Episodios

  • Christmas Reads - Henry Van Dyke - Keeping Christmas

    Christmas Reads - Henry Van Dyke - Keeping Christmas
    Dec 18 2025
    Henry van Dyke's treatise on the nature of Christmas, the true value of humanity.

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    3 m
  • Sir Walter Scott - The Tapestried Chamber

    Sir Walter Scott - The Tapestried Chamber
    Dec 17 2025
    Christmas Ghost stories kick off with the classic and underrated Sir Walter Scott - The Tapestried Chamber

    The Keepsake Stories is the title given to three short stories by Sir Walter Scott which appeared in The Keepsake for MDCCCXXIX, a literary annual published for Christmas 1828. The short stories were entitled "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror", "The Tapestried Chamber, or The Lady in the Sacque", and "Death of the Laird's Jock". Charles Heath had originally planned for Scott to become the editor of the annual.

    Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, Old Mortality, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, and The Bride of Lammermoor, along with the narrative poems Marmion and The Lady of the Lake. He greatly influenced European and American literature. As an advocate and legal administrator by profession, he combined writing and editing with his daily work as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire.

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    31 m
  • Christmas Reads - Hans Christian Anderson - The Little Match Girl

    Christmas Reads - Hans Christian Anderson - The Little Match Girl
    Dec 17 2025
    A sad tale about those without at Chrisitmas, and the rest of the year.

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    6 m
  • Fitz-James O'Brien - What Was It? (extract)

    Fitz-James O'Brien - What Was It? (extract)
    Dec 16 2025
    The strange things which lurk unseen in darkness and in the light.

    Fitz-James O'Brien was an Irish-American writer of works in fantasy and science fiction short stories. His career was marked by a significant contribution to the American literary scene in the mid-19th century.

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    21 m
  • Christmas Reads - Charles Dickens - Christmas at Fezziwig's House

    Christmas Reads - Charles Dickens - Christmas at Fezziwig's House
    Dec 16 2025
    The lesser known Mr Fezziwig from A Christmas Carol

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    3 m
  • Christmas Reads - A German Folk Tale - The Christmas Fairy of Strasburg

    Christmas Reads - A German Folk Tale - The Christmas Fairy of Strasburg
    Dec 15 2025
    Classic Christmas story about a Count and the Fairy Queen

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    6 m
  • Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 6, Part 2

    Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 6, Part 2
    Dec 13 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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    17 m
  • Book of the Week - The Irritablity of Vegtables by Robert Lyall

    Book of the Week - The Irritablity of Vegtables by Robert Lyall
    Dec 13 2025
    Not to be confused with The Irritablity of Vegtables by James Edward Smith, Obviously.

    Sorry this is kind of a short one but there is scant available about Lyall. He was a Scottish explorer, although that was all I could find.

    Hated vegetables, though. Even the rude shaped ones.

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