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Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum

Read by Elaine Webb

Hiram Chase

Hiram Chase is a well liked Reverend in a small ministry in Utica. When his mental and physical health deteriorates, he is taken to Utica lu…

Six Years in the Prisons of England

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Frank Henderson

A Merchant talks about daily life inside prisons of England, describes routines and how prisoners are treated. He notes stories of how fello…

The Rebel of the School

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L. T. Meade

Kathleen O'Hara is a young pretty girl sent to school in England from Ireland by her father to get a good education, but Kathleen has other …

Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum

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Mary Huestis Pengilly

Mary Pengilly was taken to a Lunatic Asylum by her sons where she kept a diary, which this book is taken from. Mary records the harsh condit…

Sixteenth-century Bristol

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John Latimer

Plague, piracy and payments to members of Parliament! The town of Bristol, England in the Sixteenth Century was a fascinating place, and Joh…

Dulcibel

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Henry Peterson

Dulcibel is a young, pretty and kind-hearted fictional character charged with Witchcraft during the infamous Salem Witch trials. During this…

Book 1, Chapter 4

In The Bostonians, Vol. 1 & 2

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Henry James

This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chance…

Chapter 13 - Confession

In The Eye of Dread

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Payne Erskine

The Civil War is upon the United States, and the town of Leauvite has sent away its young men, among them Peter Junior and Richard Kildene. …

Humane Liberalism - part 2

In The Ego and His Own

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Max Stirner

In this book, his most famous, Max Stirner presents a philosophical case for a radical egoism that shuns the socially-oriented outlooks of b…