https://stagedbooks.com en The whole book. Staged. stagedBooks performs the great public-domain books complete and unaltered — every word the author wrote — as full-cast audio plays, with a companion rail on screen that keeps the cast, the calendar, the map and the footnotes in view as you listen. © stagedBooks. The texts are in the public domain in the United States; the performances are ours. Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:06:14 +0000 stagedBooks build_podcast.py https://stagedbooks.com/assets/brand/podcast-cover.jpg https://stagedbooks.com stagedBooks The whole book. Staged. stagedBooks performs the great public-domain books complete and unaltered — every word the author wrote — as full-cast audio plays, with a companion rail on screen that keeps the cast, the calendar, the map and the footnotes in view as you listen. stagedBooks hello@stagedbooks.com hello@stagedbooks.com (stagedBooks) hello@stagedbooks.com (stagedBooks) false episodic 1c8a56fc-9964-5c07-8e6e-0c196e2c7b60 yes podcast Bobok https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/bobok/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/bobok/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1873. A failed writer, told in print that his face suggests insanity, goes to a funeral for diversion, sits down on a gravestone, and begins to hear the dead talking. Under the ground a general is losing at cards, a lady of the highest society is quarrelling with a shopkeeper, a privy councillor has just arrived with a deficit of four hundred thousand roubles, and a young baron proposes that since they have two or three months of consciousness left, they should spend them casting off all shame. Dostoevsky’s strangest comedy, complete. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WKuWTwxhlQ Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/bobok/ Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1873. A failed writer, told in print that his face suggests insanity, goes to a funeral for diversion, sits down on a gravestone, and begins to hear the dead talking. Under the ground a general is losing at cards, a lady of the highest society is quarrelling with a shopkeeper, a privy councillor has just arrived with a deficit of four hundred thousand roubles, and a young baron proposes that since they have two or three months of consciousness left, they should spend them casting off all shame. Dostoevsky’s strangest comedy, complete. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WKuWTwxhlQ Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/bobok/ stagedBooks false full 40:36 The Lightning-Rod Man https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-lightning-rod-man/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-lightning-rod-man/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Herman Melville, 1854. A thunderstorm in the Berkshire hills, and a knock at the door. The caller is a lean, dripping stranger with a copper rod, who will not stand near the hearth, the wall, the window or the bell-wire, and who has a rod to sell for twenty dollars before the next bolt falls. The householder stays where he is. Melville’s shortest tale, a two-man argument conducted at the top of a storm. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PqT8DJCdtc Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-lightning-rod-man/ Herman Melville, 1854. A thunderstorm in the Berkshire hills, and a knock at the door. The caller is a lean, dripping stranger with a copper rod, who will not stand near the hearth, the wall, the window or the bell-wire, and who has a rod to sell for twenty dollars before the next bolt falls. The householder stays where he is. Melville’s shortest tale, a two-man argument conducted at the top of a storm. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PqT8DJCdtc Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-lightning-rod-man/ stagedBooks false full 17:19 This Side of Paradise · Book One · Chapter Two: Spires and Gargoyles · Part 2 https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-2-2/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-2-2/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920. Two or three sentences: the hook, in the voice of the back of a book, no spoilers. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_noSQCOXCI Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-2-2/ F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920. Two or three sentences: the hook, in the voice of the back of a book, no spoilers. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_noSQCOXCI Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-2-2/ stagedBooks false full 58:16 The Adventure of the Empty House https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-empty-house/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-empty-house/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903. Spring, 1894. The Honourable Ronald Adair has been shot dead in a locked room in Park Lane, and no one can say how. Watson, three years a widower of his friend, goes to look at the house, knocks over an old book-collector on the pavement, and an hour later turns to find the old man in his study. What follows is the return from the Reichenbach Falls, a night in the empty house across from Baker Street, a bust in a window, and the second most dangerous man in London. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv8OFzH3E9M Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-empty-house/ Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903. Spring, 1894. The Honourable Ronald Adair has been shot dead in a locked room in Park Lane, and no one can say how. Watson, three years a widower of his friend, goes to look at the house, knocks over an old book-collector on the pavement, and an hour later turns to find the old man in his study. What follows is the return from the Reichenbach Falls, a night in the empty house across from Baker Street, a bust in a window, and the second most dangerous man in London. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv8OFzH3E9M Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-empty-house/ stagedBooks false full 53:00 This Side of Paradise · Book One · Chapter Two: Spires and Gargoyles · Part 1 https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-2-1/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-2-1/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920. September 1913. Amory Blaine walks up University Place with a suitcase and a derby he soon learns to leave at home. Princeton has a social system he can’t see and can’t stop thinking about; Kerry Holiday thinks he should drift, Burne Holiday is too busy to think, and a stooped freshman reading Stephen Phillips in Joe’s turns out to be the poet of the Lit. Football, the Triangle Club’s ‘Ha-Ha Hortense!’, a wet night on the sun-dial, and the petting party, by the man who named it. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oFzvQWEKx8 Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-2-1/ F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920. September 1913. Amory Blaine walks up University Place with a suitcase and a derby he soon learns to leave at home. Princeton has a social system he can’t see and can’t stop thinking about; Kerry Holiday thinks he should drift, Burne Holiday is too busy to think, and a stooped freshman reading Stephen Phillips in Joe’s turns out to be the poet of the Lit. Football, the Triangle Club’s ‘Ha-Ha Hortense!’, a wet night on the sun-dial, and the petting party, by the man who named it. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oFzvQWEKx8 Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-2-1/ stagedBooks false full 47:49 The Odyssey · Book I https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-odyssey-book-1/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-odyssey-book-1/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Homer, c. 700 BC. The gods sit in council on Olympus while Odysseus wastes on Calypso’s island, ten years after Troy. Athena takes the likeness of a stranger and goes down to Ithaca, where the wooers of Penelope eat Odysseus’s house bare and his son Telemachus sits among them grieving. By nightfall the boy has been told to call an assembly, find a ship, and go looking for his father. The first of twenty-four books, read complete. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD1ehA8Em6s Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-odyssey-book-1/ Homer, c. 700 BC. The gods sit in council on Olympus while Odysseus wastes on Calypso’s island, ten years after Troy. Athena takes the likeness of a stranger and goes down to Ithaca, where the wooers of Penelope eat Odysseus’s house bare and his son Telemachus sits among them grieving. By nightfall the boy has been told to call an assembly, find a ship, and go looking for his father. The first of twenty-four books, read complete. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD1ehA8Em6s Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-odyssey-book-1/ stagedBooks false full 28:17 Bartleby, the Scrivener https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/bartleby-the-scrivener/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/bartleby-the-scrivener/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Herman Melville, 1853. A Wall Street lawyer, an eminently safe man, hires a pale young copyist named Bartleby. For a while he copies day and night. Then he is asked to check a document, and answers, in a mild, firm voice, that he would prefer not to. He prefers not to leave either. Melville’s most quoted sentence and his strangest story, told by the man who could not make him go. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y75u1B_Kn44 Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/bartleby-the-scrivener/ Herman Melville, 1853. A Wall Street lawyer, an eminently safe man, hires a pale young copyist named Bartleby. For a while he copies day and night. Then he is asked to check a document, and answers, in a mild, firm voice, that he would prefer not to. He prefers not to leave either. Melville’s most quoted sentence and his strangest story, told by the man who could not make him go. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y75u1B_Kn44 Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/bartleby-the-scrivener/ stagedBooks false full 1:39:29 The Death of Iván Ilích https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-death-of-ivan-ilyich/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-death-of-ivan-ilyich/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Leo Tolstoy, 1886. A member of the Court of Justice dies at forty-five, and his colleagues’ first thought is who will get his place. Then Tolstoy goes back and tells the life: the career, the marriage, the apartment with the curtains he hung himself, the fall from the ladder, the doctors who will not say whether it is dangerous, and the three days of screaming at the end. Only the peasant Gerásim will hold his legs and tell him the truth. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYqCyBaEPpE Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-death-of-ivan-ilyich/ Leo Tolstoy, 1886. A member of the Court of Justice dies at forty-five, and his colleagues’ first thought is who will get his place. Then Tolstoy goes back and tells the life: the career, the marriage, the apartment with the curtains he hung himself, the fall from the ladder, the doctors who will not say whether it is dangerous, and the three days of screaming at the end. Only the peasant Gerásim will hold his legs and tell him the truth. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYqCyBaEPpE Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-death-of-ivan-ilyich/ stagedBooks false full 2:38:23 The Final Problem https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-final-problem/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-final-problem/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Arthur Conan Doyle, 1893. On the evening of the 24th of April, 1891, Sherlock Holmes walks into Watson’s consulting-room with his knuckles bleeding and asks him to close the shutters. He has spent three months closing a net around Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of crime, and the Professor has called at Baker Street to say so. What follows is a flight across the Channel and over the Alps, to a path cut into the rock above the Reichenbach Falls. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAYdqX7pLps Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-final-problem/ Arthur Conan Doyle, 1893. On the evening of the 24th of April, 1891, Sherlock Holmes walks into Watson’s consulting-room with his knuckles bleeding and asks him to close the shutters. He has spent three months closing a net around Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of crime, and the Professor has called at Baker Street to say so. What follows is a flight across the Channel and over the Alps, to a path cut into the rock above the Reichenbach Falls. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAYdqX7pLps Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-final-problem/ stagedBooks false full 43:09 The Blue Carbuncle https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-blue-carbuncle/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-blue-carbuncle/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892. On the second morning after Christmas, Sherlock Holmes has a battered felt hat on the chair beside him and Watson can find nothing in it. By evening the goose that came with the hat has given up a secret worth a thousand pounds, and Holmes is out in the frost, from a Bloomsbury public-house to the lamplit stalls of Covent Garden, following one bird through a city of millions. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WZmNNgLUv0 Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-blue-carbuncle/ Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892. On the second morning after Christmas, Sherlock Holmes has a battered felt hat on the chair beside him and Watson can find nothing in it. By evening the goose that came with the hat has given up a secret worth a thousand pounds, and Holmes is out in the frost, from a Bloomsbury public-house to the lamplit stalls of Covent Garden, following one bird through a city of millions. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WZmNNgLUv0 Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-blue-carbuncle/ stagedBooks false full 47:58 The Three-Day Blow https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-three-day-blow/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-three-day-blow/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Ernest Hemingway, 1925. The rain has stopped, the fruit is picked, and the first of the autumn storms is blowing straight down the lake. Nick comes up through the orchard to the cottage on the hill, where Bill has a big fire going, a bottle of Irish whisky on the shelf, the paper, and a book face down on the table. The talk runs to baseball, to Chesterton and Walpole, to fathers and drinking — and then, with the Scotch, to Marge. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrd1Ol1z19E Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-three-day-blow/ Ernest Hemingway, 1925. The rain has stopped, the fruit is picked, and the first of the autumn storms is blowing straight down the lake. Nick comes up through the orchard to the cottage on the hill, where Bill has a big fire going, a bottle of Irish whisky on the shelf, the paper, and a book face down on the table. The talk runs to baseball, to Chesterton and Walpole, to fathers and drinking — and then, with the Scotch, to Marge. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrd1Ol1z19E Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-three-day-blow/ stagedBooks false full 20:54 The End of Something https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-end-of-something/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-end-of-something/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Ernest Hemingway, 1925. Hortons Bay was a lumbering town once; ten years on, nothing is left of the mill but its white limestone foundations in the second growth along the shore. Nick and Marjorie row out past the old ruin to set night lines for rainbow trout, pull the boat up on the point, build a driftwood fire and wait for the moon. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPcynViM9k Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-end-of-something/ Ernest Hemingway, 1925. Hortons Bay was a lumbering town once; ten years on, nothing is left of the mill but its white limestone foundations in the second growth along the shore. Nick and Marjorie row out past the old ruin to set night lines for rainbow trout, pull the boat up on the point, build a driftwood fire and wait for the moon. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPcynViM9k Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-end-of-something/ stagedBooks false full 8:43 Ten Indians https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/ten-indians/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/ten-indians/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Ernest Hemingway, 1927. Nick rides home from the Fourth of July in Petoskey on the back seat of the Garners’ big wagon, in the dark, with the two Garner boys teasing him about an Indian girl. At the cottage his father has waited up with cold chicken, a pitcher of milk and a huckleberry pie, and news of his own afternoon. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGjnv8jkJcA Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/ten-indians/ Ernest Hemingway, 1927. Nick rides home from the Fourth of July in Petoskey on the back seat of the Garners’ big wagon, in the dark, with the two Garner boys teasing him about an Indian girl. At the cottage his father has waited up with cold chicken, a pitcher of milk and a huckleberry pie, and news of his own afternoon. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGjnv8jkJcA Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/ten-indians/ stagedBooks false full 10:16 The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-doctor-and-the-doctors-wife/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-doctor-and-the-doctors-wife/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Ernest Hemingway, 1924. Dick Boulton comes down from the Indian camp with his son and Billy Tabeshaw to cut up the beech logs that have drifted onto the doctor’s beach. He kneels in the sand, reads the scaler’s mark on the end of one, and says whose they are. Up at the cottage the blinds are drawn, and the doctor’s wife wants to know what the trouble was about. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxh3zUmSU3I Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-doctor-and-the-doctors-wife/ Ernest Hemingway, 1924. Dick Boulton comes down from the Indian camp with his son and Billy Tabeshaw to cut up the beech logs that have drifted onto the doctor’s beach. He kneels in the sand, reads the scaler’s mark on the end of one, and says whose they are. Up at the cottage the blinds are drawn, and the doctor’s wife wants to know what the trouble was about. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxh3zUmSU3I Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-doctor-and-the-doctors-wife/ stagedBooks false full 8:21 The Hound of the Baskervilles https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902. A country doctor brings Sherlock Holmes an old manuscript, a newspaper cutting, and a question: what killed Sir Charles Baskerville on the yew alley of his own house, and what were the footprints found beside him? The new heir is coming from Canada to take up the estate on Dartmoor. Holmes cannot leave London, so he sends Watson — alone, into the fog, the mire, and the legend of the hound. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3sabcmZeUA Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/ Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902. A country doctor brings Sherlock Holmes an old manuscript, a newspaper cutting, and a question: what killed Sir Charles Baskerville on the yew alley of his own house, and what were the footprints found beside him? The new heir is coming from Canada to take up the estate on Dartmoor. Holmes cannot leave London, so he sends Watson — alone, into the fog, the mire, and the legend of the hound. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3sabcmZeUA Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/ stagedBooks false full 5:51:22 De los Apeninos a los Andes https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/de-los-apeninos-a-los-andes/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/de-los-apeninos-a-los-andes/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Edmundo de Amicis, 1886. Marcos, un muchacho genovés de trece años, cruza solo el océano para buscar a su madre, que se fue a servir a Buenos Aires y dejó de escribir. De Buenos Aires a Rosario por el Paraná, a Córdoba en tren, con una tropa de carretas y a pie hasta Tucumán. El cuento mensual de mayo de «Corazón», completo. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTPzDsqpIBc Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/de-los-apeninos-a-los-andes/ Edmundo de Amicis, 1886. Marcos, un muchacho genovés de trece años, cruza solo el océano para buscar a su madre, que se fue a servir a Buenos Aires y dejó de escribir. De Buenos Aires a Rosario por el Paraná, a Córdoba en tren, con una tropa de carretas y a pie hasta Tucumán. El cuento mensual de mayo de «Corazón», completo. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTPzDsqpIBc Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/de-los-apeninos-a-los-andes/ stagedBooks false full 1:07:59 Las ventanas de oro https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/las-ventanas-de-oro/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/las-ventanas-de-oro/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Laura E. Richards, 1903. Un niño de una granja pobre mira cada tarde, desde su colina, una casa lejana con ventanas de oro y de diamantes. Un día de fiesta va a buscarla. La fábula de Laura E. Richards (1903), completa, en una traducción nueva — en blanco y negro, con el oro coloreado a mano. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di0fYKBAZjY Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/las-ventanas-de-oro/ Laura E. Richards, 1903. Un niño de una granja pobre mira cada tarde, desde su colina, una casa lejana con ventanas de oro y de diamantes. Un día de fiesta va a buscarla. La fábula de Laura E. Richards (1903), completa, en una traducción nueva — en blanco y negro, con el oro coloreado a mano. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di0fYKBAZjY Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/las-ventanas-de-oro/ stagedBooks false full 5:41 Billy Budd, Foretopman https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/billy-budd/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/billy-budd/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Herman Melville, 1891. 1797, the year of the Great Mutiny. Billy Budd, the Handsome Sailor, is pressed off the merchantman Rights-of-Man into H.M.S. Indomitable, where everyone loves him except John Claggart, the master-at-arms — and Captain Vere must decide what the law requires. Melville’s last book, complete: all twenty-six chapters, the preface, and the ballad. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv4MpITsd-4 Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/billy-budd/ Herman Melville, 1891. 1797, the year of the Great Mutiny. Billy Budd, the Handsome Sailor, is pressed off the merchantman Rights-of-Man into H.M.S. Indomitable, where everyone loves him except John Claggart, the master-at-arms — and Captain Vere must decide what the law requires. Melville’s last book, complete: all twenty-six chapters, the preface, and the ballad. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv4MpITsd-4 Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/billy-budd/ stagedBooks false full 3:17:20 This Side of Paradise · Book One · Chapter One: Amory, Son of Beatrice · Part 2 https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-1-2/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-1-2/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920. Snapshots of the Young Egotist: two years in Minneapolis, a code to live by, Beatrice in the moonlight at Lake Geneva, a week on the Hudson with Monsignor Darcy, St. Regis’ and the well-meaning professor, a wonderful girl on Broadway, the Groton game, and the philosophy of the slicker. The rest of Chapter One, complete. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAdV5MX3Ns0 Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-1-2/ F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920. Snapshots of the Young Egotist: two years in Minneapolis, a code to live by, Beatrice in the moonlight at Lake Geneva, a week on the Hudson with Monsignor Darcy, St. Regis’ and the well-meaning professor, a wonderful girl on Broadway, the Groton game, and the philosophy of the slicker. The rest of Chapter One, complete. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAdV5MX3Ns0 Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-1-2/ stagedBooks false full 42:43 The Dancing Men https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-dancing-men/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-dancing-men/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903. A Norfolk squire brings Holmes a page of little stick figures that has frightened his American wife half to death. More appear in chalk and pencil, on the tool-house door and the sundial. Doyle’s own third favourite, complete — Doyle’s original figures on screen, Holmes’s solution letter by letter, and a man from Chicago. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5LoLV2agCI Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-dancing-men/ Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903. A Norfolk squire brings Holmes a page of little stick figures that has frightened his American wife half to death. More appear in chalk and pencil, on the tool-house door and the sundial. Doyle’s own third favourite, complete — Doyle’s original figures on screen, Holmes’s solution letter by letter, and a man from Chicago. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5LoLV2agCI Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-dancing-men/ stagedBooks false full 57:49 The Red-Headed League https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-red-headed-league/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-red-headed-league/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891. A pawnbroker with fiery red hair is paid four pounds a week to copy out the Encyclopædia Britannica — until the League is dissolved. Doyle’s second Holmes story and one of his two favourites, complete: Fleet Street choked with red-headed men, a three pipe problem, Sarasate at St. James’s Hall, and an hour and a quarter in the dark. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6mj3_xZPPM Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-red-headed-league/ Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891. A pawnbroker with fiery red hair is paid four pounds a week to copy out the Encyclopædia Britannica — until the League is dissolved. Doyle’s second Holmes story and one of his two favourites, complete: Fleet Street choked with red-headed men, a three pipe problem, Sarasate at St. James’s Hall, and an hour and a quarter in the dark. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6mj3_xZPPM Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-red-headed-league/ stagedBooks false full 56:42 The Monkey’s Paw https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-monkeys-paw/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-monkeys-paw/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 W. W. Jacobs, 1902. A wet night, a chessboard, a sergeant-major home from India with a dried paw that grants three wishes. The Whites wish for two hundred pounds. Jacobs’s one horror story, complete — the fakir’s warning, the man from Maw and Meggins, and the knocking at the door. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=880wIBWPe9o Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-monkeys-paw/ W. W. Jacobs, 1902. A wet night, a chessboard, a sergeant-major home from India with a dried paw that grants three wishes. The Whites wish for two hundred pounds. Jacobs’s one horror story, complete — the fakir’s warning, the man from Maw and Meggins, and the knocking at the door. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=880wIBWPe9o Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-monkeys-paw/ stagedBooks false full 27:53 The Adventure of the Speckled Band https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-speckled-band/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-speckled-band/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892. A veiled woman at Baker Street before eight in the morning; a sister dead two years ago with the words ‘the speckled band’ on her lips; a stepfather who bends pokers. Doyle’s own favourite of the Holmes stories, complete — the trap through the Surrey lanes, the dummy bell-rope, and the longest night in the canon. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ7uErfMz9o Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-speckled-band/ Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892. A veiled woman at Baker Street before eight in the morning; a sister dead two years ago with the words ‘the speckled band’ on her lips; a stepfather who bends pokers. Doyle’s own favourite of the Holmes stories, complete — the trap through the Surrey lanes, the dummy bell-rope, and the longest night in the canon. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ7uErfMz9o Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-speckled-band/ stagedBooks false full 58:07 El buen ejemplo https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/el-buen-ejemplo/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/el-buen-ejemplo/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Vicente Riva Palacio, 1896. Un maestro de escuela de la Sierra Madre, su loro Perico, y lo que el maestro encuentra un mediodía en el bosque. Un cuento de un general de la Reforma — completo, en español, con la ortografía de 1896. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpPogljU1tY Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/el-buen-ejemplo/ Vicente Riva Palacio, 1896. Un maestro de escuela de la Sierra Madre, su loro Perico, y lo que el maestro encuentra un mediodía en el bosque. Un cuento de un general de la Reforma — completo, en español, con la ortografía de 1896. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpPogljU1tY Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/el-buen-ejemplo/ stagedBooks false full 5:21 A Scandal in Bohemia https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/a-scandal-in-bohemia/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/a-scandal-in-bohemia/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891. A masked giant calls at Baker Street; a photograph must be recovered from the one woman who ever beat Sherlock Holmes. The first of the Holmes short stories, complete — the King, the disguises, the smoke-rocket, and Irene Adler. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30zJPcD74wQ Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/a-scandal-in-bohemia/ Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891. A masked giant calls at Baker Street; a photograph must be recovered from the one woman who ever beat Sherlock Holmes. The first of the Holmes short stories, complete — the King, the disguises, the smoke-rocket, and Irene Adler. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30zJPcD74wQ Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/a-scandal-in-bohemia/ stagedBooks false full 53:21 This Side of Paradise · Book One · Chapter One: Amory, Son of Beatrice · Part 1 https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-1-1/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-1-1/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920. Amory Blaine’s inheritance, his mother Beatrice and her education abroad, the private car from Coronado to Mexico City, the liner that turns back to New York, Minneapolis, and Myra St. Claire’s bobbing party. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osi-v2Mv5OA Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-1-1/ F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920. Amory Blaine’s inheritance, his mother Beatrice and her education abroad, the private car from Coronado to Mexico City, the liner that turns back to New York, Minneapolis, and Myra St. Claire’s bobbing party. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osi-v2Mv5OA Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-1-1/ stagedBooks false full 26:09 Indian Camp https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/indian-camp/ https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/indian-camp/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Ernest Hemingway, 1924. Nick, his father, and Uncle George cross the lake before dawn to an Indian camp where a woman has been two days in labor. The story that opens the Nick Adams cycle, and one of the most quietly devastating eight minutes in American fiction. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-SHWzeFbF4 Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/indian-camp/ Ernest Hemingway, 1924. Nick, his father, and Uncle George cross the lake before dawn to an Indian camp where a woman has been two days in labor. The story that opens the Nick Adams cycle, and one of the most quietly devastating eight minutes in American fiction. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-SHWzeFbF4 Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/indian-camp/ stagedBooks false full 8:45