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Chapter 19: John Carter makes a new friend in prison but must face a day of fighting to the death in the arena.

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Duration: 00:10:07
Read by Alessandro Cima

Podcast Novel: Pirate Jack (Chapter 20 – Conclusion)

Editor — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:49:41 +0000

You can purchase the high-quality paperback from Amazon for $11.95 or just $1.99 for a Kindle e-book version.

This book contains pirate battles, violence and death. Please use your judgment before playing for very young children.

Here’s the concluding podcast chapter of our fantastic pirate adventure novel written for young readers. It’s got hidden scrolls, time travel, ships, battles, navigation, gold, islands, jungles and helicopters in it.

You can purchase the paperback from Barnes & Noble (Price: $11.95)

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Young Jack Spencer sees his father’s boat-building business destroyed by a powerful land developer. Then Jack unearths three ancient scrolls that propel him on a dangerous adventure through time in search of a pirate treasure.

When Jack finds himself aboard the pirate ship Revenge with Captain Jameson’s crew, he enters a life or death world of ship battles, jungle islands, prison escapes, gold, and treachery.

Set during the golden age of Caribbean piracy, Pirate Jack combines rollicking adventure with the moving story of a boy’s love for his father and a courageous effort to save a way of life.

You’ll find regular podcasts of all the chapters over the next couple of months. Subscribe to our feed.

This book is read by the author.

Podcast Novel: Pirate Jack (Chapter 19)

Editor — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:47:31 +0000

You can purchase the high-quality paperback from Amazon for $11.95 or just $1.99 for a Kindle e-book version.

This book contains pirate battles, violence and death. Please use your judgment before playing for very young children.

Here’s a free podcast of our fantastic pirate adventure novel written for young readers. It’s got hidden scrolls, time travel, ships, battles, navigation, gold, islands, jungles and helicopters in it.

You can purchase the paperback from Barnes & Noble (Price: $11.95)

You can also get it on Scribd.com as a download for just $1.99

When Jack finds himself aboard the pirate ship Revenge with Captain Jameson’s crew, he enters a life or death world of ship battles, jungle islands, prison escapes, gold, and treachery.

Set during the golden age of Caribbean piracy, Pirate Jack combines rollicking adventure with the moving story of a boy’s love for his father and a courageous effort to save a way of life.

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Audio Podcast Novel: Robinson Crusoe (Part 14)

Editor — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:37:00 +0000

Crusoe builds his friendship with Friday, teaching him English, Christianity, hunting with a gun, and working with tools. The two men develop a deep and trusting bond once Crusoe gets over his struggles with suspicion and doubts about Friday’s intentions. We find ourselves at that part of the novel that best illustrates what many critics of Defoe’s novel say is a glorification of English colonialism and empire. To be sure, that is part of what is going on in the book. However, there is more to it than that. Defoe, at times, seems close to sowing seeds of doubt about the English world he lived in and its beliefs about its place in the world. Pay very close attention to the conversations between Friday and Crusoe. They move in directions entirely unanticipated by Crusoe. He is constantly surprised by how loyal, intelligent, and civilized Friday turns out to be in his very deepest nature.

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Illustration is by NC Wyeth (1920)
Crusoe and Friday build a boat

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Audio Podcast Novel: Robinson Crusoe (Part 13)

Editor — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:31:05 +0000

Cannibals come to Crusoe’s island and make him believe there is a possibility of confrontation. But in this section of the book Crusoe meets his companion, Friday. He considers this man to be his servant and slave. An odd assumption since it is actually he, Robinson Crusoe, who is the intruder in Friday’s part of the world. This must have something to do with the way certain nations operated in those days and, in some cases, still do.

At any rate, Crusoe begins to teach Friday English and becomes more assured of their friendship.

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Illustration is by NC Wyeth (1920)
Crusoe meets the man who becomes Friday

Audio Podcast Novel: Robinson Crusoe (Part 12)

Editor — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:59:14 +0000

Crusoe worries about being attacked if his presence is discovered by cannibals who visit the island. He finds a spectacular cave and then, during a night storm, hears a cannon shot.

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Audio Podcast Novel: Robinson Crusoe (Part 11)

Editor — Sun, 23 May 2010 19:03:02 +0000

Crusoe makes another shocking discovery and sets himself on a course of action that leads him to one of the book’s most interesting passages. It is here, in Crusoe’s struggle with his own outrage and his ideas about what makes for civilized behavior, that Defoe begins to turn the novel in a new direction. He is examining the underpinnings of Western civilization. What makes a person civilized? What does the right of self defense really mean? This kind of thinking and questioning is perhaps somewhat lacking in certain countries today. Notice also how religion, for Crusoe, seems to have a moderating, calming influence. He resists using it to justify himself or his actions.

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Illustration is by NC Wyeth (1920)
Crusoe watches the ocean for boats

Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 18)

Editor — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:33:48 +0000

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Chapter 18: John Carter, is a prisoner of a new Martian horde and he witnesses savagery like none he has seen before.

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Duration: 00:09:24
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Audio Podcast Novel: Robinson Crusoe (Part 10)

Editor — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:16:22 +0000

Our lone character, Robinson Crusoe, succeeds in raising his herd of goats and learns to use them for meat, milk and cheese. But his shocking discovery on a beach shakes his foundation and fills him with dread.

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Illustration is by NC Wyeth (1920)
Crusoe makes a shocking discovery

Podcast Novel: Pirate Jack (Chapter 18)

Editor — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:06:32 +0000

You can purchase the high-quality paperback from Amazon for $11.95 or just $1.99 for a Kindle e-book version.

This book contains pirate battles, violence and death. Please use your judgment before playing for very young children.

You can purchase the paperback from Barnes & Noble (Price: $11.95)

You can also get it on Scribd.com as a download for just $1.99

When Jack finds himself aboard the pirate ship Revenge with Captain Jameson’s crew, he enters a life or death world of ship battles, jungle islands, prison escapes, gold, and treachery.

Set during the golden age of Caribbean piracy, Pirate Jack combines rollicking adventure with the moving story of a boy’s love for his father and a courageous effort to save a way of life.

You’ll find regular podcasts of all the chapters over the next couple of months. Subscribe to our feed.

This book is read by the author.

Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 17)

Editor — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:29:57 +0000

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Chapter 17: John Carter, Dejah Thoris, and Sola make their escape across the Martian landscape for the city of Helium.

You can find all the previous chapters of the book here.

You’ll find regular podcasts of all the chapters over the next couple of months. Subscribe to our feed.

Duration: 00:17:43
Read by Alessandro Cima

Audio Podcast Novel: Robinson Crusoe (Part 9)

Editor — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:48:13 +0000

Let’s get on with our story, shall we? It’s a good story and reading it is a lot of fun. Difficult, but fun. Defoe’s language is up and down and backward and forward. It makes you think fast. Try picking up the book and reading any part of it out loud and fast. It’s tricky. But it’s a very good way to learn more about how Defoe’s mind worked. Amazing. Are you starting to wonder why Crusoe constantly reminds us of things and says things like: ‘As I told you before,’ or ‘As I said earlier?’

He almost insists that you follow the correct sequence of events, but he skips ahead in order to achieve a much more important goal. He wants you to follow along with his state of mind. That’s why his story-telling language is so twisty and folds back on itself so often. This is certainly one of the most fantastic things about Defoe’s novel. Its obsessive focus on the man’s state of mind sets a precedent that influences almost all of literature following Defoe. It is really this that makes the book so modern.

Read by Alessandro Cima

Illustration is by NC Wyeth (1920)
Crusoe battles the currents on the far side of his island

Podcast Novel: Pirate Jack (Chapter 17)

Editor — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:55:04 +0000

You can purchase the high-quality paperback from Amazon for $11.95 or just $1.99 for a Kindle e-book version.

This book contains pirate battles, violence and death. Please use your judgment before playing for very young children.

You can purchase the paperback from Barnes & Noble (Price: $11.95)

You can also get it on Scribd.com as a download for just $1.99

When Jack finds himself aboard the pirate ship Revenge with Captain Jameson’s crew, he enters a life or death world of ship battles, jungle islands, prison escapes, gold, and treachery.

Set during the golden age of Caribbean piracy, Pirate Jack combines rollicking adventure with the moving story of a boy’s love for his father and a courageous effort to save a way of life.

DOWNLOAD ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 8

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This book is read by the author.

Audio Podcast Novel: Robinson Crusoe (Part 8)

Editor — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:16:21 +0000

Robinson Crusoe struggles to harvest his corn, make bread, build a boat and sew some clothes. The efforts he makes are constantly set back by mistakes and errors in judgment. He deals with his lack of expertise in the various arts that he must call upon with a certain amount of humor. Pay attention to how Crusoe constantly monitors his state of mind and is ever willing to discuss his mistakes and to poke fun at himself.