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The Zaharoff Lecture

Read by Dominique Rabaté and Michael Sheringham


Dominique Rabaté and Michael Sheringham


University of Oxford Podcasts

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Mark Twain


In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on th…

The Communist Manifesto (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx


The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European P…

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered d…

Great Expectations

Read by Mark F. Smith


Charles Dickens


This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice an…

The Mysterious Island

Read by Mark F. Smith


Jules Verne


A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, this book details the escape from Civil War-era Richmond, Vi…

Tarzan of the Apes

Read by Mark F. Smith


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Tarzan of the Apes is Burroughs’ exciting, if improbable, story of an English lord, left by the death of his stranded parents in the hands o…

The Man in the Iron Mask

Read by Mark F. Smith


Alexandre Dumas


In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on the true story of a mysterious prisoner held incognito in the French penal…

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day

Read by Mark F. Smith


Arnold Bennett


"Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'" -- Arnold Ben…

The Swiss Family Robinson

Read by Mark F. Smith


Johann David Wyss


The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the r…

The Lone Star Ranger

Read by Mark F. Smith


Zane Grey


Buck Duane, son of a famous gunfighter, falls prey to the old problem - called out by a cowboy who wants to make trouble, Duane kills him an…

Kidnapped

Read by Mark F. Smith


Robert Louis Stevenson


David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in t…

The Time Machine (Version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


H. G. Wells


Surely the Time Traveler threw great dinner parties! His guests were treated to a once-in-forever trial of a miniature time machine - an exq…

Robinson Crusoe (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Daniel Defoe


Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, …

The Kama Sutra

Read by Mark F. Smith


Mallanaga Vatsyayana and Mallanaga Vatsyayanatranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


The Kama Sutra, or Aphorisms on Love, has survived at least 1400 years as a dominant text on sexual relations between men and women. Vatsyay…

Diary of a U-boat Commander

Read by Mark F. Smith


Stephen King-Hall


Captain Karl von Schenk of the Kaiser's Navy is a stereotypical German nobleman - supremely self-confident, touchy about the divisions of cl…

Around the World in Eighty Days (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Jules Verne


Mysterious Phileas Fogg is a cool customer. A man of the most repetitious and punctual habit - with no apparent sense of adventure whatsoeve…

The Call of the Wild (Version 3)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Jack London


Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must tou…

The Lost World (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Imagine a strange, tropical place that is almost inaccessible. Time appears to have stood still there. Species of animal and plant life not …

White Fang (Version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Jack London


When White Fang is birthed in a cave to a wolf sire and a wolf/dog halfbreed dam, he is heir to two traditions. At first he is content to ex…

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