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Audio Podcast Novel: Pinocchio (Chapter 3)

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Per l’Italia! For playing in the living room!

This is one of the great gifts from Italy to the children of the world. Carlo Collodi’s 1883 masterpiece, The Adventures of Pinocchio, is the story of the wooden marionette who desperately wants to be a real boy. His adventures are full of mischief, wonder, sadness, joy, treachery, danger and all the exuberant life of a real Italian boy. This is the English translation by Carol Della Chiesa. The first seventeen chapters of this wonderful novel were recorded intermittently between 1999 and 2006, specifically for children to enjoy on the web. But I was unable to finish it. It is a very long story indeed and the demands of this particular recording were very great. I have decided that it would be a good thing for Italy and its most beautiful living rooms if I were to finally finish the book. I am cleaning up the sound a little bit and will start recording the eighteenth chapter soon. So here we begin the long story and in a few months we will reach the finish!

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Reading and illustration by Alessandro Cima

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Audio Podcast Novel: Pinocchio (Chapter 2)

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Per l’Italia! For playing in the living room!

This is one of the great gifts from Italy to the children of the world. Carlo Collodi’s 1883 masterpiece, The Adventures of Pinocchio, is the story of the wooden marionette who desperately wants to be a real boy. His adventures are full of mischief, wonder, sadness, joy, treachery, danger and all the exuberant life of a real Italian boy. This is the English translation by Carol Della Chiesa. The first seventeen chapters of this wonderful novel were recorded intermittently between 1999 and 2006, specifically for children to enjoy on the web. But I was unable to finish it. It is a very long story indeed and the demands of this particular recording were very great. I have decided that it would be a good thing for Italy and its most beautiful living rooms if I were to finally finish the book. I am cleaning up the sound a little bit and will start recording the eighteenth chapter soon. So here we begin the long story and in a few months we will reach the finish!

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Reading and illustration by Alessandro Cima

All audio stories are Copyright © Candlelight Stories, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Do not distribute copies of our MP3 audio or video stories. They are for your personal use. If you choose to burn our MP3 stories onto a personal CD, do not make copies of the CD or distribute them to other people. Also, do not sell CDs containing our audio stories. All audio stories are copyrighted by Candlelight Stories, Inc.

Audio Podcast Novel: Pinocchio (Chapter 1)

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Per l’Italia!  For playing in the living room!

This is one of the great gifts from Italy to the children of the world.  Carlo Collodi’s 1883 masterpiece, The Adventures of Pinocchio, is the story of the wooden marionette who desperately wants to be a real boy.  His adventures are full of mischief, wonder, sadness, joy, treachery, danger and all the exuberant life of a real Italian boy.  This is the English translation by Carol Della Chiesa.  The first seventeen chapters of this wonderful novel were recorded intermittently between 1999 and 2006, specifically for children to enjoy on the web.  But I was unable to finish it.  It is a very long story indeed and the demands of this particular recording were very great.  I have decided that it would be a good thing for Italy and its most beautiful living rooms if I were to finally finish the book.  I am cleaning up the sound a little bit and will start recording the eighteenth chapter soon.  So here we begin the long story and in a few months we will reach the finish!

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Subscribe to audio with iTunes

Reading and illustration by Alessandro Cima

All audio stories are Copyright © Candlelight Stories, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Do not distribute copies of our MP3 audio or video stories. They are for your personal use. If you choose to burn our MP3 stories onto a personal CD, do not make copies of the CD or distribute them to other people. Also, do not sell CDs containing our audio stories. All audio stories are copyrighted by Candlelight Stories, Inc.

Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 16)

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A Princess of Mars

This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.

Chapter 16: After a serious and long-overdue talk with Dejah Thoris, John Carter plots a dangerous escape to the city of Helium.

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

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Duration: 00:22:09
Read by Alessandro Cima

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Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 15)

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A Princess of Mars

This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.

Chapter 15: Sola reveals a deadly secret and tells John Carter the terrible story of her origins, revealing a deep hunger for revenge.

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Duration: 00:18:41
Read by Alessandro Cima

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Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 14)

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A Princess of Mars

This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.

Chapter 14: John Carter is in love but does not know how to behave.  Then he gets into a ferocious duel and must fight for his life.

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Duration: 00:19:13
Read by Alessandro Cima

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Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 13)

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A Princess of Mars

This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.

Chapter 13: John Carter proves how treating his ride with gentleness gets better results.  He also takes a lovely and revealing walk with a woman of Mars.

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Duration: 00:14:11
Read by Alessandro Cima

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Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 12)

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A Princess of Mars

This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.

Chapter 12: Someone spied on John Carter’s conversation with the prisoner and now he learns just how dangerous his situation really is.

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Duration: 00:11:25
Read by Alessandro Cima

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Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 11)

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A Princess of Mars

This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.

Chapter 11: John Carter helps the beautiful prisoner move into new quarters and has a revealing conversation with her.

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Duration: 00:14:49
Read by Alessandro Cima

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Book Trailer: Inherent Vice

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I’ve never been able to get through a book by Thomas Pynchon. Well, I should reveal that I’ve only tried once with his Against the Day.  Unreadable as far as I’m concerned.  But I still went out and bought a copy of Gravity’s Rainbow.  James Joyce is unreadable too and yet I still like him.  I never hold unreadability against a writer because I know how truly stupid I can be while reading – sometimes falling asleep and having to reread many pages.  But this video is probably the best book trailer I have ever seen.  I’d been thinking that the book sounded like a bore, but this trailer has me digging into the side pouch of my briefcase to find some spare change for the bookstore.

Another thing – whoever did the voiceover for this little movie is a stark raving mad genius.  He should read the entire book out loud.  I’d buy that too.

Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 10)

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A Princess of Mars

This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.

Chapter 10: John Carter meets the beautiful prisoner and proves himself more than a match for a martian green warrior.

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Duration: 00:21:39
Read by Alessandro Cima

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Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 9)

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A Princess of Mars

This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.

Chapter 9: John Carter learns to understand the Martian tongue.  He listens to an interesting conversation among Sola and some other female Martians about the beautiful prisoner.

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Duration: 00:08:39
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Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 8)

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A Princess of Mars

This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.

Chapter 8: John Carter finds himself in the middle of a raging battle between his captors on the ground and enormous Martian airships.  Then he becomes enthralled by an unusual prisoner.

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Duration: 00:12:49
Read by Alessandro Cima

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Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 7)

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A Princess of Mars

This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.

Chapter 7: John Carter is allowed to accompany an expedition that explains where martian babies come from.

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Duration: 00:12:28
Read by Alessandro Cima

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Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 6)

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A Princess of Mars

This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.

Chapter 6: A fight to the death with two enormous adversaries leads John Carter to understand something about the beast that is his keeper.

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Duration: 00:10:07
Read by Alessandro Cima

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