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Combining Freedom and Diversity: The Challenge of Religious Difference

In Free Speech Debate

Read by Martha Nussbaum


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Breath of Life

Read by Martha Heaton


George Catlin


George Catlin was an American artist who lived among the Plains Indians, during the 1830s, capturing their way of life in his art. During hi…

The New Science of Controlled Breathing, Vol. 1 and 2

Read by Martha Heaton


Edward Lankow


Instructions on the health benefits of consciously controlled breathing, by famous opera singer, Edward Lankow.

The Bobbsey Twins at Cherry Corners

Read by Martha Heaton


Laura Lee Hope


Excitement mounts as the Bobbsey twins learn they are going to spend several weeks of their summer vacation on their father's newly acquired…

Daniel Boone

Read by Martha Heaton


Katharine Elliott Wilkie


"Get out of Kentucky and stay out!" the Indians told Daniel Boone. But Daniel Boone did not scare easily.There was the time his da…

An Adventure

Read by Martha H. Weller


Charlotte Anne Moberly


The Moberly–Jourdain incident was an event that occurred on 10 August 1901 in the gardens of the Petit Trianon, involving two female academi…

The Closed Cabinet

Read by Martha H. Weller


Anonymous


Here's Proof of the Love of the Weird and Mysterious in the Eighteenth Century. Eighteen-year-old Evie makes her first grown-up visit to her…

Music

Read by Martha H. Weller


Ursula Creighton


"So many books are written for beginners on the appreciation of music that I can be thankful that advancing age makes it unnecessary fo…

The Making of Americans

Read by Martha H. Weller


Gertrude Stein


The Making of Americans is a novel written by Gertrude Stein over a long period of time (1906-1911) and finally published in 1925. It is sub…

The Pampered Lapdog and the Misguided Ass

In Fables for the Frivolous

Read by Joyce Nussbaum


Guy Wetmore Carryl


One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…

Richard Cory - Read by JN

In Richard Cory

Read by Joyce Nussbaum


Edwin Arlington Robinson


This was the weekly poetry project for 3 June 2006. Many “character” poems cut straight to the inmost psychology of their subjects, but here…

In Which the Same Subject is Pursued

In Vanity Fair

Read by Joyce Nussbaum


William Makepeace Thackeray


Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Like man…

Chapter 19

In Candide

Read by Joyce Nussbaum


Voltaire


Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never ope…