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Audio Literature Odyssey
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
2015/02/04
This poem is an elegy, or a mourning poem, honoring the death of the 16th American president Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated on April 14, 1865.
Recording Copyright © 2015 Nikolle Doolin (www.nikolledoolin.com/alo)
The Woman’s Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood
2014/12/11
A woman interested in psychical research spends a night in a haunted London house. She experiences far more than she bargained for when she meets the mysterious occupant. As the night wears on, the line between the living and the dead becomes blurred.
Recording Copyright © 2013 Nikolle Doolin (www.nikolledoolin.com/alo)
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
2013/11/03
The narrator mourns the loss of a woman he dearly loved. He believes that envious angels took his love from him, but he will not allow death to part them.
Recording Copyright © 2013 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2011/03/29
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was published in the New England Magazine in 1892. The story is told through the protagonist's journal, which she writes secretly over the course of several months, while staying in a rented mansion. As she narrates the story, she reveals that she has been suffering from a nervous condition and has been prescribed rest with strict orders not to work or socialize. Unfortunately, her husband is a physician who doesn't think anything is wrong with her that a little rest and fresh air won't cure. As time passes and the narrator is alienated from the activities and people that enliven her spirit, she sinks deeper and deeper into a depression that preys upon her mind. She becomes obsessed with the hideous yellow wallpaper in her room and succumbs to a delusion, which drives her across the line separating reality from fantasy.
Recording Copyright © 2007 Nikolle Doolin (www.nikolledoolin.com/alo)
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde
2011/03/29
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During a reception hosted by Lady Windermere, Lord Arthur Savile has his palm read by the chiromantist Mr. Podgers who sees a most alarming future. Lord Arthur is destined to commit murder, according to the odd little man. This news provokes a crisis for Lord Arthur who feels the weight of the world upon his shoulders. He wants to forget all about it, but this would be the easy way out. No, it is his duty to fulfill his destiny and to make this heroic sacrifice for his fiancee Sybil Merton before their marriage, so that no wrongdoing will sully their union. Thus, Lord Arthur is determined to lend destiny a hand.
Recording Copyright © 2009 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
The Fulness of Life by Edith Wharton
2011/03/29
When a woman dies, the Spirit of Life rewards her with the opportunity to spend all of eternity with her true soul mate (something she did not experience in life). Trouble is, she still feels an allegiance to her awkward husband alive on earth who believed her to be his soul mate. Which man will she choose?
Recording Copyright © 2006 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
The Lady With the Dog by Anton Chekhov
2011/03/29
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Two married strangers meet at a seaside resort and begin an affair. At first, the middle-aged Gurov believes this to be one of his numerous and loveless dalliances. However, he finds himself falling in love with the shy and inexperienced lady with the dog who is half his age and unhappily married. Despite their marriages and positions in society, they cannot resist meeting again and hoping for more.
Recording Copyright © 2007 Nikolle Doolin (www.nikolledoolin.com/alo)
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
2011/03/29
The old man is kind, but he has a vulture eye and his heart beats like a watch enveloped in cotton. It is too much for the narrator to bear, whose senses are acute. No, the old man must die. Yet, will death stop the beating heart, or will it never cease?
Recording Copyright © 2007 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
2011/03/29
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Set in Italy during the carnival season, The Cask of Amontillado delves into the mind of a diabolical man bent on revenge. Montressor narrates the horrifying tale, which alerts the reader to impending doom for the buffoon Fortunato, who has reportedly inflicted a thousand injuries upon Montressor. Yet, the unwitting Fortunato is easily lured to his demise with an appeal to his vanity. He is asked to authenticate the Amontillado, which Montressor has stored in the catacombs of his palazzo. With each step, the tale's suspense grows, until at last, the shocking retribution has been exacted.
Recording Copyright © 2006 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
2011/03/29
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The Chariot, Before the Ice is in the Pools, Retrospect, Power, Forbidden Fruit, Much Madness Is Divinest Sense, Success, Our Share Of Night To Bear, If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking, Almost, The Heart Asks Pleasure First, Exclusion, In A Library, The Secret, I Felt A Funeral In My Brain, The Mystery of Pain, As Imperceptibly As Grief, The Bustle in a House
Recording Copyright ©2006-2009 Nikolle Doolin (www.nikolledoolin.com/alo)
To Hope by John Keats
2011/03/29
The poet solicits Hope to turn his dark days into brighter ones.
Recording Copyright © 2010 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
Six Sonnets by Various Authors
2011/03/29
This episode contains sonnets by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Recording Copyright © 2009 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2011/03/29
A PSALM OF LIFE
THE BUILDERS
SOMETHING LEFT UNDONE
MOONLIGHT
Recording Copyright ©2007 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Anderson
2011/03/29
Two swindlers convince a vain emperor that only fools and officials not fit for their posts cannot see the fabric they weave. No one wants to admit they see nothing. The emperor's new suit makes more than a fashion statement.
Recording Copyright © 2007 Nikolle Doolin (www.nikolledoolin.com/alo)
The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson
2011/03/29
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The Lady of Shalott borrows from the Arthurian legend and is a poem about a woman who is isolated in a tower with a curse hanging over her. She cannot venture outside into the world to be with others. What is worse, she cannot even look directly outside. She sits at her loom weaving daily and looks at shadows of the world cast in a mirror. She envies the freedom of others and grows sick of her limitations. When Sir Lancelot appears, she spies a gallant knight and dares to look outside. The curse is set in motion as she races toward Camelot in a boat. Yet, the Lady of Shalott cannot escape her doom.
Recording Copyright © 2009 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
To Mary, On Receiving Her Picture by Byron
2011/03/29
Byron narrates a poem celebrating the beauty of a woman called Mary whose picture he will cherish forever, as it inspires him to live and feel good, when times are difficult; and he states that it will comfort him when he dies gazing at it.
Recording Copyright © 2007 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
2011/03/29
Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem from the novel Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll in 1872. It describes the slaying of a monster called the Jabberwock. Carroll made up the more eccentric words. You can learn more about the poem at Wikipedia.
Recording Copyright © 2007 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
2011/03/29
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A boy is given a stuffed, velveteen rabbit for Christmas. The little rabbit soon discovers the power of nursery magic when he becomes real to the boy who loves him. The rabbit stays by his side for play, sleep, and when the boy becomes ill with scarlet fever. Sadly, the velveteen rabbit is taken from the boy. However, the lonely little rabbit soon meets with more magic and truly becomes real.
Recording Copyright © 2007 Nikolle Doolin (www.nikolledoolin.com/alo)
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
2011/03/29
The narrator is comparing someone he knows intimately with the season of summer. To him, the most pleasant season is not as pleasant as this person who will last an eternity and will never die, because he/she will live forever in the lines of this sonnet.
Recording Copyright © 2006 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
2011/03/29
The narrator of Sonnet 116 tells us that love lasts forever and never changes, even when the lovers change themselves.
Recording Copyright © 2007 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
Audio Literature Odyssey
http://nikolledoolin.com/alo
Join voice actor Nikolle Doolin, as she brings the pages of classic literature to life in this engaging literary podcast. Enjoy a myriad of great authors such as: Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, and many more. For more stories and information, visit: http://nikolledoolin.com/alo.
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