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The Letters of Jane Austen

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Jane Austen


This recording includes a selection of Jane Austen's letters, edited by Susan Coolidge and chosen from the collection of Austen's great-neph…

The Portrait of a Lady (version 2)

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Henry James


The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 an…

The Awakening (version 2)

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Kate Chopin


Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. …

What Maisie Knew

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Henry James


When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between…

The Glimpses of the Moon

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Edith Wharton


"The Glimpses of the Moon" (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off weal…

A Little Princess (Version 3)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett


A Little Princess is a classic of children's literature by the author of The Secret Garden. Seven-year-old Sara Crewe comes to London to att…

The Semi-Attached Couple

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Emily Eden


Young and beautiful Helen Eskdale and fabulously wealthy Lord Teviot seem to be the perfect match. But when they marry, they find that misun…

The Room in the Dragon Volant

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls insta…

The House of the Vampire

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George Sylvester Viereck


The House of the Vampire is a 1907 novella that is a very unusual vampire story. A young writer comes under the powerful influence of a myst…

The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy

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Pádraic Colum


Also known as "The Children's Homer," this is Irish writer Padraic Colum's retelling of the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey fo…

Summer (version 2)

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Edith Wharton


Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs t…

Pauline's Passion and Punishment

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Louisa May Alcott


Before she wrote Little Women and Little Men, Louisa, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, had this `blood and thunder' thriller (as sh…

Idylls of the King

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson


Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson which re…

The Machine Stops (version 3)

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E. M. Forster


"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Revie…

Passing

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Nella Larsen


Nella Larsen, a novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote two brilliant novels that interrogated issues of gender and race. In Passing, her…

The Waste Land (version 3)

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T. S. Eliot


The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot's Modernist masterpiece, first published in 1920. Rich in allusions to Shakespeare, Dante, Baudelaire, the Bib…

The Touchstone

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Edith Wharton


Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an adv…

The Story of Avis

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps


Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1877 novel is set in a New England college town, and focuses on Avis Dobell, a professor's daughter. Avis is a ta…

The Odd Women

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George Gissing


George Gissing's 1893 novel takes on the 19th century "Woman Question" by looking at themes of feminism, marriage, and love. The …

Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave

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Aphra Behn


Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English…

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