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Our Hero Meets With An Adventure

In The Smuggler of King's Cove

Read by John Elliott


Sylvanus Cobb, Jr and Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.


Young Percy Maitland is a naval pilot and guides his late father's brig to safety, thereby saving the ship, her crew and cargo despite being…

The Spanish Golden Age

In Alumni Weekend

Read by Frances Lannon, John Elliott and Jonathan Thacker


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

A Dog's Tale

Read by Aaron Elliott


Mark Twain


This short novel of Twain’s, from 1903, is told from the point of view of a loyal and beloved family pet. Themes of heroics, valor and heart…

The Pink Fairy Book

Read by Elliott Miller


Andrew Lang


All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. A child who has read…

The Pirates of Ersatz

Read by Elliott Miller


Murray Leinster


Bron is the offspring of infamous space pirates but instead of following in the family footsteps he decides to become an electronic engineer…

The Poisoned Pen

Read by Elliott Miller


Arthur B. Reeve


The many adventures of Professor Craig Kennedy were chronicled by Arthur B. Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936). Reeve was an American…

The Silent Bullet

Read by Elliott Miller


Arthur B. Reeve


The many adventures of Professor Craig Kennedy were chronicled by Arthur B. Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936). Reeve was an American…

De Profundis

Read by Aaron Elliott


Oscar Wilde


This short work of Wilde's was written during his two year incarceration for "gross indecency". This work is a letter which sorts …

Hospital Sketches

Read by Aaron Elliott


Louisa May Alcott


Alcott in 1862 served as a nurse in Georgetown, D.C during the Civil War. She wrote home what she observed there. Those harrowing and someti…

The Angel of Terror

Read by Lee Elliott


Edgar Wallace


When this was written, literary traditions still decreed beauty to be the outward sign of inner saintliness, whereas evil characters tended …

The Golden Dream

Read by Lee Elliott


R. M. Ballantyne


Thoroughly engaging, at times even harrowing, adventure tale set in the San Francisco gold rush. Detailed depiction of its time and place, c…

Hunters Out of Space

Read by Elliott Miller


Joseph E. Kelleam


Originally published in the May, 1960 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories. Jack Odin has returned to the world of Opal, the world insid…

The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

Read by Lee Elliott


Nat Love


Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as …

Fighting the Whales

Read by Lee Elliott


R. M. Ballantyne


A fatherless boy joins the crew of a whaling ship in order to earn a living for himself and his mother. Beyond being a fascinating depiction…

Greener Than You Think

Read by Lee Elliott


Ward Moore


Do remember reading a panic-mongering news story a while back about genetically engineered “Frankengrass” “escaping” from the golf course wh…

The Highest Treason

Read by Lee Elliott


Randall Garrett


Set in a future in which humanity’s dream of total equality is fully realized and poverty in terms of material wealth has been eliminated, h…

The Wonderful Bed

Read by Lee Elliott


Gertrude Knevels


Little kids sent to stay the night with their Aunt Jane find themselves sharing an enormous bed. So enormous is it, that when they make a te…

The Counterpane Fairy

Read by Lee Elliott


Katharine Pyle


A little boy, recuperating from a lengthy illness, is entertained by visits from the Counterpane Fairy, who treats him to stories associated…

The House by the Churchyard

Read by John


Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


Murder, mystery, mayhem, romance and relationships. Our classic who-done-it takes place in olde Dublin, Ireland in the village of Chapelizod…