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From Memory: Isaiah Berlin, Literary Encounters and Life-Stories

In Wolfson College Podcasts

Read by Hermione Lee


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Village in the Jungle as colonial memoir: Woolf writing home

In The Leonard Woolf Symposium

Read by Victoria Glendinning and Hermione Lee


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

'The Village in the Jungle' Roundtable Discussion

In Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium

Read by Hermione Lee, Anna Snaith, Elleke Boehmer, Nisha Manocha, David Trotter and Susheila Nasta


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

In Everyone's Interests - the highlights

In TORCH | The Oxford Research in the Humanities

Read by Andrew Hamilton, Earl Lewis, Hermione Lee, Charlotte Higgins, Marcus du Sautoy, Nick Hillman and Shearer West


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

A German Deserter's War Experience

Read by Lee Smalley


Anonymoustranslated Byjulius Koettgen


The author of this 1917 narrative, who escaped from Germany and military service after 14 months of fighting in France, did not wish to have…

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Read by Lee Smalley


Frederick Douglass


Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892.…

The Angel of Terror

Read by Lee Elliott


Edgar Wallace


When this was written, literary traditions still decreed beauty to be the outward sign of inner saintliness, whereas evil characters tended …

The Golden Dream

Read by Lee Elliott


R. M. Ballantyne


Thoroughly engaging, at times even harrowing, adventure tale set in the San Francisco gold rush. Detailed depiction of its time and place, c…

Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass

Read by Lee Smalley


Frederick Douglass


These two articles were reproduced as an e-book by Project Gutenberg in 2008 to supplement "...several articles by Frederick Douglass,…

Doctor Izard

Read by Lee Smalley


Anna Katharine Green


The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one…

The Permanent Husband

Read by Lee Smalley


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


THE PERMANENT HUSBAND, also published as The Eternal Husband, is a psychological novella by the acclaimed Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Richardson


Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a her…

The Bishop's Apron

Read by Lee Smalley


W. Somerset Maugham


"Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose." Maugham could have add…

The de Bercy Affair

Read by Lee Smalley


Louis Tracy


A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. C…

Diary of a Suicide

Read by Lee Smalley


Wallace E. Baker


“Mr. B. Russell Herts, c/o International Magazine, New York City.Under separate cover I am sending you a record of a young man who is about …

The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

Read by Lee Elliott


Nat Love


Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as …

100%: The Story of a Patriot

Read by Lee Smalley


Upton Sinclair


"100%: The Story of a Patriot" dramatically recounts the adventures of a poor uneducated young man who lives by his wits and guile…