The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 7, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: The theatre is very crowded when the group of men arrive. Dorian continues to flatter the abilities of Sibyl, and Basil says that he supports Dorian’s engagement after hearing ho...
Dec 01, 2024•27 min
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 9 On The Great Alkali Plain by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: After the Ferrier's and the Mormons arrive in their "promised land" they start the construction of Salt Lake City. Ferrier who proved himself to be very useful on ...
Nov 29, 2024•16 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 6, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: That evening at Dinner Lord Henry announces Dorian’s engagement to Sibyl. Basil is shocked and concerned that Dorian is rushing into a marriage so beneath him. Lord Henry states ...
Nov 27, 2024•16 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 5, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY:At Sibyl’s home, she dances around happily now she is engaged to Dorian. Mrs Vane is less happy about the connection, and fears what Dorian, a rich gentleman, could want with a sq...
Nov 24, 2024•27 min
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 8 On The Great Alkali Plain by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Part 2 opens on a Dry desert in the state of Utah in 1847. A starving, parched man appears on a mountain hoping to spot some water. Finding none, he sits down and ...
Nov 22, 2024•21 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 4, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: A month goes by, Dorian has grown closer to Lord Henry. He is waiting for him to come home, and discusses music with Lord Henry's wife, Victoria. When his friend finally comes ho...
Nov 20, 2024•31 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 3, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Soon after he meets Dorian Gray, Lord Henry visits his uncle, Lord Fermor, to see what he can tell him about Dorian's history and family. Fermor describes how beautiful Dorian's ...
Nov 17, 2024•26 min
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 7 Light in The Darkness, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Lestrade shares his tale. Suspecting that Stangerson murdered Drebber, Lestrade visited all the hotels in the area, and found out that he checked into a hote...
Nov 15, 2024•18 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 2, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Dorian Gray seems to be just as handsome as the portrait showed him to be. Basil introduces Lord Henry to him, and Dorian asks Henry to say and talk to him while he stands becaus...
Nov 13, 2024•36 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 1, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Basil Hallward, a renowned artist discusses his latest masterpiece with his good friend Lord Henry Wotton. Henry admires the painting, which is of a gorgeous, blond haired young ...
Nov 10, 2024•34 min
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 6 Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: The following day, the newspapers are filled with accounts of the "Brixton Mystery." They detail the events of the murder and claim that with G...
Nov 08, 2024•18 min
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 61, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: The final chapter closes all of the stories surrounding the Bennet household. Mrs Bennet is overjoyed at Darcy and Elizabeth’s, and Jane and Bingley’s marriages. Mr Bennet is happy too...
Nov 06, 2024•8 min
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 60, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Mr Darcy and Elizabeth are out on another walk, and Elizabeth starts teasing him by asking questions about how he could ever had fallen in love with her. The two go back and forth joki...
Nov 03, 2024•10 min
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 5 Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Watson tries to rest but his mind is too focus on the mystery to let him sleep. Later, Holmes comes in with a newspaper and shows him the "found...
Nov 01, 2024•13 min
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 59, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: In this chapter I cry while narrating so look forward to that. When Elizabeth and Darcy return Jane asks where they could have been for so long, but Elizabeth dismisses the question fo...
Oct 30, 2024•15 min
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 58, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Darcy has come back to town, and early one morning Mr Bingley and Darcy make their way to Longborne. Bingley, wanting to be alone, suggests that they go on a walk together, and he, Jan...
Oct 27, 2024•14 min
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 4 What John Rance had to Tell, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Watson and Holmes immediately go to the telegraph office where Holmes sends off several items to all of them. They then head to constable John Rance's ...
Oct 25, 2024•13 min
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 57, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Elizabeth can think of nothing but her interactions with Lady Catherine, and her mind turns over with thoughts of Mr. Darcy’s feelings for her. She eventually concludes that the specul...
Oct 23, 2024•10 min
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 56, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: One morning, about a week after Bingley’s proposal, the family hears a carriage drawing up to Longborne house. The door is opened by a servant and Lady Catherine de Bourge makes her wa...
Oct 20, 2024•16 min
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 3 The Lauriston Gardens Mystery, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY:Holmes reads the note which was sent to him by a Detective Tobias Gregson of Scotland Yard. Gregson requests that Holmes assist on a strange case that...
Oct 18, 2024•23 min
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 55, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Mr Darcy has gone to London and has left Bingley behind in Meryton where he continues to visit the Bennet family without his friend. Mrs Bennet invites Bingley for supper, and when he ...
Oct 16, 2024•13 min
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 54, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: As soon as Bingley and Darcy leave, Elizabeth goes off to reflect on Darcy’s behaviour. She is frustrated that he didn’t talk to her. Jane comes to her and too gets frustrated, but at ...
Oct 13, 2024•9 min
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 2, The Science of Deduction, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: The next day, Watson and Holmes view the rooms at 221B Baker Street and immediately move in. Watson, still recovering from his time in Afghanistan, studi...
Oct 11, 2024•21 min
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 53, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Lydia and Wickham leave the area to go to Newcastle and Mrs Bennet is distraught. Her daughter is not too upset about leaving, and Wickham gives a very noble adieu. For a few days afte...
Oct 09, 2024•16 min
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 52, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Mrs Gardiner responds to Lizzy’s letter. She writes that Mr Darcy followed them to London only a day after they had left. Darcy felt responsible for what happened as he had been too pr...
Oct 06, 2024•17 min
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 1, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY:Dr John Watson, a British army Surgeon, recounts his experience in the army, serving in the 2nd Afghan war. He was shot at and spend a very long time recovering before he was sent ...
Oct 04, 2024•16 min
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 51, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: The day of Lydia’s wedding has arrived, and their carriage soon arrives. Mrs Bennet is overjoyed to hear the daughter’s voice and welcomes her child with the warmth. Mr Bennet is unhap...
Oct 02, 2024•12 min
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 50, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Mr Bennet laments about his financial situation. He wishes that he had done better for himself, and that he and Mrs Bennet had had a son, so that his debt to his brother-in-law won’t r...
Sep 29, 2024•13 min
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe Part 3, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: One night, the narrator cannot sleep and paces about his room. Roderick knocks on his door in a strange state and he leads the narrator to the window where they see a bright...
Sep 27, 2024•16 min
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 49, narrated by Isaac Birchall Subscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :D https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads https://www.patreon.com/theessentialreads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/join SUMMARY: Two days after Mr Bennet’s return, Elizabeth and Jane find out that their father has received a letter from Mr Gardiner. They run all throughout the house and eventually find him walki...
Sep 25, 2024•12 min
