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In Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2013

Read by Bob Lockhart


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Patterns

In Rewley House Research Seminars

Read by Bob Lockhart; Kevon Rhiney; David Howard


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

A Tale of Two Cities (version 3)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Charles Dickens


A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 mill…

Grimms' Fairy Tales (version 2)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 b…

The Republic (version 2)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Plato


The Republic is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the j…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Version 2)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Washington Irving


"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Henry David Thoreau


Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published i…

Heart of Darkness (version 2)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Joseph Conrad


Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood…

The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Oscar Wilde


The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 Ju…

Phaedo

Read by Bob Neufeld


Plato


Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the …

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Robert Louis Stevenson


The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was fi…

Common Sense (version 2)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Thomas Paine


Thomas Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet…

The Art of War (Version 4)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Sun Tzu 孙武


The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The…

The Island of Doctor Moreau (Version 2)

Read by Bob Neufeld


H. G. Wells


In this classic of H. G. Wells, Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a beautiful island in the South Seas and is drawn into the wild and cruel …

Notes From The Underground (version 2)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presen…

The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 2)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originall…

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Read by Bob Neufeld


Friedrich Engels


The main idea of "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (1880) was distinguishing scientific socialism and utopian socialism. Engels …

Essays, First Series (version 2)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Ralph Waldo Emerson


Essays: First Series is a series of 12 essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson concerning transcendentalism, including Self-Reliance. It was p…

The Prince (Version 3)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Niccolò Machiavelli


The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…

A Christmas Carol (version 04)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Charles Dickens


A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells …

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