Twilight Sleep-Edith Wharton

Blazed Trail Stories and Stories Of The Wild Life by Stewart Edward White.Thirteen short stories by a popular writer of the early 20th century (not to be confused with an earlier book Blazed Trail). White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness. He was a keen observer of the beauties of nature and human nature, yet could render them in a plain-spoken style. Based on his own experience, whether writing camping journals or Westerns, he included pithy and fun details about cabin-building, canoeing, logging, gold-hunting, and guns and fishing and hunting. He also interviewed people who had been involved in the fur trade, the California gold rush and other pioneers which provided him with details that give his novels verisimilitude. He salted in humor and sympathy for colorful characters such as canny Indian guides and "greenhorn" campers who carried too much gear.Featured on Persuasion - Jane Austen.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Jacob's Room (version 2) by Virginia Woolf.Largely from the comments of others we come to know the sequence and some moments of Jacob’s life but we never fully learn who Jacob is. The literary experimentation in Jacob’s Room is used even more successfully in Woolf’s later novels.Featured on Persuasion - Jane Austen.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

When Knights Were Bold by Eva March Tappan.This book is in no degree an attempt to relate the involved and intricate history of the Middle Ages. Its plan is, rather, to present pictures of the manner of life and habits of thought of the people who lived between the eighth and fifteenth centuries. Our writings and our everyday conversation are full of their phrases and of allusions to their ideas. Many of our thoughts and feelings and instincts, of our very follies and superstitions, have descended to us from them. To become better acquainted with them is to explain ourselves.Featured on Persuasion - Jane Austen.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Art of Story-Telling, with nearly half a hundred stories by Julia Darrow Cowles.In preparing this book the author has sought to awaken a keener perception and a higher appreciation of the artistic and ethical value of story-telling; to simplify some of its problems; to emphasize the true delight which the story-teller may share with her hearers; and to present fresh material which answers to the test of being good in substance as well as in literary form.Featured on Persuasion - Jane Austen.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 Persuasion - Jane Austen.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Persuasion (version 2) by Jane Austen.Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with a poor but ambitious young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth. The Elliots were dissatisfied with Anne's choice, feeling he was not distinguished enough for their family, and her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's deceased mother, persuaded her to break off the match. Now 27 and considered a spinster, Anne re-encounters her former fiance, now a captain, as he courts her spirited young neighbour, Louisa Musgrove. The self-interested machinations of Anne's older sister Elizabeth, of Elizabeth's friend Mrs. Clay, and of Anne's father's heir, William Elliot, constitute an important subplot.Featured on Persuasion - Jane Austen.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Love and Freindship (Dramatic Reading) by Jane Austen.Love and Freindship [sic] is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was fourteen years old. Although the novels Austen became known for were not published until she was in her thirties, she was an active writer from the age of twelve, frequently composing epistolary works such as Love and Freindship. Austen eventually compiled 29 of her early writings in three notebooks that became known as the Juvenilia and that she called “Volume the First”, “Volume the Second”, and “Volume the Third”, including Love and Freindship in “Volume the Second”. Love and Freindship is set contemporaneously to Austen’s writing and consists of a series of fifteen letters, most of which are written from the perspective of the protagonist, Laura, who recounts her extraordinary personal history to her friend Isabel’s daughter.Featured on Persuasion - Jane Austen.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

The Letters of Jane Austen by Jane Austen.I-II. Sense and sensibility. III-IV. Pride and prejudice. V-VI. Mansfield park. VII-VIII. Emma. IX. Northanger abbey. X. Persuasion. XI. Lady Susan, The Watsons, Letters of Jane Austen [pt. 1]. XII. Letters of Jane Austen [pt.Featured on Persuasion - Jane Austen.Public-domain audiobook.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Jane Austen's Juvenilia by Jane Austen.Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various writing styles as a teenager in the early 1790s.Featured on Persuasion - Jane Austen.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Collection of Letters (Dramatic Reading) by Jane Austen.A Collection of Letters is an epistolary short story collection written by Jane Austen when she was fourteen years old. Although the novels Austen became known for were not published until she was in her thirties, she was an active writer from the age of twelve, frequently composing epistolary works such as A Collection of Letters. Austen eventually compiled 29 of her early writings in three notebooks that became known as the Juvenilia and that she called “Volume the First”, “Volume the Second”, and “Volume the Third”, including A Collection of Letters in “Volume the Second”. A Collection of Letters is set contemporaneously to Austen’s writing and consists of a series of five letters, each written by a woman of high society living in Great Britain.Featured on Persuasion - Jane Austen.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.