Episodios

  • My Financial Career by Stephen Leacock

    My Financial Career by Stephen Leacock
    Jul 7 2020
    We all have our particular foibles and phobias. Today’s humorous short story focuses on one whose greatest fear is of banks. Would that be ripiaphobia?

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    7 m
  • Jimmy Rose by Herman Melville

    Jimmy Rose by Herman Melville
    Jun 28 2020
    Life can deal any of us some terrible blows. In this semi-auto biographical tale we explore the life of a once wealthy merchant, Jimmy Rose

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    28 m
  • The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather

    The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather
    Aug 18 2025
    Here is a wonderfully nostalgic tale of a time when boys could enjoy a taste of freedom, share ideas, and let’s their imaginations run wild, before the responsibilities of life overrode such fancies. You're invited to get lost at the foot of "The Enchanted Bluff."

    Willa Cather published "The Enchanted Bluff" in "Harper's Magazine" in 1909 during a period when her writing skills were blossoming in stories about her experiences living on the Nebraska prairie. Her efforts culminated in a Pulitzer Prize for her book, "One of Ours." Her work was loved by some of the best authors of her day. In fact, after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Sinclair Lewis stated that the prize should have gone to Willa Cather.

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    22 m
  • Nevada Funeral - Scotty Briggs and the Clergyman by Mark Twain

    Nevada Funeral - Scotty Briggs and the Clergyman by Mark Twain
    Aug 18 2025
    In the 19th century, the United States was as diverse from region to region as were the country’s of Europe, except for the fact that we spoke some semblance of the same language. However, the language divide between proper Easern American English and that of the the inhabitants of the West could, at times be vast.

    Samuel Clemens was born in Florida in 1835, but it wasn’t until 27 years later that his alter ego, Mark Twain, came into being in Carson City, Nevada. He credited the many extreme characters of Nevada’s early mining days with jump starting his literary career.

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    12 m
  • A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

    A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
    Aug 18 2025
    In the early 19th century country a farmer is murdered in his home. While investigated, local authorities task a local women with gathering a few things for the wife who was arrested for the crime.

    Susan Glaspell wrote a one-act play which she adapted into "A Jury of Her Peers” It is loosely based on a murder covered while working as a reporter for the Des Moines Daily News.

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    45 m
  • Gentle Hand by Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Gentle Hand by Mary Roberts Rinehart
    Aug 18 2025
    During these stressful times, forced into close quarters with those we love. we may find ourselves growing angry when a softer approach tends to me far more effective as is illustrated in this story.

    Mary Roberts Rinehart is yet another fine example of a talented early 20th Century authors. Known as The American Agatha Christie, she is best known for her mystery stories. A character in her 1920 play “The Bat” was the inspiration for Bob Kane’s comic book character “Batman.”

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    13 m
  • A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin

    A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
    Aug 18 2025
    Money has the power to take us away, if only temporarily, from the due routines of life. However, there is always a price to pay for our fiscal flights of fancy and real life eventually hoists its humdrum head again.

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    13 m
  • Nobodys Story by Charles Dickens

    Nobodys Story by Charles Dickens
    Aug 18 2025
    Charles Dickens was a constant observer of the plight of his fellows and critical of the divisions between humanity’s strata. In this deep and poignant parable of mankind’s need to be recognized by others he arrives at the conclusion that in the end, despite our apparent differences, we are all same.
    Dickens wrote "Nobody’s Story" to honor those who toil in anonymity and suffer quietly. It was originally published in 1853 as part of a Volume of Christmas stories, but felt more appropriate for today.

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    15 m