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  The Haunted Man and the Ghost's...

  Charles Dickens

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  The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain is a haunting and thought-provoking novella by Charles Dickens that explores memory, suffering, and the moral consequences of escaping pain. As the final entry in Dickens's Christmas books, the story blends supernatural elements with deep psychological and social insight.
  
  The narrative follows Professor Redlaw, a learned but emotionally tormented man who is visited by a mysterious phantom—his own spectral double. The ghost offers Redlaw a dangerous gift: the ability to forget all painful memories and regrets. Believing this release will free him from sorrow, Redlaw accepts the bargain, unaware of its far-reaching effects.
  
  As the power spreads to others around him, the loss of memory leads not to peace, but to emotional emptiness, cruelty, and moral confusion. Through these chilling consequences, Dickens reveals that suffering and remembrance are essential to empathy, compassion, and human connection. Pain, the novel suggests, is inseparable from growth and moral responsibility.
  
  The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain is a powerful meditation on the nature of memory and forgiveness. Darker in tone than Dickens's other Christmas tales, it delivers a profound message about the necessity of shared human suffering. Rich in symbolism and moral depth, the story remains a compelling and unsettling classic that asks whether forgetting our past would truly make us better—or less human.

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  The Nameless Man

  Rodrigues Ottolengui

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  Rodrigues Ottolengui was an American writer and pioneering dentist born in Charleston, SC, who lived most of his life in New York City. Ottolengui was one of the first dentists to use X-rays and was a specialist in orthodontics and root canal therapy. In the 1890s, Ottolengui published four novels and a collection of detective short stories, including The Nameless Man. 
  A seasoned stage actor, Raymond Stottlemyre was born and raised in Pelican Rapids, MN. He has worked in local radio, narrated various audio programs, and has performed in hundreds of plays over the decades.

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  Taking Chances - Sketches from...

  Clarence Louis Cullen

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  The talk of the racetrack, the poolroom and the saloon, taken down by a man who spent his working life listening to it: touts, bookmakers, gamblers who cannot stop, and the philosophy each has worked out to explain why he is not a fool. Cullen wrote for the New York Sun and made these sketches out of overheard speech; the slang is the real record, and nobody else preserved it this exactly. Sixty plates by George Bellows and Everett Shinn, from the Palisades coast to the Canfield gambling house, catch the same sharp-eyed crowd at play.

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  Potemkin village

  FLETCHER PRATT

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  Director Unterbaum of the Intercolonial Office rose from his chair as the pair came in. "I take it you havent met before?" he said. "Mr. and Mrs. Lanzerotti, this is Ann Starnes, the recording photographer, and Robert Heidekopfer, one of our better writers."There were smiles and acknowledgments. Unterbaum touched a pair of buttons on his desk and two chairs slid out of the walls to make a group of five. "Sit down, please," he said. "Now Im not going to mince words. The reason youre here is because the Council wants you—three of you, at least—to undertake a mission. Vincent—" he indicated Lanzerotti, who nodded a dark head—"already knows something about it, but for the benefit of Miss Starnes and Mr. Heidekopfer, I will say that we want to send you to Tolstoia."

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  An Essay on Laughter - Its Forms...

  James Sully

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  What laughter is, where it comes from and what it is for: tickling, play, wit, irony and the social uses of ridicule, examined by a psychologist working before Freud's book on jokes. James Sully was professor at University College London and wrote this in 1902. He is best on children's laughter, which he had watched systematically. Fifty-six plates after Hogarth and Rowlandson, from Southwark Fair to a ball at Scarborough, catch the same comedy of manners Sully finds in the laugh.

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  The Riddle of the Sands

  Erskine Childers

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  "The Riddle of the Sands" stands as one of the earliest spy thrillers, an intriguing blend of adventure, suspense, and a genuine call to national vigilance. First published in 1903, Erskine Childers’s novel occupies a unique place in literary and historical context. Set against the backdrop of a world growing increasingly uncertain, this novel serves not only as a thrilling narrative but also as a reflection of the anxieties of pre-war Europe. Childers crafts a story so gripping and credible that it was heralded as both a piece of literature and a cautionary warning for an unprepared British government. 
  The story unfolds in the labyrinthine tidal channels and sandbanks of the Frisian Islands in the North Sea, where two young Englishmen, Carruthers and Davies, find themselves swept into an unintended espionage mission. What begins as a leisurely sailing holiday soon escalates into a daring adventure, as they uncover a clandestine German plot that could threaten England’s security. The novel's detailed nautical descriptions, drawn from Childers's own passion for sailing, lend an authenticity that deeply immerses the reader in the experience of navigating the sea and its lurking dangers. 
  Head Stories Audio presents "The Riddle of the Sands" by Erskine Childers. Narrated by Simon Hester. With original music.

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