Snoozecast

Tonight, we’ll read poems by John Keats starting with one titled “Sleep and Poetry.”John Keats’ poems are a major part of English Romantic poetry. They portray settings loaded with symbolism and sensu...

8 Aug 202234min

Tonight, we’ll read the next part to “Winnie-the-Pooh” a children’s story written by A.A. Milne and published in 1926. This collection of short stories features an anthropomorphic teddy bear, Winnie-t...

5 Aug 202234min

Tonight, we’ll read about the musical genius Franz Liszt as a child piano prodigy from the book “Life of Liszt” written by Ludwig Nohl.Liszt was a Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher of the Romant...

3 Aug 202231min

Tonight, we’ll read the fairy tale “Felicia and the Pot of Pinks” written by Madame d’Aulnoy and found in the Blue Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang.The “pot of pinks” in this story refers to a type of...

1 Aug 202233min

Tonight, we shall read the next part of “Pride and Prejudice”, written by Jane Austen.If you’d like to listen to this series in order, please go to snoozecast.com/series.In the last episode, Darcy wai...

29 Jul 202233min

Tonight, we’ll read the opening to “The Moon Maid”, a fantasy novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and published in 1926.This novel constitutes a future history, and in it Burroughs' vision of what t...

27 Jul 202232min

Tonight, we’ll read another story from our King Arthur series. This one, “The Crowning of Arthur and the Sword Excalibur” comes from a book edited by Rupert S. Holland and published in 1919.If you’d l...

25 Jul 202235min

Tonight, we’ll read the next part to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne.In the last episode, the sailors on The Abraham Lin...

22 Jul 202230min