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  Lord Jim

  Joseph Conrad

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  One moment of failure follows a young sailor for years as he searches for honor, courage, and redemption.
  
  Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim follows Jim, a young seaman whose life is profoundly affected by a single act of cowardice during a moment of crisis at sea.
  
  Haunted by his failure, Jim seeks a new beginning in a distant land where he attempts to build a life worthy of his ideals. Yet his past continues to shape his identity and relationships.
  
  Through Jim's journey, Conrad explores honor, guilt, courage, responsibility, reputation, and the difficult possibility of redemption. Rich in adventure and psychological depth, the novel remains one of Conrad's most celebrated works.
  
  Follow Jim's journey from disgrace to redemption in Conrad's powerful exploration of honor, guilt, and human courage.

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  Stories by English Authors -...

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  England by the story-writers of the day: Charles Reade's railway flirtation in a tunnel, Amelia B. Edwards's four-fifteen express, Thomas Hardy's three strangers at a shepherd's christening, Wilkie Collins's widow, Anthony Hope's philosopher in an apple orchard, and a black bag that goes to the wrong man. Assembled for American readers by Scribner's in 1896, the volume is a good map of what the English thought worth telling about themselves at the end of the century. Sixty plates of English landscape and figure painting, from George Clausen and Myles Birket Foster among others, give the volume's homegrown tales their matching scenery.

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  Ugly Customer An - From their...

  Bernard Capes

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  Bernard Edward Joseph Capes was born on the 30th August 1854 in London.  He was one of 11 children. 
  His early work was as a journalist and this developed into writing many short stories for the periodicals of the time including Blackwood's, Cassell's, Cornhill Magazine, Illustrated London News, Macmillan's Magazine, Mall Magazine, Pearson's Magazine, The Idler, and The Queen. 
  It took him many years to decide that writing full-time could be a sustainable career path.  His initial success came with ‘The Mill of Silence’.  As well as being published it garnered second prize at a competition sponsored by the Chicago Record.  He exceeded that by winning it the following year with ‘The Lake of Wine’.   
  Capes quickly became both prolific and popular.  As well as his stories and articles for the periodicals he wrote around 40 volumes across novels, poetry, history as well as romance and mystery novels. 
  Bernard Capes died on 2nd November 1918 in the flu epidemic.

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  Emma

  Jane Austen

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "Handsome, clever, and rich" — Emma Woodhouse has everything except a sense of her own limits. Convinced she has a gift for matchmaking, she takes on Harriet Smith as her latest project and persuades her to refuse an honest farmer in favour of grander prospects. 
   
  Mr Elton the vicar disappoints. The dashing Frank Churchill complicates. Jane Fairfax, accomplished and infuriatingly reserved, becomes an object of Emma's suspicion. And through it all Mr Knightley, sixteen years her senior, is the one person in Highbury who tells her the truth about herself. 
   
  Every match Emma arranges goes wrong. By the time she understands the harm she has done, she has also discovered a truth about her own heart she was the last to see. 
   
  First published in 1815, Emma is Jane Austen's most intricate comedy of manners and one of the great English novels: a Regency romance, a village satire, and a portrait of a heroine growing up in public. This unabridged audiobook edition presents the complete original text.

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  Tales of Terror and Mystery -...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The horror Doyle wrote when Holmes was not looking: a surgeon's night call, a special train that vanishes between two stations, an aeroplane too high for safety, and the pit under the earth. He wanted to be remembered for history and spiritualism, and produced instead some of the coldest short terror in English — the Brazilian Cat and the Leather Funnel do not need a detective. Fifty-one plates by Goya and Fuseli, from cudgel duels to a radiant figure beset by dark spirits, give these tales the nightmares they deserve.

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  The Raven - A Robin Reads Audiobook

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe's peerless narrative poem about a forlorn lover who is visited by a mysterious raven. 
  First published in 1845. Narrated by Robin Reads.

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