Some American Storytellers by Frederic Taber Cooper (1864 - 1937)

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Some American Storytellers by Frederic Taber Cooper (1864 - 1937) is a arts podcast hosted by LibriVox. It has 15 episodes, with the latest published January 1970.

Frederic Taber Cooper, who was an editor and author, provides a superb insight into the works of some of the most popular authors of the turn of the century decade.Excerpt: The subjects of the essays included in this volume differ widely in aim and in accomplishment; but all of them possess, to a considerable extent, the gift that makes them next of kin to the minstrel and troubadour, to the ancient fabulist, and to the forgotten spinner of the world s first nursery tales, the gift of holding the attention by the spell of the spoken word. - Summary by Celine Major

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