Welcome to Listen Now, Read Later, the podcast that brings you to your next favorite book by reading you short stories. In this episode, listen now to “The Darling” by Anton Chekhov (published 1899) and hear why we think fans of this story should read The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson (published 2011) later. 

Highlighted themes: desperation, self-discovery and empowerment

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Music for this episode:

"That's One Sly Cat" by Artifical.Music, licensed under a Creative Commons license. Listen on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Reverie (Piano Version) ft. Adarsh PV by Lucjo. Creative Commons — Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported — CC BY-ND 3.0. Listen on Spotify or YouTube.

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