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  High Wages

  Dorothy Whipple

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  In Dorothy Whipple's High Wages, a determined young woman makes her way in the world against the looming backdrop of World War I. High Wages is more than a tale of savvy entrepreneurship: Jane’s thoughts, feelings, adventures and disappointments in love and friendship are all laid bare. Jane Carter sees an advertisement for a live-in shop assistant and jumps at the chance to leave her old life behind. After Chadwick the draper takes her on, Jane learns all there is to know about fabrics and dressmaking. She proves a talented saleswoman and befriends Maggie and Lily, the other employees.The girls struggle under exploitative conditions: meagre pay; tiny portions of food; the boss cheating them out of commissions. When the young man Maggie is seeing falls in love with Jane, a bitter falling-out results in Maggie threatening to leave Chadwick’s. Armed with initiative and ideas, Jane decides to set up her very own clothing shop, but it’s not all plain sailing – far from it.High Wages is part of the Persephone Audiobook Collection, a series of forgotten classics including neglected fiction and non-fiction by women writers. First published in 1930, this edition includes a new preface by author Jane Brocket.

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  Erewhon Revisited

  Samuel Butler

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  Higgs has made his fortune with sales of his original travelogue Erewhon . When his wife dies, his long-held desire to return to the country overwhelms him, and even his friends agree that a change of scenery would be a good idea. Soon after his departure he returns back home to England unexpectedly early and deeply unwell, and so it's down to his son John to piece together what happened during his fleeting visit to Erewhon. Written nearly thirty years after the first book, Erewhon Revisited is Samuel Butler's attempt to reason about the ongoing effect Higgs' first visit—and dramatic exit—would have had on the closed society of Erewhon. The playful satire of the first book remains, but this time focused on a new target: religion. This focus did the book no favors among the establishment of the day, but after partnering with George Bernard Shaw's imprint it was finally published in 1901. While never as critically or commercially successful as the first book, it remains a fascinating read. Samuel Butler (died 1902) was a prominent voice of the late 19th and early 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, Erewhon Revisited exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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  The Last Man - Europe Emptied by...

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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  A plague empties the world in the last decades of the twenty-first century, and one man is left to write the record. Mary Shelley published it in 1826, four years after Shelley drowned and eight after Frankenstein; the friends who die in it are Shelley and Byron under other names. It was despised at the time and forgotten for a century. Fifty-eight plates of Constable and Friedrich, from Flatford Lock to the Riesengebirge, follow the novel's turn from crowded cities to a landscape emptied of people.

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  The Shadow-Line

  Joseph Conrad

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  An unsettling tale of plague, drift and terror, The Shadow-Line documents a young seaman’s coming of age after he is recruited to captain a ship for the first time. Bad luck and disease haunt the inexperienced hero and his crew, and the evil legacy of the previous captain overshadows them with a feeling of supernatural menace. Against all odds, the young captain must get his crew through the Gulf of Siam to safety in Singapore, before they succumb to malaria and the curse of his mad predecessor. Written in 1915 and based on Conrad’s own experiences 27 years earlier, The Shadow-Line is a gripping take on the lines between youth and maturity, sanity and madness.

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  A Girl of the Limberlost - A...

  Gene Stratton-Porter

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  Elnora Comstock walks to high school in clothes the town laughs at and pays her own fees by selling moths she catches in the swamp — while her mother, widowed on the night she was born, cannot look at her without seeing the loss. Stratton-Porter was a field naturalist and photographer before she was a novelist, and the Limberlost she wrote about was being drained even as the book sold half a million copies. The moths are real, the mother thaws late, and the swamp does not survive. Fifty-seven plates of marsh light and rural labor, from George Inness to Henry Ossawa Tanner, keep the naturalist's world of the novel in view.

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  Notes from the Underground - A...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. Welcome to the darkest corners of the human psyche. 
  In this chilling and revolutionary masterwork, an unnamed narrator—a bitter, reclusive former official—speaks to us from the shadows of a grimy St. Petersburg basement. Pouring out a venomous, darkly humorous confession, the Underground Man attacks the utopian ideals of society, rationality, and progress. Through his jagged memories and fierce intellectual rebellion, we witness a mind tearing itself apart to preserve the one thing it values above all else: free will. He recounts his humiliating clashes with a towering officer, a disastrous reunion with old schoolmates, and an unbearable struggle for dignity in a world that treats him like an insect. 
  Why you will love this audio experience:If you crave profound Philosophical Fiction, psychological thrillers of the mind, and narratives led by unreliable narrators, this recording is a must-listen. It is the ultimate exploration of the anti-hero trope and the foundations of existentialism. Andre Reaves' masterful narration captures every ounce of the protagonist's biting sarcasm, desperate longing, and intellectual fury, immersing you in a classic 19th-century atmospheric novel that feels startlingly modern. 
  About the Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) stands as a titan of Russian literature and a pioneer of the psychological novel. His groundbreaking ability to weave intense spiritual, moral, and philosophical debates into gripping fiction paved the way for modern existentialist thought.

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