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Frederic the Great

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Macaulay's review essay on Frederick the Great of Prussia is found in vol. iii of his Critical and Historical Essays, and concentrates prima…

Coningsby, or The New Generation

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Benjamin Disraeli


Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the polit…

Lord Clive

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India…

Seven Men

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Max Beerbohm


In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively…

Warren Hastings

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …

La Grande Bretèche

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Honoré de Balzac


La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table…

Everyday practices at the Russia - China - Mongolia border

In Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Read by Caroline Humphrey


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Little Girls Are Best

In Rhymes of Childhood

Read by Theoden Humphrey


Edgar A. Guest


Not nursery rhymes, but poems about different scenes of childhood. Poems about Grandpa, Grandma, story time, castor oil, “Wait till your pa …

The Revolt of the Oyster

In A to Zed Collection Vol. 002

Read by Theoden Humphrey


Don Marquis


This is a collection of 26 selections, both fiction and nonfiction, in which each topic begins with a different letter of the alphabet.

Orthography

In 1001 Questions and Answers on English Grammar

Read by Theoden Humphrey


Benjamin Hathaway


A book for students interested in finding out how many things about the English language have changed, and how many have weathered the test …

Life of Perino Del Vaga, Painter of Florence, part 3

In Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 6

Read by Theoden Humphrey


Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…

In A Lady's Album - Read by TH

In In A Lady's Album

Read by Theoden Humphrey


Marcus Clarke


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of In A Lady's Album by Marcus Clarke.This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 7, 2020. ---…

The Californian's Tale by Mark Twain

In Love Stories Volume 3

Read by Theoden Humphrey


Mark Twain


Here are 20 more love stories under an hour each, covering all kinds of experiences involving romantic or other kinds of love resulting in h…

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