Twilight Sleep-Edith Wharton

Friendship by Hugh Black.The idea, so common in the ancient writers, is not all a poetic conceit, that the soul of a man is only a fragment of a larger whole, and goes out in search of other souls in which it will find its true completion. We walk among worlds unrealized, until we have learned the secret of love. We know this, and in our sincerest moments admit this, even though we are seeking to fill up our lives with other ambitions and other hopes. In spite of the vulgar materialism of our day, we do feel that the spiritual side of life is the most important, and brings the only true joy. And friendship in its essence is spiritual. It is the free, spontaneous outflow of the heart, and is a gift from the great Giver.Featured on Men Without Women.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

In Times Like These by Nellie McClung."Believing that the woman's claim to a common humanity is not an unreasonable one, and that the successful issue of such claim rests primarily upon the sense of fair play which people have or have not according to how they were born, and Therefore to men and women everywhere who love a fair deal, and are willing to give it to everyone, even women, this book is respectfully dedicated by the author."Featured on Men Without Women.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton.Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for some of her victims. Every character she introduces is vividly depicted, no matter how minor. Yet for all the clarity of these depictions, the lives these people live, though busy, are empty and meaningless. The novel is a brilliant description of evasion and inauthenticity.Featured on Men Without Women.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

All the Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald.A collection of short stories featuring a suite of wealthy protagonists navigating the perceived hardships of 1920s society. The themes center on lost love, personal struggles, fleeting romance, and the melancholy life.Featured on Men Without Women.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

World I Live In by Helen Keller.The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams. My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different. All my comings and goings turn on the hand as on a pivot. It is the hand that binds me to the world of men and women. The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter. With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life.Featured on Men Without Women.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Love Stories Volume 5.Featured on Men Without Women.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Coffee Break Collection 005 by Love and Relationships-Various.The theme for Collection 005 is "Love and Relationships", and may include romance, marriage, family relationships, friendships, working relationships, or even human-animal connections!Featured on Men Without Women.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Dispatches from the Ruhr by Ernest Hemingway.Before finding celebrity as an author, including his 1954 Nobel Prize, Ernest M. Hemingway honed his craft as a journeyman reporter. In the spring of 1923, as a special correspondent for the Toronto Star, he travelled to the occupied Ruhr Valley where he produced a series of 10 articles, collected here as Dispatches from the Ruhr. In them, he explores the French political system and its role in the decision to occupy the Ruhr Valley militarily, in an effort to collect on unsustainable war reparations. In addition, he examines the suffering of its ordinary citizens, as conditions there led to a progressive loss of confidence in the Weimar Republic; its economic collapse under the weight of hyper-inflation; and, ultimately, to the rise of Nazism.Featured on Men Without Women.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway.The Torrents of Spring was Hemingway's second novel to be published. It would not be wrong to say that it is unique among the author's work as it is a clear parody of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter and full of absurdist humor. Were Hemingway's name not attached to it, one might wonder who actually wrote the novel. In truth, no one is treated in a sensitive way.Featured on Men Without Women.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Farewell to Arms (Version 2) by Ernest Hemingway.Frederic Henry is an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army during World War I, who after being severely wounded and hospitalized, falls in love with and has an affair with an English nurse. Ernest Hemingway’s 1929 novel depicts the physical, emotional and moral destruction of war.Featured on Men Without Women.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.