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  Henry V

  William Shakespeare

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  This widely-studied play is one of the best sellers of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the seventh Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press.

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  The Girl who was Tired of Love

  Leonard Merrick

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  "Leonard Merrick (1864 – 1939) was a well known English novelist, who was popular with the likes of  such as H. G. Wells, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton and William Dean Howells. Many of his stories have, over the years, been adapted to the screen.  J. M. Barrie called Merrick the ""novelist's novelist.""In ""The Girl who was Tired of Love"", Merrick tells the story of a wealthy widow whose beauty has faded with age, and who struggles to accept herself in the role of an old woman. One day she loses a valuable jewel and offers a substantial reward for the finder. A young and very beautiful young girl presents herself with the lost saphire to claim this finder's fee. She explains that the reward will enable her to buy a ticket to a village in Northern France where once a year the mysterious ""Face Exchange"" takes place. She hopes to sell her beauty for great riches. The wealthy widow is sceptical, but on investigation discovers that the miraculous face exchange really does take place... and so she makes a proposal to the young girl which both of them will live to regret...."

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  The Slipper Point Mystery

  Augusta Huiell Seaman

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  The Slipper Point Mystery (1919) is a youth adventure novel by Augusta Huiell Seaman. "Down on the sand was a signboard which said: 'CHILDREN MUST NOT PLAY IN THE BOATS.' Nevertheless, she sat on the prow of one, this girl of fourteen, digging her bare toes aimlessly in the sand, and by her side on the prow-seat sat a tiny child of about three, industriously sucking the thumb of her right hand, while she pulled at a lock of her thick straight hair with her left. So she sat, saying nothing, but staring contentedly out over the water. The older girl wore a blue skirt and a soiled white middy-blouse. She had dark brown eyes and thick auburn hair, hanging down in a ropelike braid. Her face was somewhat freckled, and apart from her eyes and hair she was not particularly pretty." BUT, she had a secret discovery on Slipper Point, and she shares it with a new friend…

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  The Scarlet Letter

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  'Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.' 
  A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne's strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his heroine and berates the weakness of Society for attacking the innocent. 
  The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, the bestselling author, is a classic that delves into the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community. This bestseller is a timeless exploration of societal norms and personal strength. 
  For fans of George Eliot (Middlemarch), Henry James (The Turn of the Screw), Leo Tolstoy (The Kreutzer Sonata, and Other Stories 1889 annotated), Herman Melville (Bartleby, the Scrivener), and Charlotte Brontë (The Professor).

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  The Man Who Would Be King

  Rudyard Kipling

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  This short story by Kipling of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan is read by David Philo.

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  The Mutiny of the Elsinore

  Jack London

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  Life has lost its savor for Mr. Pathurst. New York, fame, women, and the arts have all become tedious. Searching for excitement, he books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle on a route that travels around the treacherous Cape Horn. Pathurst encounters more than he ever expected in rough seas, turbulent storms, and a mutinous crew. His epic struggles aboard the sailing ship Elsinore have given him a new love for life, but will he survive to profit from it?Everyone who remembers The Sea Wolf with pleasure will enjoy this vigorous narrative. The Mutiny of the Elsinore is the same kind of tale as its famous predecessor, and it has been pronounced even more stirring by those who have read it. Jack London writes of scenes and types of people with which he is very familiar: the sea and ships and those who live in ships. In addition to the adventure element, of which there is an abundance of the usual London kind, there is a thread of romance. The play of incident-on the one hand the ship's amazing crew and on the other the lovers-results in a story that demonstrates anew what a master of his art the author is.

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