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Told After Supper

by Jerome K. Jerome ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune, Susie Berneis ...

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1 hour 15 min

There's a long tradition of English Christmas stories, sometimes serious, sometimes humorous, often revolving around ghosts and apparitions. Dickens drew on it in a serious vein in A Christmas Carol; here Jerome K. Jerome tells hilarious stories from around an English Christmas fireside.A few selected Christmas poems and stories rounds out the program, including the classic story of the Nativity ... Read more

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There's a long tradition of English Christmas stories, sometimes serious, sometimes humorous, often revolving around ghosts and apparitions. Dickens drew on it in a serious vein in A Christmas Carol; here Jerome K. Jerome tells hilarious stories from around an English Christmas fireside.A few selected Christmas poems and stories rounds out the program, including the classic story of the Nativity
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Golden Bough, The

by James Frazer ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Unabridged

21 hours 27 min

Just as Proust derives an entire world of feeling, people and events from the taste of a madeleine, James G. Frazer brings us into a worldwide survey of religion, folklore, culture, symbolism and ritual using the Priest of Nemi as his starting point. Starting from the image of the lonely, doomed high priest, prowling his precinct night and day, sword in hand, hardly daring to sleep as he awaited ... Read more

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Just as Proust derives an entire world of feeling, people and events from the taste of a madeleine, James G. Frazer brings us into a worldwide survey of religion, folklore, culture, symbolism and ritual using the Priest of Nemi as his starting point. Starting from the image of the lonely, doomed high priest, prowling his precinct night and day, sword in hand, hardly daring to sleep as he awaited
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Slabs of the Sunburnt West

Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg

by Carl Sandburg ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg
Unabridged

1 hour 20 min

This is Carl Sandburg's fourth collection of poetry.His signature style, a rough-and-ready free verse that often transforms into poetic prose, is in full view.Like Whitman before him and like Masters and Frost in his own time, he puts his focus directly on life as he sees it around him, life in the rough-and-tumble Chicago of the early 20th century and life in the American West, at a time when ... Read more

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This is Carl Sandburg's fourth collection of poetry.His signature style, a rough-and-ready free verse that often transforms into poetic prose, is in full view.Like Whitman before him and like Masters and Frost in his own time, he puts his focus directly on life as he sees it around him, life in the rough-and-tumble Chicago of the early 20th century and life in the American West, at a time when
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Guillotine, the

French Revolution

by Thomas Carlyle ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series French Revolution
Unabridged

11 hours 53 min

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct, and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of ... Read more

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Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct, and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of
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Mrs. Molesworth's Ghost Stories: Four Uncanny Tales

by Mary Louisa Molesworth ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune, Susie Berneis ...

Unabridged

3 hours 28 min

Unlike most ghost story writers, Mary Louisa Molesworth does not want to make you wake up screaming in the middle of the night. You may wake up with a shiver, but you'll also wake wake up feeling thoughtful, musing on how the mysteries of love, compassion, and memory can extend themselves into the realm of the supernatural.In "Lady Farquhar's Old Lady", she explores how women fallen on hard times ... Read more

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Unlike most ghost story writers, Mary Louisa Molesworth does not want to make you wake up screaming in the middle of the night. You may wake up with a shiver, but you'll also wake wake up feeling thoughtful, musing on how the mysteries of love, compassion, and memory can extend themselves into the realm of the supernatural.In "Lady Farquhar's Old Lady", she explores how women fallen on hard times
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Constitution, the

French Revolution

by Thomas Carlyle ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series French Revolution
Unabridged

11 hours 51 min

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of ... Read more

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Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of
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Mrs. Molesworth's Ghost Stories: Four More Uncanny Tales

by Mary Louisa Molesworth ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune, Susie Berneis ...

Unabridged

2 hours 44 min

In this set of "Uncanny Tales," Mary Louisa Molesworth deftly makes us feel the shiver of ghostly mystery without actually giving us a ghost! Or, to put it another way, she's interested in a different kind of ghostly presence.In "The Man with the Cough", it is the ghostly presence of a secret agent, and the ghostly experience of events that seem like a dream, but have real-world consequences. In ... Read more

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In this set of "Uncanny Tales," Mary Louisa Molesworth deftly makes us feel the shiver of ghostly mystery without actually giving us a ghost! Or, to put it another way, she's interested in a different kind of ghostly presence.In "The Man with the Cough", it is the ghostly presence of a secret agent, and the ghostly experience of events that seem like a dream, but have real-world consequences. In
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Smoke and Steel

Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg

by Carl Sandburg ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg
Unabridged

3 hours 41 min

This is Carl Sandburg's third book of poetry and his largest. It is also the most wide-ranging.The title, Smoke and Steel, suggests the steel industry he knew in Chicago, Gary, and Pittsburgh, but he writes about many other things as well. His over-arching theme seems to be human life as a struggle in adversity, a struggle for the mere necessities of life - food, clothing, shelter, work - and a ... Read more

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This is Carl Sandburg's third book of poetry and his largest. It is also the most wide-ranging.The title, Smoke and Steel, suggests the steel industry he knew in Chicago, Gary, and Pittsburgh, but he writes about many other things as well. His over-arching theme seems to be human life as a struggle in adversity, a struggle for the mere necessities of life - food, clothing, shelter, work - and a
... Read more
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Bastille, the

The French Revolution

by Thomas Carlyle ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series French Revolution
Unabridged

11 hours 24 min

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of ... Read more

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Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of
... Read more
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Theory of Pyschoanalysis

by Carl Jung ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Unabridged

5 hours 14 min

Although the theories presented in this book, a 1915 edition of the lectures Jung presented at Fordham University, are now thoroughly outdated, this book is still a fascinating glimpse of Jung's mind at a crucial time in his life. Just three years previously, he had struck out on his own, publishing his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, known in English as Psychology of the Unconscious. That book ... Read more

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Although the theories presented in this book, a 1915 edition of the lectures Jung presented at Fordham University, are now thoroughly outdated, this book is still a fascinating glimpse of Jung's mind at a crucial time in his life. Just three years previously, he had struck out on his own, publishing his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, known in English as Psychology of the Unconscious. That book
... Read more
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Voices of the Ghost II: Mysterious Meetings

by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Richard Middleton, Amelia B. Edwards ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune, Susie Berneis ...

Series series Voices of the Ghost
Unabridged

1 hour 17 min

"The Vacant Lot" by Mary E. Wilkins FreemanFrom the time that the editor of Harper's Bazaar overlooked Freeman's cramped handwriting, difficult to read, and published the story "Two Old Lovers", Mary Wilkins Freeman never looked back. Her Vermont and Massachusetts background forms an important part of many of her stories. This story is both a ghost story and a mystery, and the mystery is as ... Read more

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"The Vacant Lot" by Mary E. Wilkins FreemanFrom the time that the editor of Harper's Bazaar overlooked Freeman's cramped handwriting, difficult to read, and published the story "Two Old Lovers", Mary Wilkins Freeman never looked back. Her Vermont and Massachusetts background forms an important part of many of her stories. This story is both a ghost story and a mystery, and the mystery is as
... Read more
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North of Boston

Early Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Early Poetry of Robert Frost
Unabridged

1 hour 46 min

Frost's third book of poetry, North of Boston, is an extraordinary set of poems that are nearly dramas, conversations drawn from the heat of life, love, and death.From Home Burial and Death of the Hired Man to A Hundred Collars to The Generations of Man.Frost's work in this volume spans the whole range of human experience, expressed always in his characteristic dry, matter-of-fact, yet wonderfully ... Read more

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Frost's third book of poetry, North of Boston, is an extraordinary set of poems that are nearly dramas, conversations drawn from the heat of life, love, and death.From Home Burial and Death of the Hired Man to A Hundred Collars to The Generations of Man.Frost's work in this volume spans the whole range of human experience, expressed always in his characteristic dry, matter-of-fact, yet wonderfully
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