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"There's no place like home" Part 2 - The People of the British Isles

In Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

Read by Bruce Winney


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Brothers Karamazov (version 3)

Read by Bruce Pirie


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Originally published in serial form in 1879-80, “The Brothers Karamazov” is recognized as one of the very greatest masterpieces of world lit…

The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)

Read by Bruce Pirie


Thomas Hardy


Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural …

Cousin Betty

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his …

Eugénie Grandet

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would…

The Lifted Veil

Read by Bruce Pirie


George Eliot


The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The…

Scenes of Clerical Life

Read by Bruce Pirie


George Eliot


Scenes of Clerical Life, which appeared in book form in 1858 (after serial publication in the previous year), was the first published fictio…

Father Goriot (version 2)

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Pa…

The Man from Glengarry

Read by Bruce Pirie


Ralph Connor


With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth C…

Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Un grand homme de province à Paris, 1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy,…

Lost Illusions: Two Poets

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


Two Poets (1837) is the first book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Co…

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sect…

Lost Illusions: Ève and David

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


Ève and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively t…

The Absentee

Read by Bruce Pirie


Maria Edgeworth


Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain. At that time, the management of man…

Cousin Pons

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac


Cousin Pons is one of the final works in Balzac's long novel series titled The Human Comedy. It was published in 1847, along with Cousin Bet…

Buddenbrooks

Read by Bruce Pirie


Thomas Mann


When Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1929), the citation made special mention of his first novel, “Buddenbrooks,” pub…

Glengarry School Days

Read by Bruce Pirie


Ralph Connor


With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth C…

Ormond

Read by Bruce Pirie


Maria Edgeworth


Maria Edgeworth was one of the most popular writers of her time, a sharp and witty observer of society manners, and a favorite author for Ja…

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania

Read by Bruce Moser


John Dickinson


Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania is a series of essays written by the Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator John Dickinson (1732–1808) and…

The Canadians of Old

Read by Bruce Pirie


Philippe Aubert De Gaspé


In his mid-70s, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé took on the project of recording the culture and heritage of French Canada, especially that …

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