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Have Trade Unions Become Irrelevant? Can Labour Respond to the Problems of Globa…

In Mansfield College

Read by Kathy Stone


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Grimms' Fairy Tales (Version 3)

Read by Cliff Stone


Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales, is a German collection of fairy tales or folk lore by the Grimm…

The War of the Worlds (Version 5)

Read by Cliff Stone


H. G. Wells


An original masterpiece of alien invasion, The War of the Worlds (1898) conjures a terrifying race of Martians who devastate the Earth and f…

The Thirty-nine Steps (Version 3)

Read by Cliff Stone


John Buchan


The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure spy novel by John Buchan written in 1914. Told from the first-person point of view, it relates the adv…

The Time Machine (Version 7)

Read by Cliff Stone


H. G. Wells


The story follows a Victorian scientist, who claims that he has invented a device that enables him to travel through time, and has visited t…

The First Men in the Moon (Version 2)

Read by Cliff Stone


H. G. Wells


The novel tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists: a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford; and an eccentric…

Stories of the Wars of the Jews

Read by Cliff Stone


Charlotte Maria Tucker


Stories of the Wars of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus is a historical narrative spanning J…

Greenmantle (Version 3)

Read by Cliff Stone


John Buchan


Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to m…

Chapter 20

In The Adventures of Pinocchio

Read by Kathy


C. Collodi and Carlo Collodi


The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was…

Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Read by Kathy


Grenville Kleiser


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

Meleager and Atalanta

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Read by Kathy


Thomas Bulfinch


Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

Puss in Boots

In The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

Read by Kathy


William Patten


The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

5

In The Sayings of Confucius

Read by Kathy


Confucius 孔子


Promoting virtues such as filial devotion, compassion, loyalty, and propriety, these dialogues between the ancient Chinese philosopher Confu…

Chapter 22

In The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

Read by Kathy


Written by Kathleen Gatliffe, recorded by Kathleen Gatliffe and Librivox Volunteers


The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that…

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In The Devil's Dictionary

Read by Kathy


Ambrose Bierce


Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …