StoryTime with Mark

Mark Samson

Mark reads great stories from the public domain.

  1. 02/12/2024

    Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island: "In the Enemy's Camp", "The Black Spot Again", and "On Parole"

    Jim finds himself enmeshed with the pirates, but with an ally in Long John Silver, and hopefully a chance to reunite with the Doctor, the Captain, and the Squire if all goes well.

    45 min

  2. 01/27/2024

    Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island -- "I Strike the Jolly Roger", "Israel Hands", and "Pieces of Eight"

    Jim's harrowing time back aboard the Hispaniola and returning to the stockade.

    41 min

  3. 01/21/2024

    Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island -- "How My Sea Adventure Began", "The Ebb-tide Runs", and "The Cruise of the Coracle"

    Jim takes matters in to his own hands and strikes out on a mission.

    37 min

  4. 01/14/2024

    Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island -- "Silver's Embassy" and "The Attack"

    The faithful crew inside the stockade, the mutineers outside, Long John offers a possible truce, which when rejected leads to battle!

    24 min

  5. 01/07/2024

    Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island -- "The Stockade"

    Resuming reading Treasure Island.  This section details, mostly from Dr. Livesey's perspective, how they left the Hispaniola and garrisoned the stockade, under a barrage of cannon fire, and how Jim is reunited with the loyal crew.

    42 min

  6. 01/03/2024

    "The Man Who Would Be King" by Rudyard Kipling

    A tale of adventure and colonial arrogance and wild success and hubris and downfall.

    1h 24m

  7. 12/26/2023

    "How Old Timofei Died with a Song" by Rainer Maria Rilke

    A very short story about telling stories, or passing stories from one generation to the next.

    17 min

  8. 12/17/2023

    "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway

    A very short story from "Men Without Women" in which a man and a woman have drinks and a tense conversation while waiting for a train to take them to Madrid for an unspecified operation.

    11 min
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Mark reads great stories from the public domain.

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  • Creator
    Mark Samson
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    34
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 StoryTime with Mark
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