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Master and Man, by Leo Tolstoy. Part I. Feb 06, 2025

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A land owner, Vasili Andreevich, takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to another town. He wishes to get to the town quickly 'for business'. They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice wishes to press on. They eventually get lost off the road and they try to camp.

The master's peasant soon finds himself about to die from hypothermia. The master leaves him on the horse to stubbornly try to find the road. When he returns, he attains a spiritual/moral revelation, and Tolstoy once again repeats one of his famous themes: that the only true happiness in life is found by living for others. (From Wikipedia.)

Translated by Aylmer Maude and Louise Maude.

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Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Tales, by Bram Stoker. Part III. Feb 06, 2025

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Nine Gothic Horror Tales by the author of Dracula.

This is a collaborative reading.

Part I

01 Dracula's Guest

02 The Judge's House

03 The Squaw

Part II

04 The Secret of The Growing Gold

05 Gipsy Prophecy

06 The Coming of Abel Behenna

Part III

07 The Burial of the Rats

08 The Burial of the Rats, part 2

09 A Dream of Red Hands

10 Crooken Sands

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Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Tales, by Bram Stoker. Part II. Feb 06, 2025

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Nine Gothic Horror Tales by the author of Dracula.

This is a collaborative reading.

Part I

01 Dracula's Guest

02 The Judge's House

03 The Squaw

Part II

04 The Secret of The Growing Gold

05 Gipsy Prophecy

06 The Coming of Abel Behenna

Part III

07 The Burial of the Rats

08 The Burial of the Rats, part 2

09 A Dream of Red Hands

10 Crooken Sands

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Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Tales, by Bram Stoker. Part I. Feb 06, 2025

Show notes

Nine Gothic Horror Tales by the author of Dracula.

This is a collaborative reading.

Part I

01 Dracula's Guest

02 The Judge's House

03 The Squaw

Part II

04 The Secret of The Growing Gold

05 Gipsy Prophecy

06 The Coming of Abel Behenna

Part III

07 The Burial of the Rats

08 The Burial of the Rats, part 2

09 A Dream of Red Hands

10 Crooken Sands

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The Magic Mountain, Vol 2, by Thomas Mann. Part VIII. Feb 03, 2025

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Thomas Mann’s epic novel depicts a decaying, corrupted European society on the eve of the First World War. Set in a luxurious sanatorium high up in the Swiss mountains, we follow the destinies of a variety of exotic characters – members of a bourgeois elite drawn from all parts of Europe.

Most suffer from consumption, dream of a cure - yet are at the same time squeezing as much pleasure and distraction as they can out of a situation ever-shadowed by sickness, pain, and death. Part surreal comedy, part grim tragedy, part allegory, and part novel of ideas, Mann’s novel is regarded by many as one of the key literary texts of the twentieth century.