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Selected excerpts from "The Privations"

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 06

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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Part One

In The Bridge Builders

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Rudyard Kipling

A tale of the revenge of the earth, in this case, specifically, Mother Gunga, Goddess of the River Ganga, against the men who confine her po…

Part One

In The Village That Voted The Earth Was Flat

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Rudyard Kipling

Possibly as relevant today as it ever was, this story tells the tale of an English village, Huckley, that is beguiled into voting the Earth …

Chapter One

In The Bacchae (Solo Version)

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Euripides

Euripides' Bacchae tells of Dionysus, the God, come to the city of Thebes, there to drive mad those who refuse participation in his ecstatic…

The Raven

In The Bells and Other Poems

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Edgar Allan Poe

This is a collection of the most famous poems by Edgar Allan Poe. It includes all of his most famous poems, such as the Bells and Annabel Le…

Part One

In Lady Into Fox (Version 2)

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David Garnett

An everyday tale of a young Victorian housewife who turns into a fox and the troubles her husband then has in dealing with her increasingly …

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