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Her Dark Materials - Volume 3

Lucy Hamilton Hooper to Elia W Peattie

by Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Violet Hunt, Violet Jacob, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Arabella Kenealy, Jessie Douglas Kerruish, Amy Levy, Mary E Mann, L T Meade and Robert Eustace, Charlotte Mew, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Elinor Mordaunt, Rosa Mulholland, Edith Nesbit, Elsie Norris, Margaret Oliphant, Violet Paget, Elia W Peattie ...

Narrated by Janet Fullerlove, Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

12 hours 21 min

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile ... Read more

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In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The US Authors of the South

The top ten Short Stories of all time written by American authors born in the South

by Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar Nelson, O Henry, Ellen Glasgow, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Robert E Howard, Rudolph Fisher, Ruth D Todd, Thomas Wolfe ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Warren Keyes, Kelly Burke ...

Unabridged

6 hours 1 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Wonder Of Women - The Darker Sex

Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

by George Eliot, George Eliot, Edith Nesbit, Elinor Mordaunt, May Sinclair, Lady Eleanor Smith, Bessie Kyffin Taylor, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary E Penn, Lettice Galbraith, Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens0, Violet Jacob1, Clotilde Graves writing as Richard Dehan2, Mary Elizabeth Braddon3, Fanny Kemble Johnson4, Violet Quirk5, Charlotte Riddell6, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps7, Fernan Caballeron8, Sarah Orne Jewett9 ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow0, Lisa Bowerman1, Robert Maskell2 ...

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10 hours 41 min

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on ... Read more

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Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on
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The Selected Short Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar

With Illustrations by E. W. Kemble

by Paul Laurence Dunbar ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet during the start of the 20th century. Born to ex-slave parents, Dunbar began writing at a very early age and had published his first poems by the age of 16 in a local newspaper. Much of his work was written in the "African-American Vernacular" associated with the antebellum South, although he also employed ... Read more

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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet during the start of the 20th century. Born to ex-slave parents, Dunbar began writing at a very early age and had published his first poems by the age of 16 in a local newspaper. Much of his work was written in the "African-American Vernacular" associated with the antebellum South, although he also employed
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Beowulf

by Anonymous, John Mitchell Kemble ...

"Beowulf" is a timeless epic that transports readers to a world of heroism and monsters. Written over a thousand years ago, this Old English poem tells the story of Beowulf, a brave warrior who battles the fearsome creature Grendel, a monstrous mother, and a fire-breathing dragon.As Beowulf faces these supernatural foes, the poem explores themes of valor, honor, and the human spirit's capacity for ... Read more

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"Beowulf" is a timeless epic that transports readers to a world of heroism and monsters. Written over a thousand years ago, this Old English poem tells the story of Beowulf, a brave warrior who battles the fearsome creature Grendel, a monstrous mother, and a fire-breathing dragon.As Beowulf faces these supernatural foes, the poem explores themes of valor, honor, and the human spirit's capacity for
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839 (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. An Eyewitness Diary of Slavery, Plantation Life, and Moral Witness in the Antebellum South

by Fanny Kemble, Delia Penmere ...

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838–1839 is a powerful documentary work in which Fanny Kemble records her winter on the Butler family plantations in the Sea Islands of Georgia. Written in the immediacy of diary form, it combines moral urgency, sharp social observation, and a cultivated literary sensibility. Its descriptions of enslaved women, labor regimes, punishment, illness, ... Read more

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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838–1839 is a powerful documentary work in which Fanny Kemble records her winter on the Butler family plantations in the Sea Islands of Georgia. Written in the immediacy of diary form, it combines moral urgency, sharp social observation, and a cultivated literary sensibility. Its descriptions of enslaved women, labor regimes, punishment, illness,
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839

by Frances Anne Kemble ...

Autobiographical journal, with first-hand account of slavery in Georgia, first published in 1863. According to Wikipedia: "Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893), was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century… In 1834, she retired from the stage to marry an American, Pierce Butler, grandson of the Founding Father Pierce Butler, and heir to a ... Read more

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Autobiographical journal, with first-hand account of slavery in Georgia, first published in 1863. According to Wikipedia: "Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893), was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century… In 1834, she retired from the stage to marry an American, Pierce Butler, grandson of the Founding Father Pierce Butler, and heir to a
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Fanny Kemble - Three Autobiographies, a Book of Poems, and a Book of Letters

by Frances Anne Kemble ...

This file includes: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839, Poems (1844), Records of a Girlhood, Records of Later Life, and Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble 1871-1883. According to Wikipedia: "Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893), was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century… In 1834, she retired from the stage ... Read more

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This file includes: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839, Poems (1844), Records of a Girlhood, Records of Later Life, and Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble 1871-1883. According to Wikipedia: "Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893), was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century… In 1834, she retired from the stage
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Poems by Frances Anne Butler (late Fanny Kemble)

by Frances Anne Kemble ...

Poetry collection, first published in 1844. According to Wikipedia: "Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893), was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century… In 1834, she retired from the stage to marry an American, Pierce Butler, grandson of the Founding Father Pierce Butler, and heir to a large fortune founded on cotton, tobacco and rice... ... Read more

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Poetry collection, first published in 1844. According to Wikipedia: "Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893), was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century… In 1834, she retired from the stage to marry an American, Pierce Butler, grandson of the Founding Father Pierce Butler, and heir to a large fortune founded on cotton, tobacco and rice...
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The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period of the Norman Conquest (Complete)

by John Mitchell Kemble ...

Eleven centuries ago, an industrious and conscientious historian, desiring to give a record of the establishment of his forefathers in this island, could find no fuller or better account than this: “About the year of Grace 445-446, the British inhabitants of England, deserted by the Roman masters who had enervated while they protected them, and exposed to the ravages of Picts and Scots from the ... Read more

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Eleven centuries ago, an industrious and conscientious historian, desiring to give a record of the establishment of his forefathers in this island, could find no fuller or better account than this: “About the year of Grace 445-446, the British inhabitants of England, deserted by the Roman masters who had enervated while they protected them, and exposed to the ravages of Picts and Scots from the
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The Complete Novels of Mark Twain - 12 Books in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)

Enriched edition. Including Author's Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse's Tale…

by Mark Twain, Shane Fisher ...

The Complete Novels of Mark Twain - 12 Books in One Volume (Illustrated Edition) is a comprehensive collection that showcases the wit, humor, and social commentary that made Mark Twain one of America's most beloved authors. Each novel in this collection offers a unique insight into the 19th-century American experience, tackling issues of race, class, and identity with a satirical and often ... Read more

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The Complete Novels of Mark Twain - 12 Books in One Volume (Illustrated Edition) is a comprehensive collection that showcases the wit, humor, and social commentary that made Mark Twain one of America's most beloved authors. Each novel in this collection offers a unique insight into the 19th-century American experience, tackling issues of race, class, and identity with a satirical and often
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100 French Short Stories for Beginners Learn French With Audio

by Christian Stahl ...

Narrated by Christian Stahl, Monica Wagner, Claude Acero, Eric Boutaz, Robert Kemble ...

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2 hours 2 min

This audiobook contains 100 entertaining and culturally interesting French short stories for beginners and intermediate learning level.French for beginners can be challenging, but not with this audiobook. All the French short stories in this audiobook are unique and hopefully entertaining in content, new vocabulary is gradually added at a manageable pace so you won't get overwhelmed. Towards the ... Read more

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This audiobook contains 100 entertaining and culturally interesting French short stories for beginners and intermediate learning level.French for beginners can be challenging, but not with this audiobook. All the French short stories in this audiobook are unique and hopefully entertaining in content, new vocabulary is gradually added at a manageable pace so you won't get overwhelmed. Towards the
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