21. My Double and How He Undid Me

by Kate Harris, posted in Podcast
In this episode we’ll be reading My Double and How He Undid Me by Edward Everett Hale.  This story was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1859 and brought the American author immediate attention and praise. The son of Nathan Hale, the so-called inventor of the newspaper editorial, Edward Hale possessed strong literary skills from a young age and entered Harvard College when he was only 13 years old.

20. The Schoolmaster’s Progress

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In this episode we’ll be reading The Schoolmaster’s Progress by the American author, Caroline Kirkland.  This story was first published in her collection from 1845 titled Western Clearings. Kirkland is known for her depictions of frontier life and was a highly regarded author  by her contemporaries such as Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Dickens.

14. Stories of Old Greece and Rome Part I

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This week, by listener request, we’ll be reading the first few chapters from Stories of Old Greece and Rome by Emile Kip Baker, published in 1913. If you would like to request a story you can email the podcast at info@thesoundpreserve.com. In this collection of myths, Baker took the stories found in Homer’s poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, and made them more accessible by writing them in a prose format and updating the language.