Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 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: Catherine spends 5 weeks recovering at Thrushcross Grange. Mrs Linton has determined to turn Catherine into a Lady, and after her time at the Grange, Catherine was indeed changed. Cather...
Feb 09, 2025•23 min
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 5 The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge, 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: Pondicherry Lodge is a very imposing building in the moonlight. High walls, topped with Broken glass surround the building. The doorman, McMurdo is ...
Feb 07, 2025•16 min
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 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: Hindley and his new wife return to Wuthering Heights for Mr Earnshaw's funeral. Hindley immediately starts to take revenge on Heathcliff, removing his rights to an education and forcing ...
Feb 05, 2025•15 min
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 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: Time goes on and Mr Earnshaw becomes ill and weak. Disgusted at his son's treatment of Heathcliff, Earnshaw sends Hindley away to college. Joseph starts to take advantage of his master's...
Feb 02, 2025•9 min
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 4 The Story of the Bald-Headed man, 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: After being led down the hall and into a wonderfully furnished room, the Holmes, Watson, and miss Morstan meet Thaddeus Sholto, a odd, twitching 30 ...
Jan 31, 2025•22 min
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 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: After spending a day in Solitude, Lockwood becomes lonely. When the house keeper Nelly Dean brings him supper, he wonders if she is a gossip, and tries to get her to talk about Wuthering...
Jan 29, 2025•17 min
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 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: Zillah takes Lockwood to an out-of-the-way room which Heathcliff has forbidden from visitors. Lockwood notices that someone has scratched the name "Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Linton, ...
Jan 26, 2025•28 min
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 3 In Quest of a Solution, 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 comes back to 221b Baker Street in good spirits. He tells Watson that he has figured out that the pearls have something to do with Major Sholto, who, h...
Jan 24, 2025•11 min
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 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: On a cold afternoon not long after his arrival, Lockwood makes his way towards Wuthing Heights, arriving just as a small snow starts to fall. He knocks on the door but no one lets him in...
Jan 22, 2025•21 min
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 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: Writing in his Diary, Mr Lockwood describes his first days at Thrushcross Grange, a small manor house in Yorkshire. Soon after his arrival he goes to visit his landlord, Mr Heathcliff, a...
Jan 19, 2025•15 min
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 2 The Statement of the Case, 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: Miss Morstan comes into the room and tells Holmes and Watson about her father, Captain Arthur Morstan's, disappearance. He had been given 12 months leave f...
Jan 17, 2025•12 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 20, 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 night, Dorian goes to the locked schoolroom where he keeps his portrait. He hopes that his decision to change his life for good will have changed the portrait and considers...
Jan 15, 2025•14 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 19, 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: Several weeks have passed and Dorian goes to visit Lord Henry. Dorian claims that he has changes and that he wants to reform himself and be virtuous. As if providing evidence of...
Jan 12, 2025•20 min
The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 1 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: Sherlock Holmes is sitting in his chair at Baker Street, injecting narcotics into his arm. Dr Watson, his flat mate and friend, calls Holmes out on his ...
Jan 10, 2025•18 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 18, 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 Dorian refuse to leave the house, and thoughts of falling victim to James Vane consume him. He begins to wonder whether his face was actually there or not, and...
Jan 08, 2025•19 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 17, 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 week later, Dorian is entertaining guests at his home, Selby. He talks with Lord Henry, the Dutchess of Monmouth, and her husband about the nature and importance of beauty, an...
Jan 05, 2025•11 min
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 14 The Conclusion, 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 Hope gives his statement, he passes away from a heart condition. Back at 221B Baker Street, Holmes and Watson discuss the case. Holmes calls it a very simple case...
Jan 03, 2025•13 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 16, 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 he makes his way to the opium dens, he recites Lord Henry’s credo of “To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the Soul.” He decides that if he sin...
Jan 01, 2025•20 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 15, 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 Dorian goes to a dinner party where he flirts effortlessly with a noblewoman. Reflecting on his calmness, he feels a great pleasure in his double life. Lady Narboro...
Dec 29, 2024•18 min
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 11 A Continuation of the Reminiscences of John Watson MD 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 Watson takes over the narrative again to follow up after the capture of Jefferson Hope. At Scotland Yard, Hope asks the police to t...
Dec 27, 2024•24 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 14, 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 morning, Dorian awakes feeling incredibly well rested. When he thinks about the events of the previous night, he feels his hatred for Basil return. He decides not to th...
Dec 25, 2024•26 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 13, 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 takes Basil up to his locked study. Inside, lighting a candle, Dorian tears the curtain away to reveal the portrait. The painting has become a foul parody of its former b...
Dec 22, 2024•16 min
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 12 The Avenging Angels 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 three fugitives continue their journey through the mountains. Hope knows that the Mormons will follow them, so they always sleep late, and wake early, hoping to exte...
Dec 20, 2024•20 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 12, 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: On the eve of his 38th birthday, Dorian runs into Basil on a thick fogged night. He tries to sneak past him unnoticed, but Basil calls out to him and walks him home. Basil menti...
Dec 18, 2024•16 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 11, 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: Under the influence of Lord Henry’s book, Dorian begins to change. He orders dozens of copies of the book in different colours to fit his moods and fancies. Years pass, and thou...
Dec 15, 2024•42 min
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 11 A Flight for Life 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 after his meeting, Ferrier travels to town to send a letter to Hope. When Ferrier comes home, he finds two men, Drebber and Stangerson, waiting to talk to him and...
Dec 13, 2024•19 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 10, 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: Once Basil leaves, Dorian gets his servant Victor to go to a local frame maker and bring some of his men to the house. He then calls his housekeeper Mrs Leaf and asks for the ke...
Dec 11, 2024•18 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 9, 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, Basil comes to Dorian’s house to offer his condolences to his friend, but Dorian dismisses him saying that he is over Sibyl’s death, remarking “What is done is...
Dec 08, 2024•24 min
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle chapter 10 John Ferrier Talks with the Prophet 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: Ferrier has accepted all of the Mormon tenants besides the taking of a wife, let alone multiple wives and he refuses to let Lucy marry one. He would how...
Dec 06, 2024•11 min
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde chapter 8, 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 doesn’t wake up until noon the next day. When up, he goes to the portrait, and seems that in the daylight, the painting still has the cruel touch in it. While Dorian tries...
Dec 04, 2024•31 min
