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  The Wisdom of Father Brown

  G.K. Chesterton

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  The Father Brown stories sit in relation to other detective literature much as the diminutive and seemingly unworldly Priest himself often sits; quietly, thoughtfully and often to be overlooked. However, when he at lasts speaks it is with such understanding of human knowledge that the self-styled sophisticates that surround him are dumbfounded.C.K Chesterton is not concerned with the procedural minutiae of the detective’s work, nor with leaving a trail of red herrings with which to keep us guessing. Father Brown reaches his conclusions through staring into the human psyche, indeed, at times, into the human soul.

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  Ladies Not For Burning - 14...

  Evelyn Everett-Green, Agatha...

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  Ladies Not For Burning - 14 Exceptional Stories and Poetry by WomenAbout this AudiobookCover Design by David Earl DeWitt | ZacaPublishing.comOriginal and Public Domain Source Material was used to Publish this CollectionAvailable at Spotify & Other Distributors! 
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  This Audiobook Collection contains Classic Stories & Poetry written by women between 1861 and 2024. It is a look into the lives and perceptions of women from before the turn of the 19th century, up to as recently as 2024. 
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  Your Stories: 
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  1. Jesse Varcoe 
  by Evelyn Everett-Green 
  1903 
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  2. The Case of the Missing Will 
  by Agatha Christie 
  1923 
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  3. The Fordwych Castle Mystery 
  by Baroness Orczy 
  1910 
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  4. The Golden Slippers 
  by Anna Katherine Green 
  1915 
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  5. The Hardest Knock of All 
  by Carol Leona Rochon 
  2024 
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  6. Vita 
  by Jenafer Keri Delaney 
  2024 
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  7. Ursila Pendrill 
  by Evelyn Everett Green 
  1903 
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  8. An Adventure in Ireland 
  by Charlotte Bronte 
  1925 
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  9. The Church and Slavery 
  by Harriet A. Jacobs 
  1861 
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  10. What Slaves are Taught to Think of the North 
  by Harriet A. Jacobs 
  1861 
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  11. Mortal Immortal 
  by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 
  1891 
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  12. The Warlike Seven 
  by Zitkala-Sa 
  1901 
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  13. Iya, the Camp Eater 
  by Zitkala-Sa 
  1901 
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  14. Poetry 
  by Emily Dickinson 
  1862 
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  Run Time: 4 Hours, 53 Minutes, 2 Seconds 
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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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  The Brothers Karamazov Part 3

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  In Part 3, the narrative hurtles toward crisis as Dmitri becomes the prime suspect in their father’s murder. Ivan confronts his inner turmoil, questioning his beliefs and culpability, while his hallucinatory encounter with the devil reveals his fractured psyche. Alyosha struggles to maintain hope and faith amidst the family’s unraveling, offering comfort to those affected by the tragedy. Themes of justice, morality, and free will dominate as Dostoevsky delves deeper into the philosophical and emotional conflicts driving the characters. This section masterfully blends suspense, introspection, and spiritual inquiry, setting the stage for resolution.

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  The Velveteen Rabbit

  Margery Williams

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  A toy does not question its purpose. It is loved, or it is forgotten.
  Once, a little stuffed rabbit found himself in a child's arms. And for a time, that was enough. But then he learned a terrible, wonderful secret—one whispered by an old, threadbare toy with eyes that had seen too much.
  "Real isn't how you're made. It's something that happens to you."
  But what does it cost, to become Real?
  And is love ever enough?

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  The Apparition of Mrs Veal -...

  Daniel Defoe

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  Daniel Defoe is most well-known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born around 1660, he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy. His life was long and colourful, and the breadth of his work, still highly regarded, is infused with similar vigour. 
  It is said that only the bible has been printed in more languages than Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is also noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel. He was extremely prolific and a very versatile writer, producing several hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of economic journalism though was made bankrupt on more on one occasion and usually mired in debt. 
  In later life Defoe was often most seen on Sundays when bailiffs and the like could legally make no move on him.  Allegedly it was whilst hiding from creditors that he died on April 24th, 1731. He was interred in Bunhill Fields, London.

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