Jan 27, 2020
Before she wrote Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man. It’s a potentially interesting story, but you’ll be asleep before anything exciting happens
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Find ‘The Last Man’ by Mary Shelley on Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18247
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Jan 20, 2020
The seminal work of history and anthropology by Sir James George Frazer was controversial even in its day.
Will this scholarly tome and its comparison of religion and myths from various regions be enough to prevent sleep? Even in my droning voice? I very much doubt this.
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Jan 13, 2020
Tonight’s story to help you sleep is from a work by Robert William Chambers. A fascinating bedtime story, but slumber will still come.
A zookeeper hears of the discovery of a creature long thought extinct, a great bird. But his journey leads him to something even stranger in the wilds of the Atlantic coast.
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Jan 6, 2020
Tonight’s story to help you sleep is from a work by Charles Garvice.
A rough Australian mining town in the 19th Century is a strange place for a young girl. But when a baby is found by the mailman the whole town adopts the child and takes good care of her as she grows into a wilful young woman.
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