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  My Life - The Classic Tale

  Helen Keller

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  When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880–1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Keller mounted a tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps with the help of her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan. Here is one of the greatest stories of human courage ever committed to paper. In this classic autobiography, Miss Keller recounts the first 22 years of her life, including the magical moment at the water pump when she recognized the connection between the word "water" and the cold liquid on her hands. Subsequent experiences were equally noteworthy: her joy at eventually learning to speak, her friendships with Oliver Wendell Holmes and other notables, her education at Radcliffe, and extraordinary relationship with Miss Sullivan.

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  The Fish

  Anton Chekhov

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  On a hot summer day two carpenters, Gerasim and Lyubim, sit in a pond, floundering about in the water under a willow tree, beside the unfinished bathing shed they were supposed to be working on. Blue from cold and wrangling, they struggle to drag a large eel out by the gills, from under the root. Read in English, unabridged.

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  Les Misérables: Volume 5: Jean...

  Victor Hugo

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  Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.BOOK 4: JAVERT DERAILED: Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his back.

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  The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

  Beatrix Potter

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  The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes is written by the popular children's author Beatrix Potter. Timmy and his wife Goody are collecting nuts for winter. But Timmy falls into a hole and can't get out! Goody searches for him everywhere. The moral of the story is: concentrate on your own life and don't mind others. Recommended for age 3+.

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  The Duke's Children

  Anthony Trollope

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  Plantagenet Palliser must face new challenges and a changing world if he is to hold his family together in the final installment of the Palliser Novels. After losing his devoted wife, Glencora, Duke Plantagenet Palliser takes on a task he has never had the time or skills to bother with before: dealing with his children. Palliser has never been a doting father, what with the responsibilities of title and duty constantly beckoning him away, but now his government no longer needs him. And it does not take him long to realize that his children have somehow become adults of their own accord—though not for the better.   Unbeknownst to Palliser, his late wife had given their daughter, Lady Mary, her blessing to pursue a courtship with a poor gentleman friend of the duke’s eldest son, Lord Silverbridge. Meanwhile, Silverbridge has followed his father’s wishes by entering Parliament only to become enamored with an American heiress who refuses to marry unless Palliser willingly welcomes her into the family. And Palliser’s youngest, Lord Gerald, has managed to get himself expelled from Oxford.   With such odds set against him, the duke will have to find it within himself to change, to face the end of the proper world he has always known, and to accept the new world his family has embraced for the good of all.   With The Duke’s Children, Anthony Trollope brings one of the great classic Victorian sagas to a close.   The Duke’s Children is the 6th book in the Palliser Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.  This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.  

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  Dracula - An Audiobook Empire...

  Bram Stoker

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  “The blood is the life!” 
  Narrator RJ Bayley and Audiobook Empire have joined forces to bring you Bram Stoker's Dracula. The first to be published on audio from a series of classics first performed by RJ on the "Bayley's Bookshelf" podcast. 
  “I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.” 
  Originally published in 1897, this story has become as immortal as Count Dracula himself. When solicitor Jonathan Harker journeys to Transylvania to help a wealthy client purchase a house in London, he discovers that there's more to the count than he had originally assumed. A string of peculiar and deadly incidents surround the Count's move from Transylvania to London and it's up to a ragtag group, led by Professor van Helsing, to stop them from continuing. 
  The ultimate tale for fans of the gothic, Horror, vampire fiction, Victorian London, and all that's to be found in between.

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