In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or "dearest") in genteel poverty after his Father Captain Errol dies. They receive a visit from Havisham, an English lawyer with a message from Cedric's grandfather, Lord Dorincourt. Cedric is now Lord Fauntleroy and heir to the Earldom and a vast estate. The Earl wants Cedric to live with him and learn to be an English aristocrat. He offers Mrs Errol a house and income but refus...
Mar 28, 2024•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast “ The Two Brothers ” (1842) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the novel series known as “ The Human Comedy .” Balzac’s French title was “ La Rabouilleuse ”; other English translations have been variously titled “ The Black Sheep ” and “ A Bachelor’s Establishment ”. After initially detailing the backstories of his characters, Balzac launches into an engaging and searing portrait of family relationships: parental, filial, and sibling relations are all tested to the breaking point. In small tow...
Mar 25, 2024•2 hr 58 min•Transcript available on Metacast “ The Two Brothers ” (1842) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the novel series known as “ The Human Comedy .” Balzac’s French title was “ La Rabouilleuse ”; other English translations have been variously titled “ The Black Sheep ” and “ A Bachelor’s Establishment ”. After initially detailing the backstories of his characters, Balzac launches into an engaging and searing portrait of family relationships: parental, filial, and sibling relations are all tested to the breaking point. In small tow...
Mar 25, 2024•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast “ The Two Brothers ” (1842) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the novel series known as “ The Human Comedy .” Balzac’s French title was “ La Rabouilleuse ”; other English translations have been variously titled “ The Black Sheep ” and “ A Bachelor’s Establishment ”. After initially detailing the backstories of his characters, Balzac launches into an engaging and searing portrait of family relationships: parental, filial, and sibling relations are all tested to the breaking point. In small tow...
Mar 25, 2024•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast “ The Two Brothers ” (1842) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the novel series known as “ The Human Comedy .” Balzac’s French title was “ La Rabouilleuse ”; other English translations have been variously titled “ The Black Sheep ” and “ A Bachelor’s Establishment ”. After initially detailing the backstories of his characters, Balzac launches into an engaging and searing portrait of family relationships: parental, filial, and sibling relations are all tested to the breaking point. In small tow...
Mar 25, 2024•2 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast “ The Two Brothers ” (1842) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the novel series known as “ The Human Comedy .” Balzac’s French title was “ La Rabouilleuse ”; other English translations have been variously titled “ The Black Sheep ” and “ A Bachelor’s Establishment ”. After initially detailing the backstories of his characters, Balzac launches into an engaging and searing portrait of family relationships: parental, filial, and sibling relations are all tested to the breaking point. In small tow...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast “ The Two Brothers ” (1842) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the novel series known as “ The Human Comedy .” Balzac’s French title was “ La Rabouilleuse ”; other English translations have been variously titled “ The Black Sheep ” and “ A Bachelor’s Establishment ”. After initially detailing the backstories of his characters, Balzac launches into an engaging and searing portrait of family relationships: parental, filial, and sibling relations are all tested to the breaking point. In small tow...
Mar 25, 2024•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast “ The Two Brothers ” (1842) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the novel series known as “ The Human Comedy .” Balzac’s French title was “ La Rabouilleuse ”; other English translations have been variously titled “ The Black Sheep ” and “ A Bachelor’s Establishment ”. After initially detailing the backstories of his characters, Balzac launches into an engaging and searing portrait of family relationships: parental, filial, and sibling relations are all tested to the breaking point. In small tow...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast “ The Two Brothers ” (1842) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the novel series known as “ The Human Comedy .” Balzac’s French title was “ La Rabouilleuse ”; other English translations have been variously titled “ The Black Sheep ” and “ A Bachelor’s Establishment ”. After initially detailing the backstories of his characters, Balzac launches into an engaging and searing portrait of family relationships: parental, filial, and sibling relations are all tested to the breaking point. In small tow...
Mar 25, 2024•2 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adam’s life from happiness in the “GARDEN-OF-EDEN” to their fall from grace and the events thereafter. Learn how Eve caught the infant Cain, and Adam takes some time to learn exactly what it is. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Mar 21, 2024•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Scottish historian, Robert B. Mowat writes, “When this period opens one of the finest epochs in German history had just closed, and a time of confusion begun.” With the death of the Emperor Frederick II, Germany’s many feudal territories became practically hereditary sovereignties, her Free Imperial Cities almost independent states. But within the walls of these city-states, as in their Italian counterparts, commercial life flourished. During this period the Great Schism divided Christendom ...
Mar 21, 2024•2 hr 54 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Scottish historian, Robert B. Mowat writes, “When this period opens one of the finest epochs in German history had just closed, and a time of confusion begun.” With the death of the Emperor Frederick II, Germany’s many feudal territories became practically hereditary sovereignties, her Free Imperial Cities almost independent states. But within the walls of these city-states, as in their Italian counterparts, commercial life flourished. During this period the Great Schism divided Christendom ...
Mar 21, 2024•2 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Scottish historian, Robert B. Mowat writes, “When this period opens one of the finest epochs in German history had just closed, and a time of confusion begun.” With the death of the Emperor Frederick II, Germany’s many feudal territories became practically hereditary sovereignties, her Free Imperial Cities almost independent states. But within the walls of these city-states, as in their Italian counterparts, commercial life flourished. During this period the Great Schism divided Christendom ...
Mar 21, 2024•2 hr 48 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Scottish historian, Robert B. Mowat writes, “When this period opens one of the finest epochs in German history had just closed, and a time of confusion begun.” With the death of the Emperor Frederick II, Germany’s many feudal territories became practically hereditary sovereignties, her Free Imperial Cities almost independent states. But within the walls of these city-states, as in their Italian counterparts, commercial life flourished. During this period the Great Schism divided Christendom ...
Mar 21, 2024•2 hr 56 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Scottish historian, Robert B. Mowat writes, “When this period opens one of the finest epochs in German history had just closed, and a time of confusion begun.” With the death of the Emperor Frederick II, Germany’s many feudal territories became practically hereditary sovereignties, her Free Imperial Cities almost independent states. But within the walls of these city-states, as in their Italian counterparts, commercial life flourished. During this period the Great Schism divided Christendom ...
Mar 21, 2024•2 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Scottish historian, Robert B. Mowat writes, “When this period opens one of the finest epochs in German history had just closed, and a time of confusion begun.” With the death of the Emperor Frederick II, Germany’s many feudal territories became practically hereditary sovereignties, her Free Imperial Cities almost independent states. But within the walls of these city-states, as in their Italian counterparts, commercial life flourished. During this period the Great Schism divided Christendom ...
Mar 21, 2024•2 hr 56 min•Transcript available on Metacast This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his poor financial sense and his drinking habits, she comes to inhabit the lives of her children - most particularly, her sons. She is determined that they will grow to be something more than men that come home blackened with coal dust every day and ...
Mar 18, 2024•2 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his poor financial sense and his drinking habits, she comes to inhabit the lives of her children - most particularly, her sons. She is determined that they will grow to be something more than men that come home blackened with coal dust every day and ...
Mar 18, 2024•2 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his poor financial sense and his drinking habits, she comes to inhabit the lives of her children - most particularly, her sons. She is determined that they will grow to be something more than men that come home blackened with coal dust every day and ...
Mar 18, 2024•2 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his poor financial sense and his drinking habits, she comes to inhabit the lives of her children - most particularly, her sons. She is determined that they will grow to be something more than men that come home blackened with coal dust every day and ...
Mar 18, 2024•2 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his poor financial sense and his drinking habits, she comes to inhabit the lives of her children - most particularly, her sons. She is determined that they will grow to be something more than men that come home blackened with coal dust every day and ...
Mar 18, 2024•2 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his poor financial sense and his drinking habits, she comes to inhabit the lives of her children - most particularly, her sons. She is determined that they will grow to be something more than men that come home blackened with coal dust every day and ...
Mar 18, 2024•2 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his poor financial sense and his drinking habits, she comes to inhabit the lives of her children - most particularly, her sons. She is determined that they will grow to be something more than men that come home blackened with coal dust every day and ...
Mar 18, 2024•3 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his poor financial sense and his drinking habits, she comes to inhabit the lives of her children - most particularly, her sons. She is determined that they will grow to be something more than men that come home blackened with coal dust every day and ...
Mar 18, 2024•3 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holiday in a medieval castle. They are brought there by the promise of the advertised 'wisteria and sunshine', but they find so much more than they bargained for, as the place transforms them and changes their lives in ways they could never have expected. The novel is mainly about four wonderfully drawn characters: timid Lotty Wilkins; sober and reli...
Mar 14, 2024•2 hr 46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holiday in a medieval castle. They are brought there by the promise of the advertised 'wisteria and sunshine', but they find so much more than they bargained for, as the place transforms them and changes their lives in ways they could never have expected. The novel is mainly about four wonderfully drawn characters: timid Lotty Wilkins; sober and reli...
Mar 14, 2024•2 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holiday in a medieval castle. They are brought there by the promise of the advertised 'wisteria and sunshine', but they find so much more than they bargained for, as the place transforms them and changes their lives in ways they could never have expected. The novel is mainly about four wonderfully drawn characters: timid Lotty Wilkins; sober and reli...
Mar 14, 2024•2 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holiday in a medieval castle. They are brought there by the promise of the advertised 'wisteria and sunshine', but they find so much more than they bargained for, as the place transforms them and changes their lives in ways they could never have expected. The novel is mainly about four wonderfully drawn characters: timid Lotty Wilkins; sober and reli...
Mar 14, 2024•2 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, New England, where an unnamed narrator tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with dreams and desires that end in an ironic turn of events. (From Wikipedia.) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Mar 14, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, New England, where an unnamed narrator tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with dreams and desires that end in an ironic turn of events. (From Wikipedia.) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
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