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  The Magic Mountain

  Thomas Mann

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  The Magic Mountain is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature. Mann started writing The Magic Mountain in 1912. It began as a much shorter narrative that comically revisited aspects of Death in Venice, a novella that he was preparing for publication. The newer work reflected his experiences and impressions during a period when his wife, who was suffering from respiratory disease, resided at Dr. Friedrich Jessen's [de] Waldsanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, for several months. In May and June 1912, Mann visited her and became acquainted with the team of doctors and patients in this cosmopolitan institution. According to Mann, in the afterword that was later included in the English translation of his novel, this stay inspired his opening chapter ("Arrival").

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  Nut Bush Farm

  Charlotte Riddell

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  Nut Bush Farm by Charlotte Riddell is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: When I entered upon the tenancy of Nut Bush Farm almost the first piece of news which met me, in the shape of a whispered rumor, was that "something" had been seen in the "long field." Pressed closely as to what he meant, my informant reluctantly stated that the "something" took the "form of a man," This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  The Sign of the Four

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective.The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.Mary Morstan is left without the bulk of the Agra treasure, although she will apparently receive the rest of the chaplet. John Watson falls in love with Mary and it is revealed at the end that he proposed to her and she has accepted.Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.

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  The Days of Chivalry - or The...

  Quatrelles

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  A mock-medieval romance in which the knight is ridiculous and the dragon is worse, by a Second Empire official who wrote as Quatrelles. Light, brisk and entirely unserious about chivalry. This edition carries Tom Hood's translation and a gallery of 52 plates, among them paintings by Gustave Doré, Gustave Courbet and Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier.

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  Little Women

  Louisa May Alcott

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The most famous coming-of-age novel from the canon of world literature. 
   
  United States, 1860s. In the March family, while their father is away fighting in the Civil War, four daughters are cared for by their mother, who is clearly ahead of her time, instilling in the girls ideals of freedom and encouraging them to find their own path in life. 
   
  Mrs. March's daughters – proper Meg, spirited Jo, shy Beth, and somewhat precocious Amy – try to add variety to their life marked by constant lack of money, although they painfully feel the shortage and miss their father. Whether they're planning games or forming secret societies, they spread their enthusiasm to everyone. Even Laurie, a lonely boy from the neighboring house, and his mysterious, wealthy grandfather fall under their spell. The young heir looks with envy at the Marches' modest home, for who wouldn't want to warm themselves in its comfort? Who could refuse the friendship of four girls with dramatically different personalities but equally good hearts? 
   
  A book that has been connecting generations for a century and a half.

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  Kent Knowles - Quahaug

  Joseph Crosby Lincoln

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  Kent Knowles writes boys' adventure stories he despises, lives with his sister on Cape Cod, has not left the town in twenty years, and is generally agreed to be a quahaug — a clam that shuts. Then a matter of an old family debt sends him to England. Lincoln built a whole career out of one place; this is his most personal book, and Kent's cowardice is diagnosed rather than excused. Fifty-three plates by Winslow Homer and John Sloan trace the shore, the street, and the city from 1795 to 1928, matching Kent's passage from Cape Cod to London.

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