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Dec 24, 2024

Tenth Day of CraftLit (2024)

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LINK TO DAY 1 of the Twelve Days of CraftLit—

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Lba-HdvqxZ8
AUDIO ONLY: https://craftlit.com/1st-day-2024/ 

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DAY 1: https://craftlit.libsyn.com/first-day-of-craftlit-2024

DAY 2: https://craftlit.libsyn.com/second-day-of-craftlit-2024

DAY 3: https://craftlit.libsyn.com/third-day-of-craftlit-2024

DAY 4: https://craftlit.libsyn.com/fourth-day-of-craftlit-2024

DAY 5: https://craftlit.libsyn.com/fifth-day-of-craftlit-2024

DAY 6: https://craftlit.libsyn.com/sixth-day-of-craftlit-2024

DAY 7: https://craftlit.libsyn.com/seventh-day-of-craftlit-2024

DAY 8: https://craftlit.libsyn.com/eighth-day-of-craftlit-2024

DAY 9: https://craftlit.libsyn.com/tenth-day-of-craftlit-2024

DAY TEN

Christmas at Red Butte

 A Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road

The Christmas Eve Burglary (1906)

  • Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931)

  • Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda, and film.

  • Read by: Ruth Golding (31:20) Sir Jehosephat (Sir Jee), A Cresage (?) , Whoever Velasquez might be…HA!, Some part of Mr Smith introduction was funny or important, Nelson Column

Thin Santa Claus (1908)

  • Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937)

  • was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story “Pigs Is Pigs”, in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially.

  • Read by: GROUP: NAMES (27:23) - CUT HE SAID SHE SAIDs

Christmas Present Assurance Company (1894)

  • C. H. Grinling ( - )

  • aside from several books on trains and the history of railways in Britain, evidently, Mr. Grinling didn't do much else of note.

  • Read by: HEATHER or Maria Kasper

A Christmas Mystery: the story of the three wise men (1910)

  • William John Locke (20 March 1863 – 15 May 1930)

  • was a novelist and playwright, born in Cunningsbury St George, Christ Church, Demerara, British Guyana. In 1894 he published his first novel, At the Gate of Samaria, but he did not achieve real success for another decade, with The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne (1905) and The Beloved Vagabond (1906). Chambers Biographical Dictionary wrote of his "long series of novels and plays which with their charmingly written sentimental themes had such a success during his life in both Britain and America... His plays, some of which were dramatised versions of his novels, were all produced with success on the London Stage

  • Read by: Ruth Golding (38:47) http://www.archive.org/download/multilingual_christmas_0912_librivox/09_english_christmasmystery_locke_rg.mp3

An Old Fashionned Christmas

  • Richard Marsh (1857 - 1927)

  • was the pseudonym of the British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. A best-selling and prolific author of the Victorian fin de siècle and the early Edwardian period, Marsh's success rivalled that of contemporary writers of popular fiction such as Marie Corelli. He is best known today for his supernatural thriller The Beetle, which was published in the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) and was initially even more popular.

  • Read by: Lars Rolander (1942-2016) (39:32)

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