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Belinda, with a modest self-possession quite her own, promptly answered for this Spectre in a low, clear voice: The lights extinguished; by the hearth I leant, Half weary with a listless discontent. The flickering giant shadows, gathering near. Closed round me with a dim and silent fear; All dull, all dark; save when the leaping flame, Glancing, lit up The Picture's ancient frame.
Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction by an excerpt from Wikipedia)Show book
A chance encounter in a Parisian café leads to a series of unfortunate misunderstandings that threaten to bring to a premature and irreconcilable end the envisioned marriage between a pair of young lovers. When eligible bachelor Dick Naseby meets the lovely young Esther Van Tromp - a woman estranged from her cherished father, a talented artist whose success takes him around the world - he is too well-bred and smitten with her to confess the truth: he knows her father well. He wrongly believes that to reveal the truth would cause great harm, and the consequences of his deceit soon become tangible.Show book
Inspector Lestrade asks for Holmes's help after Charles McCarthy is murdered, and his son, James, is implicated. McCarthy, and another local landowner, John Turner, are both Australian expatriates, and Lestrade was originally engaged by Turner's daughter, Alice, who believes James is innocent. Holmes interviews James, and then inspects the scene of the murder, deducing a third man was present. Realising Holmes has solved the case, Turner confesses to the crime, revealing that McCarthy was blackmailing him due to Turner's criminal past. Holmes does not reveal the crime, but secures James's release because of the presence of a third person at the crime scene.Show book
CONTENTS: W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's PawEA Poe - The Pit and the pendulumEA Poe - The RavenEA Poe - Annabel LeeEA Poe - The Fall of the House of UsherWashington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy HollowShow book
"Sarrasine" (1830) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, part of his Comédie Humaine.The stage is set around midnight during a ball, the narrator is sitting at a window. There is an unknown old man around the house, whom the family was oddly devoted to, and who frightened and intrigued the partygoers.When the man sits next to the narrator's guest, Beatrix Rochefide, she touches him, and the narrator rushes her out of the room. The narrator knows who the man is and says he will tell her his story the next evening. Then he portrays Ernest-Jean Sarrasine, a passionate, artistic boy, who after having trouble in school became a prodigy of the sculptor Bouchardon.Sarrasine, a talented young man, after one of his sculptures wins a competition, heads to Rome, where he sees a theatre performance featuring Zambinella. He falls in love with her, going to all of her performances and creating a clay mold of her. The old man is not Sarrasine. Who is he?Show book
In the older west, Webb is locally known as the best worker to run a cattle ranch. Santa, his partner, is also locally known as the queen of cattle. Join them when a friend questions who is the king of the house... Please visit us at www.canaritaudiobooks.com, and contact us production@canaritaudiobooks.com Credits: Produced by Canarit Directed by Gil Geva Written by O. Henry Recorded and Edited by Shalev Alon Performed by: John Dellaporta Peter Mastne Mike Witts Adrien Burks Chelsea Giles Jacob Pankin Brianne Bogle Music and SFX by: Soundotcom Adam Vitovsky soundlyShow book
