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Chapters 9-10

In The Glugs of Gosh

Read by Chris Goringe

C. J. Dennis

First published in 1917, The Glugs of Gosh satirizes Australian life at the start of the twentieth century - but the absurdities it catalogs…

Chapter 22

In Oliver Twist

Read by Chris Bellamy

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial.Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to ca…

Hostages

In Captain Blood

Read by Chris Langston

Rafael Sabatini

Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. It concerns the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish…

Part 4 Ch. 1 Shellfish Languages Again

In The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Read by Chris Goringe

Hugh Lofting

Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in fa…

01 - Preface + Chapter 1

In Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860

Read by Chris Chapman

Andrew Jackson

A non-fictional account of Burke and Wills's 1860 expedition to cross the Australian continent from south to north and then return. Containi…

Pickaxe and Trowel

In From the Earth to the Moon

Read by Chris Langston

Jules Verne

From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is …

Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Read by Chris Chapman

Grenville Kleiser

A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

Chapter 09

In Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Read by Chris Hughes

Jerome K. Jerome

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Th…

Editorial & Intro

In The Book of Lieh-Tzu

Read by Chris Masterson

Lieh-Tzu (Tr. by Lionel Giles) and Liezi

Although Lieh Tzu's work has evidently passed through the hands of many editors and gathered numerous accretions, there remains a considerab…

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