HeyJared1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age (Formerly 1001 Greatest Love & Life Stories) brings you a wide mix of classic short stories and long-form family-friendly novels, a perfect mix of timeless classics from another age - when life was slower, men and women dressed well in public,…
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THE NAMESAKE by WILLA CATHER (opens the original)
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🎙️ SHOW NOTES — The Namesake by Willa Cather 1001 Stories From the Gilded Age Willa Cather's "The Namesake" (first published in McClure's Magazine in 1907 ) is one of her most thoughtful early works — a story that explores how memory, heritage, and the pull of home can shape an artist's identity. Told through a framed narrative in a Paris studio, the story follows sculptor Lyon Hartwell as he recounts the emotional journey that led him back to his family's Pennsylvania roots and inspired his cel
A WAGNER MATINEE by WILLA CATHER (opens the original)
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🎙️ SHOW NOTES — A Wagner Matinée by Willa Cather 1001 Stories From the Gilded Age Willa Cather's A Wagner Matinée is one of her most powerful early stories—an intimate portrait of memory, sacrifice, and the emotional cost of frontier life. When Aunt Georgiana returns to Boston after thirty years on a Nebraska homestead, her nephew Clark takes her to a Wagner concert. What unfolds in that concert hall is a deeply moving awakening: a reminder of the beauty she once lived for, and the life she surr
GREATEST LOVE STORIES: KING CHARLES II AND NELL GWYNN (opens the original)
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🎙️ 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age SHOW NOTES "King Charles and Nell Gwynn" From Lyndon Orr's Famous Affinities of History — A Tale of Wit, Charm, and the Most Beloved Mistress of the Merry Monarch Tonight's story takes us back to the Restoration — a time of powdered wigs, crowded playhouses, and a king determined to bring laughter back to England after years of Puritan rule. But we experience it through the voice of Lyndon Orr , writing in 1909, whose elegant, magazine‑era storytelling makes t
ALOHA OE by JACK LONDON (opens the original)
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🎙️ 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age SHOW NOTES "Aloha Oe" Jack London's Hawaiian Farewell — A Story of Love, Empire, and the Cost of Seeing Clearly Tonight's story comes from one of America's most powerful literary voices of the early 20th century — Jack London , writing at a moment when the Gilded Age's ambitions were colliding with America's expanding presence in the Pacific. First published in 1908 in Lady's Realm and later reprinted in The Smart Set and The House of Pride (1912), "Aloha Oe"
THE VELVETEEN RABBIT by MARJERY WILLIAMS (opens the original)
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🎙️ 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age SHOW NOTES "The Velveteen Rabbit" A Timeless Tale of Love, Loss, and Becoming Real Tonight's story comes from the closing years of the Gilded Age and the dawn of the Jazz Age — a moment when children's literature was blossoming into a true art form. First published in Harper's Bazaar in 1921 and released as a book in 1922 , The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams has become one of the most beloved children's stories of all time. Though gentle in tone, it carr
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