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Mollie of the Movies

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Published 1900 onward
Chapter: 8 | Listen: 3

This is a story of a girl who tries to make it big in the world of show business. McGaffey gives us the heroine’s first-person account. He writes in an epistolary style and gives us a comic, slice-of-life look at a girl’s attempts to become a film star. This was serialized in Photoplay Magazine, the premier fan magazine of the 1910s and 20s. Photoplay would go on to publish a wide array of fiction about the film industry. This was one of their first concerted efforts to create a long-form narrative about Hollywood. (Summary by ChuckW) Text sources : First Reel Second Reel Third Reel Fourth Reel Fifth Reel Sixth Reel. Seventh Reel. Eighth Reel [chương_files]

Aunt Jane’s Nieces On The Ranch

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Published 1900 onward
Chapter: 22 | Listen: 4

Aunt Jane’s Nieces On The Ranch sees the reappearance of Louise and Arthur Weldon after the birth of their first child, Jane. The family lives in California and hire a nurse, a local Mexican woman, much to Uncle John’s disapproval. Racial tension is explored as a New York woman is brought in to care for the child. Meanwhile, the Mexican nurse, Inez, is certain the ranch is haunted. – Summary by Lynne Thompson [chương_files]

Buried Alive

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Published 1900 onward
Chapter: 12 | Listen: 5

The hero is Mr Priam Farll, a painter of considerable ability. He is, however, extremely shy – so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies suddenly, the doctor believes the dead man to be Priam Farll and the live man the valet. The artist does not try to disabuse him. After the funeral (in Westminster Abbey), Priam Farll marries a widow and lives a happy life until the loss of his wife’s money means he has to take up painting again. A connoisseur of art recognises his style but thinks the paintings are by an imposter. He makes a fortune by buying his works through a small dealer and selling them in America as genuine. Meanwhile Priam Farll refuses through his obstinate shyness to prove his own identity. (Summary by Simon Evers) [chương_files]

History of Mr. Polly

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Published 1900 onward
Chapter: 23 | Listen: 2

A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes everything. H.G. Wells’ early life as the son of a semi-insolvent shopkeeper and as a draper’s apprentice fueled his novels of the lower middle class: The Wheels of Chance (1896), Kipps (1905), and The History of Mr. Polly (1910). These works evoke the desperation of apprentices, clerks, and small traders in their monotonous toil behind shop counters. And, like Mr. Polly, his protagonists make a break from their mundane lives with more or less success. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific writer in history, general and science fiction, and politics. He was a lifelong socialist. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis) [chương_files]

Jacket

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Published 1900 onward
Chapter: 28 | Listen: 2

A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called “the jacket,” a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives. The jacket itself was actually used at San Quentin at the time and Jack London’s descriptions of it were based on interviews with a former convict named Ed Morrell, which is also the name of a character in the novel. For his role in the Sontag and Evans gang which robbed the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1890s, Morrell spent fourteen years in California prisons (1894-1908), five of them in solitary confinement. London championed his pardon. After his release, Morrell was a frequent guest at London’s Beauty Ranch. (Introduction by Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Peggy Raymond’s School Days (or Old Girls And New)

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Published 1900 onward
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 1

Published in 1916, this third installment with The Friendly Terrace girls places them in The Girl’s High School, with an array of new characters, and a few peripherally known from the first book. A heavier edge of drama comes through via a new student with a superiority complex, another student whose diligent scholastic achievements mar her socially, and an odd tradition of affectionate favouritism between Freshman and Seniors which proves to be awkward and disruptive to more than just the students. Peggy, Amy, Priscilla and Ruth are again faced with new challenges, and complicated scenarios to help resolve. (Summary by Daryl Wor) [chương_files]

Spinner in the Sun

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Published 1900 onward, Romance
Chapter: 26 | Listen: 6

Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and entertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she always displays a quaint humor of expression and a quiet feeling of pathos which give a touch of active realism to all her writings. In “A Spinner in the Sun” she tells an old-fashioned love story, of a veiled lady who lives in solitude and whose features her neighbors have never seen. There is a mystery at the heart of the book that throws over it the glamour of romance (Summary by Grosset & Dunlap publishers, 1913) [chương_files]

Rain (Version 2)

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Chapter: 3 | Listen: 1

Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction by an excerpt from Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (version 2)

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Published 1900 onward, Single Author Collections
Chapter: 11 | Listen: 3

The Mysterious Stranger-A Romance- is the final novel attempted by Mark Twain. It was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until 1910. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the “damned human race”. (Wikipedia and John Greenman) [chương_files]

Red Planet

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Published 1900 onward, War & Military
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 5

Set during WWI in England, The Red Planet is a rich tale about the life in a little English town from the point of view of Major Duncan Meredyth, a disabled veteran of the Boer Wars. As he struggles to keep his life and the lives of those he cares for in harmony, he must also shelter a dark secret regarding one of the village’s favorite sons. The Red Planet was the third bestselling novel in the United States for 1917. (Summary by Miss Stav) [chương_files]

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Mollie of the Movies

Aunt Jane’s Nieces On The Ranch

Buried Alive

History of Mr. Polly

Jacket

Peggy Raymond’s School Days (or Old Girls And New)

Spinner in the Sun

Rain (Version 2)

Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (version 2)

Red Planet

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