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  From the Earth to the Moon - A...

  Jules Verne

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  Before Apollo, before the Space Race, there was the Baltimore Gun Club and a daring dream to conquer the stars. 
  The American Civil War has ended, and the brilliant, eccentric artillerists of the Baltimore Gun Club find themselves bored and yearning for a new target. Enter their cold, calculating, and wildly ambitious president, Impey Barbicane. When Barbicane casually proposes a plan to construct a cannon of unimaginable proportions—capable of firing a massive projectile 250,000 miles to the Moon—the world is sent into a frenzy of scientific fervor. From calculating the crushing limits of gravity and designing explosive new powders to fending off bitter rivals and skeptical astronomers, Barbicane and his crew must overcome seemingly insurmountable engineering hurdles. As global excitement reaches a fever pitch and millions of dollars are raised, the stakes soar. But the question remains: will the massive Columbiad blast them into glorious history, or explode into a catastrophic failure? 
  Why you will love this: Fans of hard Science Fiction, space exploration tropes, and steampunk aesthetics will be spellbound by Jules Verne's astonishingly prophetic vision. This audiobook blends technical ingenuity, satirical humor, and pulse-pounding engineering suspense into an unforgettable space opera and scientific adventure. 
  About the Author: Jules Verne is widely celebrated as the "Father of Science Fiction." Writing in the 19th century, his meticulous research and boundless imagination predicted technological marvels like submarines, space travel, and helicopters decades before they became reality.

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  Morella

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "Morella" is a short story in the Gothic horror genre by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe.
  An unnamed narrator, deeply affected by his friend Morella, marries her despite not feeling romantic love, drawn instead by an indefinable, intense connection. Morella, a reclusive and profoundly erudite woman, immerses him in her mystical studies, particularly German metaphysical texts on identity, pantheism, and reincarnation. Over time, the narrator grows disturbed by her eerie presence, her cold touch, and her otherworldly voice, which shift his joy into horror. As Morella's health declines, marked by tuberculosis-like symptoms, he secretly wishes for her death, tormented by her unsettling gaze and cryptic demeanor.

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  Fear and Was It a Dream? -...

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Skeletons and corpses rise from their fitful sleep and share a haunting message from beyond the grave.

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  In Our Time

  Ernest Hemingway

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  "He was alone, and he was comfortable. He felt he had left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to understand."
  
  In Our Time is a collection of vignettes and short stories that marked the arrival of Ernest Hemmingway as a bold new voice in American literature. The works contained herein explore the themes of war, loss, love, alienation and disillusionment that are prominent in much of the author's work while encapsulating the struggles faced by individuals in the rapidly changing, post-war world. From the trenches of World War I to quiet moments of reflection in nature, Hemingways use of spare, precise prose delivers a sense of moral value and a powerful punch of emotional truth.
  
  The titles included in this collection, in order of appearance, are:
  
  - On the Quai at Smyrna
  - Indian Camp
  - The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife
  - The End of Something
  - The Three-Day Blow
  - The Battler
  - A Very Short Story
  - Soldier's Home
  - The Revolutionist
  - Mr. and Mrs. Elliot
  - Cat in the Rain
  - Out of Season
  - Cross-Country Snow
  - My Old Man
  - Big Two-Hearted River: Part 1
  - Big Two-Hearted River: Part 2
  - L' Envoi
  Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist renowned for his econimical, understated prose, adventurous lifestyle and outspoken public image. He began his career as a reporter and published a number of short stories before gaining fame with novels such as The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), and his experiences during the Spanish Civil War informed the best-selling For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, and some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature.
  This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual sections.

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  The Golden Goose and Other Stories

  The Brothers Grimm

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  This charming collection of Grimms' Fairy Tales includes The Golden Goose, Clever Gretel, Clever Hans, The Little Peasant, The Water of Life, and Ashputtel (Cinderella). Grimms' Fairy Tales was first published in Germany in 1812 as Kinder und Hausmärchen. This series of recordings is based on the original 1823 English translation by Edgar Taylor, with subsequent editing by Marian Edwardes.

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  Penguin Island

  Anatole France

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  'Believe me, the best proof is to have none at all. That is the only evidence one cannot debate.' 
   
  Anatole France's 1908 novel Penguin Island offers a thinly veiled lampoon of French history and of human civilization. When a wayward Christian missionary monk lands on an island off the northern coast of Europe, he perceives the island's seabirds, a colony of upright, unafraid auks, as a sort of pre-Christian society of noble pagans and baptizes them. This causes a problem for God, who normally only allows humans to be baptized. He resolves the dilemma by converting the baptized birds to humans and giving them each a soul. The ensuing history of Penguinia presents a comic send-up of the foibles and frailty of humanity. 
   
  The novel's centerpiece is an immensely skillful and scathing parody of the Dreyfus Affair, which stands alongside Émile Zola's 'J'accuse' for its humanity and intellectual bravery. This new translation, more than a century after the first and only English version, offers a full introduction to the novel, setting it in its historical and literary context, including France's life and rich literary legacy.

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