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Early Childhood Poverty and Adult Attainment

In Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures

Read by Greg Duncan


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University of Oxford Podcasts

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Read by Nick Duncan


William Blake


The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution.…

Jerusalem - The Emanation of the Giant Albion

Read by Nick Duncan


William Blake


The epic poem Jerusalem was in Blake's own opinion his masterpiece. It is the last of the great prophetic books. Originally produced as an e…

Liber Amoris

Read by Nick Duncan


William Hazlitt


Liber Amoris is unlike anything Hazlitt wrote and probably like nothing you've come across before. On the face of it it tells the story of H…

Sunda Cloud

Read by Kat Duncan


Kat Duncan


In the new Cold War battlefield of Indonesia, two old comrades conspire to topple the fledgling democracy. The weapons of this war are not n…

Martin Eden

Read by Greg W.


Jack London


Martin Eden (1909) is a novel by American author Jack London, about a struggling young writer. It was first serialized in the Pacific Monthl…

Anthem (Version 4)

Read by Greg Giordano


Ayn Rand


Ayn Rand is best known for her classics Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. One of her earlier works, Anthem, is a dystopian vision of a wo…

Hunger

Read by Greg W.


Knut Hamsun


Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. The novel has been hail…

Selected Short Stories

Read by Greg W.


Stephen Crane


At the time of his death at the age of 28, Stephen Crane had become an important figure in American literature. He was nearly forgotten, how…

Lad: A Dog

Read by Greg Giordano


Albert Payson Terhune


Lad: A Dog is a 1919 American novel written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by E. P. Dutton. Composed of twelve short stories first p…

Selected Classics of Washington Irving

Read by Greg Giordano


Washington Irving


Washington Irving is one of early America's most treasured writers. He is best known for his wit and satirical voice. Irving had the extraor…

The Book of Wonder

Read by Greg Elmensdorp


Lord Dunsany


"Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know:…

Uncle's Dream

Read by Greg Giordano


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. F…

Growth of the Soil

Read by Greg W.


Knut Hamsun


Growth of the Soil (Markens Grøde) is the novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. …

Vera

Read by Greg W.


Elizabeth Von Arnim


Vera (1921) by Elizabeth von Arnim is a black comedy based on her disastrous second marriage to Earl Russell: a mordant analysis of the roma…

Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

Read by Greg Giordano


Washington Irving


Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with…

Better Angel

Read by Greg W.


Richard Meeker


In 1933, Forman Brown wrote, under the pseudonym Richard Meeker, a controversial novel called Better Angel, about a young man coming to term…

David and the Phoenix

Read by Greg Weeks


Edward Ormondroyd


David knew that one should be prepared for anything when one climbs a mountain, but he never dreamed what he would find that June morning on…

A Christmas Carol (Version 09)

Read by Greg Giordano


Charles Dickens


"A Christmas Carol" has been credited with relaunching the celebration of Christmas as we know it. It relaunched Charles Dickens' …

Michael Kohlhaas (English Translation)

Read by Greg W.


Heinrich von Kleist


Michael Kohlhaas is an 1811 novella by Heinrich von Kleist, based on a 16th-century story of Hans Kohlhase. Both the theme (a fanatical ques…

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