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Population, inequality and global justice

In Is the planet full? Seminar Series 2011

Read by Tony Atkinson


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Poems: Series Two

Read by Laura Atkinson


Emily Dickinson


"The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern arti…

English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the Englis…

Read by Tony Oliva


William J. Long


This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has thr…

Wildfire

Read by Tony Oliva


Zane Grey


The heart of a stallion; the heart of a man; the heart of a woman. Three valiant, authentic, and determined souls cross each others' paths, …

The Brothers Karamazov (version 2)

Read by Tony Addison


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Described as the Great Book of Wonders by Arthur Miller, this everyday tale of fraternal affection, sibling rivalry, obsession, lust, parric…

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuou…

The Rainbow (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


D. H. Lawrence


Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rai…

The Mystery of the Downs

Read by Tony Oliva


Arthur J. Rees


"The storm had descended swiftly, sweeping in suddenly from the sea, driving across the downs to the hills at high speed, blotting out …

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 2 (version 2)

Read by Tony Addison


Edgar Allan Poe


An eclectic, catholic even, collection from the exquisitely excellent tale-telling of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. Hilarious and terrifying. Need…

The Chief Legatee

Read by Tony Oliva


Anna Katharine Green


"I was married to-day in Grace Church. At the altar my bride--you probably know her name, Miss Georgian Hazen--wore a natural look, and…

Sons and Lovers (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


D. H. Lawrence


Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912:“It follows this idea: a woman of character and refine…

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Read by Tony Oliva


Vicente Blasco Ibáñez


The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Vicente Blasco Ibañez and translated into English by Charlotte Brewster Jordan, depicts two b…

The Lost Girl

Read by Tony Foster


D. H. Lawrence


"There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to."In this most under-valued …

Northanger Abbey (version 4)

Read by Tony Addison


Jane Austen


If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reve…

The Woman in White - version 2

Read by Tony Addison


Wilkie Collins


Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and settin…

The Moonstone (version 2)

Read by Tony Addison


Wilkie Collins


Said to be the first detective novel ever written, it is wonderful for its blending of the intrigues of romance with the conventional sleigh…

The Fire People

Read by Tony Oliva


Ray Cummings


In effect Professor Newland declared that the curious astronomical phenomena of the previous November--the new "stars" observed, t…

Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

Read by Tony Foster


Charles Watts Whistler


Troy, Athens, Rome... each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Weston Translation)

Read by Tony Addison


The Gawain Poet and The Gawain Poettranslated Byjessie Laidlay Weston


King Arthur lies at Camelot upon a Christmas-tide and will not eat until he hears tell of a marvel of knightly feats. In among them rides th…

The Three Impostors

Read by Tony Oliva


Arthur Machen


Three friends in a large old dilapidated house are laughing. They seem as giddy as an acting troupe at closing night. But their laughter is …

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