The great French writer Maupassant is the author of this charming tale recounting an afternoon of idle gossip between two ladies of leisure, and of a mistress/servant relationship that goes quite wrong.
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BRASS Stacks 1: Lord Dunsany
We begin this special series of readings from great Victorian and Edwardian authors with two very early stories by poet, playwright and fantasist Lord Dunsany.
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BRASS Stacks 6: The Snowman
The Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Snowman” tells the melancholy story of a snowman’s ill-suited romance with a kitchen stove. Read by special BRASS Stacks guest Billie Wildrick in a co-production with Utter Love audio experiences. (And thanks to Wildrick for the original music and soundscape in this special episode.)
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BRASSS Stacks 5: Christmas Every Day
William Dean Howell’s 1892 story about a little girl who wished it could be Christmas every day has an interesting moral or two for adults as well.
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Brass Stacks 4: The Disintegrator Machine
Professor Challenger meets an inventor whose creation may prove so catastrophic as to imperil the entire British Empire, in this classic short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read by acclaimed voice actor Larry Albert.
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It is London, 1885 — an alternate history, where the computer age has come 150 years early. In this world of airships, automatons, and computational engines, a family of Victorian science geniuses match wits and weapons against a criminal mastermind for the fate of the Empire.