Great Books - A Chapter a Day Podcast
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Listen to classic books from some of the world’s best known and respected authors – an ideal way to expand your horizons, catch up on your classics “reading” list, or listen to books everyone you know says they’ve already read. It’s as easy as downloading a chapter to your iPod or a CD to take with you while you walk, stair step or spin. Or you can just sit back, relax and listen.We also podcast the Poem of the Week – a reading accompanied by classical music – from a collection of best loved poems from around the world. Join us.
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Ulysses – Episode 3
Author: Walter Burek
Wed, Sep 30, 2009
Episode 3, Proteus
In this chapter, characterized by its stream of consciousness narrative style, the action is presented to the reader through the prism of Stephen’s interior monologue. He finds his way to Sandymount Strand and mopes around for some time, mulling various philosophical concepts, his family, his life as a student in Paris, and again, [...]
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Ulysses – Episode 2
Author: Walter Burek
Tue, Sep 29, 2009
Episode 2, Nestor
Stephen is teaching a history class on the victories of Pyrrhus of Epirus. The class is visibly bored, unconcerned with the subject and not disciplined. Before seeing the boys out of the classroom for a game of hockey, Stephen tells the students a cryptic and impenetrable riddle about a fox burying his grandmother [...]
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Ulysses by James Joyce – Episode 1
Author: Walter Burek
Mon, Sep 28, 2009
Ulysses, the novel by James Joyce, chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title parallels and alludes to Odysseus (Latinised into Ulysses), the hero of Homer’s Odyssey (e.g., the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus). Joyce fans [...]
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Metamorphosis – Part 1
Author: Walter Burek
Sun, Sep 20, 2009
When Gregor Samsa wakes from troubled dreams, he finds himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lays on his armour-like back, and if he lifts his head a little he can see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding is hardly able to cover it and seems ready to slide off any
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Metamorphosis – Part 2
Author: Walter Burek
Sat, Sep 19, 2009
He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily with his antennae – of which he was now beginning to learn the value – in order to see what had been happening there.
Tags: antennae, Famous Stories, kafka, metamorphosis, mp3
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Metamorphosis – Part 3
Author: Walter Burek
Fri, Sep 18, 2009
Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility – probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across his room – crawling over the ceiling was out of the question…
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Tags: Famous Stories, Franz Kafka, metamorphosis
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The Man Who Knew Too Much – Chapter 1, Part 1
Author: Walter Burek (admin)
Mon, Sep 14, 2009
 The eight tales of The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) trace the activities of Horne Fisher, a member of a wealthy and socially prominent family who is well acquainted with the ways of the rich and powerful (he knows too much about them). Fisher's keen mind and powerful deductive gifts make him
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The Man Who Knew Too Much – Chapter 1, Part 2
Author: Walter Burek (admin)
Sun, Sep 13, 2009
Is Jenkins a good shot or a bad one? Did the victim die before or after the motorcar plunged over the cliff? Play The Man Who Knew Too Much – Ch. 1, Part 2 Download The Man Who Knew Too Much – Ch. 1, Part 2 Subscribe to Great Books – A Chapter [...]
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The Man Who Knew Too Much – Chapter 2, Part 1
Author: Walter Burek (admin)
Sat, Sep 12, 2009
A tale of “Prince Michael”, a master of deception. Play The Man Who Knew Too Much – Chapter 2, Part 1 Download The Man Who Knew Too Much – Chapter 2, Part 1
Tags: Famous Stories, G.K. Chesterton, great books online
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