Episodios

  • Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1, Part 2

    Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1, Part 2
    Oct 25 2025
    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.

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    24 m
  • Book of the week - The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History and Its Role in the World Today

    Book of the week - The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History and Its Role in the World Today
    Oct 25 2025
    You think you know marmalade? Think again, fool.

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    1 m
  • Edgar Allen Poe - Some Words With The Mummy (extract)

    Edgar Allen Poe - Some Words With The Mummy (extract)
    Oct 23 2025
    "Some Words with a Mummy" is a satirical short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science in April 1845. It is an important early portrayal of a revived Egyptian mummy.

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    11 m
  • C.D. Heriot - The Trapdoor

    C.D. Heriot - The Trapdoor
    Oct 21 2025
    The Trapdoor by CD Heriot is a little known spooky tale about a country pub and hotel with a sealed up attic. It's sealed for a reason...

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    18 m
  • Henry James - Turn of the Screw (extract)

    Henry James - Turn of the Screw (extract)
    Oct 16 2025
    The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 gothic horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly from January 27 to April 16, 1898. On October 7, 1898, it was collected in The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London.

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    8 m
  • J Sebastian Le Fanu - The Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand

    J Sebastian Le Fanu - The Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand
    Oct 14 2025
    In this richly layered and unsettling tale, Sheridan Le Fanu presents a haunting centered not around a traditional ghost, but around the eerie and inexplicable appearance of a ghostly hand.

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    17 m
  • Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1, Part 1

    Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1, Part 1
    Oct 11 2025
    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.

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    3 m
  • Book of the week - Toddlers Guide to the Rubber Industry

    Book of the week - Toddlers Guide to the Rubber Industry
    Oct 11 2025
    An excellent work of outstanding natural beauty.

    Book

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    1 m