Jill Preston

2 books read for LibriVox

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Charlotte Temple Susanna Haswell Rowson
You get a compact, surprisingly affecting story of Charlotte’s bad judgment, Montraville’s selfish charm, and Mademoiselle La Rue’s polished manipulation. The moralizing is heavy and the sentiment unapologetic, but its scenes of shame, loneliness, and social ruin still land if you’re patient with its eighteenth-century melodrama.
The Art of Money Getting P. T. Barnum
Funny thing is, the great showman mostly tells you to stay sober, pick work you actually like, and stay out of debt, all in a chatty lecture-hall voice with little anecdotes. It's short, sensible, and more charming than a Victorian money manual has any right to be.

2 books read for LibriVox

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Charlotte Temple Susanna Haswell Rowson
You get a compact, surprisingly affecting story of Charlotte’s bad judgment, Montraville’s selfish charm, and Mademoiselle La Rue’s polished manipulation. The moralizing is heavy and the sentiment unapologetic, but its scenes of shame, loneliness, and social ruin still land if you’re patient with its eighteenth-century melodrama.
The Art of Money Getting P. T. Barnum
Funny thing is, the great showman mostly tells you to stay sober, pick work you actually like, and stay out of debt, all in a chatty lecture-hall voice with little anecdotes. It's short, sensible, and more charming than a Victorian money manual has any right to be.