The Story of a Whim by Grace Livingston HILL (1865 - 1947) Genre(s): Published 1900 onward, Christian Fiction Read by: LikeManyWaters in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Five Girls, an Organ, and the Whim 00:12:15 - 02 - A Christmas Box That Didn't Match 00:29:08 - 03 - ''And What Are You Going to Say to Her?'' 00:40:07 - 04 - A Letter That Wrote Itself 00:57:27 - 05 - A Sunday School in Spite of Itself 01:19:00 - 06 - ''My Father!'' 01:34:49 - 07 - ''I Love You'' 01:50:51 - 08 - Sad News from the North 02:07:20 - 09 - The Discovery 02:24:17 - 10 - Victoria Has a Finger in the Pie 02:40:22 - 11 - A Daring Maneuver 02:52:31 - 12 - The Whim Completes Its Justification A group of girls send gifts and letters to one whom they think to be a young woman like them. 'Christie' is really a poor young bachelor tending his orange grove in sunny Florida. Through his correspondence with Hazel (who still thinks he's a girl) he becomes a Christian, and falls in love with her. What will happen when she takes a trip south to meet her dear pen-pal? - Summary by LikeManyWaters More information: https://librivox.org/the-story-of-a-whim-by-grace-livingston-hill/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

Five Years of My Life 1894-1899 by Alfred DREYFUS (1859 - 1935), translated by UNKNOWN ( - ) Genre(s): Memoirs, Letters Read by: Sue Anderson in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - (p. ix) Dedication, Introductiory Note, & Editor's Preface 00:07:24 - 01 - (p. 1) A Sketch of My Life, The Arrest, The First Court Martial 00:33:26 - 02 - (p.25) After the Condemnation 01:05:41 - 03 - (p.49) The Degradation 01:34:00 - 04 - (p. 73) The Ile de Re Prison 02:00:54 - 05 - The Journey to Devil's Island; The Diary April 14-15, 1895 02:20:27 - 06 - The Devil's Island Diary, April 15-May 27, 1895 02:48:08 - 07 - The Diary, May29-July 14, 1895 03:09:53 - 08 - The Diary, July 16-November 4, 1895 03:34:08 - 09 - The Diary, November 7, 1895-March 12, 1896 04:00:33 - 10 - The Diary, March 15-September 10, 1896 04:23:53 - 11 - Devil's Island, September 1896-March 1897 04:49:32 - 12 - Devil's Island, April-November 1897 05:12:59 - 13 - Devil's Island, November 1897-September 1898 05:37:09 - 14 - Devil's Island & the Return to France, October 1898-June 1899 05:57:40 - 15 - In France, the Second Court Martial, June-September 1899 Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life imprisonment on Devil's island, a penal colony off French Guiana. His prison diary, published as Five Years of My Life in 1901 is a heroic tale of survival against daunting odds: isolation, deprivation, torture . . Alfred left behind in Paris his wife Lucie, who, forbidden to join her husband in exile, struggled to protect their two children from the rampant anti-Semitism that swirled about them, while she begged her husband to hold onto life as she tried to clear his name. Excerpts from the letters that Alfred and Lucie wrote to each other, between Devil's island and Paris, are included in Five Years. Their letters are one of the great love stories of all times.'I live only by feverish will from day to day,' Dreyfus wrote to Lucie on September 4, 1897. Imprisoned in a walled-in hut in brutal heat, for months chained to his bed at night so that he could not turn over, watched 24-hours a day by guards who were forbidden to speak to him, denied books to read or any means of exercising, and only at several months lapse receiving any letters from his wife, (and those often just censored copies), his health rapidly deteriorated, but his determination to survive and prove his innocence remained strong. 'Truly,' he writes to Lucie, 'were it a question of myself alone, long ago would I have gone to seek in the peace of the tomb forgetfulness of all that I have seen, all of that I have heard . . . But my spirit soon revives, quivering with pain, with energy, with implacable desire for the most precious thing in this world, our honor, the honor of our children, the honor of us all.'Lucie writes back with passion and courage: (March 6, 1898) . . .'There are moments when my heart is so swollen, when your sufferings re-echo in my soul with such force, so piercingly, that I can no longer control myself . . .With a supreme effort I seek to reach out to you. Then I believe myself to be near you, I speak softly of hope. All too soon, I am awakened from my dream and brought back to reality by a child's voice . . 'Five Years of My Life speaks to the fortitude, perseverance, and love of Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, two innocent people snared in a web of evil. It is a book that unquestionably resonates with us today. (Summary by Sue Anderson) More information: http://librivox.org/five-years-of-my-life-1894-1899-by-alfred-dreyfus/