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The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier

In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (version 2)

Read by Alyssa Williams


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by British writer Ar…

Chapter 5. Ex Machina

In The Dark Star

Read by Alyssa Williams


Robert W. Chambers


Ruhannah “Rue” Carew, who dreams of becoming an artist, has grown up listening to her father tell the story of how he came by a wooden box a…

Chapter 31. The Shirt of Nessus

In The Wing of Azrael, Volume 3

Read by Alyssa Williams


Mona Caird


Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings the state of marriage as it existed in her time. Her …

HARRY SWIMS FOR THE EDDY

In The Moral Pirates

Read by Alyssa Williams


William Livingston Alden


Excerpt: “… you and two or three other fellows might make a splendid cruise in a row-boat. You could have a mast and sail, and you could tak…

Legends of Norseland

Read by Ryan Williams


Mara L. Pratt


Collection of tales from the Norse legends, from the beginning of the golden kingdom of the Aesir, to it's end within the flames of Ragnarok…

The Story of Red Feather

Read by Mira Williams


Edward S. Ellis


The fierce chieftain Red Feather is leading a raiding party of Sioux across the Montana frontier, and the Clarendon homestead is directly in…

Coleshanger

Read by Norman E Williams


Norman E Williams


“Coleshanger people are pretty bad,” said Uncle Edward. “They won’t cross water after sunset. And they have to be in bed by midnight, otherw…

Lilith

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


George MacDonald


Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its lat…

Undine

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Friedrich De La Motte Fouqué


Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to …

The Expressman and the Detective

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Allan Pinkerton


Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, …

Hymns to the Night

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Novalis


"Hymns to the Night" is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philoso…

Origins of Nature

Read by Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


University of Oxford Podcasts

Glooskap: Stories 21/22

In The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Pass…

Read by Alyssa


Charles Godfrey Leland


This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…

The Great Army

In The Story of the Greeks

Read by Alyssa Cain


H. A. Guerber


This book is a collection of stories and histories about the Ancient Greeks, including many of their famous myths! - Summary by Ann Boulais

The Black Panther

In The Black Panther

Read by Alyssa Kate


John Hall Wheelock


John Hall Wheelock is an American poet who during his student years at Harvard University was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Monthly, and be…

Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa

In African Studies Centre

Read by Susan Williams


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Rowan Williams, Lecture: ‘Faith and Human Flourishing: religious belief and idea…

In Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Read by Rowan Williams


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

02.Outside the Ivory Tower: research, creativity and serendipity.

In Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening participation in the Hum…

Read by Abigail Williams


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts