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What is a Great Writer? An academic panel discusses the question.

In Great Writers Inspire

Read by Seamus Perry, Margaret Kean, Peter McDonald, Ankhi Mukherjee and Rebecca Beasley


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1

In English Graduate Conference 2012

Read by Ankhi Mukherjee


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Body and Being Network

Read by Rebecca Leach and Stanely Ulijaszek


Rebecca Leach and Stanely Ulijaszek


University of Oxford Podcasts

Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

Read by Peter Robinson and Hannah Lucas


Peter Robinson and Hannah Lucas


University of Oxford Podcasts

Middlemarch (version 2)

Read by Margaret Espaillat


George Eliot


Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh n…

The Moneychangers

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Upton Sinclair


A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague w…

The Fruit of the Tree

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Edith Wharton


When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due t…

Mistakes of Moses

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Robert G. Ingersoll


Robert G. Ingersoll was an extremely popular humanist orator in the late nineteenth century, and he wrote Mistakes of Moses after many bootl…

Bunner Sisters

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Edith Wharton


“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverish…

Royal Highness

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Thomas Mann


Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live…

Eminent Victorians

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Giles Lytton Strachey


On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also help…

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Henry Morgenthau


Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…

Martyred Armenia

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Fa'Iz El-Ghusein


This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His ac…

Our Old Home

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Nathaniel Hawthorne


These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a …

Contending Forces

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins


Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, despite an impressive record of productivity and creativity as a novelist, playwright, short fiction writer, edit…

Arthur Mervyn

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Charles Brockden Brown


Arthur Mervyn is the story of a young man from the country who arrives in a city stricken with Yellow Fever. He soon comes down with the ill…

Java Head

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Joseph Hergesheimer


Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was…

Merton of the Movies

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Harry Leon Wilson


Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to H…