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In Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Read by Larry Brilliant


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Poems of Nature

Read by Larry Wilson


Henry David Thoreau


The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…

A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818

Read by Larry Wilson


Elisabeth G. Stryker


This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and als…

Clara A. Swain, M.D.

Read by Larry Wilson


Mrs. Robert Hoskins


This is a brief biography of Clara A. Swain, M.D. who is regarded as the "first Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient." S…

G.K. Chesterton in The Open Road

Read by Larry Wilson


G. K. Chesterton


A collection of 2 book reviews written by G.K. Chesterton in "The Open Road", both from 1911. (Summary by Maria Therese)

Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution

Read by Larry Wilson


John Dryden Kuser


This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in H…

G.K. Chesterton in The Bibliophile Magazine

Read by Larry Wilson


G. K. Chesterton


Two essays/articles by G.K. Chesterton, published in 'The Bibliophile' magazine in 1908. (Summary by Maria Therese)

The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems

Read by Larry Wilson


Edwin Markham


Edwin Markham was an American poet whose poems often drew attention to the laborers of the world and frequently expressed elements of faith.…

Songs by the Sea

Read by Larry Wilson


Rebecca Ruter Springer


Best known for her mystical writing, IntraMuros, Rebecca Ruter Springer was also a sensitive poet. This a short volume of her poems celebra…

California at Christmas Tide

Read by Larry Wilson


Ella M. Sexton


Ten short poems about Christmas in California - Summary by Larry Wilson

The New Joan and Other Poems

Read by Larry Wilson


Katherine Hale


Katherine Hale is the pen name of Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin, a Canadian poet and literary critic. This volume is one of her collections w…

Experimental Psychology Department

Read by Larry Weiskrantz and Oliver Braddick


Larry Weiskrantz and Oliver Braddick


University of Oxford Podcasts

Preface

In Captivating Bible Stories for Young People

Read by Larry Wilson


Charlotte Mary Yonge


Noted author and historian, Charlotte Mary Yonge, presents Bible stories written for children in simple language. There are thee 52 stories…

On A Shadow In A Glass - Read by LCW

In On A Shadow In A Glass

Read by Larry Wilson


Jonathan Swift


Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who …

Preface

In The Soup and Sauce Book

Read by Larry Wilson


Elizabeth Douglas


This is a collection of recipes for all types soups and sauces including vegetable soups, broths, stock, purees, hot sauces, and cold sauces…

Part 3, chapter 6: Wishing Time

In The Home of the Echoes

Read by Larry Wilson


Frank W. Boreham


Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…

Nero

In Odes and Sonnets

Read by Larry Wilson


Clark Ashton Smith


Clark Ashton Smith, nicknamed one of the "big three" of Weird Tales (the famous pulp fiction magazine), was also a romantic-style …