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Section 06

In The Awful German Language (version 2)

Read by Kirsten Wever


Mark Twain


This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, compl…

14 - The Emancipation of Louis

In An Amiable Charlatan

Read by Kirsten Wever


E. Phillips Oppenheim


An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…

01a - Chapter 1, Part 1

In The Lifted Veil (Version 2)

Read by Kirsten Wever


George Eliot


George Eliot’s 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded realism of her longer and better known works, such as Midd…

Chapter 1

In The Belton Estate

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Anthony Trollope


Clara Amedroz is the virtuous, intelligent, and quick-witted heroine of this novel. Like all women of her time, she has few options other th…

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