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Careers Seminar 2013

In History of Art

Read by Lucy Hawkins, Ruth Millington, Holly Harris, Katharine Arnold, Toby Monk and Lucy Phillips


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Social Media and your Career

In Engage: Social Media Talks

Read by Lucy Hawkins


Various


Lunchtime talks delivered during the social media term at Oxford University covering a wide variety of social media topics.

The Lost Continent (Beyond Thirty)

Read by Lucy Lo Faro


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Originally published under the title of Beyond Thirty.The novel, set in the year 2137, was heavily influenced by the events of World War I. …

Out of Time's Abyss (version 2)

Read by Lucy Lo Faro


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Out of Time’s Abyss is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the third of his Caspak trilogy. The sequence was first published in B…

The Great Stone of Sardis

Read by Lucy Lo Faro


Frank R. Stockton


The home of Roland Clewe, a small house plainly furnished, but good enough for a bachelor's quarters, stood not half a mile from the station…

Pimpernel and Rosemary

Read by Holly


Baroness Emma Orczy


A novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series that features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Peter's adventures take him to…

China and the Chinese

Read by Holly


Edmund Plauchut


Edmund Plauchut spent many years in China and gives an account of his observations of the places, people, and culture as he experienced them…

Christmas at Thompson Hall

Read by Arnold


Anthony Trollope


"A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale"; tells of a night time encounter between relatives who had never before met, resulting in minor i…

Ralph the Heir

Read by Arnold


Anthony Trollope


As usual, Trollope creates a nice variety of characters of different English classes, sentiments and positions. The primary themes are the i…

Marion Fay

Read by Arnold


Anthony Trollope


Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match between one titled personage and one commoner. The misalliances lead to …

Snarleyyow

Read by Arnold


Frederick Marryat


This is a quite amusing nautical tale of the British Navy of the around the year 1700. While, as with much early 'humor', it is somewhat h…

The Two Heroines of Plumplington

Read by Arnold


Anthony Trollope


In the small English Town of Plumplington the daughter of a brewer and that of a banker each has selected her future husband contrary to the…

The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson

Read by Arnold


Anthony Trollope


Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of the day, it tells the tale of an upstart clothing business…

An Old Man's Love

Read by Arnold


Anthony Trollope


This was Trollope's last completed novel, and he may have acquired his sympathy for older lovers with age! A not-so-very-old man, Mr. Whittl…

The Bertrams

Read by Arnold


Anthony Trollope


This is a massive effort, taking place in England and the Middle East, with a cast of thousands... Well, not thousands, fortunately, but cer…

Godfrey Morgan: a Californian Mystery

Read by Arnold


Jules Verne


This Verne adventure is indeed a mystery and also a satire on the Crusoe genre. Our characters are larger than life, as well they should be …

The Town Traveller

Read by Arnold


George Gissing


The town traveller is himself a British salesman, living in a lower class part of London in the Victorian era. The story depicts his interac…

How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion

Read by Arnold


George Wilbur Peck


A series of U.S. Civil War adventures or incidents experienced and enhanced (or created) by humorist George W. Peck. Peck was at times a wri…

Beasley's Christmas Party

Read by Arnold


Booth Tarkington


A melodramatic folksy Christmas story, a little like Dickens - with a Tiny Tim, but also with some romance. Tarkington's writings are very m…