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  Gustav Meyrink - A Short Story...

  Gustav Meyrink

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  Gustav Meyrink was born in Vienna on the 19th January, 1868. 
  As a young man he co-founded a bank in Prague, but a personal crisis and a suicide attempt turned his life away from commerce to a study of the occult and a career in literature. 
  His early short stories, supernatural, occult and weird, are full of promise, menace and the unusual. 
  In 1915 he published his landmark novel ‘Der Golem’ and followed these with others which, whilst noted, failed to achieve the extraordinary heights of the first.  Meyrink was also a prolific and gifted translator of the works of Dickens and others into German. 
  After studying Theosophy, Kabbala and other religions he made, in 1927, a late conversion to Buddhism. 
  Gustav Meyrink died in Starnberg, Germany on the 4th December 1932.  He was 64.

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  50 Essential Classics You Must...

  Anonymous, George Eliot, William...

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  A sweeping journey through the foundations, triumphs, and transformations of British literature.
  
  This monumental volume gathers fifty of the most influential and enduring works ever written in the English language. From the heroic epic of Beowulf to the philosophical sublimity of the Romantic poets, from Shakespeare's immortal tragedies to the visionary science fiction of H. G. Wells, this collection traces the evolution of a literary tradition that shaped the modern world.
  
  Organized chronologically and thematically, the anthology reveals how medieval allegory gave way to Renaissance drama, how the novel emerged as a dominant art form, and how the nineteenth century produced a golden age of storytelling. It concludes with poetic masterpieces that continue to define the emotional and intellectual reach of English expression.
  
  Featuring:
  
  • Foundational medieval epics and allegories
  • The great tragedies and comedies of Shakespeare
  • The birth and rise of the English novel
  • Victorian realism and Gothic imagination
  • Imperial adventure and early science fiction
  • The lyric revolution of the Romantic poets
  
  Carefully curated for both general readers and students, this edition offers a coherent and historically grounded path through over a millennium of literary achievement.
  
  A library in a single volume — indispensable, timeless, and essential.
  
  
  
  Included Works
  
  Beowulf — anonymous
  
  Piers Plowman — William Langland
  
  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — anonymous
  
  Le Morte d'Arthur — Sir Thomas Malory
  
  Utopia — Thomas More
  
  Doctor Faustus — Christopher Marlowe
  
  The Faerie Queene — Edmund Spenser
  
  Paradise Lost — John Milton
  
  Hamlet — William Shakespeare
  
  King Lear — William Shakespeare
  
  Macbeth — William Shakespeare
  
  Othello — William Shakespeare
  
  Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare
  
  A Midsummer Night's Dream — William Shakespeare
  
  The Tempest — William Shakespeare
  
  Volpone — Ben Jonson
  
  Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe
  
  Gulliver's Travels — Jonathan Swift
  
  Pamela — Samuel Richardson
  
  Tom Jones — Henry Fielding
  
  Tristram Shandy — Laurence Sterne
  
  The Vicar of Wakefield — Oliver Goldsmith
  
  The Monk — Matthew Gregory Lewis
  
  Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
  
  The Last Man — Mary Shelley
  
  Vathek — William Beckford
  
  Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
  
  Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
  
  Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë
  
  David Copperfield — Charles Dickens
  
  Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
  
  Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens
  
  Middlemarch — George Eliot
  
  Tess of the d'Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy
  
  Far from the Madding Crowd — Thomas Hardy
  
  Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
  
  The Time Machine — H. G. Wells
  
  The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells
  
  The Invisible Man — H. G. Wells
  
  The Island of Doctor Moreau — H. G. Wells
  
  She — H. Rider Haggard
  
  King Solomon's Mines — H. Rider Haggard
  
  Kim — Rudyard Kipling
  
  The Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling
  
  Songs of Innocence and of Experience — William Blake
  
  Lyrical Ballads — William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  
  Selected Poems — John Keats
  
  Selected Poems — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  Decline and Fall

  Evelyn Waugh

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  "Civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony."
  
  Decline and Fall (1928) is Evelyn Waugh's first published novel, a razor-sharp social satire that skewers British society between the wars.
  
  Modest and unassuming theology student Paul Pennyfeather is unfairly expelled from Oxford University after falling victim to a cruel prank by the members of the elite Bollinger Club. After this, he is forced to take a teaching job at an obscure Welsh private school, where he quickly discovers that all the other masters are failures in life.
  
  From there, he drifts into the orbit of the glamorous and morally flexible Margot Beste‑Chetwynde, whose world of wealth and corruption pulls him even further from the life he once imagined and into a series of absurd, darkly comic misadventures in which Paul becomes both a victim and an observer of a society that is far more ridiculous than he is.
  Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books, a prolific journalist and book reviewer who is regarded by many as the most brilliant satirical novelist of his day. Waugh's early works—including Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies—are biting social comedies, while his later novels—most famously Brideshead Revisited—take on a more reflective, elegiac tone shaped by his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930. He was a perceptive writer who used his keen eye for human folly and his experience of the wide range of people whom he encountered to create some of the most distinctive fiction of the 20th century.

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  The Terrible Old Man

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Title: The Terrible Old Man 
  Author: H. P. Lovecraft 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1921 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Number 18 in the Timeless Terrors series 
  Description: 
  The Terrible Old Man by H. P. Lovecraft is a chilling short tale first published in 1921. In the coastal town of Kingsport, a reclusive old sailor is whispered about by townsfolk. When three thieves attempt to rob him, they discover that some men—and some houses—harbor powers both strange and deadly. Lovecraft’s story blends uncanny suspense with dark humor, creating a memorable tale of retribution and cosmic dread. 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this recording captures the story’s eerie atmosphere, suspense, and Lovecraft’s signature blend of the mundane with the supernatural. While the text is in the public domain, this performance is an original work and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  This audiobook is part of Timeless Terrors, a dedicated series bringing classic horror back to life — stories from the great masters of the macabre, narrated afresh to haunt a new generation. 
  Listeners should be prepared for a brief but unsettling exploration of greed, mystery, and the hidden powers that dwell in the ordinary world.

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  Tarzan of the Apes

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  Tarzan of the Apes is the thrilling origin story of one of the most iconic characters in literary history. 
  When English aristocrats John and Alice Clayton are marooned on the African coast, their newborn son is orphaned in the heart of the jungle. Raised by a tribe of great apes, the boy grows into a powerful, intelligent, and instinct-driven man—one who will come to be known as Tarzan. Straddling the worlds of civilization and savagery, Tarzan’s journey is one of identity, survival, and discovery, as he uncovers his noble birthright and must choose where he truly belongs. 
  Packed with wild adventure, deep emotional stakes, and timeless questions of nature versus nurture, Tarzan of the Apes launched a cultural phenomenon and remains a gripping tale of heroism and human potential. 
  This new narration by Veronica Saretsky brings Burroughs’ lush jungle world to life with clarity, drama, and emotional depth.

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  Golden Lion Of Granpère

  Anthony Trollope

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  Golden Lion Of Granpère by Anthony Trollope 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: This short novel was published in 1872 and is one of Trolllope's most highly regarded works. The novel is set in the Lion d'Or, the only hotel in a small town in Lorraine, owned by Michel Voss. 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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