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Act 3

In Ghosts

Read by Bruce Pirie

Henrik Ibsen, trans. William Archer and Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts was first published in 1881 and staged in 1882, and like his earlier play A Doll's House, profoundly shocked his conte…

Selected excerpts

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04

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Charles Dudely Warner, ed. and Frédéric Bastiat

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Difficulties and Preliminary Approach

In A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud

These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the diffi…

Preface by A.B. Fuller

In Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nin…

Chapter 36

In The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)

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Thomas Hardy

Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural …

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