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A Nocturnal Visit

In The Count of Monte Cristo

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …

Letter 14

In Letters of Two Brides

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Honoré de Balzac

Letters of Two Brides is an epistolary novel. The two brides are Louise de Chaulieu (Madame Gaston) and Renée de Maucombe (Madame l'E…

Book 24

In The Odyssey

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Homer, transl. Samuel Butler and Homer

The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly…

Bk 1, Inferno: Canto XI - Canto XV

In The Divine Comedy

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

El águila y la flecha

In Las Fábulas de Esopo, Vol. 1

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Aesop

Las clásicas Fábulas de Esopo han sido traducidas a todos idiomas por cientos de años. Las fábulas, en forma de …

Chapters 6-8

In Don Quixote - Vol. 1

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (transl. John Ormsby) and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in …

Chapter 1

In My Mark Twain

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlant…

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