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Adam F McCune @UCE9wXpmRDyCrOEZylf7WL5w@youtube.com

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Classic literature read and adapted by literary scholar and


07:49
Sense and Sensibility and Hamlet (Jane Austen Summer Program, 2025)
24:17
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (W.S. Gilbert) - Jane Austen Summer Program, 2025
00:58
Aesop’s Fable: The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs (Avianus, c. 400 AD, tr. AFM) - Children’s Poems
24:49
Jane Austen's "Evelyn" (Stage Adaptation)
00:17
My New Book! Austen Staged: Jane Austen’s Short Stories Adapted as One-Act Plays
00:38
Solomon, The scent of blossoms on the vine (Song 2:10-14; 10th c. BC) - tr. AFM - Classic Love Poems
05:09
St. George and the Dragon (13th c., Jacobus de Voragine) - Classic Children’s Stories
01:32
Chaucer, Keep well your tongue (1400) - Classic Children's Poems
01:44
Song: Jesus’s Good News - trans. Adam F McCune - Classic Literature of the Bible
00:38
Jesus Institutes the Lord’s Supper (Matthew 26:26-29, 1st century) - Classic Literature of the Bible
12:24
Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) - 1st century - Classic Literature of the Bible
01:17
Song: St. Patrick’s Message: ā€œGod Set Us Freeā€ (5th century) - trans. AFM - sung to ā€œWellermanā€
03:45
Parables of Jesus: The Lost Sheep, Lost Coin, and Lost (Prodigal) Son (Luke 15, 1st c.)
11:42
Mary Wollstonecraft, Grow Older and Wiser (1798) - Classic Children’s Stories
00:38
Solomon, Make me a seal upon your heart (Song 8:6-7a; 10th c. BC) - tr. AFM - Classic Love Poems
01:42
Aesop’s Fable: The Oak and the Reed (Avianus, c. 400 AD) - trans. AFM - Classic Children's Poems
02:49
For God So Loved the World (John 3:1-21, 1st century) - Classic Literature of the Bible
00:28
Aesop's Fable: The Fox and the Grapes (Phaedrus, 1st c.) - trans. AFM - Classic Children's Poems
02:12
Aesop’s Fable: The City Mouse and the Country Mouse (Horace, 1st c. BC) - trans. Adam F McCune
01:55
The Word Became Flesh (John 1:1-18, 1st century) - Classic Christmas Literature
04:12
St. Nicholas Saves Three Innocent Men (c. 400 AD) - tr. Charles W. Jones
12:14
J.R.R. Tolkien, Father Christmas and the Goblins (1932) - Classic Christmas Literature
03:37
A.A. Milne, King John’s Christmas (1927) - Classic Christmas Literature
01:52
St. Nicholas against Arius the heretic (legends from the 9th, 14th, & 16th centuries)
02:43
He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions (Isaiah 52:13-53:12, 8th-6th c. BC)
01:21
Soviet-Era Birthday Song (in English): Once a Year (Timofeevsky, 1971, tr. AFM)
00:21
Sappho, Evening (c. 600 BC) - trans. J. A. Symonds - Classic Children's Poems
00:14
Robert Louis Stevenson, Looking Forward (1885) - Classic Children's Poems
00:41
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Land of Counterpane (1885) - Classic Children's Poems
00:34
Robert Louis Stevenson, A Good Play (1885) - Classic Children's Poems
01:24
Song: The Tortoise and the Hare (Aesop's Fable, 4th-6th century, tr. AFM) - Classic Children's Poems
24:54
ā€œAusten & Shakespeareā€ & Austen’s ā€œThe Three Sistersā€ (Stage Adaptation)
43:42
Jane Austen’s "Catharine, or, the Bower" (Stage Adaptation)
17:13
Jane Austen’s ā€œLove and Friendshipā€ (Stage Adaptation)
00:50
Robert Louis Stevenson, Foreign Lands (1885) - Classic Children's Poems
00:45
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Land of Nod (1885) - Classic Children's Poems
02:02
William Dunbar, Done is a Battle on the Dragon Black (c. 1500) - Classic Poems of Life, Time & Death
00:43
Christ in Gethsemane (13th-14th century), trans. Adam F McCune - Classic Poems of Life, Time & Death
47:08
Lovers’ Vows at Mansfield Park - Jane Austen & Elizabeth Inchbald Adaptation - JASP 2016
21:44
Jane Austen’s Henry and Eliza - Stage Adaptation, 2015
00:14
Sappho, Dying (c. 600 BC) - trans. Adam F McCune - Classic Poems of Life, Time, and Death
00:29
Robert Louis Stevenson, Requiem (1884) - Classic Poems of Life, Time, and Death
00:58
Aesop's Fable: The Sun and the North Wind (Babrius, 1st century) - trans. Adam F McCune
05:22
Song: St. Patrick’s Life (5th century) - exc. & trans. Adam F McCune - sung to "Wellerman"
00:15
Robert Louis Stevenson, Rain (1885) - Classic Children's Poems
00:51
Robert Louis Stevenson, My Shadow (1885) - Classic Children's Poems
00:42
Hear, O Israel (Deuteronomy 6:4-9, 13th-15th century BC) - Classic Literature of the Bible
00:34
Sappho, Beauty (c. 600 BC) - trans. D.G. Rossetti - Classic Love Poems
00:24
Song: Rock-a-bye, baby (non-violent) - 1833 - Classic Children's Poems
02:31
A Bible Alphabet: In Adam's Fall (18th-19th centuries) - with I, V - Classic Children's Poems
02:08
A Bible Alphabet: In Adam's Fall (1727/1762) - original - Classic Children's Poems
00:30
Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play (18th century) - Classic Children's Poems
00:47
Shu is Away (8th-6th century BC) - trans. Arthur Waley - Classic Love Poems
02:22
T.S. Eliot, Journey Of The Magi (1927) - Classic Christmas Literature
02:13
Robert Southwell, This little babe, so few days old (16th century) - Classic Christmas Literature
14:51
Dylan Thomas, A Child’s Christmas in Wales (1952) - Classic Christmas Literature
04:19
Saint Nicholas and the Three Gifts (9th century) - Classic Christmas Literature
02:08
Ukrainian Carol: Earth and the Heavens (1913), trans. Adam F McCune - Classic Christmas Literature
00:58
Bradford, The First Thanksgiving, 1621 (written 1630-1651) - Classic Literature of American History
04:02
A.A. Milne, Teddy Bear (1924) - Classic Children's Poems