Classics Narrated
- Autor: Vários
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Sinopsis
Great stories from public domain: Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Christmas Carol, Kipling's Kim, Lorna Doone, A Room with a View, etc.
Episodios
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Lorna Doone, Vol. 1, Chap. 20 & 21
26/07/2007 Duración: 37minLorna explains her circumstances: isolated, frightened, and mystified about how she came to be among the cruel, violent Doones. She also tells John about a young cousin who came to bring her to her respectable family, and his murder.
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Lorna Doone, Vol. 1, Chap. 18 & 19
21/07/2007 Duración: 26minJohn's hopes of Lorna are cast down by his interview with Mother Melldrum. Undaunted, he keeps his feelings for Lorna secret, returns to visit her with a gift of fresh eggs, and wins her confidence by his self-control.
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Lorna Doone, Vol. 1, Chap. 16 & 17
11/07/2007 Duración: 33minJohn returns to Glen Doone on St. Valentine's Day, where he meets Lorna again. He falls in love, can't concentrate, loses himself in work, and seeks advice of a "wise woman" about when he should venture to see Lorna next.
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Lorna Doone, Vol. 1, Chap. 14 & 15
06/07/2007 Duración: 33minUncle Reuben vents his resentment over being robbed on his relatives and their guests. Mollified by their hospitality, he goes with John to the local squire, for justice. Humiliated there, they scout the Doones' stronghold to plan future action.
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Lorna Doone, Vol. 1, Chap. 12 & 13
05/07/2007 Duración: 44minJohn tells of his cousin, a popular highway robber, and uncle, a prosperous merchant, who falls in with a different sort of thief.
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Lorna Doone, Vol. 1, Chap. 10 & 11
27/06/2007 Duración: 33minA dashing kinsman rescues an animal, allows John to try to ride his fine horse, and ingratiates himself with the family.
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Lorna Doone, Vol. 1, Chap. 8 & 9
26/06/2007 Duración: 31minFourteen year-old John meets eight year-old Lorna, who helps him escape the Doones' stronghold. He returns to the family farm, never forgetting her.
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Lorna Doone, Vol. 1, Chap. 6 & 7
23/06/2007 Duración: 41minWe learn more about the Ridd household, John's preparation for defense, and a fishing trip that leads him astray, into danger.
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Lorna Doone, Vol. 1, Chap. 4 & 5
21/06/2007 Duración: 32minYoung John learns his father's fate, his mother pleads for justice, and we learn how the Doones came to Exmoor.
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Lorna Doone, Vol. 1, Chap. 3
19/06/2007 Duración: 27minJohn Fry and young John Ridd encounter two very different groups of travelers on their way home.
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Lorna Doone, Vol. 1, Chap. 1 & 2
16/06/2007 Duración: 29min"...a simple tale told simply..." begins the story of John Ridd, in his maturity, looking back at his schoolboy days, before he met the lovely and mysterious Lorna.
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Lorna Doone, Selected Prefaces
16/06/2007 Duración: 05minContinuously in print since its publication (though not an immediate bestseller), here are a few of R.D. Blackmore's prefaces, still of interest, at least to the scholar.
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The Great Pancake Record
02/06/2007 Duración: 30minOwen Johnson tells how an unlikely hero achieved schoolboy immortality.
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The Ransom of Red Chief
27/05/2007 Duración: 25minHapless kidnappers find the limit of parental affection.
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The Man Without a Country
25/05/2007 Duración: 01h08sEdward Everett Hale's story of a U.S. Army officer in the early 19th century. Caught up in Aaron Burr's conspiracy, when court-martialled, he wishes he might never hear of the United States again. That becomes his sentence.
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Kipling's Kim, chapter 15
22/05/2007 Duración: 01h02minConclusion: Kim and the lama return to the plains, both ill. Rest and healing at the house of the virtuous (and garrulous) old woman of Kulu. The lama and Mahbub discuss Kim's future, and the transfigured lama brings Kim to the end of the Search.
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The Great Stone Face
20/05/2007 Duración: 49minNathaniel Hawthorne's parable of holiness and humility in the White Mountain valleys that look up to New Hampshire's now fallen Old Man of the Mountain.
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Kipling's Kim, chapter 14
18/05/2007 Duración: 43minAfter crisis, the Lama and Kim are welcomed in a small mountain village. There the lama teaches, meditates, and changes direction, though weak. Kim meets the woman of the village, and negotiates badly needed help.
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Kipling's Kim, chapter 13
15/05/2007 Duración: 49minThe lama finds rejuvenation in the Hills, and crisis, when he and Kim encounter a team of foreign spies.
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Kipling's Kim, chapter 12
08/05/2007 Duración: 59minLama and disciple take to the Road to visit the hospitable and sharp-tongued lady they met before. At her place, they encounter a hakim or healer, and arrange to return to the lama's beloved Hills.