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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll be reading the second part to "Doctor Dolittle", written in 1920 by British author Hugh Lofting. The full title being, “The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts”. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

It is the first of Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world. 

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight we’ll read an excerpt from Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography where he describes his childhood. “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life memoirs written by Franklin,from 1771 to 1790. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

Only published well after his death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. 

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, by listener request, we’ll read the second part to the classic 1847 novel "Jane Eyre" by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It is the story of a young, orphaned girl who lives with her Aunt and cousins and is mistreated by them. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

The novel is considered one of the greatest works of English fiction. In Part 1, we read Chapter 1 and the opening of Chapter 2. Poor little Jane is bullied by her entire adopted family of an aunt and cousins, along with being misunderstood and treated meanly by their servants. After she is unfairly punished for standing up for herself by being locked in a guest room, she starts to examine this red colored room further. 

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight we’ll read "The Treasure Seeker", a story found in the "Crimson Fairy Book" written by Andrew Lang and published in 1903. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

In this story, a party of shepherds sat one night telling of the strange things that had happened to them in their youth. One of their stories was more exciting than expected, regarding a mysterious dark spirit who was The Treasure Seeker of the mountain. 

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the opening section from, "From the Caves and Jungles of Hindustan" written by Helena Blavatsky and published in 1883. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

Madame Blavatsky was a Russian occultist and philosopher who traveled around the world, including India, before moving to New York City. She co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 and gained an international following from the esoteric religion that the society promoted. 

Madame Blavatsky was a controversial figure, championed by supporters as an enlightened guru and derided as a fraudulent charlatan by critics. Her Theosophical doctrines influenced the spread of Hindu and Buddhist ideas in the West as well as the development of Western esoteric currents like the New Age Movement. 

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, by listener request, we’ll read the opening to "The Swiss Family Robinson", a novel by Johann David Wyss, about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Australia. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

Wyss, a Swiss pastor, originally wrote this book to entertain and instruct his four sons. Years later, one of his sons, persuaded his father to allow him to complete and edit the unfinished manuscript. It was published in Zurich in 1812. 

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, by listener request, we’ll read the third part to 1877’s "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewall. "Black Beauty" is one of the best-selling books of all time. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

When we left off, our young main character has been trained by his kindly master and wise mother to learn the ways of a properly “broken in” horse. In the last episode, Black Beauty bonds with his stable boy John, who is considerate and pleasant to work with. Our protagonist also starts to learn the ways of his carriage partner, Ginger. 

Black Beauty also expresses a sense of melancholy over the tedium of being a stable horse, and his desire for more freedom. 

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read an excerpt titled "A Micronesian Fish Drive", from a book of short stories called "Ridan the Devil", by Louis Becke, published in 1899. Becke was an Australian Pacific trader, short-story writer and novelist. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, by listener request, we’ll read the next section of the classic children’s story "Heidi", published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

It is a novel about the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. "Heidi" is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature. 

We will pick up where we left off towards the end of chapter 3, with Heidi coming back to her grandfather after an amazing first day of wonderful experiences on the mountain with Peter and his goat herd. 

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the opening stories of "Sinbad the Sailor and His Seven Voyages", taken from "The Arabian Nights", edited by Andrew Lang and published in 1898. Sinbad is a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

He is described as hailing from Baghdad during the 9th century. In the course of seven voyages, he has fantastic adventures in magical realms, encountering monsters and witnessing supernatural phenomena. 

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