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Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the …

Read by Barbara Baker


Samuel Rogers


Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who associated with the most distinguished persons of his time. This volume contains fascinat…

Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Read by Paul E J King


W. W. Rouse Ball


This is a history of mathematics from antiquity to the turn of the 20th century. (Summary by Paul King)

Ancient Egypt

Read by Richard Parkinson and Barbara Ewing


Richard Parkinson and Barbara Ewing


University of Oxford Podcasts

Well Done

In The Negro Laborer: A Word to Him

Read by Barbara


William H. Councill


William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural…

Chapter 15 - Part 2

In Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling

Read by Barbara


Bertha Von Suttner


Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldier's wi…

Stem cells: what are they and why are they important

In Department for Continuing Education's guest lectures

Read by Richard Gardner


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

13 - THE CEREMONY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES

In Essays book 1

Read by Cheri Gardner


Michel de Montaigne and Michel Eyquem De Montaigne


Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

0 - Preface

In The Log-Cabin Lady

Read by Cheri Gardner


Unknown


'The story of The Log-Cabin Lady is one of the annals of America. It is a moving record of the conquest of self-consciousness and fear throu…

A Fable

In Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories

Read by Cheri Gardner


P.H. Emerson and P. H. Emerson


A collection of Welsh Fairy tales. These tales were collected by me whilst living in Anglesea during the winter 1891-2. With the exception …

Part II, Ch. 4: Gulliver is Carried Off by a Monkey

In Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children

Read by Cheri Gardner


John Lang and Jonathan Swift


This is a children's version of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, from the Told to the Children Series (published in 1910). The chi…

Chapter 1

In Little Sister Snow

Read by Cheri Gardner


Frances Little


American author Fannie Caldwell, under pen name of Frances Little, tells the story of young Yuki San growing up in Japan circa early 1900s, …

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