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    01/07/2024
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    1900 or The Last President

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    Chapter: 4 | Listen: 3

    The year is 1896. The United States is rocked by the election of an unlikely president. On election night, riots broke out in the streets of New York. The city was paralyzed with dread. Mobs organized under the lead of Anarchists and Socialists. Farther South, people celebrated. This was a President elected by the working class and he was a President who followed through with his commitment to fight for the rights of the people. This president would fight to end the enslavement of the people by money lenders, big bankers, corporations and government overtax. But can he be successful in a society that is rapidly absorbing socialist ideologies? – Summary by CJ Plogue     [chương_files]  

    01/07/2024
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    Doctor Luttrell’s First Patient

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    Chapter: 24 | Listen: 1

    Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess, are trying to start building their nest. Problems arise when doctor Luttrell cannot find work and Olivia has to take care of the house. The financial problems make their marriage more and more difficult. They make ends meet before their rich neighbor needs doctor Luttrell. Would they be able to come up in the world? Would they be happy? – Summary by Stav Nisser.     [chương_files]  

    01/07/2024
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    Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain

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    Chapter: 24 | Listen: 4

    Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain is a collection of three narratives about life in the theater based on Mowatt’s career on stage. The stories, “Stella,” “The Prompter’s Daughter,” and “The Unknown Tragedian” reveal the every-day challenges faced by Victorian theatrical workers and argue against prejudices against this profession still held by many people at that time. – Summary by Kelly S. Taylor     [chương_files]  

    01/07/2024
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    Cloak (Version 2)

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    Chapter: 2 | Listen: 5

    The Cloak or the Overcoat as in some translations, is a story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor Dostoyevsky: “We all come out from Gogol’s ‘Overcoat’.” It is pointed to as the start of the realistic style of writing. Summary by phil c     [chương_files]  

    01/07/2024
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    Madame de Mauves

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    Chapter: 9 | Listen: 4

    Considered an early masterpiece, “Madame de Mauves” is the first of Henry James’s ‘international contrasts’. It recounts the story of an American girl, Euphemia Cleve, through the eyes of her fellow countryman Longmore. Euphemia marries an impoverished French aristocrat, the Baron de Mauves, in the belief that he is the ideal of all her girlhood fancies. Longmore is the admiring spectator of her disillusionment. Is she really so unhappy as he imagines? What is, if any, the essential difference between an American idealist and a French man of the world? – Summary by Gemma L Myers     [chương_files]  

    01/07/2024
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    Lost for Love

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    Chapter: 27 | Listen: 4

    EXCERPT: In all things that he did, Flora’s well-being was the doctor’s paramount consideration. He brought pleasant people to his house; men of professional standing, and their wives. He sought to win friends for her, and the gentle charm of her manner endeared her to the people he brought about her, almost in spite of herself. To know her was to love her. To Cuthbert Ollivant’s small circle of intimates Flora was known only as his ward.     [chương_files]  

    01/07/2024
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    Kit and Kitty

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    Chapter: 66 | Listen: 3

    Kit Orchardson, an apprentice produce grower in Sunbury, England describes for us a time in his youth in which he fell in love with Kitty, a young lady of higher status, endeavored to secure her love and ventured to solve her mysterious disappearance shortly after they were joined in marriage. Through Kit’s perspective, we get a wonderful view of life in 1860 England where people’s attitudes were maneuvering between their societal status and their character.     [chương_files]  

    30/06/2024
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    Pierre, or The Ambiguities

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    Chapter: 29 | Listen: 4

    The life of a young heir, Pierre is altered when he meets a mysterious woman who claims to be his sister.     [chương_files]  

    30/06/2024
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    Beyond These Voices

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    This novel tells the fictional life story of Veera Davis. The daughter of a poet and a poor noble woman, who is left in the care of her grandmother to a lonely and monotonous childhood, she has to make her way up in the world. But everything has a price. She tries to follow the conventions of the society which shunned her when she was poor. The novel explores themes such as love, money and loss. Don’t worry, there is also a good murder mystery. Summary by Stav Nisser.     [chương_files]  

    30/06/2024
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    Mysteries of Paris – Volume 3

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    Chapter: 22 | Listen: 11

    Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in argot, is extremely strong and a good fighter. However he shows great compassion for the lower classes, good judgment, and has a brilliant mind. He is at ease in all layers of society and so is able to understand their problems, and how the different social classes are linked. (Summary by Michele Eaton )     [chương_files]