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Manon Lescaut
Read by Mary Bard
Abbé Prévost
Published in 1731, Manon Lescaut (on which the Puccini opera is based) takes as its themes passionate, tragic love, and redemption through s…
The Missing Formula
Read by Mary Escano
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Orphan Anne Fairaday faces a life of poverty upon the death of her father. The only thing that can prevent it is finding his latest experime…
The Secret of Casa Grande
Read by Mary Escano
Helen Randolph
While visiting their friend, Florence, at her home in Mexico, Jo Ann and Peggy noticed a barred window which has no opening into any of the …
The Mystery of the Fires (version 2)
Read by Mary Escano
Edith Lavell
Mary Louise Gay decided to spend the summer holiday in her family's cottage at Shady Nook. But an unknown arsonist has been setting the cot…
Indiana
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
George Sand
This is George Sand's first novel. Her real name was Amantine (or Amandine) Lucile Dupin, and she later became baroness Dudevant. As an aris…
The Silent Barrier
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
Louis Tracy
Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversat…
The Rose Garden Husband
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
Margaret Widdemer
This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old chi…
The Bone Road
Read by Mary Holland
Mary Holland
A divvy, a dying woman, and a promise
Rhona has the divvy gift; with only a touch she can tell if a baby will be fertile or a sterile Shun, …
Matcher Rules
Read by Mary Holland
Mary Holland
Novi colony is inhumanly peaceful and John Jerzy has been sent to find out why. Jerzy's last assignment ended in disaster, his career has st…
The New Life (La vita nuova)
Read by Mary J
Dante Alighieri
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…
The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella
Read by Mary J
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Mich…
Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories
Read by Mary J
Giovanni Verga
The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in r…
La Vita Nuova
Read by Mary J
Dante Alighieri
In quella parte del libro della mia memoria dinanzi alla quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica la quale dice Incipit Vita Nov…
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
Read by Mary Reagan
Nellie Bly
This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne…
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today
Read by Mary Reagan
Evelyn Underhill
Underhill emphasizes the practical, here-and-now nature of spiritual life. She argues that spirituality is a genuine and abiding human fact,…
Totem and Taboo
Read by Mary Schneider
Sigmund Freud
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under…
Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling – A Study in Forensic Psychology
Read by Mary Schneider
William Healy
This work describes and analyzes several cases of pathological behavior. The interest comes not only from the cases themselves, but also fro…
Americans and Others
Read by Mary Schneider
Agnes Repplier
A collection of sometimes biting, always clever commentaries on some of life's foibles -- as apt today as when Ms. Repplier wrote them in 19…
The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
Read by Mary Schneider
Jane Addams
Much of the material in the following pages has appeared in current publications. It is here presented in book form in the hope that it may …
Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Read by Mary Schneider
Sigmund Freud
Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria an…