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  Sokratics in the Strand - From...

  Amy Levy

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  Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life. 
  Her education was at Brighton High School, Brighton, before studies at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms. 
  Amy’s writing career began early; her poem ‘Ida Grey’ appeared when she was only fourteen. Her acclaimed short stories ‘Cohen of Trinity’ and ‘Wise in Their Generation,’ were published by Oscar Wilde in his magazine ‘Women's World’. 
  Her poetic writings reveal feminist concerns; ‘Xantippe and Other Verses’, from 1881 includes a poem in the voice of Socrates's wife. ‘A Minor Poet and Other Verse’ from 1884 comprises of dramatic monologues and lyric poems. 
  In 1886, Amy began a series of essays on Jewish culture and literature for the Jewish Chronicle, including ‘The Ghetto at Florence’, ‘The Jew in Fiction’, ‘Jewish Humour’ and ‘Jewish Children’. 
  That same year while travelling in Florence she met the writer Vernon Lee. It is generally assumed they fell in love and this inspired the poem ‘To Vernon Lee’. 
  Her first novel ‘Romance of a Shop’, written in 1888 is based on four sisters who experience the pleasures and hardships of running a London business during the 1880s. This was followed by Reuben Sachs (also 1888) and concerned with Jewish identity and mores in the England of her time and was somewhat controversial. 
  Her final book of poems, ‘A London Plane-Tree’ from 1889, shows the beginnings of the influence of French symbolism. 
  Despite many friendships and an active life, Amy suffered for many years with serious depressions and this, together with her growing deafness, led her to commit suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide on September 10th, 1889. She was 27.

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  Notes from a Dead House

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  Dostoevsky draws on his own imprisonment to depict life in a Siberian labor camp. Through vivid detail and poignant reflection, he explores the harsh realities of incarceration—the brutality, monotony, and small moments of humanity among prisoners. Dostoevsky delves into the psychological and spiritual resilience of individuals stripped of freedom, highlighting their diverse backgrounds and shared suffering. The work transcends memoir, offering a profound meditation on justice, redemption, and the enduring strength of the human spirit. With compassion and insight, Dostoevsky reveals the capacity for dignity and hope even in the darkest circumstances.

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  Letter to Sukhdev Regarding Suicide

  Bhagat Singh

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  Letter to Sukhdev Regarding Suicide by Bhagat Singh 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: In reply to Sukhdev's letter to Bhagat Singh that in case he (Sukhdev) is convicted for life imprisonment and not death sentence, he will commit suicide, Bhagat Singh wrote this letter. 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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  A Changed Man and Other Tales -...

  Thomas Hardy

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  Twelve Wessex tales, including the one about a captain who becomes a curate and the wife who cannot forgive it, and Alicia's Diary, and the Waterloo veteran's story. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; these are the late gleanings, and several of them are as good as the novels — the title story turns on cholera, and he does not flinch at it.

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  The Crystal Stopper

  Maurice Leblanc

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  A tiny object hides a devastating secret—and powerful people will do almost anything to possess it.
  
  In The Crystal Stopper, Arsène Lupin becomes entangled in a dangerous struggle involving crime, political influence, blackmail, hidden evidence, and an adversary capable of matching his cunning.
  
  What begins as a carefully planned operation rapidly develops into something far more complicated. Lupin must rely on his intelligence, disguises, courage, and extraordinary ability to improvise as the stakes rise and every apparent solution reveals another layer of danger.
  
  Maurice Leblanc delivers a fast-moving mystery packed with reversals, secret identities, psychological battles, and the sophisticated intrigue that defines the Arsène Lupin series.
  
  Enter a world of deception and danger where one small object may determine everything.

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  Mr Crewe's Career

  Winston Churchill

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  A rich man decides New Hampshire needs him as governor, and finds the state is already owned — by the railroad, whose lawyers select the legislature the way a man picks a suit. Churchill, the American novelist so often confused with the British statesman that the two agreed the Englishman would sign himself Winston S. Churchill, wrote this in 1908 out of his own run for office, and it reads as reportage with the names changed.

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