The Bookhouse Readings

Carmilla, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. A quarter of a century before Dracula, Le Fanu told this story: a lonely girl in a Styrian castle, a beautiful visitor who arrives one night after a carriage accident, and dreams that leave their mark. Read in full — the Prologue and all sixteen chapters. Public domain (first published 1872). Narration is synthesized.Value for value: The Bookhouse Readings is listener-supported. If this reading gave you value, return value in kind at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.

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Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Sultana's Dream (1905). Sultana falls asleep in British India and wakes in Ladyland — a solar-powered garden nation run by women, where men keep to seclusion, the workday is two hours, and war is won with concentrated sunlight. One of the earliest feminist science-fiction stories in English, written in 1905. Public domain (first published in The Indian Ladies' Magazine, 1905). Narration is synthesized.Value for value: The Bookhouse Readings is listener-supported. If this reading gave you value, return value in kind at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.

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From the print room of the Bookhouse: Bookhouse Prints gathers public-domain art that deserves to still be on walls — vintage plates and engravings, checked one by one, ready to print and frame. Collection No. 1: A Parliament of Owls — twenty vintage owl prints. Visit the shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookhousePrints

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E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops (1909). Far underground, humanity lives alone in hexagonal cells while the Machine provides everything — food, music, company by glowing plate. Vashti is content. Her son Kuno is not. A visionary novella about comfort, dependence, and what happens the day the Machine stops. Public domain (Project Gutenberg, from The Eternal Moment and Other Stories). Narration is synthesized.Value for value: The Bookhouse Readings is listener-supported. If this reading gave you value, return value in kind at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.

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From the print room of the Bookhouse: Bookhouse Prints gathers public-domain art that deserves to still be on walls — vintage plates and engravings, checked one by one, ready to print and frame. Collection No. 1: A Parliament of Owls — twenty vintage owl prints. Visit the shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookhousePrints

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The Founders of the Republic on Immigration, Naturalization and Aliens (1928), edited by Madison Grant and Chas. Stewart Davison — a collection of writings and statements by America's founders and early statesmen on who could come to the new republic, who could become a citizen, and on what terms. A primary-source window into how the founding generation framed those questions. Public domain. Narration is synthesized.Value for value: The Bookhouse Readings is listener-supported. If this reading gave you value, return value in kind at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.

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From the print room of the Bookhouse: Bookhouse Prints gathers public-domain art that deserves to still be on walls — vintage plates and engravings, checked one by one, ready to print and frame. Collection No. 1: A Parliament of Owls — twenty vintage owl prints. Visit the shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookhousePrints

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Arthur Schnitzler's Rhapsody: A Dream Novel (Traumnovelle), in the 1927 English translation by Otto P. Schinnerer. Over one long Viennese night and the day that follows, a doctor wanders through a masked ball, a confession, and a dream that may not have been a dream — a short novel about marriage, desire, and the stories spouses keep from each other. The source text is public domain. Narration is synthesized.Value for value: The Bookhouse Readings is listener-supported. If this reading gave you value, return value in kind at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.

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From the print room of the Bookhouse: Bookhouse Prints gathers public-domain art that deserves to still be on walls — vintage plates and engravings, checked one by one, ready to print and frame. Collection No. 1: A Parliament of Owls — twenty vintage owl prints. Visit the shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookhousePrints

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