Classic Stories Summarized
7-10 minute audio summaries of classic literature you didn't have the time or attention span to read :-)
Podcasting since 2025 • 39 episodes
Classic Stories Summarized
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(9 min summary) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens wrote and published A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas in December 1843, completing the manuscript in just six weeks. Prompted by urgent financial pressure and a deep anger at the widespread po...
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(9 min summary) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818 when the author was only nineteen, emerged from a famous ghost-story challenge issued during a rainy summer in 1816 at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva, where She...
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(6 min summary) Candide by Voltaire
Candide, ou l’Optimisme (1759) is a satirical novella by the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, written in response to the devastating Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the optimistic philosophy of Gottfried Leibniz, popularized by...
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