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  The Warden

  Anthony Trollope

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  Step into the world of Victorian England with The Warden, a timeless classic by Anthony Trollope. This novel, the first in Trollope’s beloved Barsetshire Chronicles, masterfully combines sharp social commentary with heartfelt storytelling.
   
  At the heart of the tale is Mr. Septimus Harding, a kind and gentle warden of Hiram’s Hospital, an almshouse for elderly men. His peaceful life is thrown into turmoil when a reformist newspaper editor, John Bold, questions the fairness of the hospital’s income distribution. As moral dilemmas and public scrutiny intensify, Harding finds himself torn between his sense of duty, personal integrity, and loyalty to his family.
   
  With its richly drawn characters, biting satire, and exploration of ethical complexities, The Warden is more than just a novel; it’s a reflection on human nature, societal pressures, and the timeless struggle between tradition and change.
   
  Perfect for fans of literary fiction, historical dramas, and poignant narratives, this audiobook brings Trollope’s words to life in an engaging and accessible format. Whether you’re a first-time reader or a devoted fan, The Warden is a captivating experience that resonates across generations.

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  The Scarlet Pimpernel

  Emmuska Orczy

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  "The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orczy is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. The story revolves around a mysterious Englishman, the Scarlet Pimpernel, who boldly rescues aristocrats from the clutches of death at the guillotine. The protagonist's dual identity creates a tense atmosphere as he navigates the tumultuous political landscape, emphasizing bravery, loyalty, and sacrifice themes. 
  At the beginning of the novel, the grim realities of the Reign of Terror in Paris are vividly depicted. The atmosphere is charged with violence as the guillotine claims countless lives, and the bloodthirsty crowd eagerly anticipates the next execution. Sergeant Bibot, stationed at the barricades, takes pride in thwarting the escape attempts of fleeing aristocrats. Meanwhile, rumors circulate about a group of Englishmen whose leader, the enigmatic Scarlet Pimpernel, manages to outsmart the authorities and save victims from certain deaths. 
  The narrative explores the fear and desperation of those on the run, as well as the zealous excitement of the citizens, reveling in their newfound power and vengeance. This sets the stage for a gripping tale of heroism amidst chaos.

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  PERON&EVITA: LOVE LETTERS - The...

  Lázaro Droznes

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  The career of Maria Eva Duarte de Perón is one of the most extraordinary stories ever told. 
  This work, based on apocryphal correspondence, casts light on the subjective experience of the protagonists of one of the most intense love stories Argentina has ever known. 
  Evita's 33-year life has become a universal myth. This dramatic work of fiction spans the following stages of Evita's incredible life: 
  ·        Her birth as a natural daughter in the second family of a rancher in the Province of Buenos Aires. 
  ·        Her trip to Buenos Aires at the age of fifteen and her lonely time in the big city. 
  ·        Eking out an existence as a courtesan and theater and radio actress. 
  ·        Birth and adoption of her daughter 
  ·        Marriage to Colonel Perón. 
  ·        The President's wife and first lady of the Nation. 
  ·        Her trip to Europe. 
  ·        Eva is transformed into Evita during her work with the Foundation. 
  ·        Illness, operations, lies and death. 
  ·        Embalmment of Evita's body. 
  ·        Disappearance and return of the embalmed body. 
  ·        Post mortem complaints about decisions made by the widower during his third administration. 
  Buy this audio book for an intimate glimpse into the lives of two giants from Argentine history! 
   

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  Luxury - A tale of prositution...

  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

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  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born in Valencia, Spain on 29th January 1867.  
   
  At university, he studied law and graduated in 1888 but never felt the urgency to practice - he was more interested in politics, journalism, literature and women.   
   
  Politically he was a militant Republican partisan and, in his youth, founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (The People). The newspaper was taken to court many times and he made many enemies. In one incident he was shot and almost killed. In 1896, Ibáñez was arrested and sentenced to a few months in prison. 
   
  Despite this colourful background he found time to write novels. His first published work was ‘La Araña Negra’ (The Black Spider) in 1892, a work that he later repudiated although at the time it was a useful vehicle for him to express his anti-clerical views. 
   
  In 1894, he published ‘Arroz y Tartana’ (Airs and Graces), about a late 19th Century widow in Valencia trying to keep up appearances in order to marry her daughters well.   
   
  Ibáñez’s next sequence of books studied rural life in the farmlands of Valencia and failed to gain much of an audience.   
   
  His writing now took on a new direction with its now familiar sensational and melodramatic themes in 1908 with ‘Sangre y Arena’ (Blood and Sand), which follows the career of Juan Gallardo from his poor beginnings as a child in Seville, to his rise to becoming a famous matador in Madrid 
   
  However, his greatest success was ‘Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) in 1916, which tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War.  It was a literary and commercial sensation and became the best-selling book of 1919.  It also propelled Rudolph Valentino to stardom in the 1921 film. 
   
  Ironically his fame in the English-speaking world has come not as a novelist but as the stories behind some of Hollywood’s greatest silent movies. 
   
  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez died in Menton, France on January 28th, 1928, the day before his 61st birthday.

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  Stories About Spies Who AREN'T...

  John Buchan, Ambrose Bierce,...

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  Spies come in all shapes and sizes but all of the spies in this volume are decidedly not like the urbane British agent James Bond, who regularly saves the world.  These spies are on a missionand whether that’s saving their own lives, or the lives of many others imperilled by their Nation’s foes.

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  Dear Diary - A Short Story...

  Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte Perkins...

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  The diary is that most intimate of journals, of records. 
   
  Within its pages the writer records and gives expression to their thoughts, their feelings, their emotional state on all the things that make up and surround them in this world. 
   
  For most people the diary is a way to record the milestones of life; a birthday, a new love, the passing of someone as well as the minutiae of everyday life that seems worth passing into written memory.   
   
  It may be a daily task, or an occasional flurry of words whenever it’s deemed necessary yet, apart from politicians and celebrities, these pages are never really shared.  The truth they hold is personal to the writer, and others are not privy to its contents. 
   
  With authors of the calibre of Bulgakov, Woolf, Tolstoy, Twain and many others this volume explores characters who lives seemed dominated by these diaries, and the events that unfold are both compelling and literary journeys into the very personal and intimate side of their characters’ lives. 
   
  1 - Dear Diary - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy 
  3 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  4 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain 
  5 - Eve's Diary by Mark Twain 
  6 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  7 - The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  8 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf 
  9 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol 
  10 - The Horla by Guy De Maupassant

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