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  Earth Spirit

  Frank Wedekind

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  Earth Spirit (1895) (Erdgeist) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the first part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the second is Pandora's Box [1904]), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed". Together with Pandora's Box, Wedekind's play formed the basis for the silent film Pandora's Box (1929) starring Louise Brooks and the opera Lulu by Alban Berg in 1935 (premiered posthumously in 1937). The eponymous "earth spirit" of this play is Lulu, who Wedekind described as a woman "created to stir up great disaster." Indeed, she is a purely sexual creature who scandalizes the community and drives men to ruin. The play has attracted a wide range of interpretations, from those who see it as misogynistic to those who claim Wedekind as a harbinger of women’s liberation. (Summary by Wikipedia and ChuckW) 
   
  CastLulu: Amanda FridayDr. Schon: Algy PugAlva Schon: Chuck WilliamsonDr. Goll/Schigolch: Alan MapstoneSchwartz: Aidan BrackPrince Escerny/Ferdinand: balaEscherich/Narrator/Prologue: Elizabeth KlettRodrigo: WupperhippoHugenberg: Charlotte DuckettCountess Geschwitz: Caprisha PageHenriette: Naomi ParkAudio edited by Chuck Williamson and Elizabeth KlettPronunciation guide by Karlsson

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  Alphabet of History An

  Wilbur D. Nesbit

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  An alphabet of historical characters presented in poetical form! In their original form, the contents of thisbook appeared in the Chicago Sunday Tribune, which newspaper is hereby thanked for the privilege of reproducing this Alphabet(Summary from the Acknowledgment and Ann Boulais)  Who frets about the mysteryEnshrouding all of historyOn reading this will, maybe, seeWe've made it plain as A, B, C.

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  The Poetry Of Anne Bronte

  Anne Brontë

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  Anne Bronte - An Introducton. In the small village of Haworth in Yorkshire the Bronte family created novels and poems that are still admired to this day around the world.  The youngest of the three Bronte sisters, Anne, was born on 17th January 1820. The author of ‘Agnes Grey’ and ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’ she was also a very talented poet as witnessed here in this collection.  She died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of only 29 on 28th May 1849.

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  The Life of Emile Zola -...

  Hollywood Stage Productions

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's The Life of Emile Zola starring Paaul Muni & Josephine Hutchinson.

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  Your Therapist Says It’s Magical...

  Sadie McCarney

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  Sadie McCarney’s Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking is a buoyant second collection that playfully navigates the turbulent waters of life with mental illness and neurodivergence. In much of the book, history and science are treated the way they are often viewed by a brain in mental turmoil: places and events get switched around, facts get rewritten, and the fantastical reigns supreme. Through poems ranging from didactic (the horrible “self-care” advice received by the poet when she was struggling most) to historical fiction (patients in an asylum in 1800s England), to the quirky and unexpectedly fantastical (a rainbow carpool unicorn, a young child’s timeline reversing each morning, and an everything bagel that includes competing theories of time), McCarney digs deep into the muck of her own lived experience. She resurfaces with, if not gold, at least an old time capsule and a few treasured hunks of bone. Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking highlights the sometimes dubious (but always jubilant) inner workings of a mentally unwell brain at play — especially within the context of a larger society that frequently seeks to tamp down this weird and rare form of magic.

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  The Open Window

  Edward Rowland Sill

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Open Window by Edward Rowland Sill. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 27th, 2011.Edward Rowland Sill, American poet and educator, was born in Windsor, Connecticut. He was a modest and charming man, a graceful essayist, a sure critic. His contribution to American poetry is small but of fine quality. His best poems, such as "The Venus of Milo," "The Fool's Prayer" and "Opportunity," gave him a high place among the minor poets of America, which might have been higher but for his early death. (summary from Wikipedia)

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