This podcast posts summaries of classic stories. Each is about 7-10 minutes long. Folks might be interested in this in order to gauge whether to read the original, or just for general knowledge.
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Here are the summaries so far
Hamlet, Macbeth, Faust – Part 1, Faust – Part 2, The Illiad, The Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Gulliver’s Travels, The Odyssey, Lysistrata, Pride and Prejudice, Oedipus Rex, Dracula, Robinson Crusoe, Tom Sawyer, The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, The Tempest, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Ivanhoe, The Importance of Being Earnest, War and Peace, All Quiet on the Western Front, Le Morte d’Arthur, Democracy in America, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Madame Bovary, Wuthering Heights, Ulysses, The Trial, Romeo and Juliet, The Magic Mountain, The Book of Revelations, The Phaedo, Utopia, Animal Farm, Candide, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, King Lear, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Treasure Island, The Catcher In The Rye, The Great Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Crucible, Of Mice And Men, The Lord Of The Flies, The Stranger, Heart of Darkness, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Julius Caesar, Crime and Punishment, Brave New World, The Brothers Karamazov