The Jacket Chapter 17 Part 1
In which the narrator, recalling his fierce and tempestuous origins among Norse warriors, unfolds his journey from a wild childhood amid battle and slavery to his arrival in the restless city of Jerus...
22 Jun 26min
The Jacket Chapter 15 Part 1
In which a vigorous Englishman, stranded in a Polynesian isle centuries past, recounts his transformation from shipwrecked castaway to a formidable figure enmeshed in the intrigues and harsh customs o...
21 Jun 39min
The Jacket Chapter 15 Part 2
In which a sea-cuny rises within the labyrinthine court of Cho-Sen, entwined in webs of power, love, and intrigue amidst princes and Buddhist priests, securing favour and rank yet dancing ever on the ...
21 Jun 38min
The Jacket Chapter 13 Part 2
In which a beleaguered group, holed up in a desperate rifle pit under relentless fire, endures thirst, wounds, and mounting peril while striving to dig a well and secure water from a guarded spring. A...
20 Jun 25min
The Jacket Chapter 14
In which a man endures the harrowing ordeal of confinement in a strait-jacket for ten days, emerging weakened yet defiant amid the grim realities of solitary imprisonment and the harshness of his ward...
20 Jun 16min
The Jacket Chapter 12
In which the narrator, enduring the cruel torment of the jacket, finds respite by slipping into vivid reenactments of past lives, including that of a dusty and desperate emigrant boy named Jesse amid ...
19 Jun 37min
The Jacket Chapter 13 Part 1
In which a weary company, beset by hostile settlements and parching wastelands, makes slow and fraught progress through a God-forsaken country, marked by growing suspicion and grim encounters with det...
19 Jun 24min
The Jacket Chapter 11 Part 2
In which the art of swordplay and the honour of a lady’s love entwine under the moonlight, leading to deadly duels where the sharpness of steel reveals men’s frailty and the swift measure of life and ...
18 Jun 28min
