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  The Age Of Innocence

  Edith Wharton

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  The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. 
   
  Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'". The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded Age" New York City. Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she was already established as a major author in high demand by publishers.

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  The complete works of Lewis Carroll

  Lewis Carroll

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  What if imagination had no rules—and logic learned how to play?
  
  The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll brings together the full literary legacy of one of the most imaginative writers in world literature. Best known for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created worlds where nonsense reveals truth, language bends reality, and curiosity leads to wonder.
  
  This comprehensive collection includes Carroll's beloved fantasy novels, whimsical poetry, and inventive short works—blending wordplay, satire, mathematics, and childlike imagination into stories that delight readers of all ages.
  
  Beneath the playful surface lies sharp wit and intellectual depth, making Carroll's writing as fascinating to adults as it is enchanting to children. His works continue to influence fantasy, children's literature, and modern storytelling.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll explore:
  
  The complete Alice books and related writings
  
  Whimsical poems such as "Jabberwocky" and "The Hunting of the Snark"
  
  Inventive short fiction and playful essays
  
  A cornerstone collection of fantasy and nonsense literature
  
  Read aloud in families, studied in classrooms, and cherished worldwide, Lewis Carroll's works remain timeless celebrations of imagination and creativity.
  
  Step into worlds where logic dances and dreams speak. Buy now and experience the complete works of Lewis Carroll.

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  The Straw Coal and the Bean

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

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  A simple kitchen mishap sends three unlikely companions into the world together: a straw spared from the fire, a coal that leapt from the hearth, and a lone bean that escaped the pot. Each has survived by chance, and each believes fortune has finally turned in their favor. 
  Determined to remain together, the three set off as travelers—until a small country brook forces a decision that will test courage, patience, and pride. What follows is not a tale of heroism, but of human weakness rendered through the humblest of objects, where haste, fear, and laughter carry irreversible consequences. 
  The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, is a sharply observed moral fable told with restraint and dry irony. Brief yet unforgettable, it reveals how survival can hinge on moments of judgment—and how even rescue leaves a permanent mark. 
  Narrated with measured clarity by Richard Stibbard, this classic Grimm tale is presented in its original, unsentimental spirit: simple in form, dark in humor, and quietly exacting in its moral truth.

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  The Heathen

  Jack London

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  "The Heathen" is a short story by the American writer Jack London. It was first published in Everybody's Magazine in August 1910.
  In the story, two people, from different cultural and racial backgrounds, are the only survivors of a ship that encounters a hurricane in the Pacific, and they remain together.
  The narrator, a pearl buyer named Charley, is a cabin passenger on a schooner, the Petite Jeanne, sailing from Rangiroa to Tahiti with a Kanaka crew, at the end of the pearling season in the Paumotas. The boat, having eighty-five deck passengers, is overloaded. Several passengers die of smallpox; Charley and the other cabin passengers drink whisky, until it runs out, in the belief that it will kill the smallpox germs.
  The boat is in the direct path of a hurricane. "The second sea filled the Petite Jeanne's decks flush with the rails, and, as her stern sank down and her bow tossed skyward, all the miserable dunnage of life and luggage poured aft. It was a human torrent.... Out of all my experiences I could not have believed it possible for the wind to blow as it did.... It was a monstrous thing, and the most monstrous thing about it was that it increased and continued to increase."

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  Travels with My Aunt

  Graham Greene, Gloria Emerson

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  A retired London bank manager is yanked out of the suburbs by his eccentric aunt for a "cheerfully irreverent" romp across Europe (The Guardian). 
   
   
    
  Now that the dullish Henry Pulling has left his job with an agreeable pension and a firm handshake, he plans to spend more time weeding his dahlias. Then, for the first time in fifty years, he sees his aunt Augusta at his mother's funeral. Charging into her seventies with florid abandon, not a day of her life wasted, and her future as bright as her brilliant red hair, Augusta insists that Henry abandon his garden, follow her, and hold on tight. 
   
   
    
  With that, she whisks her nephew out of Brighton and boards the Orient Express bound for Paris and Istanbul, then on to Paraguay, and down the rabbit hole of her past that swarms with swindlers, smugglers, war criminals, and rather unconventional lovers. With each new stop, Henry discovers not only more about his aunt and her secrets but also about himself as well. 
   
   
    
  Pulsing with "the tragic and comic ironies of love, loyalty and belief" Graham Greene's deceptive lark of novel was made into the 1972 film starring Maggie Smith (The Times, London).

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  Tale of Two Cities A (Book the...

  Charles Dickens

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  Book 3: The Track of a Storm: A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
  Dickens' best-known work of historical fiction, A Tale of Two Cities is regularly cited as the best-selling novel of all time. In 2003, the novel was ranked 63rd on the BBC's The Big Read poll. The novel has been adapted for film, television, radio, and the stage, and has continued to have an influence on popular culture.

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