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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight we read a Snoozecast original titled, "The Toboggan Nationals" - the story is a second person narrative that takes you on a cold winter car ride through Maine's coastal landscape from owls head to your destination at The Toboggan National Championships in Camden. 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. "Walden" is Henry David Thoreau's reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, originally published in 1854. The work is part personal declaration of independence , social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and — to some degree — a manual for self reliance. 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. Originally published in 1881, “The Prince and the Pauper” was Twain’s first attempt at historical fiction. In the novel, two boys identical in appearance exchange identities. Although written for children, “The Prince and the Pauper" is a critique of social inequality and has been adapted for the screen and television a number of times. 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. Originally published in 1905, this biographical book on Beethoven gives a glimpse of the great composer who died in 1827. 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 we read an excerpt from, "Creation of the Teton Landscape" by David Love, John Calvin Reed and Kenneth Lee Pierce, originally published in 1968. This booklet, prepared by members of the U.S. Geological Survey, discusses how geological phenomena are responsible for the magnificent scenery of the Teton region. 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. "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse was originally published in 1951. It deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery by a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. 

The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in Sanskrit language, siddha (achieved) + artha (what was searched for), which together means "he who has found meaning (of existence)" or "he who has attained his goals." 

In fact, the Buddha's own name, before his renunciation, was Siddhartha Gautama, Prince of Kapilavastu. In this book, the Buddha is referred to as "Gotama." 

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. "My Robin” by Frances Hodgson Burnett was originally published in 1912. Burnett was an American-English novelist and playwright. She is perhaps best known for her children’s stories, in particular “The Secret Garden.” “My Robin” is a charming anecdote that further expands upon the Robin featured in “The Secret Garden.”  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 we read a snoozy opening to, "The Flower Fields of Alpine Switzerland" by George Flemwell, originally published in 1911. You'll hear lots of descriptions of mountains and flowers, and flowers on mountains.  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 we read the opening to "The Young King", a shorty story within Oscar Wilde’s "A House of Pomegranates". "A House of Pomegranates" was written in 1891 as a collection of fairy tales that Wilde may have said was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public.” "The Young King" tells the story of the illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter, and now the only heir to the kingdom.  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, we'll read a Snoozecast original story titled, “What Murfee Remembered”. In this short story, Murfee is a dog who lives in a city apartment building with his two humans. He has something important on the tip of his mind that he spends his day trying to remember.  To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

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