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Chapter III

In April's Lady: A Novel

Read by Anna Vos

Mrs. Hungerford

This is a delightful Victorian romance by Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, published in 1890. The heroine of this novel, Joyce, fin…

Polly's Dismal Morning

In Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Version 2)

Read by Karen

Margaret Sidney

The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew tells the story of how the Peppers live, learn, and play in their little brown house. They are poo…

29 - The Lovers Meet

In The Duke's Children

Read by Karen

Anthony Trollope

In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, findin…

06 - Why the Tiger and the Stag Fear Each Other

In Fairy Tales from Brazil

Read by Karen

Elsie Spicer Eells

This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths…

Episode 16: Eumaeus, part 1

In Ulysses (version 2)

Read by Karen

James Joyce

Ulysses is a groundbreaking novel in which Irish author James Joyce explores realism through stream-of-consciousness technique and shifting …

38 - Book 10, Ch 10

In The Antiquities of the Jews, Volume 2

Read by Karen

Flavius Josephus

Antiquities of the Jews was a work published by the important Jewish historian Flavius Josephus about the year 93 or 94. Antiquities of the …

48 - Partition 1, Section 3 , Member 1, Subsection 2

In The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 1

Read by Karen

Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…

Bk 1 Ch 16

In Les Misérables, Volume 5

Read by Karen

Victor Hugo, transl. Hapgood and Victor Hugo

This is book 5 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

Ethnic violence, water scarcity and managing resources to promote peace

In African Studies Centre

Read by Karen Witsenberg

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

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