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Lessons in the Shanghai Dialect
Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
Francis Lister Hawks Pott
A rare textbook on Shanghai dialect by Reverend F. L. H. Pott, an American missionary and educator who lived in China for more than 50 years…
The Dragon and The Cross: Christianity in China
Read by Xiaoxin Wu
Xiaoxin Wu
University of Oxford Podcasts
Arrowsmith
Read by Lee Smalley
Sinclair Lewis
This 1926 Pulitzer Prize winning novel centers on the title character, a promising medical student who, as a doctor and following several in…
The Chinese Dragon
Read by David Wales
Luther Newton Hayes
The subject of this little book [1923] is of general interest to people who are acquainted with things Chinese. The dragon has played a larg…
Letters on England
Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
Voltaire
Voltaire spent his early thirties in England as an exile following the Bastille imprisonment for his satires. With passionate admiration, he…
Japanese Prints
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
John Gould Fletcher
JapanAn old courtyard Hidden awayIn the afternoon.Grey walks,Mossy stones,Copper carp swimming lazily,And beyond,A faint toneless hissing ec…
The Steppe
Read by Expatriate
Anton Chekhov
Little Yegorushka goes off to school for the first time, setting out on the journey in the company of his Uncle Ivan, the local priest Fathe…
The Portent
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
George MacDonald
Overshadowed by the dark legend of the murderous rider of the horse with the loose shoe, Duncan Campbell sets out from his home in the Highl…
Dragon Ore
Read by Brian Rathbone
Brian Rathbone
A World of Godsland novel.
Clinging to life, Catrin Volker struggles to regain her strength as her foes go in search of even greater power. …
The Princess and the Goblin
Read by Lizzie Driver
George MacDonald
The Princess and the Goblin is an enthralling fantasy tale written by George MacDonald. Her nurse Lootie raises the princess Irene in a hous…
The Merchant Adventurer
Read by Patrick E. McLean
Patrick E. McLean
After countless heroes fail to overcome an evil Wizard, Boltac, humble shopkeeper, must answer the Call of Adventure and save his home and t…
Blast of the Dragon's Fury
Read by L. R. W. Lee
L. R. W. Lee
Ten-year-old, Andy Smithson believes he is merely a kid too often in trouble--until his destiny as the Chosen One to break a 500-year-old cu…
Sesame and Lilies
Read by Oxenhandler
John Ruskin
Sesame and Lilies proposes and answers the questions, how, what and why to read in the context of how and why to live.About earlier and late…
The Golden Arrow
Read by Anne Erickson
Mary Webb
Deborah, a young girl from a Shropshire farm family, falls so deeply in love with the new preacher that she agrees to live with him as man a…
The Black Arrow
Read by Mark F. Smith
Robert Louis Stevenson
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. …
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne)
Read by Algy Pug
Omar Khayyám
Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Ruba…
Omnilingual
Read by Mark Nelson
H. Beam Piper
An expedition to Mars discovers the remains of an advanced civilization, which died out many thousands of years ago. They recovered books an…
The Mystery of the Chinese Ring
Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)
Andy Adams
The Mystery of the Chinese Ring is an exotic adventure story and is set in locations such as Burma and China, with the historical and politi…
The Hand of Fu-Manchu
Read by laineyben
Sax Rohmer
Further adventures of Nayland Smith and Doctor Petrie as they continue their battles against the evil genius, Dr Fu-Manchu. (summary by Elai…