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George Bernard Shaw


In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…

Four Hymns

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edmund Spenser


Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…

The Age of Reason (version 3)

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Thomas Paine


In these volumes, Paine demonstrates the anonymity of the books contained in both the Old and the New Testaments, the only certainties being…

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV

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François Rabelais


This fourth in the five novels about the giants Pantagruel and his father Gargantua is the last novel indusputably attributed to Franç…

The Defense of Poesy

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Sir Philip Sidney


Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …

Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Edmund Spenser


"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…

Sonnets

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Edna St. Vincent Millay


It has been observed that within the narrow confines of a sonnet the mind can turn around but cannot take flight. Some of Millay’s sonnets, …

The Shadow Flies

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Rose Macaulay


The title of the original, British release of this novel was They Were Defeated, referring, among other matters, to the English Civil War, 1…

Astrophel and Stella

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Sir Philip Sidney


Sonnet sequences, which these poems by Sidney made very popular in the Elizabethan age, reflected the Medieval motif of courtly love, whereb…

War Letters From A Young Queenslander

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


Robert Marshall Allen


Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories o…

The Wishing Horse of Oz

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


Ruth Plumly Thompson


Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to bec…

Bible (WEB) NT 11: Philippians

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


World English Bible


Paul's letter to the Philippians contains some of the most quoted passages of the pastoral letters, including "to live is Christ and to…

A Mathematician's Holiday

Read by Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


University of Oxford Podcasts

1 - 4 - Lézardes sous la fondation

In Les Misérables - tome 4

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Victor Hugo


Dans le quatrième volet des Misérables, L'idylle rue Plumet et l'épopée rue Saint-Denis, l'action se déro…

09 - Le Berger et le Roi

In Fables de La Fontaine, livre 10 (version 2)

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Jean de la Fontaine


Voici le dixième des douze livres des Fables de La Fontaine. Celles-ci datent du XVIIe siècle et sont lues par des lecteurs de…

Wesley 1703-1791

In Saints and Heroes Since the Middle Ages Volume 2

Read by George Thomas


George Hodges


In this second volume, Hodges uses stories of the lives of fourteen well-known saints and heroes of the faith to continue the history of the…

Owl with the Great Head and Eyes

In Canadian Fairy Tales

Read by George Thomas


Cyrus Macmillan


Professor Macmillan has placed all lovers of fairy tales under a deep debt of obligation to him. The fairy tale makes a universal appeal bot…

Village of Sing-Sing

In American Scenery, Vol. 1

Read by Dick Thomas


Nathaniel Parker Willis


Although the focus of this book is the engravings depicting scenic sites of 19th century America, each is accompanied by a short description…

Chapter 7

In Abandoned

Read by Thomas May


Jules Verne


Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a …

The Holes around Mars

In Short Science Fiction Collection 053

Read by George Thomas


Jerome Bixby


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

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