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  Persuasion

  Jane Austen

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  Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth exemplify the country gentry in Regency England in Jane Austen's endearing tale. 
   
  Anne Elliot is a young woman of perfect breeding and unwavering integrity. Seven years after she is persuaded to reject Captain Wentworth's offer of marriage, her feelings for him are still strong. By the time she realizes this, Wentworth seems to only have eyes for the attractive, though flighty, Louisa Musgrove. 
   
  Set against the world of the country gentry in Regency England, Persuasion critically portrays the many aspects of proper society-its failings and humor-as well as presenting a tender story of determination and enduring love. 
   
  This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

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  The Essential Robert Louis...

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  Two historical adventure novels from the author of Treasure Island, as well as a rare travel memoir of his experiences in the Pacific Islands.The Master of Ballantrae: In this tragic tale of a family divided by the eighteenth-century Jacobite rising, two brothers join opposing sides of the conflict. The story follows their epic rivalry from Scotland to the high seas and the American wilderness.Kidnapped: This adventure novel, inspired by true events in eighteenth-century Scotland, tells the tale of young David Balfour—who is betrayed by his uncle and kidnapped onto a ship, and survives shipwreck with his friend, the famous Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart.In the South Seas: In the 1890s, Robert Louis Stevenson chartered a ship to the Pacific Islands and recorded his experiences and observations. This autobiography of his journey offers a rare window into the author’s real, adventurous life.

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  Classic Dog Stories

  Ned Halley

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  Listen to this audio collection of classic dog stories read by an ensemble cast of treasured readers - including Lorelei King, Samuel West, Thomas Judd, Imogen Church and Gordon Kennedy.From the grit of a frontier man’s dog, from pampered lapdog to wayward mongrel, from faithful guard dog to strong willed pet they’re all here in Classic Dog Stories – the perfect audiobook for dog lovers everywhere.In this entertaining collection, dogs of all kinds are brought to life. Working dogs, dogs who are mistreated by humans, dogs who save lives and the ones that make us laugh; they all leap and bound on the page in stories by our most accomplished writers, including Mark Twain, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Jack London and Jerome K. Jerome.This edition is edited by anthologist Ned Halley.The stories included are:A Dog's Tale by Mark TwainBrown Wolf by Jack LondonThe Dog Hervey by Rudyard KiplingMemoirs of a Yellow Dog by O HenryMr Donne's Exodus' from Shirley by Charlotte BronteMontmorency' from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K JeromeLittle Girl Afraid of a Dog by Mary E. Wilkins FreemanKashtanka by Anton ChekovThe Black Poodle by F. AnsteyStickeen by John Muir

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  99 Classic Horror Short Stories...

  H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan...

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  CONTENTS:A Suspicious Gift [Algernon Blackwood],Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp [Algernon Blackwood],The Wood of the Dead [Algernon Blackwood],A Baby Tramp [Ambrose Bierce],The Damned Thing [Ambrose Bierce],Dagon [H.P Lovecraft],The Horror of the Heights [Arthur Conan Doyle],The Descendant [H.P Lovecraft],The Cats of Ulthar [H.P Lovecraft],The Evil Clergyman [H.P Lovecraft],He [H.P Lovecraft],The Book [H.P Lovecraft],In the Vault [H.P Lovecraft],Nyarlathotep [H.P Lovecraft],Death and the Woman [Gertrude Atherton],The Striding Place [Gertrude Atherton],Hop-Frog [Edgar Allan Poe],The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe],The Tell-Tale Heart [Edgar Allan Poe],Shadow [Edgar Allan Poe],The Beast in the Cave [H.P Lovecraft],The Doom That Came to Sarnath [Lovecraft],The Vampire Maid [Hume Nisbet],A Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Poe],The Demon Spell [Hume Nisbet],Out of the Earth [Arthur Machen],The Signal-Man [Charles Dickens],The Colloquy of Monos and Una [Poe],Demons of the Sea [William Hope Hodgson],Glámir [Sabine Baring-Gould],Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story [Sabine Baring-Gould],Tales of Secret Egypt [Sax Rohmer],Some Words with a Mummy [Poe],In the Dark [Edith Nesbit],The Sea Raiders [H. G. Wells],The Baron of Beauguard [Gilbert Parke],The Vampire [Jan Neruda],A Journey of Little Profit [John Buchan],The Keeper of Cademuir [John Buchan],Dickon the Devil [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu],The Child That Went With The Fairies [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu],Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling [Le Fanu],Two Doctors Montague [Rhodes James],A School Story Montague [Rhodes James],The Diary of Mr. Poynter Montague[ Rhodes James],In the Forest of Villefére by [Robert E. Howard],The Dream Snake [Robert E. Howard],The Thing On the Roof [Robert E. Howard],The Imp of the Perverse [Poe],The Devil in the Belfry [Poe],The Crawling Chaos [Lovecraft],Aunt Joanna [Sabine Baring-Gould],The Outsider [Lovecraft],The Hound [Lovecraft],The Disinterment [Lovecraft],The Horror At Martin's Beach [Lovecraft],The Tree On The Hill [Lovecraft],The Outgoing of The Tide [John Buchan],The Curse of Yig [Lovecraft],The Haunter Of The Dark [Lovecraft],Berenice [Poe],The Angel Of The Odd [Poe],Black Ram [Baring-Gould],The Cask Of Amontillado [Poe],Dracula's Guest [Bram Stoker],The Mother Of Pansies [Baring-Gould],On The Leads [Baring-Gould],McAlister [Baring-Gould],Mustapha [Baring-Gould],The Ghost and the Bone-setter [Le Fanu],The Drunkard's Dream [Le Fanu],The Novel of the White Powder [Arthur Machen],The Merewigs [Baring-Gould],Xélucha [Matthew Phipps Shiel],Solange [ Alexandre Dumas],The Fall of The House of Usher [Poe],The Assignation [Poe],The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade [Poe],Laura Silver Bell [Le Fanu],Descent Into The Maelstrom [Poe],The Power of Darkness [ Edith Nesbit],An Authentic Narrative of A Haunted House [Le Fanu],The Night Wire [H. F. Arnold],The Dualists [Bram Stoker],Stories of Lough Guir [Le Fanu],The Vision of Tom Chuff [Le Fanu],The Three Strangers [Thomas Hardy],Crooken Sands [Bram Stoker],The Cairn of the Headland [Robert E. Howard],The Shining Pyramid [Arthur Machen],Schalken The Painter [Le Fanu],Hellhound Of The Cosmos [Clifford Donald Simak],Ibid [Lovecraft],The Grove Of Ashtaroth [John Buchan],The Moon Bog [Lovecraft],An Account of Some Strange Disturbances [Le Fanu],Ultor De Lacy A Legend of Cappercullen [Le Fanu],The Red Hand [Arthur Machen] Starts at Chapter 98,The Inmost Light [Arthur Machen] Starts at Chapter 100.

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  The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was the preeminent figure in late 19th-century detective fiction. A physician by profession, he soon found such popularity as a writer of detective stories that his writing was far more profitable than his medical practice.'The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire' is a Sherlock Holmes mystery. Holmes and Watson are contacted by a country gentleman whose Peruvian wife has been caught red-handed sucking the blood from her baby's neck. Can there be any explanation other than that the woman is a vampire?

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  The Portrait of a Lady

  Henry James

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  Following the death of her father, Isabel Archer leaves the comforts of Albany, New York to stay with her aunt Lydia Touchett at her London estate. There she meets Lydia's rich husband, David, her cousin Ralph, and the Touchetts's proud neighbor, Lord Warburton. Soon, too, come marriage proposals from Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood, the son of a wealthy mill owner. Although Isabel declines both offers, she eventually gives her hand to Gilbert Osmond, an American ex-pat in Florence.

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