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  Rilla of Ingleside

  Lucy Montgomery

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  A poignant coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of World War I. It follows Rilla Blythe, the youngest of the Anne Shirley-inspired Blythe family, as she navigates adolescence during turbulent times. Initially carefree, Rilla matures rapidly amidst wartime challenges, including her brothers’ enlistment and the strain on her tight-knit community. Through heartbreak and hope, she discovers inner strength, love, and resilience. Montgomery beautifully intertwines personal growth with the broader impact of war, creating a touching tale of courage, sacrifice, and enduring optimism.

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  Les Misérables: Volume 3: Marius...

  Victor Hugo

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  Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.
  BOOK 2: THE GREAT BOURGEOIS: In the Rue Boucherat, Rue de Normandie and the Rue de Saintonge there still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a worthy man named M. Gillenormand, and who mention him with complaisance.

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  The Body Snatcher

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  A chance meeting in a pub in Debenham leads our narrator to uncover the dark secrets of two men. One, the local village drunk, the other a supposedly well to do London Doctor. What common thread could possibly connect the two? The answer to that question, reveals a history of murder, and blasphemy in the name of early medical science...  
  A short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrated by Michael Ward.

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  Getting Down to Mother Earth...

  Booker T. Washington

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  Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  GETTING DOWN TO MOTHER EARTH: One of the highest ambitions of every man leaving Tuskegee Institute should be to help the people of his race find bottom-find bed rock-and then help them to stand upon that foundation. If we who are interested in the school can help you to do this, we shall count ourselves satisfied. And until the bed-rock of our life is found, and until we are planted thereon, all else is but plaster, but make-believe, but the paper on the walls of a house without framework.

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  The Wrong Box

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd...

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  “The Wrong Box” is a wonderful, farcical black comedy co written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne (Stevenson’s stepson) in 1889. 
  The story is built around that mainstay of many a farce, a family squabbling over money. In this case it is the proceeds of a Tontine, a once popular investment scheme. 
   A cast of colourful characters, worthy of Dickens, are thrown together, either in the pursuit of money, or in the disposal of a mysterious corpse which makes surprising and gruesome appearances throughout the story. 
  Head Stories Audio presents "The Wrong Box" by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. Narrated by Simon Hester

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  The Mill on the Floss

  George Eliot, (Mary Ann Evans)

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  "The Mill on the Floss," published in 1860, is a novel by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans). It is a poignant portrayal of Victorian England and captures the complexities of family dynamics, societal expectations, and personal aspirations. The story centers on Maggie Tulliver, a passionate and intelligent woman struggling to satisfy her emotional needs in the rigid provincial community of St. Ogg's. Her relationship with her brother, Tom, and their conflicts with family and society form the crux of the narrative. The novel explores themes of gender norms, education, and the tension between individual desires and social conventions.

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