage presented i…

A Collection of Letters, Part 3 (Letter the Fifth and Scraps)

In Jane Austen's Juvenilia

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Jane Austen


Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various w…

10 - Lucy Robarts

In Framley Parsonage

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Anthony Trollope


Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in se…

The Salvation of George Mackintosh

In The Clicking of Cuthbert

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P.G. Wodehouse and P. G. Wodehouse


Join the Oldest Member...whether you like it or not...and be carried on a magic carpet ride through the world of golf, love, and...aunts...a…

32 - Book 8, Chapter 1

In The Female Quixote Vol. 2

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Charlotte Lennox


Second Volume of the novel that formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mi…