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  The Snow-storm

  Aleksandr Pushkin

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  A snowstorm changes everything. 
   
  In The Snow-Storm, Aleksandr Pushkin weaves a captivating tale of love, fate, coincidence, and unexpected destiny. Set against the backdrop of a fierce winter storm, this beloved story follows a young woman's romantic plans as a single night of snow and confusion alters the course of multiple lives. 
   
  Combining romance, humor, suspense, and Pushkin's masterful insight into human nature, The Snow-Storm remains one of the most enduring works of Russian literature. What begins as a simple love story gradually unfolds into a charming meditation on chance, destiny, and the surprising twists that shape our lives. 
   
  Beautifully narrated by Ren Slate, this audiobook brings warmth, atmosphere, and elegance to one of Pushkin's most celebrated short stories.

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  What Gives Us Our Names

  Alvin Pang

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  He’d gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the one you last read and loved, whose lurid covers you have already forgotten. For a canvas, he used not his own skin but his very life, spending his days as if he were made up of the most telling bits of other people. To do this, he learned to watch quietly and look deeply, past the busy surfaces until he could discern the colours beneath, the ones that did not change. One by one he would name them as he wove them into his heart in the deep of night. He touched you once, borrowing pieces of your story in passing. They are here still, in case you wish to look.

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  Paris - A Brother Making Bombs...

  Emile Zola

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  The priest, having lost Lourdes and Rome, comes to Paris and finds his brother making bombs in a workshop, while ministers, financiers and newspapers arrange a scandal above them. Zola finished the trilogy in 1898, the year of the Dreyfus letter that sent him into exile, and the anarchist chapters draw on the bombings and trials of the early 1890s. Faith is not restored at the end; something else is put in its place. Fifty-nine plates of Paris boulevard life by painters including Béraud and Caillebotte run from 1851 to 1911, catching the street crowds the novel's plotters move through unseen.

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  The king in yellow

  Robert W. Chambers

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  The King in Yellow is a haunting and atmospheric collection of stories that combine elements of horror, mystery, and the supernatural. The book is named after the titular King in Yellow, a mythical and ominous figure who haunts the lives of those who come into contact with the strange play of the same name. The collection consists of a series of interconnected tales that explore the psychological effects of this cursed play, with each story unraveling the fates of the characters who encounter its dark influence. Chambers's mastery lies in his ability to evoke a sense of dread and unease, as the stories delve into the dangers of obsession, madness, and the supernatural. His influence on later horror writers, especially in the development of weird fiction, is immense. The King in Yellow remains a classic of early 20th-century horror, laying the foundation for many of the genre's subsequent innovations.

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  The Kingdom Of God Is Within You

  Leo Tolstoy

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  The Kingdom of God is Within You is Leo Tolstoy's philosophical and religious treatise that presents his radical ideas about Christianity. Written in the late 19th century, the work argues that the true essence of Christianity is not to be found in rituals or institutionalized religion, but in the internal transformation of the individual. Tolstoy condemns the violence and hypocrisy of organized religion and calls for Christians to live according to the teachings of Christ, focusing on love, nonviolence, and selflessness. The book also explores the relationship between religion and the state, with Tolstoy critiquing the alignment of the Russian Orthodox Church with the tsarist regime. The work profoundly influenced the development of pacifism and nonviolent movements around the world, particularly inspiring figures such as Mahatma Gandhi. Through The Kingdom of God is Within You, Tolstoy challenges both the social and religious status quo, urging individuals to embark on a personal quest for spiritual enlightenment and ethical living.

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  A Saga of the Seas - From their...

  Kenneth Grahame

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  Kenneth Grahame was born on 8th March 1859 in Edinburgh. 
  At age 5 his mother succumbed to puerperal fever.  His father, who had a drinking problem, now sent his 4 children to live with their grandmother at her large house in Cookham, Berkshire. Here the children lived in large open grounds next to the river.  These early experiences would in later years, be retold in his writing through a myriad of characters. 
  Grahame loved being a pupil at St Edward's School, Oxford and wanted to enroll at the university there but his guardian demurred on account of the cost. 
  Instead, a banking career was chosen for him, starting in 1879 at the Bank of England, where he rose steadily to the rank of its Secretary until retiring, with a pension, in 1908 due to ill health. 
  Alongside his commercial career Grahame had written and published various stories and essays in several periodicals. Some were anthologized as ‘Pagan Papers’ in 1893, and two years later ‘The Golden Age’ and later still ‘Dream Days’ and its masterpiece ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ became part of many home libraries.  His ability to view life through the lens of a young and curious child was superb, enabling the reader to easily identify with the character.   
  Grahame married Elspeth Thomson in 1899 and they had one child; Alastair, born semi-blind and plagued by health problems.  In a heart-rending tragedy he would later take his own life whilst attending Oxford University in 1920.   
  In 1908 Grahame reworked many of the bedtime stories he had fashioned for his son into the enduring favourite; ‘The Wind in the Willows’, describing the heart-warming adventures of Mr Toad and his friends.   
  Kenneth Grahame died in Pangbourne, Berkshire, on 6th July 1932.

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