American author Fannie Caldwell, under pen name of Frances Little, tells the story of young Yuki San growing up in Japan circa early 1900s, and of her dreams of an American....

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a sentimental childrens novel by American (English-born) author Frances Hodgson Burnett, serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1885. It was a runaway...

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Sara is brought to Miss Minchins Select Seminary for Young Ladies by her father, Captain Crewe, because the climate in India doesnt agree with children. After several years as...

Pick a Little, Talk a Little is a podcast about musical theater, discussed by Broadway nerds for Broadway nerds. Each episode, we go through the plot of a show using the music and...

In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or dearest) in genteel poverty after his Father Captain Errol dies. They...

Sara Crewe is a very intelligent, polite, and creative young girl. Born to a wealthy soldier in India, Sara was brought all the way to London in Victorian-era England for a formal...

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Theater talk! I invite a different guest every episode and we talk about a show that my guest has been a part of. We go through the background and an in depth description of the...

‘Little Dorrit’ is a highly personal novel by Charles Dickens that many critics state is one of his finest later works. The story revolves around Amy Dorrit, a kind-hearted...