Audiobooks by Ellen Glasgow

Wonder Of Women - Stories About Affairs Audiobook

"Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed. 1 - Women of Wonder - Affairs - An Introduction2 - The Storm by Kate Chopin3 - From the Dead by Edith Nesbit4 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton5 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf6 - The Pleasant Husband by Marjorie Bowen7 - Lucy Wren by Ada Radford8 - Lena Wrace by May Sinclair9 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow10 - Behind the Curtain by Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens11 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin"

Ada Radford, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens, Kate Chopin, Marjorie Bowen, May Sinclair, Virginia Woolf (Author), Janet Maw, Liza Ross, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Lessons from Literature - Stories Exploring Women's Choice in Marriage

"Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings. In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and narratives of many wise talents.Even in these more modern times not everyone is free to choose their partners. Nations, cultures and religions around the globe are not as inclusive as we are and we think they should be. With the insight and talents of these classic authors we are shown that even in quite recent times choice in marriage was, in essence, in the gift of others.01 - Lessons From Literature - Stories Exploring Women's Choice in Marriage - An Introduction2 - The Ice Palace by F Scott Fitzgerald3 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin4 - Second Best by D H Lawrence5 - The Unfortunate Bride or The Blind Lady a Beauty by Aphra Behn6 - Madame Rose Hanie by Khalil Gibran7 - Sister Josepha by Alice Dunbar Nelson8 - Right At Last by Elizabeth Gaskell9 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow10 - An Outcast of the People by Bithia Mary Croker11 - The Looking Glass by Anton Chekhov12 - The Skylight Room by O Henry13 - Mrs Pierrepoint by Amy Levy14 - How the Widow Won the Deacon by William James Lampton15 - Spurs by Tod Robbins16 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman17 - Two Offers by Frances Watkins Harper"

Alice Dunbar Nelson, Amy Levy, Anton Chekhov, Aphra Behn, Bithia Mary Croker, D.H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ellen Glasgow, F Scott Fitzgerald, Frances Watkins Harper, Kate Chopin, Khalil Gibran, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, O Henry, Tod Robbins, William James Lampton (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Kelly Burke, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Stories About Affairs And Infidelity

"Being together is not always the love-strewn path of true happiness rolling off into the sunset. It involves all sorts of other issues that come up to investigate that relationship with questions, pain and trouble. Perhaps infidelity is the most corrosive. The wronged partner seeks justice and answers as well as feeling betrayed and hurt. The other almost certainly knows their behaviour is wrong but seeks to justify it with barely literate utterances. The relationship may not survive, trust and respect will be damaged even broken. Our classic authors including Marjorie Bowen, Gustav Meyrink, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Hardy and many others bring all facets of this genre into needle-sharp focus. 1 - Stories About Affairs and Infidelity - An Introduction 2 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf 3 - An Imaginative Woman by Thomas Hardy 4 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton 5 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin 6 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 7 - The Caballero's Way by O Henry 8 - La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac 9 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 10 - The Cone by H G Wells 11 - The Strength of God by Sherwood Anderson 12 - The Converts by Israel Zangwill 13 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow 14 - The Inquity of Oblivion by Kenneth Grahame 15 - The Man in the Bottle by Gustav Meyrink 16 - Brown of Calaveras by Bret Harte 17 - Lucy Wren by Ada Radford 18 - Behind the Curtain by Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens 19 - Modern Melodrama by Hugo Crackanthorpe 20 - The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson 21 - The Pleasant Husband by Marjorie Bowen 22 - The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce 23 - The Storm by Kate Chopin 24 - From The Dead by Edith Nesbit"

Ada Radford, Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekhov, Bret Harte, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Gertrude Barrows Bennett Writing As Francis Stevens, H.G. Wells, Honore de Balzac, Hugo Crackanthorpe, Israel Zangwill, Kate Chopin, Kenneth Grahame, Marjorie Bowen, O Henry, Rudyard Kipling, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Janet Maw, Kelly Burke (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1920's - The Women

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this decade the equality of the sexes is now law. In real life it's patchy. Power refuses to ebb or cede. In literary terms though women are again second to none with writing that strides confidently forward addressing the issues, the characters and the stories in unique and individual ways. 1 - The Top 10 - The Women - The 1920's - An Introduction 2 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 3 - The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf 4 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall 5 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow 6 - Rhapsody by Dorothy Edwards 7 - Hodge by Elinor Mordaunt 8 - Blessed Are the Meek by Mary Webb 9 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen 10 - The Night of No Weather by Violet Hunt 11 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson"

Dorothy Edwards, Elinor Mordaunt, Ellen Glasgow, Helen Simpson, Katherine Mansfield, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Webb, Radclyffe Hall, Violet Hunt, Virginia Woolf (Author), Eve Karpf, Ghizela Rowe, Kelly Burke (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1920's - The Americans

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.In this volume the Jazz Age blossoms with an exuberance of spirit and panache. Life is for now, the future seems so very far away. Our American authors bring the decade to life with stories that perhaps could only come to pass in this decade of the United States.01 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - The Americans - An Introduction02 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald03 - Brothers by Sherwood Anderson04 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft05 - The Great Slave by Zane Grey06 - The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner07 - The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell08 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow09 - Skulls in the Stars by Robert E Howard10 - The City of Refuge by Rudolph Fisher11 - Spurs by Tod Robbins"

Ellen Glasgow, F Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Connell, Ring Lardner, Robert E. Howard, Rudolph Fisher, Sherwood Anderson, Tod Robbins, Zane Grey (Author), Christopher Ragland, Kelly Burke, Warren Keyes (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1920's - The Women

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.In this decade the equality of the sexes is now law. In real life it's patchy. Power refuses to ebb or cede. In literary terms though women are again second to none with writing that strides confidently forward addressing the issues, the characters and the stories in unique and individual ways.1 - The Top 10 - The Women - The 1920's - An Introduction2 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield3 - An Unwritten Novel by Virginia Woolf4 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall5 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow6 - The Black Crusader by Alicia Ramsay7 - Blessed Are the Meek by Mary Webb8 - Rhapsody by Dorothy Edwards9 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson10 - The Inspired 'Busman by Elinor Mordaunt11 - Her Murderer by Mary Cholmonderly"

Ellen Glasgow, Radclyffe Hall (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe (Narrator)

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The Difference

"Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born on 22nd April 1873 in Richmond, Virginia.She published her first novel 'The Descendant' anonymously in 1897 at age 24. As a 'Southern' writer much of her work integrates themes of class and gender struggles, many of them based on her own experiences and relationships. She wrote realistically of the changing contemporary South; very different from the then idealistic escapist fare after Reconstruction.As the women's suffrage movement developed at the turn of the century Glasgow was very active, but later felt it had come at the wrong time for her, accordingly her enthusiasm waned although her later books did have heroines who displayed their ambitions in the social and political struggle.In 1923 came her short story collection 'The Shadowy Third & Other Stories' which included 'The Difference', a classic tale of a marriage hitting a problem and the moral and realistic reaction to that.Further works followed and, in 1941, she published 'In This Our Life'. This bold and progressive book on African-Americans, followed the central characters and portrayed the blatant injustices they faced in society. It won the Pulitzer Prize the following year.Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow died in her sleep at home on 21st November 1945. She was 72."

Ellen Glasgow (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Kelly Burke (Narrator)

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N B C University Theater - The Romantic Comedians

"'NBC University Theater' initially started in Chicago with a remit to bring adaptations of classic novels, usually Anglo-American, to a radio audience.Additionally, if listeners signed up they received college credit to a radio-assisted correspondence course. A study guide, The Handbook of the World's Great Novels, was available for 25 cents.In its later years it also included short stories and plays and went on to win the distinguished Peabody award.Unlike many other radio shows University Theatre did not pursue the glamourous stars for its productions but instead relied on excellent distillations of the novels and first class acting alongside high production values.But now its time to enjoy these timeless novels. Let's begin."

Ellen Glasgow (Author), Albert Dekker, Georgia Backus (Narrator)

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