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A Mathematician's Holiday

Read by Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights

Read by Thomas Rose


James Knowles and Sir Thomas Malory


The Publishers have asked me to authorise a new edition, in my own name, of this little book—now long out of print—which was written by me t…

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 3)

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


William Blake


The short, simple lines of these delicate poems resemble song lyrics, emphasizing the concrete but hinting at transcendent realities, althou…

Venus and Adonis (Version 2)

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


William Shakespeare


Both Ovid and Spenser also treat this ancient myth, but Spenser alters the ending, converting the tale into an archetype of fulfilled love, …

Badge of Infamy (version 2)

Read by Thomas Rose


Lester Del Rey


Set in the early 22nd century: Dr. Daniel Feldman, stripped of rank and status and named pariah for violating Medical Lobby rules, stows aw…

Common Sense, How to Exercise It

Read by Thomas Rose


Yoritomo Tashi


One of three seminal philosophical works by the twelfth century Japanese Shogun, Yoritomo-Tashi. (From the Preface) He knows how to clothe…

Absalom and Achitophel

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


John Dryden


John Dryden published Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem in 1681. It is an elaborate historical allegory using the political situation faced by …

Amoretti and Epithalamion

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edmund Spenser


"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…

Astrophel and Stella

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Sir Philip Sidney


Sonnet sequences, which these poems by Sidney made very popular in the Elizabethan age, reflected the Medieval motif of courtly love, whereb…

The World Is Badly Made

Read by Thomas Corfield


Thomas Corfield


When the palace of Arabesque’s aide d’camp, a cat named the Tremblees, stumbles upon a translation of an ancient language that reveals the e…

The Cave In the Mountain

Read by Thomas Rose


Edward S. Ellis


Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he…