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The Craft of Humanitarian Work: Reflection, Political Judgment and Strategic Int…

In Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

Read by Greg Johnson


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

Critias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

Protagoras

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

Troilus and Criseyde

Read by Kevin Johnson


Geoffrey Chaucer


Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set …

Alcibiades I

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …

Lesser Hippias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

The Vikings

Read by Kevin Johnson


Allen Mawer


This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University o…

The Son of Man

Read by CW Johnson


CW Johnson


Imagine they set out to clone the Son of God. Imagine they succeed... The Holy Blood Altar, an elaborate shrine whose centerpiece is said to…

Running Fox

Read by Drew Johnson


Elmer Russell Gregor


Having reached the age of sixteen winters, Running Fox, the son of Black Panther, a famous Delaware war-chief, determined to establish his r…

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…

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