The whole book. Staged. stagedBooks performs the great public-domain books complete and unaltered — every word the author wrote — as full-cast audio plays, with a companion rail on screen that keeps the cast, the calendar, the map and the footnotes in view as you listen.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1873. A failed writer, told in print that his face suggests insanity, goes to a funeral for diversion, sits down on a gravestone, and begins to hear the dead talking. Under the ground a general is losing at cards, a lady of the highest society is quarrelling with a shopkeeper, a privy councillor has just arrived with a deficit of four hundred thousand roubles, and a young baron proposes that since they have two or three months of consciousness left, they should spend them casting off all shame. Dostoevsky’s strangest comedy, complete. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WKuWTwxhlQ Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/bobok/
27 Oct 2026
The Lightning-Rod Man
Herman Melville, 1854. A thunderstorm in the Berkshire hills, and a knock at the door. The caller is a lean, dripping stranger with a copper rod, who will not stand near the hearth, the wall, the window or the bell-wire, and who has a rod to sell for twenty dollars before the next bolt falls. The householder stays where he is. Melville’s shortest tale, a two-man argument conducted at the top of a storm. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PqT8DJCdtc Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/the-lightning-rod-man/
26 Oct 2026
This Side of Paradise · Book One · Chapter Two: Spires and Gargoyles · Part 2
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920. Two or three sentences: the hook, in the voice of the back of a book, no spoilers. Watch it with the companion rail — cast, calendar, map and footnotes on screen — on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_noSQCOXCI Episode page, plates and the free companion edition: https://stagedbooks.com/episodes/this-side-of-paradise-2-2/
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