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The Scarlet Letter (version 2)

Read by Cori Samuel


Nathaniel Hawthorne


This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of …

Aunt Crete's Emancipation

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Grace Livingston Hill


Aunt Lucretia — 'Crete' to her family — is a sweet, patient older woman, who lives with her narrow-minded sister and spoilt niece, acting as…

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


The Secret Agent tells the story of Adolf and Winnie Verloc. He is a phony anarchist and agent provocateur of the title, and the plot centre…

The Soul of London

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Ford Madox Ford


'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who ar…

The War of the Worlds (Version 3)

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H. G. Wells


No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the Earth was being scrutinised and studied from across the gu…

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Version 2)

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Friedrich Nietzsche


By turns illuminating, infuriating, bewildering, and amusing, Nietzsche's masterwork covers a lot of ground. He rejects most strands of Wes…

To The Lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf


The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

Orlando, A Biography

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Virginia Woolf


A fictional biography following the adventures of Orlando: initially a gentleman, later a lady — always a poet — who romps through British h…

A Room of One's Own

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Virginia Woolf


This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First…

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