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The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the ground that they inevitably distort history. Pharaoh has been described by Czesław Miłosz as a "novel on mechanisms of state power and, as such, probably unique in world literature of the nineteenth century.... Prus, in selecting the reign of 'Pharaoh Ramses XIII' in the eleventh century BCE, sought a perspective that was detached from pressures of topicality and censorship. Pharaoh is set in the Egypt of 1087–85 BCE as that country experiences internal stresses and external threats that will culminate in the fall of its Twentieth Dynasty and New Kingdom. The young protagonist Ramses learns that those who would challenge the powers that be are vulnerable to co-option, seduction, subornation, defamation, intimidation and assassination. Perhaps the chief lesson, belatedly absorbed by Ramses as pharaoh, is the importance, to power, of knowledge. Prus' vision of the fall of an ancient civilization derives some of its power from the author's intimate awareness of the final demise of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, a century before the completion of the novel. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Pharaoh and the Priest

A superior Victorian Romance. Full from bow to stern with secret romance, jealousies and confrontations of culture and cultures. This authors' work contain an abundance of charm and engaging dialogue. - Summary by Christine Rottger

House on the Scar

"Among the stories of world-wide renown, not the least stirring are those that have gathered about the names of national heroes. The Æneid, the Nibelungenlied, the Chanson de Roland, the Morte D'Arthur,—they are not history, but they have been as National Anthems to the races, and their magic is not yet dead," is how Beatrice Clay unravels the magical journey through the most interesting adventures of King Arthur, his heirs and his companions. - Summary by AnaNaumoska

Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion

Norrie Ford, having been unfairly convicted of murder, has escaped. A lucky chance finds him being rescued by a mysterious girl (the Wild Olive of the title), who sets him up with a new life under a new name in Argentina. He makes such a success of his time there that he is posted back to New York by the company he works for – but not before he has become engaged to be married. Back in New York, he meets up again with the Wild Olive . . . (Summary by Simon Evers)

Wild Olive

Edward wakes up on board a ship crossing the Atlantic, on his return from the Great War – however, he finds that his memory of who he is and where he comes from is only fragmentary. The book follows his fascinating journey back to health and his growing realisation about what effect the War and its aftermath has had on him and also on the people he meets - as well as his family. (Summary by Simon Evers)

Thread of Flame

Rashleigh Allerton, a wealthy New Yorker, quarrels with his well-to-do fiancée Barbara and impetuously says that he will marry instead the first person he meets. The book follows the result of this absurd promise, with consequences that neither of them (nor Rashleigh’s faithful elderly man-servant Steptoe) expect. - Summary by Simon Evers

Dust Flower

At the opening of this story Diane Eveleth returns from a party in Paris to her mother-in-law, who tells her that her husband George Eveleth has been killed in a duel, fought with the Marquis de Bienville. Diane secretly transfers her remaining patrimony to her mother-in-law and the two women sail for New York, where the elder woman has relatives.Here Diane is offered the situation of chaperone for the daughter Dorothea of Derek Pruyn, a widower whom she has met before. Eventually, Pruyn makes her an offer of marriage. She withholds her answer until his return from a voyage to South America, when she is prepared to accept him, but on his home-coming she finds his attitude towards her completely changed. Pruyn has encountered de Bienville on his voyage and has heard from him that Diane was unfaithful to her husband.The book concentrates on how the relationships between the various protagonists develop. (Summary by Simon Evers)

Inner Shrine

The book follows the fortunes of Jennie Follett, a New York artist’s model, and Teddy, her brother. After their father’s dismissal from his lowly position in the bank and his subsequent death, the family struggles financially. In desperation, Teddy steals money from the bank where he also works, with disastrous consequences. Jennie meanwhile agrees to marry Bob Collingham, a member of a seriously rich banking family, who has fallen in love with her.

Empty Sack

The book is a sobering examination of how two families can be wrecked by a life of greed. It shows how giving can be done in the wrong way and for the wrong reasons. In an attempt to support the girl he genuinely loves, Thor, the older brother, who has inherited money, gives her money so that his younger brother Claude can marry her and provide for them both. However, Claude misunderstands Thor’s intentions and, as a result, everything goes horribly wrong. (Summary by Simon Evers)

Side of the Angels (Version 2)

The book is set in New England in the early 20th century in an old established community where times are rapidly changing but nonetheless the rules of a hierarchical society still hold good. Thor, a rich doctor from an old family, in trying to help Rosie, the poor woman he truly loves, offers her money so that his brother Claude can marry her and have the things they will need in life. Things unravel in the close-knit community with an intriguing mixture of philosophy and romance as the younger generation learns to be free in their pursuit of love and life. The approach of the older generation to the different ways of the younger and the church all add to the involvement. - Summary by Simon Evers

Side of the Angels

The Bronze Eagle is a romantic historical novel which takes place during the return of Napoleon and his attempt to reestablish his Empire. The main character is a rich English businessman, who falls in love with an aristocratic young woman, with lots of pitfalls and challenges. - Summary by deongines

Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days

A romantic, political adventure story set in the late 1500's, during the Spanish rule over the Netherlands, in the city of Ghent. Leatherface is an Orangist and emerges to lead the Ghent citizens to rebel and win back their freedom.

Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders

"The State," he said, speaking at least as haughtily as Dea Flavia herself, "hath agreed to accept the sum of twenty aurei for this slave. 'Tis too late now to make further bids for her." But a pair of large blue eyes, cold as the waters of the Tiber and like unto them mysterious and elusive, were turned fully on the speaker. "Too late didst thou say, oh Taurus Antinor?" said Dea Flavia raising her pencilled eyebrows with a slight expression of scorn, "nay! I had not seen the hammer descend! The girl until then is not sold, and open to the highest bidder. Or am I wrong, O praefect, in thus interpreting the laws of Rome?" "This is an exceptional case, Augusta," he retorted curtly. "Then wilt thou expound to me that law which deals with such exceptional cases?" she rejoined with the same ill-concealed tone of gentle irony. "I had never heard of it; so I pray thee enlighten mine ignorance. Of a truth thou must know the law, since thou didst swear before the altar of the gods to uphold it with all thy might." "'Tis not a case of law, Augusta, but one of pity." The praefect, feeling no doubt the weakness of any argument which aimed at coercing this daughter of the Cæsars, prompted too by his innate respect of the law which he administered, thought it best to retreat from his position of haughty arrogance and to make an appeal, since obviously he could not command. Dea Flavia was quick to note this change of attitude, and her delicate lips parted in a contemptuous smile. "Dost administer pity as well as law, O Taurus Antinor?" she asked coldly. - Summary from the book

Unto Caesar

Beau Brocade is a historical fiction set in England in the early 1700's. The hero Beau is a wanted highwayman, who takes from the rich to help the poor. - Summary by Deon Gines

Beau Brocade

This historical novel takes place in Kent in 1657, and focuses on a local nobleman who stops at nothing to gain wealth, and his ward who is a victim of his crimes. The puritan influence and social cultural mores of the time provide interesting parts of the setting.

Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century

A ROLLICKING YARN FROM AN AUSTRALIAN LEGEND Banjo Paterson is our best known and most loved bush poet. Less well known, but no less captivating, are his warm and funny novels about Australian life. An Outback Marriage tells of a young Englishman on a tour of the colonies, who gets more than he bargained for when he sets out to find the heir to a fortune. This is the story not of one marriage but several, bringing the whole of colonial society - from the squattocracy to cattle rustlers - to vivid, unforgettable life. No writer better captured the heart of early Australia better than Paterson - the landscape, the weather, the trials and the earthy humour that was the key to survival.

An Outback Marriage

Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical and worldly, she is as beautiful as a nymph. The book was very popular during the 19th century and inspired movies and plays. It is even claimed that Rhett Butler from Gone With The Wind was inspired by St. Elmo Murray. - Summary by Stav Nisser.

St. Elmo

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Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain, Browne worked as a type-setter in his youth and in 1858, began publishing a series of letters, essays, and stories told in the first person by a droll, illiterate rube with a good measure of subtle common sense who commented on the events and fads of the day. Taking his character to the stage as a lecturer, Browne became an early-day prototype of what we now name a stand-up comedian. Artemus Ward was such a favorite of President Abraham Lincoln that the chief executive read one of the Ward stories to his assembled cabinet officers before getting down to the business of discussing the proposed Emancipation Proclamation. Browne’s writings became popular in England as well as in America, and he travelled to Britain to perform his Artemus Ward lectures and contribute to the comic magazine Punch. Browne contracted tuberculosis and died at the age of thirty-two in Southampton. (There was a real Artemus Ward, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.) - Summary by Delmar H. Dolbier

Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return

Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapidly growing up and away and she regrets that her life has become dull, domesticated and meaningless. Arthur Twemlow, the son of John’s former business partner, blows into Leonora’s life and that of her family. Meanwhile, old Uncle Meshach has re-written his will . . . . - Summary by Simon Evers

Leonora

Subtitled 'A Frolic', this light-hearted book follows the fortunes of Henry Shakespeare Knight who, rather to his own surprise, writes a best-selling novel. (Summary by Simon Evers)

Great Man: a Frolic

Richard Larch, a young man from the north of England, arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has aspirations of becoming a writer. He also yearns to find a suitable wife. The story follows him as he tries to achieve both ambitions. The book is Bennett’s first and is partly autobiographical. (Summary by Simon Evers)

Man from the North

This is a fictionalized biography of the wife of the reformer Dr. Martin Luther. In the author's words, he hopes that "people may learn to know the wife of its greatest man,—not by name only, but as her husband's 'helpmeet,' in the truest sense of the word, as a pattern of domestic virtue, and as a pearl among women." - Summary by Dory Smith

Katharine von Bora: Dr. Martin Luther's Wife

"The Shooting Party" is a mystery, set in the Russian countryside. The story revolves around the murder of a beautiful young woman named Olga, who is found dead in a forest. The narrator, a magistrate named Sergei Kamyshev, recounts the events leading up to the crime, mixed with his own personal experiences and emotions. We learn about Olga's various relationships, with her fiancé, the impoverished and idealistic schoolteacher Urbenin, and Kamyshev himself, who is deeply infatuated with her. The unfolding mystery explores themes of love, jealousy, and the darker side of human nature, as the characters' motivations and secrets are gradually revealed. The investigation into Olga's murder is marked by twists and turns, leading to a shocking and tragic conclusion. Chekhov combines romance, drama, and suspense, creating a rich and consuming narrative that peers into the complexities of human relationships and the consequences of unchecked passions. - Summary by Bryn Roberts

Shooting Party

"A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale"; tells of a night time encounter between relatives who had never before met, resulting in minor injuries, embarrassment, and Trollope's usual 'nice' social interactions. (Summary by Arnold Banner)

Christmas at Thompson Hall

Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sister Kate live with him. Giles Medlicott owns a sugar plantation and mill nearby. Two of Harry’s former disgruntled employees, with the aid of other disreputable neighbours the Brownbies, deliberately start a potentially disastrous fire on Harry’s land. Medlicott comes to Harry’s support and the book follows what happens thereafter. - Summary by Simon Evers

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

Linda Tressel lives a lonely life with her domineering aunt, Madame Staubach, in a large house in Nuremberg. Madame Staubach takes in the odious and much older Peter Steinmarc as a lodger and plans that Linda should marry him – entirely against Linda’s will. Meanwhile Linda falls in love with Ludovic Valcalm, a disreputable young man. The book follows Linda’s fortunes. - Summary by Simon Evers

Linda Tressel

The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself with no one to care for, and in possession of a moderate fortune. Having money, she is now much sought-after and no longer universally deemed too old to marry. Partly because she has spent her life taking care of the brother whose money she has now inherited, she has no experience of wealth or popularity. Miss Mackenzie is the definition of “other-oriented. (Indeed, Trollope originally considered naming the novel, and his heroine, “Griselda”, presumably to invoke the folkloric character’s qualities of stolid obedience and endless patience.) These circumstances are the perfect set-up for classic Trollopian swipes and snipes at various fortune-hunters and other obsequies, and more broadly at society’s sexism, classism, and Mammonism. She comes into her own and begins to try to enjoy life, at first juggling, but ultimately rejecting, three serious suitors. As the story unfolds, the particulars of her deceased brother’s life and death reveal themselves, Miss Mackenzie becomes increasingly able to know who she is and what she wants, and both she and the reader are better able to discern the true colors of those around her. The question is: Will her self-knowledge overcome both her personal history and various social prejudices, so as to allow her to fall in love with – and say “yes” to – a really good man? (Summary by Kirsten Wever)

Miss Mackenzie

Clara Amedroz is the virtuous, intelligent, and quick-witted heroine of this novel. Like all women of her time, she has few options other than to marry. She is lucky enough to have two eligible suitors, and chooses the more urbane and worldly of the two. Alas, however, she realizes fairly quickly that Captain Aylmer is not a nice person. Throughout much of the novel we find her trying hard not to recognize that Will Belton - the suitor she rejected, and who still loves and wants to marry her - is. As in all of Trollope's novels, the sub-plots are at least as engaging as the main story: here, we find Clara associated with, and ultimately for some time dependent on, Mr. and Mrs. Askerton, who - having perforce lived together for some time before they were married - are social outcasts. Clara is courageous enough to remain loyal to these friends, knowing that thus she, too, risks social condemnation and reduces her value on the marital market-place. She becomes wiser, more generous, and more forgiving as her outlook on the world matures in various trials-by fire: the experiences she endures as a result of her mistaken allegiance to Captain Aylmer; her friendship with the Askertons; and the malicious gossip and social ostracization attendant on her loyalty to them. The question that will decide her ultimate happiness is whether she can be as generous and forgiving of herself. (Summary by Kirsten Wever)

Belton Estate

Trollope’s only historical novel is set during a rebellion against the Republic established by the French revolution. The rebellion occurred in the west of France, in a region called la Vendée, in 1793. The novel focuses on the leaders of the rebellion and their families – Cathelineau, de Lescure, Larochejaquelin – and to a lesser extent the leaders of the Republic, especially Robespierre. Without overlooking the hardships of war, the novel emphasizes the valor of the rebels and the terrible excesses of the Republic during the reign of terror. [Summary by Terrance Callan]

Vendée

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Piccoli oggetti, grandi ricordi: il podcast che viaggia nel tempo. Gli studenti della 1^ B della Secondaria di primo grado dell'I.C. Avegnocamoglireccouscio, anno scolastico 2025-2026 raccontano l’emozione di racchiudere la propria vita in una Capsula del Tempo. Tra oggetti simbolici, lettere per il futuro e QR code che custodiscono i nostri lavori scolastici, ogni episodio è un tassello della nostra storia. Nel primo episodio, vi portiamo con noi durante la chiusura della capsula: un appuntamento con il destino che riprenderemo solo in terza media."E voi, quale oggetto portereste nel nostro podcast? Seguiteci per non perdere i prossimi ricordi!"Il logo per il nostro primo podcast è stato realizzato da Farinelli Riccardo e Piu Brandon Nathan, da un'idea condivisa tra gli alunni della classe.

Piccoli oggetti, grandi ricordi: il podcast che viaggia nel tempo. Gli studenti della 1^ B della Secondaria di primo grado dell'I.C. Avegnocamoglireccouscio, anno scolastico 2025-2026 raccontano l’emozione di racchiudere la propria vita in una&nbsp;Capsula del Tempo. Tra oggetti simbolici, lettere per il futuro e QR code che custodiscono i nostri lavori scolastici, ogni episodio è un tassello della nostra storia. Nel primo episodio, vi portiamo con noi durante la chiusura della capsula: un appuntamento con il destino che riprenderemo solo in terza media. "E voi, quale oggetto portereste nel nostro podcast? Seguiteci per non perdere i prossimi ricordi!" Il logo per il nostro primo&nbsp; podcast è stato realizzato da Farinelli Riccardo e Piu Brandon Nathan, da un'idea condivisa tra gli alunni della classe.

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Set against the background of the Irish famine in the 1840’s, the novel tells of the tangled relationships between Clara Desmond, Herbert Fitzgerald and his cousin Owen Fitzgerald. Clara – whose previously ‘great’ family is almost bankrupt – is initially attracted to Owen, but whose dissolute lifestyle is a handicap. The matter is further complicated by the fact that Lady Desmond, Clara’s mother, is in love with Owen. Meanwhile, Herbert supplants Owen in Clara’s affections. Herbert is heir to Castle Richmond and the name and property but this position is threatened for much of the book because of the possible illegitimacy of his parents’ marriage. - Summary by Simon Evers

Castle Richmond

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Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. It was first published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860, then in book form in 1861.The hero of Framley Parsonage, Mark Robarts, is a young vicar, settled in the village of Framley in Barsetshire with his wife and children. The living has come into his hands through Lady Lufton, the mother of his childhood friend Ludovic, Lord Lufton. Mark has ambitions to further his career and begins to seek connections in the county's high society. He is soon preyed upon by local Whig Member of Parliament Mr Sowerby to guarantee a substantial loan, which Mark in a moment of weakness agrees to do, even though he does not have the means and knows Sowerby to be a notorious debtor. The consequences of this blunder play a major role in the plot, Another plot line deals with the romance between Mark's sister Lucy and Lord Lufton. The couple are deeply in love and the young man proposes, but Lady Lufton is against the marriage. She would prefer that her son instead choose the coldly beautiful Griselda Grantly, daughter of Archdeacon Grantly, and fears that Lucy is too "insignificant" for such a high position. Lucy herself recognises the great gulf between their social positions and declines the proposal. When Lord Lufton persists, she agrees only on condition that Lady Lufton ask her to accept her son. The book ends with four marriages. Two of these involve the daughters of Bishop Proudie and Archdeacon Grantly. The rivalry between Mrs Proudie and Mrs Grantly over their matrimonial ambitions forms a significant comic subplot. The other marriage involves Doctor Thorne, the eponymous hero of the preceding novel in the series. A number of the other characters appear in other novels within the Chronicles of Barsetshire series. (Summary extracted from Wikipedia entry, spoilers removed)

Framley Parsonage (version 2)

Este es un espacio para platicar de todo aquello que nos mueve, nos intriga y nos conecta...o simplemente necesitas decir. Como cuando un amigo te dice: “Vamos por un café para platicar”… y la charla se alarga porque simplemente se siente bien compartir. Aquí hablamos de tecnología, cultura, recuerdos, ideas y lo que surja. A veces con nostalgia, otras con curiosidad, pero siempre con ganas de entender el mundo que vivimos y el que viene. Porque a veces, lo único que necesitamos es una buena conversación, sin prisa.

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Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land by the Catholic Landleaguers. The Irish Land War has commenced, with the boycotting of wealthy landowners and a brutal chain of revenge killings. This is the story of Florian, his father, his two beautiful sisters, his adult brother Frank, and Frank’s beloved Rachel, an American singer working the London stage with her firebrand father. It’s also the story of the social order coming apart and then painfully coming back together in one Irish county. The Landleaguers was Anthony Trollope’s last book and was not completed before he died in 1882, but proceeds far enough to be a touching and engrossing story and to leave the reader pretty certain of the outcome. - Summary by Angie

Landleaguers

Phineas Finn is the fourth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. At the end of Phineas Finn, the second novel in the series, Phineas had returned to Ireland and married his childhood sweetheart after having left the House of Commons. As Phineas Redux opens, Phineas is working as a Poorhouse Inspector in Ireland. His wife having died in childbirth, he finds his existence dull and unsatisfying. Phineas' returns to England; his career advances and his romantic adventures continue, while we encounter many familiar characters including Glencora and Plantagenet Palliser, Madame Goesler, and Lizzie Eustace and her husband the Reverand Mr. AEmelius. (Summary by Karen Merline) Warning! Do not read the Wikipedia article linked to the title of this novel unless you are prepared for a SPOILER!!! LibriVox recordings of other novels in the series are available: 1-Can You Forgive Her? 2-Phineas Finn, the Irish Member 3-The Eustace Diamonds 4-Phineas Redux 5-The Prime Minister 6-The Duke’s Children

Phineas Redux

Phineas Finn (hero from an earlier novel in this series) returns to London from Scotland and reenters the political scene. After some hurdles he is reelected to Parliament and his previous social setting. He is involved in many intrigues and romance. - Summary by Deon Gines

Phineas Redux (Version 2)

“Can You Forgive Her?” is the first in a series of six Trollope novels dealing broadly with 19th Century English political scene. It introduces the reader to Plantagenet and Glencora Palliser, as they court, marry, and as Plantagenet sets out on his political career, which is carried on in the foreground or background throughout the series. Each novel has a focus on other particular characters, as well. In this one, it is the dilemma of Alice Vavasor, who is a young woman choosing between two suitors: one who has all the best qualities, but who prefers a retiring private life, and another, whose qualities are doubtful, but who is ambitious for public office. There is also a comic subplot involving a widowed aunt, who also must choose between two suitors: Mr. Cheeseacre, a dull but stable farmer, and Capt. Bellfield, a charming but somewhat erratic retired military man. (Summary by Karen Merline) This is the first of Trollope’s six “Palliser” novels. LibriVox recordings of other novels in the series are available: 1-Can You Forgive Her? 2-Phineas Finn, the Irish Member 3-The Eustace Diamonds 4-Phineas Redux 5-The Prime Minister 6 The Duke’s Children

Can You Forgive Her?

The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new characters. A respectable young girl forsakes the man her family had always intended her to marry when she falls in love with a man of foreign extraction and an unknown family. He has a gentleman's education and manners, but his family background and financial means are mysterious. Is he really a gentleman? Meanwhile, Plantagenet Palliser becomes Prime Minister of a shaky coalition government, and Glencora and Madame Goessler are busy with the ensuing social obligations. (Summary by Karen Merline) The other Palliser can be found at - 1 - Can You Forgive Her? 2 - Phineas Finn, the Irish Member 3 - The Eustace Diamonds 4 - Phineus Redux 5 - The Prime Minister 6 - The Duke’s Children

Prime Minister

Sir Thomas More is a collaborative Elizabethan play by Anthony Munday and others depicting the life and death of Thomas More. It survives only in a single manuscript, now owned by the British Library. The manuscript is notable because three pages of it are considered to be in the hand of William Shakespeare and for the light it sheds on the collaborative nature of Elizabethan drama and the theatrical censorship of the era. The play dramatizes events in More's life, both real and legendary, in an episodic manner in 17 scenes, unified only by the rise and fall of More's fortunes. (Summary by Wikipedia) Cast list: Doll Williamson: Arielle Lipshaw Francis de Barde: David Nicol Caveler: Steve Weir Williamson: Elizabeth Klett Sherwin: Greg Przywara George Betts: TriciaG John Lincoln: Brett G. Hirsch Lord Mayor: Ron Altman Sir Thomas More: Larry Wilson Suresby: TRUEBRIT Lifter: alanmapstone Recorder: Frances Brown Another: bala Earl of Shrewsbury: ToddHW Earl of Surrey: mb Sir Thomas Palmer: Greg Giordano Sir Roger Chomley: Glenn O'Brien Messenger: Michele Eaton Harry: David Nicol Robin: Frances Brown Kit: bala Clown: ElleyKat Sir John Munday: russellhughes Sergeant: Kristin Gjerløw Crofts: KHand Sheriff (Shrieve)/First Sheriff: Kristin Gjerløw Officer: Frances Brown Randall: bala Faulkner: Rapunzelina Erasmus: David Nicol Morris: KHand Roper: Arnaldo Machado Lady More: Elizabeth Klett Player: KHand Lady Mayoress: Michele Eaton Servant/Man: bala Inclination: David Nicol Prologue: Dr Speedbump Wit: alanmapstone Vanity: Eden Rea-Hedrick Luggins: ToddHW Bishop of Rochester: TriciaG Clerk of the Council: Elise C. Boucher Roper's Wife: Arielle Lipshaw Daughter: Charlotte Duckett Catesby: Mary Kay Downes: Jake K. Friedman First Warder: Kristin Gjerløw Second Warder: Rapunzelina Third Warder: Bria Snow Poor Woman: Etel Buss Gentleman Porter: Glenn O'Brien Lieutenant: Victoria P Butler: Mary J Brewer: Elise C. Boucher Horsekeeper: Anna Simon Porter: ToddHW Gough: TriciaG Second Sheriff: Mary Kay Hangman: David Nicol Narrator/Stage Directions: David Lawrence Edited by: David Lawrence

Sir Thomas More

A few years after the fall of Chicago’s Al Capone in 1931, Italian born gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano took the throne as the American Mafia's "lord of vice" . . . gambling, horse races, drug rings, murder for hire, etc., controlling the cops and politicians of St. Tammany Hall, muscling out or murdering all the other crime kingpins in the area. New York's ambitious special prosecutor, Tom Dewey, was hell-bent on putting Luciano behind bars. He finally got him, in 1936, on the charge of running a lucrative prostitution ring. This book, published in 1954, relates the story of one high-end hooker, who revealed to the author (a reporter covering the trial), what being a slave of the Luciano vice ring was like. She tells how she got trapped into it, backgrounds of she and some other aberrated girls, where they were housed, what they were paid, how they were dressed and treated, their emotional challenges, what type of high rollers hired their services, and how she and other girls fared after Luciano's incarceration. It's a fascinating story, written by and about persons whose identities, for safety reasons, have had to be kept hidden. She said "The years of fast living, of fear of the Syndicate's goons, or police action, have left their mark on me. . . . I fervently hope the sordid details of my past life will serve as a constant reminder to parents and young people alike so they can prevent others from making the same horrible mess of their lives that I did." - Summary by Michele Fry

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