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Stories From The Shadows – The 1860’s

Embrace the darkness

by Charles Baudelaire, Sabine Baring-Gould, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, Charles Dickens, Amelia Edwards, William Hunt, Mrs Ellen Wood ...

Narrated by Ian Holm, Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

4 hours 48 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
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The Origin of Capitalism

A Longer View

by Ellen Meiksins Wood ...

**An expanded edition of the classic study on the history of capitalism—“a must read” for students of political theory and anyone interested in economic thought (Choice)How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?**In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible ... Read more

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**An expanded edition of the classic study on the history of capitalism—“a must read” for students of political theory and anyone interested in economic thought (Choice)How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?**In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible
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Victorian Lady's Ghostly Anthology, A

by Ellen Wood, Emily Arnold, Eliza Lynn Linton, Theo Gift aka Dora Havers ...

Narrated by Billie Fulford-brown ...

Unabridged

3 hours 22 min

Four of the very best Victorian short ghost stories, all written by incredibly talented, but oft-times overlooked or forgotten, female authors.The Victorian era is remembered for many things, but one of the fondest is the wide and varied array of short, ghostly, suspenseful tales…often enjoyed around the fireside at Christmas time.In this new anthology, Billie Fulford-Brown performs four of the ... Read more

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Four of the very best Victorian short ghost stories, all written by incredibly talented, but oft-times overlooked or forgotten, female authors.The Victorian era is remembered for many things, but one of the fondest is the wide and varied array of short, ghostly, suspenseful tales…often enjoyed around the fireside at Christmas time.In this new anthology, Billie Fulford-Brown performs four of the
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Her Dark Materials - Volume 4

Mary E Penn to Virginia Woolf

by Mary E Penn, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Kate and Hesketh Pritchard, Violet Quirk, Alicia Ramsay, Katherine Rickford, Charlotte Riddell, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Mary Shelley, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Helen Simpson, May Sinclair, Lady Eleanor Smith, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Hesba Stretton, Emma Vane, Clara Venn, Mary Webb, Catherine Wells, Edith Wharton, Ethel Lina White, Mrs Ellen Wood, Virginia Woolf ...

Narrated by Lisa Bowerman, Marie-Pierre, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

12 hours 14 min

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile ... Read more

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In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile
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East Lynne

by Ellen Wood ...

The story revolves around Lady Isabel Vane, a beautiful and refined woman who marries Archibald Carlyle, a lawyer and politician. Despite her seemingly idyllic life, Lady Isabel becomes dissatisfied and bored. She falls into a series of poor choices and eventually leaves her husband and children to elope with a charming but morally corrupt man, Francis Levison.As the consequences of her actions ... Read more

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The story revolves around Lady Isabel Vane, a beautiful and refined woman who marries Archibald Carlyle, a lawyer and politician. Despite her seemingly idyllic life, Lady Isabel becomes dissatisfied and bored. She falls into a series of poor choices and eventually leaves her husband and children to elope with a charming but morally corrupt man, Francis Levison.As the consequences of her actions
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Single, Again

by Ellen Wood ...

It took me nearly a decade to get divorced. The first seven years were the most difficult of my life. In the crumbling of my marriage, I lost the vision of who I was, my self-esteem, self-love and in my blindness, I stopped loving. Along the way I learned some of life's greatest lessons. I could have just walked away and never looked back. Half of all marriages end in divorce, and my story is a ... Read more

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It took me nearly a decade to get divorced. The first seven years were the most difficult of my life. In the crumbling of my marriage, I lost the vision of who I was, my self-esteem, self-love and in my blindness, I stopped loving. Along the way I learned some of life's greatest lessons. I could have just walked away and never looked back. Half of all marriages end in divorce, and my story is a
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East Lynne

by Ellen Wood, (Mrs Henry Wood) ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is at stake than moral retribution. This edition returns for the first time to the racy, slang-ridden narrative of the first edition, rather than the subsequent stylistically 'improved' versions hitherto reproduced by modern editors. - ;'Coward! Sneak! May good men shun him, from henceforth! may his ... Read more

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When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is at stake than moral retribution. This edition returns for the first time to the racy, slang-ridden narrative of the first edition, rather than the subsequent stylistically 'improved' versions hitherto reproduced by modern editors. - ;'Coward! Sneak! May good men shun him, from henceforth! may his
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Reality or Delusion

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Ellen Wood aka Mrs Henry Wood ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

40 min

Ellen Price was born on 17th January 1814 in Worcester.In 1836 she married Henry Wood, whose career in banking and shipping meant living in Dauphiné, in the South of France, for two decades. During their time there they had four children.Henry’s business collapsed and he and Ellen together with their four children returned to England and settled in Upper Norwood near London.Ellen now turned to ... Read more

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Ellen Price was born on 17th January 1814 in Worcester.In 1836 she married Henry Wood, whose career in banking and shipping meant living in Dauphiné, in the South of France, for two decades. During their time there they had four children.Henry’s business collapsed and he and Ellen together with their four children returned to England and settled in Upper Norwood near London.Ellen now turned to
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Reality or Delusion?

by Mrs. Henry Ellen Wood ...

This is a ghost story. Every word of it is true. And I don’t mind confessing that for ages afterwards some of us did not care to pass the spot alone at night. Some people do not care to pass it yet. It was autumn, and we were at Crabb Cot. Lena had been ailing; and in October Mrs Todhetley proposed to the Squire that they should remove with her there, to see if the change would do her good. We ... Read more

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This is a ghost story. Every word of it is true. And I don’t mind confessing that for ages afterwards some of us did not care to pass the spot alone at night. Some people do not care to pass it yet. It was autumn, and we were at Crabb Cot. Lena had been ailing; and in October Mrs Todhetley proposed to the Squire that they should remove with her there, to see if the change would do her good. We
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East Lynne

by Ellen Wood ...

First published in 1861, "East Lynne" was Ellen Wood's second of over 30 novels.When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is at stake than moral retribution...The plot is implausible at times, depending on a woman disguising herself to work for her former husband and his second wife, but the themes of infidelity and destitution were very real ... Read more

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First published in 1861, "East Lynne" was Ellen Wood's second of over 30 novels.When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is at stake than moral retribution...The plot is implausible at times, depending on a woman disguising herself to work for her former husband and his second wife, but the themes of infidelity and destitution were very real
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Open Land, Open Heart: 33 Classic Ranching Storybooks to Love

Thirty-Three Tales of Cowboys, Homesteads, Adventure, and Frontier Life

by Ridgwell Cullum, Kathryn Pocklington, Alice M. Winlow, Alice MacGowan, B. M. Bower, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Clarence Edward Mulford, John Wood Clay, Mary Ellen Chase, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Frances Parker, Dane Coolidge, Izola L. Forrester, Kate Boyles Bingham, Virgil D. Boyles, Les Savage, Vingie E. Roe, Onoto Watanna, F. S. Brereton, Peter B. Kyne, Clarice E. Richards, Josephine Chase, Harold Bindloss, Lily Munsell Ritchie, George Bird Grinnell, Albert Payson Terhune, Lillian Elizabeth Roy, Amy Bell Marlowe, Grace May North, Evelyn Raymond, Edith Lavell, John Luther Langworthy, L. Frank Baum, Clair Blank, Margaret Vandercook, Howard Roger Garis, James Captain Carson, Frank V. Webster, Joan Clark, Mayne Reid, Hermann Hagedorn, Edward G. Cheyney, Laura Lee Hope, Thomas Carson ...

Open Land, Open Heart: 33 Classic Ranching Storybooks to Love gathers ranching tales in which labor, landscape, animal companionship, and frontier adventure become vehicles for moral and imaginative discovery. Its range extends from brisk juvenile adventures and episodic series fiction to regional realism, romance, humor, and wilderness narrative. Cattle drives, homesteads, riding schools, ranch ... Read more

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Open Land, Open Heart: 33 Classic Ranching Storybooks to Love gathers ranching tales in which labor, landscape, animal companionship, and frontier adventure become vehicles for moral and imaginative discovery. Its range extends from brisk juvenile adventures and episodic series fiction to regional realism, romance, humor, and wilderness narrative. Cattle drives, homesteads, riding schools, ranch
... Read more
Democracy Against Capitalism

Renewing Historical Materialism

by Ellen Meiksins Wood ...

Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation, “difference,” and con-tingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical program of historical materialism by redefining its basic concepts and its theory of history in original and imaginative ways, using ... Read more

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Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation, “difference,” and con-tingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical program of historical materialism by redefining its basic concepts and its theory of history in original and imaginative ways, using
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