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  A Daughter Of Raasay： A Tale Of...

  William MacLeod Raine

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  A Daughter Of Raasay： A Tale Of The '45 -- Highland Intrigue and a Daring Jacobite Romance 
  A Classic Audiobook by William MacLeod Raine 
  First published in 1902. 
  Step into a world on the brink of rebellion, where loyalty is a dangerous gamble and passion ignites amidst the smoke of impending war. A Daughter Of Raasay： A Tale Of The '45 plunges you into the heart of 18th-century Scotland, a land seething with unrest and whispers of a Stuart return. Follow Kenneth Montagu, a young man navigating treacherous social circles and even more dangerous political currents, as he finds his fate intertwined with a spirited daughter of the fierce MacLeod clan. High stakes, secret alliances, and unexpected love unfold against the epic backdrop of the legendary '45 uprising. Will duty triumph over desire, or will a love forged in the fires of rebellion defy all odds? Discover a sweeping historical adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

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  In A Grove - From their pens to...

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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  Ryūnosuke Niihara was born in Kyōbashi, Tokyo in Japan on the 1st March 1892.  Sadly, his mother suffered severe mental illness after his birth and so, at only eight months old, he was sent to be raised by his maternal uncle and aunt, from whom he received the Akutagawa family name.  
  He was fascinated by classical Chinese literature from his early years and began writing after entering what was then the Tokyo Imperial University in 1913 to study English Literature.   
  The following year Akutagawa and his friends revived the literary journal ‘New Currents of Thought’ which published their own works and translations of such icons as W B Yeats and Anatole France. 
  Akutagawa published "Rashōmon" in 1915 and whilst it was disliked by his friends everyone else knew better.  As other short stories followed so did his growing literary reputation as the father of the Japanese short story. 
  Much of his work reinterpreted former classical works and incidents and this, melded with his strong dislike of naturalism, produced a writer of rare and genuine quality.  His character palette featured strong and domineering women, mainly based on his mother and the aunt who helped raise him. 
  In 1921, he spent four months in China as a reporter.  Whilst there his health was compromised by several illnesses and both his physical and mental health spiralled downwards.  He began to suffer from hallucinations and dreaded that he might have inherited his mother’s mental disorders.  
  Although he survived one suicide attempt Ryūnosuke Akutagawa died on the 24th July 1927 in Tokyo from an overdose of Veronal, a barbiturate.  He was 35.

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  Ask Mamma - or The Richest...

  Robert Smith Surtees

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  A young man with an unearned reputation as a rider tries to keep it up across a hunting season, pursued by a mother with daughters. Surtees had a magistrate's eye for social pretense and a master of hounds' contempt for bad horsemanship, and uses both. This edition carries fifty-four bound plates, among them works by Grimshaw, de Loutherbourg and McGregor, alongside four illustrations restored and coloured for the first time.

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  The Red Room

  H. G. Wells

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  The Red Room by H. G. Wells is presented in a clean English digital edition with active navigation. The book belongs to classics and preserves the character of the source text for sustained ebook reading. The opening pages establish the work's atmosphere with this first movement: "I can assure you," said I, "that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me." And I stood up before the fire with my glass in my hand. "It is your own choosing," said the man with the withered arm, and glanced at me askance. "Eight-and-twenty years," said I, "I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.". Detected sections include: Chapter 1. This edition is prepared for a fluent reading experience with clear typography and no extraneous promotional material.

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  When The Sleeper Wakes

  H. G. Wells

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  Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the advances it will bring, is stricken with insomnia. Finally resorting to medication, he instantly falls into a deep sleep that lasts two hundred years. Upon waking in the twenty-second century to a strange and nightmarish place, he slowly discovers he is master of the world, revered by an adoring populace who consider him their leader. Terrified, he escapes from his chamber seeking solace—only to realize that not everyone adores him, some even wish to harm him. (less)

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  The Gold-Bug

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. William Legrand has lost his fortune and retreated to a hut on Sullivan's Island off the coast of Charleston, with only his servant Jupiter for company. When he finds a strange scarab beetle of unnatural weight and colour, his friend the narrator begins to fear for his sanity. 
   
  Legrand sketches the beetle on a scrap of parchment picked up on the shore. Held near the fire, the parchment reveals a death's head, a goat, and a long string of figures and symbols where nothing had been before. It is a cipher, and Legrand is certain it leads to the buried treasure of Captain Kidd. 
   
  What follows is one of the most famous puzzles in literature: a step-by-step decipherment by letter frequency, then a night expedition inland with a spade, a tulip tree, and instructions that must be followed exactly or the whole thing fails. 
   
  First published in 1843 and an immediate popular sensation, Edgar Allan Poe's tale of ciphers and buried gold effectively invented the cryptographic puzzle story and shaped everything from Treasure Island to The Da Vinci Code. This unabridged audiobook edition presents the complete original text.

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