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Preface
Read by Christine Bowden
Gertrude Atherton
In Rulers of Kings: A Novel
When a child is born, its temperament and character are unknown. The effects of nature versus nurture, of heredity and of circumstance are a…
Chapter 9. KNOWLEDGE
Read by Christine Rottger
Arthur Christopher Benson
In Joyous Gard
Joyous Gard was the castle of Sir Lancelot in the Morte D'Arthur, into which he retired, in the intervals of war and business, for rest and …
Title Piece
Read by Christine Rottger
Various
In Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 5, July 1906
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literat…
Baffled
Read by tshoes76
Mary Imlay Taylor
In On the Red Staircase
"“The Czarevitch Ivan is said to be indifferent to the high office,” I replied, in a low tone; “he is blind.”“Ay, and deformed!” said t…
Ch II: The Meeting of the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Part 1
Read by Christine Rottger
Edward T. Bouvé
In Centuries Apart
Centuries Apart is about a group of Civil War Union soldiers who, dispatched by President Lincoln, quasi-time travel to a quasi-medieval Eng…
Chapter 10- Part 1
Read by Katina Papadakis
Matthew Lewis
In The Monk: A Romance (Version 2)
As one of the pioneers of Gothic fiction, this classic novel is seriously underrated. The story revolves around Ambrosio, the abbot, who is …