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The Great Gatsby (Version 3)

Read by Scotty Smith


F. Scott Fitzgerald


A novel set in the roaring 20's follows Nick Carroway, a young, single veteran turned bond salesman as he is thrust into the high society of…

The Nursery ''Alice''

Read by Scotty Smith


Lewis Carroll


A shortened version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . . . adapted by the author himself for children "from nought to five". . …

Eureka: A Prose Poem

Read by Scotty Smith


Edgar Allan Poe


Eureka is Poe's attempt at explaining the universe, using his general proposition "Because Nothing was, therefore All Things are".…

Songs from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Read by Evan Smith


Lewis Carroll


This is a compilation of the poems in Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. As noted in the title, the poems are transformed i…

Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass''

Read by Scotty Smith


Bill Nye


There can really be no excuse for this last book of trite and beautiful sayings. I do not attempt, in any way, to palliate this great wrong.…

Shorty McCabe

Read by Scotty Smith


Sewell Ford


Yes, it's been a couple of years since I quit the ring. . . . I slid into a quiet corner for a month or so, and then I dropped into the only…

The Incubator Baby

Read by Scotty Smith


Ellis Parker Butler


Marjorie Fielding is born premature and spends her first months of life in an incubator. Her mother is a modern, broad-minded woman eschewin…

Jātaka Tales

Read by Scotty Smith


H. T. Francis


Jātaka tales are ancient Indian folktales that form a part of Buddhist teaching, telling stories of the Buddha’s past lives. Akin to Aesop’s…

The Beacon Second Reader

Read by Evan Smith


James Hiram Fassett and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


In the "Beacon Second Reader" the author has chosen for his stories only those of recognized literary merit; and while it has been…

The Kingdom of Happiness

Read by Scotty Smith


Jiddu Krishnamurti


The first publication of talks given by Jiddu Krishnamurti, a uniquely original thinker of the 20th century. Selected as a boy by leaders of…

Anthem (Version 6)

Read by Scotty Smith


Ayn Rand


A novelette set in the distant future, perhaps thousands of years. Technology has been lost and advancement suppressed. The people have eith…

XLI Poems

Read by Scotty Smith


E. E. Cummings


A book of 41 poems by E. E. Cummings classified as Songs I-XII [poems 1-12], Chansons Innocentes I-II [poems 13-14], Portraits I-IX [poems…

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Volume 1

Read by Scotty Smith


Carl Sandburg


A fascinating look at the early life of Abraham Lincoln through his term as Illinois congressman. Writer and poet Carl Sandburg, with an acc…

Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

Read by Peter Robinson and Hannah Lucas


Peter Robinson and Hannah Lucas


University of Oxford Podcasts

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Mark Twain


In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on th…

The Mysterious Island

Read by Mark F. Smith


Jules Verne


A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, this book details the escape from Civil War-era Richmond, Vi…

Great Expectations

Read by Mark F. Smith


Charles Dickens


This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice an…

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered d…

The Communist Manifesto (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx


The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European P…

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day

Read by Mark F. Smith


Arnold Bennett


"Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'" -- Arnold Ben…

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