Episodes

Maupassant, Boule de Suif, Part 1 16.06.2024 1:04:28

One of the best: Guy de Maupassant's "Boule de Suife"

F.Scott fitzgerald, Winter Dreams 05.05.2024 57:00

An early story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, looking forward to his masterpiece novel, The Great Gatsby

Saki, The Lost Sanjak, R. W. Emerson, Success 28.04.2024 17:25

Can a man be put on trial for his own murder? Saki's "The Lost Sanjak."

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, A New England Nun 20.04.2024 34:41

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's classic story, "A New England Nun"

E. W. Hornung, The Ides of March 14.04.2024 47:23

Enter Raffles. The beginning adventure of E. W. Hornung's famous gentleman thief.

Ellis Parker Butler, The Great American Pie Company 07.04.2024 26:36

The daydreams of Ephraim Deacon and his friend Phineas Doolittle, who plan to corner the pie market, are examined by the ever-good-humored Ellis Parker Butler.

Rafael Sabatini, Casanova's Alibi 31.03.2024 42:06

Rafael Sabatini offers a tale of the 18th century adventurer Casanova in "Casanova's Alibi."

Thomas Mann, The Child Prodigy 24.03.2024 25:56

An early piece by Thomas Mann, who would go on to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature: “The Child Prodigy”

Ernest Seton Thompson, Lobo, The King of Currumpaw 17.03.2024 40:11

“Lobo, the King of Currumpaw,” the first story of Ernest Thompson Seton’s book, Wild Animals I have Known.

Saki, The Open Window, Esmé 10.03.2024 21:06

Two by Saki: The Open Door, Esmé

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Speckled Band 03.03.2024 57:17

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes tale, The Speckled Band

Ellis Parker Butler, Pigs Is Pigs 25.02.2024 27:13

Born in 1905, still kickin' and stayin" in print: Ellis Parker Butler's "Pigs Is Pigs."

Maurice Leblanc, The Queen's Necklace 18.02.2024 37:24

Maurice Leblanc's greatest creation is the gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin. Here he is in The Queen's Necklace.

Somerset Maugham, The Portrait of a Gentleman, The Ant and the Grasshopper 11.02.2024 25:21

Two pieces by the English author and playwright, W. Somerset Maugham: The Portrait of a Gentleman and The Ant and the Grasshopper

Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories 04.02.2024 29:25

Sheer delight from Rudyard Kipling, author of the best bedtime stories ever: The Just So Stories.

Dorothy Sayers, The Fountain Plays 28.01.2024 34:27

Wit and economy in a tale of murder by Dorothy Sayers.

Aesop's Fables 21.01.2024 25:44

A selection of Aesop’s Fables from among my favorites.

Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron 14.01.2024 28:27

A beautifully rendered story of a turning point in a young girl’s life: Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron.”

Maugham, The Facts of Life 07.01.2024 43:06

Away from the snow, off to Monte Carlo: Somerset Maugham's "The Facts of Life."

Saki, The Story Teller, Mrs.Packletide's Tiger, The Schartz-Metterklume Method 04.01.2024 31:55

Three stories by Saki. Who could ask for anything more?

Eric Kelly, In Clean Hay 24.12.2023 23:57

"In Clean Hay," a Christmas story by Eric Kelly.

P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit 17.12.2023 41:34

In time for the holiday's: "Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit" by P. G. Wodehouse.

Jack London, Brown Wolf 10.12.2023 38:53

His name was John Griffith Chaney. When he came to write, he took his stepfather’s surname and made himself immortal as Jack London. Here is one of his short stories, infused with a theme that always fascinated him: Brown Wolf.

Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle 03.12.2023 44:47

The iconic story that launched Washington Irving's career as a writer: Rip Van Winkle

Anton Chekhov, The Lady With the Dog 26.11.2023 47:00

Anton Chekhov’s classic 1899 story, “The Lady with the Dog”