Publisher: Charles River Editors
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian writer best known for the Anne of Green Gables series which details the life of Anne Shirley. In total Montgomery published 20 novels and over 500 short stories and poems. This version of Montgomerys Anne of Avonlea includes a table of contents.
Are you a fan of Shakespeare's plays but don't have the time or energy to sit down and read one of his classics? Have you ever wanted to enjoy a Shakespearean play on-the-go, whether it's during your daily commute or while exercising? Look no further than the audiobook version of "Much Ado About Nothing"! Narrated by skilled voice actors who brings the characters and plot to life, this audiobook will transport you to the vibrant world of Messina, where two couples navigate the complexities of love, jealousy, and deception. You'll be able to hear the witty banter and playful teasing between Beatrice and Benedick, the passionate declarations of love between Claudio and Hero, and the machinations of Don John as he tries to sabotage the couples' happiness. Listening to an audiobook version of "Much Ado About Nothing" has many benefits. Not only does it allow you to experience one of Shakespeare's most beloved plays in a new and engaging way, but it also helps you to fully appreciate the language and wordplay that makes Shakespeare's works so timeless. With an audiobook, you can pause and rewind as needed, so you won't miss any of the intricacies of the plot or dialogue. So why not give the audiobook version of "Much Ado About Nothing" a try? It's the perfect way to enjoy one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, no matter where you are or what you're doing.Show book
Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers of prose and poetry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1907. Born in Bombay on 30th December 1865 both he and his sister were sent back to England when he was five, as was the custom of the British ruling elite in India. The ill-treatment and cruelty by the couple they boarded with in Portsmouth had one useful effect that Kipling himself suggested; it gave him an early impetus for a literary life. This was further enhanced by his return to India at the age of sixteen to work on a local paper. Not only did this result in him writing constantly but also gave him the opportunity to explore issues of identity and national allegiance which pervade much of his work. Whilst he is best remembered for his many classic children’s stories and a host of popular poems including ‘If….’ he is also regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story.Show book
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-63 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. The book was extremely popular in England, and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades, but eventually fell out of favour in part due to its prejudices (common at the time) against Irish, Jews, Catholics and Americans.The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house. There he appears to drown and is transformed into a "water-baby", as he is told by a caddisfly - an insect that sheds its skin-and begins his moral education. The story is thematically concerned with Christian redemption, though Kingsley also uses the book to argue that England treats its poor badly, and to question child labour, among other themes.Show book
Written at the defining moment when Ireland was heading toward complete national independence, Chesterton's study of the Irish question demonstrates that if both the English and the Irish had modified their attitudes slightly, subsequent Anglo-Irish relations could have been radically improved. Unlike most historians, he tackles the question from an ideological, philosophical, and religious standpoint. As a Roman Catholic and a lover of English nationalism, Chesterton shared many sentiments with the Irish. Written objectively and frankly, this is an important work for any student of English/Irish history as well as an excellent study of the effects of ideology and religion on society.Show book
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. The Russian Literary Tradition has justly earned a magnificent reputation. The Russian Empire of the Czars was a huge and disparate patchwork of peoples ruled by an overbearing elite that employed a middle-class bureaucracy to keep the working class firmly underfoot. Within its vaulted ranks are a role call of many of the greatest literary talents of the ages. 01 - The Top 10 - The Russian Men - An Introduction 02 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 03 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov 04 - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostovesky 05 - The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Cloak' 06 - Twenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky 07 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev 08 - The Shot by Alexander Pushkin 09 - Hide And Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub 10 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 11 - The District Doctor by Ivan TurgenevShow book
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.BOOK 18: We are now, reader, arrived at the last stage of our long journey. As we have, therefore, travelled together through so many pages, let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach, who have passed several days in the company of each other; and who, notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road, generally make all up at last, and mount, for the last time, into their vehicle with chearfulness and good humour; since after this one stage, it may possibly happen to us, as it commonly happens to them, never to meet more.Show book
