Podcast by For Reading Out Loud
A ruthless practitioner of logic, Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen accepts the challenge of escaping from a high security prison. Can his logic work its way around this concrete and iron cage?
Two short spring pieces tonight, by Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men in a Boat) and Elizabeth von Armin (The Enchanted April)
Once upon a time, before there were the Brothers Grimm, there was Charles Perrault, and he gave us (among others) the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. Here is the story from his collection of Mother Goose Tales, first published in 1697. His children were charmed. I hope you will enjoy it, too.
P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster tells of "Jeeves and the Kid Clementina"
Stacy Aumonier's anticipation of Alfred Hitchcock: "Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty"
In an age of scams, you might enjoy learning about the old “green goods” caper: O. Henry, “Shearing the Wolf.”
All the evidence points to one person, but Hercule Poirot keeps asking questions and solves “The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan.”
Werner Bergengruen takes an amused and skeptical look at misleading national identities in his story “The Sand Doctor.”
A tender story by Kate Chopin: "Love on the Bon-Dieu"
Sudden and high adventure in the most stolid and regular of lives: "A Source of Irritation" by Stacy Aumonier
A romance set in the theater in Belle Époque Paris: Leonard Merrick's “The Doll in the Pink Silks Dress”A romance set in the theater in Belle Époque Paris: Leonard Merrick's “The Doll in the Pink Silks Dress”
Anatole France's charming tale of the elusive gardener, "Putois"
The second and concluding part of Thomas Mann's "Mario and the Magician"
Thomas Mann's thrilling political parable, "Mario and the Magician"
G. K. Chesterton' priestly sleuth Father Brown in "The Hammer of God"
Eden Phillpotts's charming and clever story about a man and a cat and much more
Two classic stories by the English writer William Somerset Maugham: A Friend in Need, The Wash Tub
Comedy with music tonight from P. G. Wodehouse: Jeeves and the Song of Songs
The conclusion of Thomas Mann's early masterpiece Tonio Kröger
Tonio travels toward Denmark, stopping for a curious visit in his hometown.
Tonio Kröger, part two of four. After a loving encounter in Munich, Tonio sets forth on a return journey.
Thomas Mann's great early story Tonio Kröger, the first of four parts.
Damon Runyon's retelling of an Epiphany story: Three Wise Guys
For auld lang syne, with best New Year's wishes, a charming tale by Anatole France.
Two Christmas stories, one by Anatole France, one by Robert Benchley
Classic Jeeves and Bertie Wooster: P. G. Wodehouse's 1922 story "The Great Sermon Handicap"
A story of romance and cynicism, of kindness and a kind of magic. Lucy Maud Montgomery's “White Magic.”
Jack London's Klondike romance, "The Night-born"
Ludovic Halévy's amused look at the world of journalism
A Harriet Beecher Stowe sequel: The Sullivan Looking Glass
When she wasn't working on Uncle Tom's Cabin, she also wrote some pretty good fireside tales: Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Ghost in the Chimney
A spooky story for Halloween: Lord Dunsany's "Two Bottles of Relish"
Victor Hugo's A Fight With a Cannon by For Reading Out Loud
Clear the decks for Victor Hugo's "A Fight with a Cannon."
Clear the decks for Victor Hugo's "A Fight with a Cannon
Ten years later, Sherlock Holmes returns in The Adventure of the Empty House
Ten years after his supposed death, Sherlock Holmes returns.
Sherlock Holmes's final problem. Or was it?
Two quite different stories by O. Henry, both of them love stories.
A down East story from the pen of Mary Wilkins Freeman: The Outside of the House
Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Romance of Jedediah
Henry Lawson's story from Australia's Outback country: Andy Page's Rival
Susan Glaspell's classic story For Love of the Hills
Edna Ferber share a baseball story. But it's not about baseball.
A story of love and trust: Henry van Dyke's "The Wedding Ring"
A rare opportunity is seized in Mary Freeman's “The Revolt of ‘Mother.'”
Tales of two scammers. O. Henry shares with us a couple of stories about his charming rogues, Jeff Peters and Andy Tucker.
From Wild Animals I Have Known, Ernest Thompson Seton's "Silverspot"
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