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  Connecticut Yankee in King...

  Mark Twain

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  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur.

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  Alta Lynn MD - The Romance Of...

  Nellie Bly

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  Available for the first time in 125 years, the Lost Novels Of Nellie Bly! 
  Pioneering undercover journalist Nellie Bly is rightly famous for exposing society's ills. From brutal insane asylums to corrupt politicians, she exposed all manner of frauds and charlatans. She was also a skilled interviewer and reporter. What no one has known was that she was also a novelist. This is because, of the twelve novels Bly wrote between 1889 and 1895, eleven have been lost. Until now. 
  Newly discovered by author David Blixt (What Girls Are Good For, The Master Of Verona), Nellie Bly's lost works of fiction are now available for the first time! These are The Lost Novels of Nellie Bly! 
  Alta Lynn and her best friend, Pet Darlington, are out riding one day with two young men when, on a lark, they agree to hold a mock wedding. Only afterwards do the ladies find the marriages are legal and binding! Furious, Alta Lynn rejects her new husband and flees to New York, throwing herself into her education. 
  Three years later she is a doctor with an active practice. A midnight summons to a patient who has attempted suicide leads to several new acquaintances, and Alta Lynn finds herself the personal doctor to the wealthy Osborne family. 
  That summer, while vacationing with the Osbornes, she finds herself face to face with her husband! Worse, a blackmailer is threatening the Osbornes over a dreadful secret that would ruin their daughter. 
  When a man is thrown off a cliff to die in the sea, Alta suspects her secret husband of the deed. She decides to cover for him, unwittingly opening herself up to the blackmailer’s threats. Secrets, scandals, and murder all surround. . .Alta Lynn, M.D.! 
  Extra feature: includes the New York World article that inspired this novel!

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  Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers

  Edith Hubback Brown

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  "Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers" is a fascinating book written by Edith Hubback Brown. The author delves into the lives of Jane Austen's brothers, Francis and Charles, who served as sailors in the Royal Navy during a time of great naval conflicts and exploration. Brown skillfully weaves together historical research and Austen family letters to provide a vivid and insightful account of the Austen brothers' naval experiences. 
   
  In this audiobook version of "Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers," the narration by Bryn Roberts adds an extra layer of depth to the story. Roberts' clear and engaging voice brings the characters to life, allowing listeners to immerse themselves in the tales of adventure and the challenges faced by Francis and Charles. With Roberts' expressive reading, the audiobook becomes an engaging journey through the lives of these fascinating historical figures, providing a unique perspective on Jane Austen's world and the influences that shaped her writing. 
   
  Overall, "Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers" is a must-read (or must-listen) for Austen enthusiasts and history buffs alike. Edith Hubback Brown's meticulous research combined with Bryn Roberts' captivating narration creates an unforgettable experience that sheds light on a lesser-known aspect of the Austen family and their connection to the naval world of the time. 
   
  Geoffrey Giuliano is a renowned audiobook narrator known for his distinctive voice and versatile storytelling abilities. With a career spanning several decades, Giuliano has lent his voice to a wide range of literary works, including classic novels, biographies, and non-fiction titles. His narration style is often characterized by a rich and engaging tone that captivates listeners and brings the stories to life.

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  Candide

  Voltaire

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  Candide is characterised by its sarcastic tone, as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot. A picaresque novel with a story similar to that of a more serious bildungsroman, it parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is mordantly matter-of-fact. Still, the events discussed are often based on historical happenings, such as the Seven Years' War and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so too does Candide in this short novel, albeit more directly and humorously.    Voltaire ridicules religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers through allegory; most conspicuously, he assaults Leibniz and his optimism. Voltaire's men and women point his case against optimism by starting high and falling low. A modern could not go about it after this fashion. He would not plunge his people into an unfamiliar misery. He would just keep them in the misery they were born to. But such an account of Voltaire's procedure is as misleading as the plaster cast of a dance.    Look at his procedure again. Mademoiselle Cunégonde, the illustrious Westphalian, sprung from a family that could prove seventy-one quarterings, descends and descends until we find her earning her keep by washing dishes in the Propontis. The aged faithful attendant, victim of a hundred acts of rape by negro pirates, remembers that she is the daughter of a pope, and that in honor of her approaching marriage with a Prince of Massa-Carrara all Italy wrote sonnets of which not one was passable. We do not need to know French literature before Voltaire in order to feel, although the lurking parody may escape us, that he is poking fun at us and at himself. His laughter at his own methods grows more unmistakable at the last, when he caricatures them by casually assembling six fallen monarchs in an inn at Venice.    A modern assailant of optimism would arm himself with social pity. There is no social pity in "Candide." Voltaire, whose light touch on familiar institutions opens them and reveals their absurdity, likes to remind us that the slaughter and pillage and murder which Candide witnessed among the Bulgarians was perfectly regular, having been conducted according to the laws and usages of war. Had Voltaire lived today he would have done to poverty what he did to war. Pitying the poor, he would have shown us poverty as a ridiculous anachronism, and both the ridicule and the pity would have expressed his indignation.

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  Swann's Way

  Marcel Proust

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  Swann's Way by Marcel Proust is a timeless exploration of memory, love, and society. The first volume of In Search of Lost Time, it introduces readers to the narrator’s vivid recollections of childhood, the iconic madeleine moment, and the poignant story of Charles Swann’s passionate but turbulent love affair. Proust’s masterful prose weaves themes of desire, jealousy, and the passage of time into a richly detailed portrait of life and longing.

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  Book The (Unabridged)

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Book" is an unfinished short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death.
  In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange bookseller, and when he takes it home and examines it, weird and sinister events ensue.
  In October 1933, Lovecraft wrote in a letter: I am at a sort of standstill in writing disgusted at much of my older work, and uncertain as to avenues of improvement. In recent weeks I have done a tremendous amount of experimenting with different styles and perspectives, but have destroyed most of the results.

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