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Song, “Ask me no more...” by Thomas Carew

In Love Poems by Famous Authors

Read by Carl Hicks


Various


A collection of love poems, including the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet, Tristram & Iseult, and selections from many authors inc…

The Art of Controversy (or: The Art of Being Right)

Read by Carl Manchester


Arthur Schopenhauer


The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) (Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten) is a short treatise written in 1831 by the German philosop…

Wage-Labour and Capital

Read by Carl Manchester


Karl Marx


Originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central the…

God and the State

Read by Carl Manchester


Mikhail Bakunin


Bakunin's most famous work, published in various lengths, this version is the most complete form of the work published hitherto.Originally t…

Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

Read by Carl Manchester


Karl Marx


The “Theses on Feuerbach” are eleven short philosophical notes written by Karl Marx in 1845. They outline a critique of the ideas of Marx’s …

Aphorisms

Read by Carl Manchester


Oscar Wilde


In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated, in the Sa…

Has a Frog a Soul?

Read by Carl Manchester


Thomas Henry Huxley


Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biolog…

The Unreality of Time

Read by Carl Manchester


John Mctaggart


John McTaggart was a British metaphysician and philosophical idealist. In this famous article for the periodical Mind, he introduced the not…

The Parasite

Read by Carl Vonnoh, III


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Being a physiologist, Austin Gilroy is unconvinced that the occult is real. His friend Professor Wilson, however, is not only convinced that…

The Essays of Francis Bacon

Read by Carl Vonnoh, III


Francis Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon


Voltaire was an atheist. Diderot was Enlightened. But trite titles seldom encompass completely the beliefs of any individual. And this one f…

Cobb's Anatomy

Read by Carl Vonnoh, III


Irvin S. Cobb


Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was born on June 23, 1876. At seventeen years of age, he began writing for the Paducah Daily News, his hometown paper…

From Museums to the Historic Environment

In Illuminating the Museums conference 2014

Read by Dan Hicks


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Preface

In A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, Volume…

Read by Grant Hicks


George Lillie Craik


The History of English Literature and Language may be recommended to the student as a guide always sure, and as satisfactory as its limits w…

FRANCK

In Stories of Symphonic Music

Read by Grant Hicks


Lawrence Gilman


'A guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures and tone-poems from Beethoven to the present day'. Gilman became notorious for sc…