Tag: 1880s

LibriVox: Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick

Jesse Willis

Here’s a fun, and approximately antipodean, compliment to Jack London’s stupendous novel The Call Of The Wild. Set in 1880s South Africa, it is a set of semi-fictional stories about an English Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Jock. According to a… Read moreLibriVox: Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick

Mister Ron presents: An 1880 Poe spoof – The Murder in the Rue Rivoli

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Mister Ron’s Basement podcast will be celebrating Edgar Allan Poe’s Bicentennial this month with a collection of Poe’s funniest stories. However, we will beginning with an 1880 spoof of Poe’s Detective Fiction by the remarkable Stanley Huntley in Episode number… Read moreMister Ron presents: An 1880 Poe spoof – The Murder in the Rue Rivoli