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  The Yellow Wallpaper - From...

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on 3rd July 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to an unaffectionate mother and a father who abandoned her and her older brother to a life of poverty. 
  Inevitably her schooling was limited and by 15 she had attended seven different schools but received only four years education.  However Charlotte was resourceful and did spend time with her father’s aunts – the suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker and the ‘Uncle Tom Cabin’s’ author, Harriet Beecher Stowe as well as many hours at the public library studying ancient civilisations. 
  In 1878, she enrolled in classes at the Rhode Island School of Design where she met Martha Luther and they developed a close relationship until Luther married in 1881. Charlotte was devastated and detested romance and love until she met and married the artist Charles Walter Stetson.  
  Their only child, Katharine Beecher Stetson, was born in 1885 but left Charlotte with post-natal depression, then often dismissed as a case of hysteria or nerves.  Unsuited to domestic life she ruptured her life and moved to California with Katherine.  She divorced in 1894 and then sent Katharine east to live with her father and his second wife confirming that his paternal rights be acknowledged and that Katherine establish a relationship with her father. 
  After her mother died in 1893, Charlotte moved back east and became involved with her first cousin, Wall Street attorney, Houghton Gilman who she married in 1900. After his death she moved back to California, where Katherine now lived.   
  Her most popular story is ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ which touched on her own post-partum depression and underlined the need for women to be responsible for their mental and physical well-being, as the narrator is ordered by her husband/doctor to take compete rest in her room where she is isolated and becomes obsessed with the revolting yellow wallpaper.   
  She wrote other notable short stories the best of which we also include.   
  Charlotte lectured widely for social reform, wrote important non-fiction works that questioned our patriarchal system and left a legacy as a leading and positive spokesperson for feminism.  
  She was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer in 1932 and, as she wrote in her suicide note and autobiography, she ‘chose chloroform over cancer’    
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman took her own life on 17th August 1935, aged 75, in Pasadena, California.

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  Kept In The Dark

  Anthony Trollope

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  Kept In The Dark by Anthony Trollope is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Published in eight monthly instalments in Good Words in 1882, this late novel tells the story Cecilia Holt, who ends her engagement to Sir Francis Geraldine because of his indifference to her. She goes abroad and meets Mr George Western, who has been jilted by a beautiful girl. The novel received a This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  The Oblong Box

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  More classic horror narrations on Jonathan Dunne Horror Stories & Audiobooks: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks 
  Title: The Oblong Box 
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1844 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 69 
  Description: 
  The Oblong Box is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most unsettling maritime tales — a masterclass in suspense, atmosphere, and the horror of human obsession. Set aboard a 19th-century ship, the story follows a passenger who becomes increasingly disturbed by his friend’s secretive behavior surrounding a coffin-sized oblong box. Strange incidents, obsessive guarding of the box, and the tense atmosphere aboard the storm-tossed vessel build a sense of dread. 
  When the box’s contents are finally revealed, the tragic truth shocks both the narrator and the reader, exposing grief and devotion taken to their darkest extremes. Poe’s skillful storytelling creates terror through suggestion, psychological tension, and the inexorable presence of death. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the melancholy, suspense, and gothic intensity that define Poe’s work. While the text itself is in the public domain, this narration and production are copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  Part of Timeless Terrors, a series dedicated to resurrecting the greatest classic horror stories, The Oblong Box is a haunting reminder that some secrets are best left undisturbed. 🕯️

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  A Valentine

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  A Valentine: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories.
  
  For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes,
  Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda,
  Shall find her own sweet name, that, nestling lies
  Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader.
  Search narrowly the lines!—they hold a treasure
  Divine—a talisman—an amulet
  That must be worn at heart. Search well the measure—
  The words—the syllables! Do not forget
  The trivialest point, or you may lose your labor!
  And yet there is in this no Gordian knot

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  White Nights

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. White Nights tells the story of a young, solitary 'dreamer' living in St. Petersburg who, during the city's ethereal 'white nights,' encounters a distressed young woman named Nastenka. Over the course of four consecutive nights, he falls deeply in love with her as they share their lives and dreams, but their burgeoning connection is complicated by Nastenka's prior commitment to another man, leading to a poignant exploration of love, hope, and the pain of unfulfilled longing. 
  keywords/Tags : Loneliness, Isolation, Romance, Love, Classics, Psychological introspection, Melancholy, Dreamer

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  The Doom That Came To Sarnath

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  🎬 Experience the atmospheric visual edition of this tale by searching "Jonathan Dunne Horror" on YouTube. 
  Title: The Doom That Came to Sarnath 
  Series Name: Timeless Terrors 
  Series Entry: 133 
  Author: H. P. Lovecraft 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1920 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  YouTube Channel: Jonathan Dunne Horror Stories & Audiobooks (search on YouTube) 
  Description: 
  The Doom That Came to Sarnath by H. P. Lovecraft is a chilling mythic chronicle of pride, cruelty, and inevitable cosmic retribution. Written in Lovecraft’s richly archaic style, the tale unfolds like a forbidden legend whispered down through forgotten ages. 
  In the land of Mnar, beside a still and mist-shrouded lake, the proud city of Sarnath rose in splendor after conquering the ancient, alien city of Ib. The beings of Ib—strange, green, and mute—were utterly destroyed, their memory mocked and their idol carried away as a trophy. For centuries, Sarnath prospered, its alabaster walls gleaming and its feasts growing ever more decadent. 
  Yet on the eve of a grand celebration marking the thousandth year of Ib’s fall, unease begins to creep across the revelers’ hearts. The stolen idol inspires dread. Whispers echo through torchlit halls. And as the appointed hour approaches, an ancient doom—long foretold—draws near from the dark waters of the lake. 
  Lovecraft crafts a tale not of sudden violence, but of mounting inevitability: a civilization blind to its own arrogance, haunted by forces older than mankind. Rich with dreamlike imagery and mythic cadence, The Doom That Came to Sarnath stands as an early and powerful expression of cosmic horror—where time is vast, memory is long, and vengeance may sleep for centuries before it wakes. 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the story’s solemn grandeur, creeping dread, and apocalyptic finality—a legend of forgotten gods, drowned cities, and the terrible price of pride.

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