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Poems 1817

Read by Peter Tucker


John Keats


Early poems of this famous English lyric poet, in which he openly expresses indebtedness to, and reverence for, his poetic predecessors, esp…

Status Quo

Read by Peter Eastman


Dallas Mccord Reynolds and Mack Reynolds


Larry Woolford is a government agent, tasked with investigating subversive activity. He does everything an ambitious young man should do if…

Madame Bovary (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Gustave Flaubert


Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acut…

Don Juan, Cantos 13 - 16

Read by Peter Gallagher


George Gordon, Lord Byron


These are the last four Cantos of his mock epic that Byron completed in the year before his death at the age of 36 in Messolonghi, Greece, w…

Mr. Britling Sees It Through

Read by Peter Eastman


H. G. Wells


"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" is H. G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an …

The Blue Cat of Castle Town

Read by Peter Eastman


Catherine Cate Coblentz


"The mother cat had been quite upset when she first saw the blue kitten. She had looked fearfully then toward the river. For, like all …

Highways and Byways in Sussex

Read by Peter Yearsley


E. V. Lucas


A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…

Hume's Central Principles

Read by Peter Millican


Peter Millican


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Read by Peter Tucker


Sir Walter Scott


An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lad…

Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Bliss Carman


Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.…

This Is the End

Read by Peter Eastman


Stella Benson


Some books have plots that drive relentlessly toward a conclusion. Others, like "This Is The End", just meander. It is the story o…

Bible (KJV) 18: Job (version 2)

Read by Peter Tucker


King James Version


Job was a prosperous landowner who encountered a series of misfortunes, leading him to question himself and his relation to his God. A gran…

I Am A Cat (excerpt)

Read by Peter Eastman


Sōseki Natsume


These are the first two chapters of Natsume Sōseki's masterpiece, "I Am A Cat" (Wagahai wa Neko de Aru). It is recognized as a lan…

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Read by Peter Tucker


George Gordon, Lord Byron


Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is de…

Heart of Darkness (version 4)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small…

Nostromo (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a…

Don Juan, Canto 5

Read by Peter Gallagher


George Gordon, Lord Byron


Juan, captured by Turkish pirates and sold into slavery is bought by a beautiful Princess as her toy-boy. Dressed as an odalisque, he is smu…

Anthem (Version 5)

Read by Peter Kuhn


Ayn Rand


Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom…

The Good Soldier (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Ford Madox Ford


First published in 1915, The Good Soldier might be characterised as a melodrama of English upper class infidelities, cut into little pieces,…

Lourdes

Read by Peter Tucker


Émile Zola


This book describes a five day national pilgrimage to the holy shrine of Lourdes, where miracle cures are hoped for. The central character i…

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