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  The House of Mirth

  Edith Wharton

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  "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton intricately portrays the life and social struggles of Lily Bart, a beautiful but impoverished woman navigating New York’s elite society in the early 1900s. With her beauty as her only asset, Lily grapples with the pressures of wealth, status, and societal expectations. As she teeters on the edge of scandal and financial ruin, Wharton masterfully examines themes of ambition, morality, and the harsh realities of a merciless social world.

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  The White Heron - Adapted and...

  Sarah Orne Jewett, Querida FUnck

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  The White Heron 
   Adapted from Sarah Orne Jewett | Abridged & Narrated by Querida Funck 
  In this lyrical retelling of Sarah Orne Jewett’s 1886 classic, a young girl living in rural Maine must choose between loyalty to the natural world and the approval of those around her. 
  This True Voice Shorts edition blends Jewett’s original text with thoughtful abridgment and new reflections, illuminating themes of solitude, wonder, and moral courage through a modern lens. 
  Querida Funck’s intimate narration brings added depth and resonance, honoring the heart of the original while enhancing its emotional clarity for contemporary listeners. A brief, moving story that speaks to the still, strong voices within us all.

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  Adeline Mowbray

  Amelia Opie

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  "Adeline Mowbray, or, The Mother and Daughter, is a novel by Amelia Opie that was published in 1804. The experiences of the heroine, Adeline, are loosely based on the unconventional life of Mary Wollstonecraft, an acquaintance of Opie. In the novel, Opie explores what might happen when a woman's idealistic philosophical beliefs conflict with society's notions about female sexuality.    The philosophically minded Adeline decides that marriage is an outmoded institution. She refuses marriage to Frederic Glenmurray (modeled on William Godwin) and instead chooses to live with him as his sexual equal. Although Adeline is honorable, clever, and honest, she faces social condemnation. She is disowned by her mother and respectable friends and harassed by men who assume she is sexually available. After Glenmurray dies, Adeline seeks protection by marrying the abusive Mr. Berrendale, who ultimately abandons her and their daughter, Editha. At the end of the novel, the ill Adeline is finally reunited with her mother. Adeline repents having transgressed society's expectations of women and, before she dies, leaves instructions on how Editha is to be educated."

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  Black Voices on Britain

  Hakim Adi

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  A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library.Professor Hakim Adi, shortlisted for the Wolfson history prize, draws on a variety of published works in Black Voices on Britain, all of which describe powerful experiences: James Gronniosaw and his family endure poverty, illness and unemployment; Mary Prince is driven out by her cruel owners and turns to London charities for help; Frederick Douglass, on a lecture tour around Britain, reveals how the Christian clergy built churches with slave-owners’ money; and William Wells Brown gives his impressions of England as he travels around a country which welcomes him more readily than America. These and other voices offer a fascinating and thought-provoking portrayal of Black experiences in Britain.

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  The Last Man

  Mary Shelley

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  "The Last Man" is a novel written by Mary Shelley, the author best known for "Frankenstein." Published in 1826, "The Last Man" is a work of science fiction and is considered one of the earliest examples of post-apocalyptic literature. The novel is set in the late 21st century and narrated by a character named Lionel Verney. It tells the story of a devastating global pandemic that wipes out most of the world's population. Lionel, seemingly the last surviving human, recounts the events leading up to the downfall of civilization and his experiences as the titular last man.

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  A Cricket on the Hearth - A...

  Charles Dickens

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  Mrs. Peerybingle is bright and sharp as a tack. Her husband John is a carrier, a profession as lumbering and sturdy as he is himself. When the crafty Tackleton seeks to cause mischief to forward his own nefarious plans, John’s steady heart is sorely wounded. Luckily there is a cricket on the hearth to act as a guardian angel for all of them.  
   
  A huge commercial success when it was first published in 1845, this Christmas fantasy is a lovely portrait of Victorian life, “crammed with extra bonbons, French plums and sweetness.” (-William Makepeace Thackeray)

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