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Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun

Read by James K. White


Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun


This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun's childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the fortuitous break that introduced h…

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Volume 1

Read by James K. White


Robert Paltock


This is a story about a Cornish man who becomes stranded on an island and survives much like Robinson Crusoe did. Although he finds enough t…

Violets And Other Tales

Read by James K. White


Alice Dunbar Nelson


This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and…

Marion, the Story of an Artist's Model

Read by James K. White


Onoto Watanna


In this Asian/Canadian perspective on "foreignness," Marion (the protagonist) eventually leaves the cruelty of racial discriminati…

Stanton White: A Romance of the New South

Read by James K. White


Asa Zadel Hall


In this tome the Northern narrator, Harold Edson, visits the American South with his college friend, Stanton White, in order to study first …

Study Skills

Read by Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


University of Oxford Podcasts

'Containing multitudes': writing about Pevsner

In Wolfson College Podcasts

Read by Susie harries


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Bk 4: Section III, and Song III: Circe's Cup

In The Consolation of Philosophy

Read by Susie G.


Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (transl. James) and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius


Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

Astolpho and the Enchantress

In The Legends of Charlemagne

Read by Susie G.


Thomas Bulfinch


Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) explains the his work is "an attempt tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make …

Believing Husbands, Scotland

In The Lilac Fairy Book

Read by Susie G.


Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although And…

Juno and her Rivals, Io and Callisto--Diana and Actaeon--Latona and the Rustics

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Read by Susie G.


Thomas Bulfinch


Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

Demi Settles

In Jo's Boys

Read by Susie G.


Louisa May Alcott


Jo's Boys is the third book in the Little Women trilogy by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1886. In it, Jo's "children", now grown…

Version 17

In Ring Out, Wild Bells

Read by Susie G.


Alfred, Lord Tennyson


LibriVox volunteers ring in the new year with nineteen recordings of Ring Out, Wild Bells by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the weekly poe…

Chapter XVII

In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Read by Susie G.


Anne Bronte and Anne Brontë


The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Brontë, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, …

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