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A Red Wallflower
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Susan Warner
A motherless girl finds life very lonely living with only her dour father and two servants in the quiet New England countryside. Lonely, tha…
Nobody
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Susan Warner
There are many romantic tales about a handsome and rich man falling in love with a beautiful lower class woman over the objections of his fa…
Moll Flanders - Version 2
Read by Peter Dann
Daniel Defoe
This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most…
The Gambler (version 2)
Read by Simon Evers
Katherine Cecil Thurston
The book follows the life of Clodagh Asshlin, an Irish girl brought up with her younger sister by her spendthrift father in the wilds of the…
Excerpts on Love from the Stromata
St. Clement of Alexandria
Excerpts from the Stromata on love, the quest for perfection, women, and the perfect wife. St. Clement of Alexandria was a philosopher and C…
The Profligate
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Arthur Wing Pinero
'Mr. Pinero, in essaying to deal dramatically with a moral problem in a manner which, while neither cynical nor commonplace, should still be…
On Virginity
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St. Gregory of Nyssa
His admirable book "On Virginity", written about 370, was composed to strengthen in all who read it the desire for a life of perfe…
Practical Advice to Young Persons Respecting Temptation and Sin
Read by Marie Christian
Louis Gaston de Segur and Louis Gaston De Segur
Msgr. Segur offers practical advice for Christians, young and old, who are struggling with temptation and sin. His clear and concise style m…
Our Friend The Charlatan
Read by Jim Locke
George Gissing
Dice Lashmore will do everything he can in in his quest to become rich. The key is, of course, finding a rich wife. This book describes his …
Alice; or The Wages of Sin
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Frederic Werden Pangborn
This book is given to the reader, as the exposition of a terrible possibility in actual life. Should there be found, in its pages, any warm…
The Schoolmistress
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Arthur Wing Pinero
The second of Pinero's farces, following the wildly successful The Magistrate, and likewise a hit. The Schoolmistress has a secret: "Th…
On Grace And Free Will
Read by David Ronald
Saint Augustine of Hippo
There are some persons who suppose that the freedom of the will is denied whenever God's grace is maintained, and who on their side defend t…
La prueba de amor
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Mary Shelley
Después de conseguir el permiso de la priora para salir unas horas, Angeline, interna en el convento de Santa Anna, en la peque&ntild…
Tusculan Disputations
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tusculan Disputations (Latin: TUSCULANARUM DISPUTATIONUM) is divided into five books which discuss death, pain, grief, perturbations and vir…
The Side of the Angels
Read by Simon Evers
Basil King
The book is set in New England in the early 20th century in an old established community where times are rapidly changing but nonetheless th…
A Generous Heart
Rev. LaVera M. Parato
sermon given at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Havelock, NC; part of a series on Luke
The Benefit of the Doubt
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Arthur Wing Pinero
The plot resolves around a young woman being cited in court as "The Other Woman" in a divorce case, and how her family reacts to i…