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Short Stories About Mental Illness

A collection of stories about characters struggling with their mental health

by Nikolai Gogol, Amy Levy, Catherine Wells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Sologub, Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Andreyev, Radclyffe Hall, Vsevolod Garshin, Willa Cather ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

11 hours 47 min

For many of us illness refers solely to the physical. Accidents and disease wear us down, hiccup our life from childhood to old age. But everyone empathises, understands and helps us on the road to recovery.Mental illness though can still carry a stigma. A case of ‘you’re not trying hard enough’, ‘or knuckling down and getting on with it’. But in more recent decades mental issues have come to be ... Read more

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For many of us illness refers solely to the physical. Accidents and disease wear us down, hiccup our life from childhood to old age. But everyone empathises, understands and helps us on the road to recovery.Mental illness though can still carry a stigma. A case of ‘you’re not trying hard enough’, ‘or knuckling down and getting on with it’. But in more recent decades mental issues have come to be
... Read more
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Wonder Of Women - Suicide Stories

Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, Amy Levy, Amy Levy, Mary Shelley, Lydia Maria Child, Bithia Mary Croker, Mary Webb, Philippa Forest, Mary Elizabeth Braddon0, Catherine Wells1 ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow2, David Shaw-Parker3, Ghizela rowe4 ...

Unabridged

6 hours 4 min

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 ... Read more

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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
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Macbeatha

by Catherine Wells ...

"It must be said we all got what we wanted--Macbeatha most of all. And in the end, we all paid the price."Kelda expected a simple, not unpleasant life in Norse-settled Scotland, serving in her master's hall and helping her mother work the land. Instead she is wrenched from her family, her life, and her culture and gifted to the barbarian warlord Macbeatha.Fiercely ambitious but more fiercely ... Read more

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"It must be said we all got what we wanted--Macbeatha most of all. And in the end, we all paid the price."Kelda expected a simple, not unpleasant life in Norse-settled Scotland, serving in her master's hall and helping her mother work the land. Instead she is wrenched from her family, her life, and her culture and gifted to the barbarian warlord Macbeatha.Fiercely ambitious but more fiercely
... Read more
Beyond the Gates

by Catherine Wells ...

"Dhrusil-matkhashi is a wasteland. The soil is sterile. Why do you suppose we stay on this continent?"Marta, a graduate student researching indigenous life on isolationist Dray's Planet, discovers an animal that can't be indigenous, but which can't have come from anywhere else. The puzzle convinces the Children of the Second Revelation to bring two Unbelievers into their closed society. As the ... Read more

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"Dhrusil-matkhashi is a wasteland. The soil is sterile. Why do you suppose we stay on this continent?"Marta, a graduate student researching indigenous life on isolationist Dray's Planet, discovers an animal that can't be indigenous, but which can't have come from anywhere else. The puzzle convinces the Children of the Second Revelation to bring two Unbelievers into their closed society. As the
... Read more
Horror Classics: 560+ Titles in One Edition

by Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, John Buchan, Louis Tracy, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade Falkner, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Daniel Defoe, John Kendrick Bangs, Cleveland Moffett, Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Marryat, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Saki, William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Walter Hubbell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Richard Marsh, Catherine Crowe, H. G. Wells, Robert W. Chambers, W. W. Jacobs, E. F. Benson, Jerome K. Jerome, M. R. James, E. T. A. Hoffmann, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Edith Nesbit, Sabine Baring-Gould, Francis Marion Crawford, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Gertrude Atherton, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Louisa M. Alcott, Amelia B. Edwards, Fitz-James O'Brien, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Pedro De Alarçon, J. K. Huysmans ...

Horror Classics: 560+ Titles in One Edition is a monumental anthology that encapsulates the chilling evolution of the horror genre through an extraordinary range of literary styles. From the eerie narratives of psychological terror to the spine-tingling supernatural elements, the collection reflects the genre's diversity and enduring allure. This anthology offers a rich tapestry of themes such as ... Read more

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Horror Classics: 560+ Titles in One Edition is a monumental anthology that encapsulates the chilling evolution of the horror genre through an extraordinary range of literary styles. From the eerie narratives of psychological terror to the spine-tingling supernatural elements, the collection reflects the genre's diversity and enduring allure. This anthology offers a rich tapestry of themes such as
... Read more
Mother Grimm

by Catherine Wells ...

Twila Grimm has lived her whole life inside the sterile limits of the Biodome, an isolated domed oasis in the middle of a ravaged Earth.The outside is world of mystery and disease: where those infected by the deadly CM virus are sent to die. This is a land of disease and death; of warring tribes and half-crazed factions living on the edge of sanity.But the outside is also where Twila Grimm's ... Read more

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Twila Grimm has lived her whole life inside the sterile limits of the Biodome, an isolated domed oasis in the middle of a ravaged Earth.The outside is world of mystery and disease: where those infected by the deadly CM virus are sent to die. This is a land of disease and death; of warring tribes and half-crazed factions living on the edge of sanity.But the outside is also where Twila Grimm's
... Read more
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Fear

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Catherine Wells ...

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

11 min

Little information survives on Catherine’s life.She was born Amy Catherine Robbins in 1872.In about 1892 she was a student in a biology cramming class where the teacher was H G Wells. Though married he was quickly attracted to his student and within a short time they were living together in Woking, Surrey. He then divorced his first wife and married Catherine in October 1895 at St Pancras register ... Read more

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Little information survives on Catherine’s life.She was born Amy Catherine Robbins in 1872.In about 1892 she was a student in a biology cramming class where the teacher was H G Wells. Though married he was quickly attracted to his student and within a short time they were living together in Woking, Surrey. He then divorced his first wife and married Catherine in October 1895 at St Pancras register
... Read more
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Ghost, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Catherine Wells ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

13 min

Little information survives on Catherine’s life.She was born Amy Catherine Robbins in 1872.In about 1892 she was a student in a biology cramming class where the teacher was H G Wells. Though married he was quickly attracted to his student and within a short time they were living together in Woking, Surrey. He then divorced his first wife and married Catherine in October 1895 at St Pancras register ... Read more

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Little information survives on Catherine’s life.She was born Amy Catherine Robbins in 1872.In about 1892 she was a student in a biology cramming class where the teacher was H G Wells. Though married he was quickly attracted to his student and within a short time they were living together in Woking, Surrey. He then divorced his first wife and married Catherine in October 1895 at St Pancras register
... Read more
May Afternoon: ''Spring had come late''

by Catherine Wells ...

Little information survives on Catherine’s life.She was born Amy Catherine Robbins in 1872.In about 1892 she was a student in a biology cramming class where the teacher was H G Wells. Though married he was quickly attracted to his student and within a short time they were living together in Woking, Surrey. He then divorced his first wife and married Catherine in October 1895 at St Pancras register ... Read more

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Little information survives on Catherine’s life.She was born Amy Catherine Robbins in 1872.In about 1892 she was a student in a biology cramming class where the teacher was H G Wells. Though married he was quickly attracted to his student and within a short time they were living together in Woking, Surrey. He then divorced his first wife and married Catherine in October 1895 at St Pancras register
... Read more
Catherine Wells - A Short Story Collection

by Catherine Wells ...

Little information survives on Catherine’s life.She was born Amy Catherine Robbins in 1872.In about 1892 she was a student in a biology cramming class where the teacher was H G Wells. Though married he was quickly attracted to his student and within a short time they were living together in Woking, Surrey. He then divorced his first wife and married Catherine in October 1895 at St Pancras register ... Read more

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Little information survives on Catherine’s life.She was born Amy Catherine Robbins in 1872.In about 1892 she was a student in a biology cramming class where the teacher was H G Wells. Though married he was quickly attracted to his student and within a short time they were living together in Woking, Surrey. He then divorced his first wife and married Catherine in October 1895 at St Pancras register
... Read more
The Oculist: ''He had lived in darkness for two weeks''

by Catherine Wells ...

Little information survives on Catherine’s life.She was born Amy Catherine Robbins in 1872.In about 1892 she was a student in a biology cramming class where the teacher was H G Wells. Though married he was quickly attracted to his student and within a short time they were living together in Woking, Surrey. He then divorced his first wife and married Catherine in October 1895 at St Pancras register ... Read more

$0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Little information survives on Catherine’s life.She was born Amy Catherine Robbins in 1872.In about 1892 she was a student in a biology cramming class where the teacher was H G Wells. Though married he was quickly attracted to his student and within a short time they were living together in Woking, Surrey. He then divorced his first wife and married Catherine in October 1895 at St Pancras register
... Read more
The Earth Saver

by Catherine Wells ...

Tana Winthrop has longed to travel to Earth. When she is finally able to do so using new technologies she discovers the secret of the survivors living on Earth. But in doing so, Tana has also re-ignited the threat of extinction for those very survivors.As word of her discovery spreads, she must race against time to save the newly vibrant Earth from the emerging threat and the only way to do so is ... Read more

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Tana Winthrop has longed to travel to Earth. When she is finally able to do so using new technologies she discovers the secret of the survivors living on Earth. But in doing so, Tana has also re-ignited the threat of extinction for those very survivors.As word of her discovery spreads, she must race against time to save the newly vibrant Earth from the emerging threat and the only way to do so is
... Read more

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