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A Dream within a Dream, by Edgar Allen Poe - Audio
Edgar Allan Poe published a poem entitled "Imitation," in 1827.  During the last year of his life - 1849 - he published a different version of that earlier work, this time entitled "A Dream within a Dream." Because the owners of a popular weekly newspaper - called "The Flag of Our Union" - pai...
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A Tale of Two Cities - Mercury Theatre on the Air
  Orson Welles and Martin Gabel star in this Mercury Theatre on the Air production of Charles Dicken's novel, A Tale of Two Cities.  The story was first broadcast, on the CBS network, on July 25, 1938. This was the third program of the first series of Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast...
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A Tale of Two Cities, By Charles Dickens - Chapter 1 - Audio
Charles Dickens' famous story - A Tale of Two Cities - compares and contrasts England and France, London and Paris.  The opening chapter takes us back to 1775. It was a tumultuous year, on many levels.  In real life ... Britain's American colonies had rebeled.  In A Tale of Two Citi...
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A Tale of Two Cities, By Charles Dickens - Chapter 2 - Audio
As the action begins, in Dickens' famous tale, the Dover mail coach is making its way on a Friday night.  It is late November, in 1775, and one of the passengers is on his way to Paris. With everyone distrusting everyone else, people keep to themselves.  It is cold outside, and the passen...
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A Tale of Two Cities, By Charles Dickens - Chapter 3 - Audio
Jerry Cruncher, the messenger, is bothered by the direction he's received from Jarvis Lorry:  "Jerry, say that my answer was, RECALLED TO LIFE."  Who gets "recalled to life," is what Jerry wants to know. As Jerry tries to understand Lorry's reply -  with a few stops at some ale-hou...
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A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens - Chapter 4 - Audio
After Jarvis Lorry reaches Dover, he awaits the arrival of another traveler from London - Miss Manette.  The man from Tellson's Bank has some very shocking news to deliver to the 17-year-old girl who believes she is an orphan. How could it be that, after all these years, she isn't ... an ... o...
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All the World's a Stage, by William Shakespeare - Audio
In William Shakespeare's opinion, the life of a person - who lives to old age - consists of seven stages.  He describes those phases of life in "All the World's a Stage," in his play, "As You Like It." In this audio clip, Carole Bos (creator of Awesome Stories) reads Shakespeare's famous words...
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Annabel Lee - Edgar Allan Poe - Audio
"Annabel Lee" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most-famous poems.Was it autobiographical?The story is told that a young woman - named Annabel Lee - was part of a wealthy Charleston family.  She fell in love with a Virginia sailor who was stationed in that South Carolina port town.  The navy man...
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Bram Stoker's Dracula - Dracula Warns Harker - Audio
Jonathan Harker has realized ... he is a prisoner in Count Dracula’s castle.  Why??Who is Count Dracula, really?  Why does he stay up all night?  Where is he during the day?Then ... Dracula gives Jonathan a warning.  Listen in as Carole Bos, creator of Awesome Stories, rea...
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Bram Stoker's Dracula - Jonathan Harker's Journey - Audio
Bram Stoker based his novel, Dracula, on the legend of a real person, Vlad Tepes. In the first chapter of his story, we meet Jonathan Harker, a young British lawyer who has traveled to a distant land.  He has been sent there to help a Count named Dracula. Local people try to warn Harker that h...
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