Podcasts by The First Few Pages
Take a taste of a classic book.
Full of interesting facts and background on classic works of literature, but just the first few pages.
Further podcasts by Caroline Zeeman
Podcast on the topic Bücher
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Episode 6 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles from 2020-05-06T16:25:09
This week Caroline tells us all about the Queen of Crime Agatha Christie and her first Poirot novel, the Mysterious Affair at Styles -- find the book at gutenberg.org -- contact us on Twitter or Fa...
ListenEpisode 5 - Candide from 2020-04-28T20:57:04
Learn about this "the best of all possible worlds" with Caroline as she discusses Voltaire and his novella Candide -- A Carleton Place Public Library podcast -- Find the book at gutenberg.org -- Fi...
ListenEpisode 4 - The Decameron from 2020-04-21T21:43:06
This week Caroline discussed medieval courtly love, renaissance humanism, and how to survive isolation with Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron -- Find the book on Project Gutenberg -- Contact us on...
ListenEpisode 3 - The Hound of the Baskervilles from 2020-04-14T18:37:40
This week Caroline tells of the dichotomy of Spiritualism and Logic that was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the 3rd Sherlock Holmes book The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Find the book at gutenberg.org/...
ListenEpisode 2 - Frankenstein from 2020-04-07T19:29:31
This week Caroline talks about the Goth Queen Mary Shelley and her most famous novel, Frankenstein -- Find us on FB (Carleton Place Public Library) on Twitter (@cplibrary) and on Instagram (@cplibr...
ListenEpisode 1 - Pride and Prejudice from 2020-03-30T21:54:07
Caroline talks about Jane Austen and her novel Pride and Prejudice. -- Sources: Wikipedia.org and Biography.com -- Find the book here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342
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