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A look into the machinations of human evil and its effects. - Summary by Christine Rottger]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72922118</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:39:45 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72922118/modern_mephistopheles_louisa_may_alcott.mp3" length="162331409" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Louisa May Alcott</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>One of our favorite authors give us this book of lies, greed and lust. Originally published under a pen name. However, the author considered this genre as innate. A look into the machinations of human evil and its effects. - Summary by Christine Rottger</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[One of our favorite authors give us this book of lies, greed and lust. Originally published under a pen name. However, the author considered this genre as innate. A look into the machinations of human evil and its effects. - Summary by Christine Rottger]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>20292</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>alcott,christine,greed,innate,lust,machinations,mephistopheles,modern,rottger,suspense</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6c118d447bc3313cefa50c71aa6d99e3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>
