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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

Gipsy

In Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales

Read by Mimi Wang


Booth Tarkington


The Lords of the Housetops reveals the cat through the creative lenses of 13 authors. Consequently, this carefully chosen collection of stor…

Chapter 5

In Little Men (version 2)

Read by Mimi Wang


Louisa May Alcott


Little Men follows the life of Jo Bhaer and the students who live and learn at the Plumfield Estate School that she runs with her husband, P…

Carmen Sylva, par Pierre Loti

In La Lecture, tome 4

Read by Felicia Wang


Various


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

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…

01 - Characters

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

Read by Mimi Wang


Jane Austen


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

Poem 193 - 咏怀古迹 其四 (Mandarin)

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

Read by Wang Tian


Du Fu


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

Ch 9a - Manner--Art

In Character

Read by Felicia Wang


Samuel Smiles


Samuel Smiles is known even today as an author that promoted the improvement of society through the improvement of individuals and their cha…

Part 1, Chapter 6

In A Lost Lady (Verson 2)

Read by Felicia Wang


Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


Charismatic Marian Forrester, the wife of a railroad pioneer, captures the heart of every person she meets. Niel Herbert is no exception. He…

The Salvation of George Mackintosh

In The Clicking of Cuthbert

Read by Mimi Wang


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…

Chapter 7 - Two Famous Versions of the Scriptures

In The Bible in Its Making

Read by Anqi Wang


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 …

Sabina, the wife of Hadrian

In The Empresses of Rome

Read by Felicia Wang


Joseph Martin McCabe and Joseph Martin Mccabe


The story of Imperial Rome has been told frequently and impressively in our literature, and few chapters in the long chronicle of man’s deed…

The Nibelungs’ Lament

In Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages

Read by Felicia Wang


Wilhelm Wägner


This volume contains the principal hero-lays of the six great epic cycles of the Teutonic Middle Ages: The Langobardian Legends, the Amelung…

32 - Book 8, Chapter 1

In The Female Quixote Vol. 2

Read by Mimi Wang


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…