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The Social Revolution

In The Story of Mankind

Read by Michelle Crandall

Hendrik van Loon and Hendrik Van Loon

Relates the story of western civilization from earliest times through the beginning of the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the p…

Chapter 10

In Persuasion

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Jane Austen

Anne Elliott, Jane Austen's only aging heroine, has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is gr…

Chapter XIII

In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Anne Bronte and Anne Brontë

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Brontë, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, …

Sunset in the Golden Gate

In Byways Around San Francisco Bay

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W.E. Hutchinson and W. E. Hutchinson

California, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure, life-…

Chapter 15

In Mansfield Park

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Jane Austen

Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie…

Chapter XXII

In The Professor

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Charlotte Brontë

The book tells the story of a young man named William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a profes…

04 - A Perilous Night on Shasta's Summit

In Steep Trails

Read by Michelle Montano

John Muir

A collection of Muir's previously unpublished essays, released shortly after his death. "This volume will meet, in every way, the high …

'NE'ER TO BE FOUND AGAIN'

In North and South (version 2)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, …

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