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  Yarns of the Forecastle...

  Cyrus Townsend Brady

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  Brady was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1883. In 1889, he was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal church, and was ordained a priest in 1890. His first wife was Clarissa Guthrie, who died in 1890. His second wife was Mary Barrett. Brady's first major book, For Love of Country, whilst telling the story of a fictitious John Seymour, was actually based in part on the true heroics of Nicholas Biddle, one of the first five captains of the fledgling Continental Navy. Brady was also famous for his views of feminism and Women's suffrage, he preached many anti-suffrage sermons and described women voters as "an insult to God". In 1914 Brady began working as a screenwriter at Vitagraph Company of America. 
  YARNS OF THE FORECASTLE: Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirate, at least and really a sailor!

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  Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland...

  H. G. Wells

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  What these elves were like I have failed to gather, so vague and imperfect is his vocabulary, and so unobservant of all minor detail does he seem to have been. They were clothed in something very light and beautiful, that was neither wool, nor silk, nor leaves, nor the petals of flowers. They stood all about him as he sat and waked, and down the glade towards him, down a glow-worm avenue and fronted by a star, came at once that Fairy Lady who is the chief personage of his memory and tale.

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  Ladies Not For Burning - 14...

  Evelyn Everett-Green, Agatha...

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  Ladies Not For Burning - 14 Exceptional Stories and Poetry by WomenAbout this AudiobookCover Design by David Earl DeWitt | ZacaPublishing.comOriginal and Public Domain Source Material was used to Publish this CollectionAvailable at Spotify & Other Distributors! 
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  This Audiobook Collection contains Classic Stories & Poetry written by women between 1861 and 2024. It is a look into the lives and perceptions of women from before the turn of the 19th century, up to as recently as 2024. 
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  Your Stories: 
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  1. Jesse Varcoe 
  by Evelyn Everett-Green 
  1903 
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  2. The Case of the Missing Will 
  by Agatha Christie 
  1923 
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  3. The Fordwych Castle Mystery 
  by Baroness Orczy 
  1910 
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  4. The Golden Slippers 
  by Anna Katherine Green 
  1915 
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  5. The Hardest Knock of All 
  by Carol Leona Rochon 
  2024 
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  6. Vita 
  by Jenafer Keri Delaney 
  2024 
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  7. Ursila Pendrill 
  by Evelyn Everett Green 
  1903 
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  8. An Adventure in Ireland 
  by Charlotte Bronte 
  1925 
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  9. The Church and Slavery 
  by Harriet A. Jacobs 
  1861 
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  10. What Slaves are Taught to Think of the North 
  by Harriet A. Jacobs 
  1861 
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  11. Mortal Immortal 
  by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 
  1891 
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  12. The Warlike Seven 
  by Zitkala-Sa 
  1901 
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  13. Iya, the Camp Eater 
  by Zitkala-Sa 
  1901 
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  14. Poetry 
  by Emily Dickinson 
  1862 
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  Run Time: 4 Hours, 53 Minutes, 2 Seconds 
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  The Possessed

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  "Every set of five is a link in a chain... the goal is the destruction of everything."
  
  In a quiet provincial town, a small circle of young radicals begins to plot the subversion of the social order. Led by the cold, manipulative Pyotr Verkhovensky and centered around the enigmatic, hollowed-out aristocrat Nikolai Stavrogin, the group descends into a spiral of arson, murder, and madness. Based on the real-life "Nechayev affair," The Possessed is Dostoevsky's darkest and most complex work—a searing indictment of those who seek to replace traditional morality with a "shigalyovian" system of absolute equality through absolute tyranny.
  
  The Mystery of Nikolai Stavrogin: At the heart of the storm is Stavrogin, one of the most haunting figures in world literature. A man of immense strength and intellect who has lost the ability to distinguish between good and evil, he serves as the sun around which all the other "demons" orbit. His search for a sensation strong enough to make him feel alive leads to some of the most controversial and profound chapters Dostoevsky ever wrote.
  
  A Warning for the Ages: Originally intended as a "pamphlet-novel" against the rising tide of socialism and atheism, The Possessed evolved into a sprawling psychological epic. It explores how ideas can act like parasites, "possessing" individuals and driving them to acts of senseless violence. Dostoevsky's uncanny ability to predict the totalitarian tragedies of the 20th century makes this novel more relevant today than ever before.
  
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  The Red Badge of Courage

  Stephen Crane

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  On a cold day, the 304th New York Infantry Regiment awaits battle beside a river. Eighteen-year-old Private Henry Fleming, remembering his reasons for enlisting as well as his mother's resulting protests, wonders whether he will remain brave in the face of fear or turn and run. The story follows Fleming on the fateful days to come, through flight and redemption, injury and the horrors of war. The Red Badge of Courage received generally positive reviews from critics on its initial publication; in particular, it was said to be a remarkably modern and original work., the original 1895 publication went through ten editions in the first year alone, making Crane an overnight success at the age of twenty-four. 
  This bestselling book in both the US and the States, praised for its sense of realism is reproduced here, narrated by Michael Ward.

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  Very Old Folk The (Unabridged)

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  It is a recording of a dream, where the protagonist is a Roman military official in the Vascon country near Pompelo. The countryside is, every year, ravaged by terrible hill people who kidnap citizens and perform cruel rituals at a Sabbath. The narrator wishes to lead a military expedition to crush these hill folk, as a feeling of approaching evil has enveloped the countryside, due to a riot between the citizens and the hill people. These hill folk came to trade, yet some of these are killed and later, no disappearances occur before the time of the Sabbath. The incursion is guided by a local-born son of Roman parents. As the Romans approach the seat of the Sabbath rituals, something terrible attacks them and in an instant, horrible things come to pass: "He had killed himself when the horses screamed... He, who had been born and lived all his life in that region, and knew what men whispered about the hills. All the torches now began to dim, and the cries of frightened legionaries mingled with the unceasing screams of the tethered horses. The air grew perceptibly colder, more suddenly so than is usual at November's brink, and seemed stirred by terrible undulations which I could not help connecting with the beating of huge wings." The story ends with the narrator waking up and claiming that "it was the most vivid dream in years, drawing upon wells of the subconscious long untouched and forgotten".

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