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Chapter Two

In Jacob's Room (version 2)

Read by Jesse Bordwin


Virginia Woolf


Virginia Woolf’s third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his…

The Old Man's Grave

In The Watchman and Other Poems

Read by Jesse O'Brien


Lucy Maud Montgomery


While L. M. Montgomery is better known for her novels, such as Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon, she also wrote hundreds of poems.…

Chapter IX

In The Moorland Cottage

Read by Jesse Bordwin


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


"Maggie Brown is torn between her mother who constantly tells her to live for her selfish brother (to whom she gives all her love) to h…

Chapter 26 The efforts of men, directed to the impossible amelioration of their…

In On Life

Read by Jesse Zuba


Leo Tolstoy


What is the "good life" for us mortal beings? Two months spent recovering from a severe injury allowed Tolstoy to develop and orga…

Every Man Chiefly Happy or Miserable at Home. The Opinions of Servants not to b…

In Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

Read by Jesse Zuba


Samuel Johnson


This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The …

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