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  The Travels and Adventures of...

  Ingersoll Lockwood

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Baron Trump is a small, restless, wildly self-confident boy of noble Russian birth who lives at Castle Trump and cannot be kept indoors. Armed with an ancient manuscript from the family library and accompanied by his devoted dog Bulger, he sets off for the forests of Russia to find the entrance to the world beneath our own. 
   
  Down he goes, into a hollow earth of impossible peoples: the Wind Eaters, who live on air and burst if touched; the Mirror Country, where every wall reflects; the tiny Man-Hunting Vine; the Rattlebrains; and the sightless Formifolk who have never known the sun. Each kingdom has its own absurd laws, its own courtesies, and its own ways of nearly killing a curious boy. 
   
  Guided by the manuscript of the sage Don Fum and his own considerable nerve, Baron Trump journeys on toward the centre of the earth, with Bulger at his heels through every disaster. 
   
  First published in 1889, Ingersoll Lockwood's Victorian fantasy for children is a whimsical, inventive descendant of Jules Verne and Lewis Carroll, written in the golden age of hollow-earth adventure. This unabridged audiobook edition presents the complete original text.

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  Three Short Works

  Three Short Works

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  A collection of three short stories: The Dance of Death; The Legend of Saint-Julian the Hospitaller; and, A Simple Soul. The collection was originally published in French in 1877.

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  The four horsemen of the apocalypse

  VICENTE BLASCO IBANEZ

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  The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse is a novel by the Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. First published in 1916, it tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian landowner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides during the First World War.

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  A Farewell to Arms

  Ernest Hemingway

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  'A Farewell to Arms'' is Hemingway's classic set during the Italian campaign of World War I. The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant ("Tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army.It's about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of ''A Farewell to Arms'' cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I."

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  Astronomy with an Opera

  Garrett Putman Serviss

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  In the pages that follow, the author has endeavored to encourage the study of the heavenly bodies by pointing out some of the interesting and marvelous phenomena of the universe that are visible with little or no assistance from optical instruments, and indicating means of becoming acquainted with the constellations and the planets. Knowing that an opera-glass is capable of revealing some of the most beautiful sights in the starry dome, and believing that many persons would be glad to learn the fact, he set to work with such an instrument and surveyed all the constellations visible in the latitude of New York, carefully noting everything that it seemed might interest amateur star-gazers. All the objects thus observed have not been included in this book, lest the multiplicity of details should deter or discourage the very readers for whom it was specially written. On the other hand, there is nothing described as visible with an opera-glass or a field-glass which the author has not seen with an instrument of that description, and which any person possessing eye-sight of average quality and a competent glass should not be able to discern.

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  The Devil's Grindstone - From...

  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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