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Origins of Nature

Read by Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


University of Oxford Podcasts

Jesus College

Read by Niall Ferguson, Richard Evans and Lord Bragg


Niall Ferguson, Richard Evans and Lord Bragg


University of Oxford Podcasts

Fairy Fingers

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Madelaine is the poor cousin of the aristocratic de Gramont family in France of the 1850’s. She is cherished by the beautiful young Bertha a…

The Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Mowatt wrote The Fortune Hunter to be submitted to a contest held by the New World newspaper. (The novel won the $100 prize.) Contest rules…

Italian Life and Legends

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


A mix of short works written by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie during her residence in Florence from 1864-65, this collection was edited and prepa…

Evelyn; or A Heart Unmasked

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Evelyn is a two-volume novel told in an epistolary style – alternating between letters from the point of view of a trusted, unmarried female…

The Mute Singer, a Novel

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Sylvie de la Roche is the daughter of a destitute former nobleman and his wife living in the slums of Paris circa 1847. Her magnificent sing…

Autobiography of an Actress; or Eight Years on the Stage

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Anna Cora Mowatt was the author of the first Broadway comedy hit written by a woman. Her 1845 play “Fashion” is still performed today. She w…

Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain is a collection of three narratives about life in the theater based on Mowatt’s career on stage…

The Little Robinson of Paris, or, Industry's Triumph

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Eugénie Foa


In this Victorian era children’s novel, haughty Breton aristocrats unjustly reject and cruelly abandon the young orphan Cecil after the deat…

Pelayo: or Cavern of Covadonga, A Romance

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


This epic poem tells the dramatic story of King Pelayo, an Asturian ruler in Northern Spain who lead his people to a hard-fought victory ove…

Reviewers Reviewed

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


This satirical text was a response to the drubbing the fledgling poet received at the hands of the critics to her debut work, “Pelayo, or th…

The House by the Churchyard

Read by John


Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


Murder, mystery, mayhem, romance and relationships. Our classic who-done-it takes place in olde Dublin, Ireland in the village of Chapelizod…

The Gold of Fairnilee

Read by John


Andrew Lang


A fairy story set in Scotland about Jean and Randal and what happens when Randal disappears into fairyland. This is Lang's second fairy tal…

The Submarine Boys and the Smugglers

Read by John


Victor G. Durham


Three American naval officers are assigned to a newly commissioned submarine, the Grant. The US navy wants commander Jack, ensigns Hal and E…

The Spy Company, a Story of the Mexican War

Read by John


Archibald Clavering Gunter


The Exciting adventures of a beautiful Texan debutante. She was raised in New York City high society and attended the best schools. When her…

Purgatory

Read by John


Rev. Francois Xavier Schouppe


Purgatory by FX Schouppe, SJ, a french Catholic theologian who died in November, 1904 details the place where saved souls go before Heaven. …

The Art of Dying Well

Read by John


St. Robert Bellarmine


The Art of Dying Well is a guide book for people who want to go to heaven. It was written over 400 years ago by Saint Robert Bellarmine in l…

Secret history revealed by Lady Peggy O'Malley

Read by John


Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson


"If, two years ago, when I was sixteen, I hadn’t wanted money to buy a white frock with roses on it, which I saw in Selfridge’s window,…

The Wild Irishman

Read by John


T. W. H. Crosland


History and customs of the Irish and Ireland. A word of warning to the listener: The Wild Irishman contains the biased, uncomplimentary opin…

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