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In Les Misérables, Volume 5

Read by Ella Jane Quentin


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…

The Grey Woman

Read by Jane Greensmith


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


A "Bluebeard" story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill he…

Stories from the History of Rome

Read by Melissa Jane


Emily Beesly


Mrs. Emily Beesly, the writer of this brilliant narrative, lived in an era of nothing but fairy tales and "the stories of nursery life&…

The Hawaiian Archipelago

Read by Jane Bennett


Isabella L. Bird


Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. - Summary by Isabella Bird

Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV

Read by Jane Bennett


Frantz Funck-Brentano


The court of French King Louis XIV was not a safe place to be. It was filled with plots and intrigues, leaving observers and commentators wi…

Clever Hans

In Grimms' Fairy Tales

Read by Quentin


Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…

Mr. Grizzly Bear

In Little Jack Rabbit and Professor Crow

Read by Ella


David Cory


Children’s story author, David Cory, who gave us the series of Little Jack Rabbit, Billy Bunny, Little Journeys to Happy Land, and the Littl…

IV

In Nelly: or, The Best Inheritance

Read by Ella


Lucy Ellen Guernsey


This little story is written to illustrate the value of honesty and faithfulness in small and great matters. Nelly's earnings may possibly b…

The Idea of the State: a Genealogy

In The State of the State

Read by Quentin Skinner


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Chapter 10

In An American Politician

Read by Quentin Manuel


F. Marion Crawford and Francis Marion Crawford


In 1880’s Boston, Mass. the good life is lead according to all the Victorian era societal rules of the New World. Political ambitions and th…

The Sixth Chapter - Polynesia and the King

In The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Read by Ella Earp-Lynch


Hugh Lofting


In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up…