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Alison Light on "Common People"

In TORCH | The Oxford Research in the Humanities

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Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

One Martian Afternoon

In Short Science Fiction Collection 071

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Tom Leahy

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Without the Option

In Carry On, Jeeves

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P. G. Wodehouse

"Leave it to Jeeves" was Bertie's motto, be the question one of a colour of a tie, the style of a hat, the cut of a coat. Jeeves w…

Chapter XIII

In The Centaurians

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L. D. Biagi

Published in 1911, 15 years before the first verified discovery of the North Pole and in the same year when F. Cook published a memoir claim…

Chapter 14: Park Lane

In The Newcomes

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William Makepeace Thackeray

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The …

CHAPTER VI - A Foreign Invasion, part 1

In A Girl Among the Anarchists

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Olivia Rossetti Agresti and Helen Rossetti Angeli

Helen and Olivia Rossetti were rather precocious girls in Victorian London. While still extremely young, they published a renowned anarchist…

Nature - Read by AEL

In Nature

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of Nature, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 20th, 2021.…

When My Ship Comes In - Read by AEL

In When My Ship Comes In

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Robert Jones Burdette

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of When My Ship Comes In, by Robert Jones Burdette.This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 2…

Chapter VI, pt 3

In Antonia

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George Sand

Will love conquer all? An entertaining novel of growth in light of societal pressures of propriety, finance and inheritance of 19th century …