Publisher: Charles River Editors
Ernest Bramah was an English author who wrote popular books in many different genres including humor, detective fiction and science fiction. This edition of The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War includes a table of contents.
A rich man’s obsessive search for an heir blinds him to his own child in this classic Victorian novel of greed, pride, and family ties. For shipping magnate Paul Dombey, business is the essence of life. He runs his firm and his family with the same calculating efficiency. Showering attention on his sickly son, who is destined to take over the family business, Mr. Dombey diligently ignores his daughter, Florence. In his unloving eyes, she is nothing more than a “base coin that couldn’t be invested.” In time, despite her father’s neglect, Florence grows into a capable and strong-willed woman. Dombey’s callousness, meanwhile, sets in motion his own eventual downfall. In this classic tale of ambition, pride, and redemption, Charles Dickens presents a rich and sprawling portrait of a man, his dysfunctional family, and the complex times in which they lived.Show book
The Wisdom of Father Brown is the second book in the series of cases involving the eccentric yet competent detective. Invented by renowned author, essayist and journalist G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown is an amateur sleuth whose day job involves preaching to his congregation at church. Chesterton himself was a committed Christian who wrote volumes of essays and fiction surrounding faith and spirituality, and would base his Father Brown stories upon a priest - Father John O'Connor - he himself knew. Despite its intention as a parody, the Father Brown books became a popular hit in early 20th century Britain as well as the USA. Today they remain a well-considered and much-liked classic series which fans of detective fiction return to more than a century after their original publication. Characterised by his easily digestible style, ready use and exposure of paradox, and his use of wit and humour to advance argument, Chesterton's fiction and non-fiction writings on the topics of human behaviour and wider society remain relevant and poignant to this day.Show book
Do you want to listen to Common Sense? If so then keep reading…Common Sense is the timeless classic that inspired the Thirteen Colonies to fight for and declare their independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. Written by famed political theorist Thomas Paine, this pamphlet boldly challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy to rule over the American colonists.By using plain language and a reasoned style, Paine chose to forego the philosophical and Latin references made popular by the Enlightenment era writers. As a result, Paine united average citizens and political leaders behind the central idea of independence and transformed the tenor of the colonists’ argument against the British. As the best-selling American title of all time, Common Sense has been eloquently described by historian Gordon S. Wood as "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era."Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, and revolutionary. As one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution and inspired the colonists to declare independence from Great Britain in 1776. His ideas reflected the Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights and the separation of church and state. He has been called a corset-maker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination.What are you waiting for Common Sense is one click away, start listening Now!Show book
The Complete Tales & Novels of Edgar Allan Poe includes the 66 tales and 2 full-length novels of Edgar Allan Poe.Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is also generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.Included in this collection:1. Metzengerstein (1832)2. The Duc de L'Omelette (1832)3. A Tale of Jerusalem (1832)4. Loss of Breath (1832)5. Bon-Bon (1832)6. MS. Found in a Bottle (1833)7. The Assignation (1834)8. Berenice (1835)9. Morella (1835)10. Lionizing (1835)11. The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835)12. King Pest (1835)13. Shadow (1835)14. Four Beasts in One (1836)15. Mystification (1837)16. Silence (1838)17. Ligeia (1838)18. How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)19. A Predicament (1838)20. The Devil in the Belfry (1839)21. The Man That Was Used Up (1839)22. The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)23. William Wilson (1839)24. The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839)25. Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1840)26. The Business Man (1840)27. The Man of the Crowd (1840)28. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)29. A Descent into the Maelström (1841)30. The Island of the Fay (1841)31. The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841)32. Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841)33. Eleonora (1841)34. Three Sundays in a Week (1841)35. The Oval Portrait (1842)36. The Masque of the Red Death (1842)37. The Landscape Garden (1842)38. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1842/43)39. The Pit and the Pendulum (1842/43)40. The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)41. The Gold-Bug (1843)42. The Black Cat (1843)43. Diddling (1843)44. The Spectacles (1844)45. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)46. The Premature Burial (1844)47. Mesmeric Revelation (1844)48. The Oblong Box (1844)49. The Angel of the Odd (1844)50. Thou Art the Man (1844)51. The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844)52. The Purloined Letter (1844/45)53. The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845)54. Some Words with a Mummy (1845)55. The Power of Words (1845)56. The Imp of the Perverse (1845)57. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)58. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845)59. The Sphinx (1846)60. The Cask of Amontillado (1846)61. The Domain of Arnheim (1847)62. Mellonta Tauta (1849)63. Hop-Frog (1849)64. Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849)65. X-ing a Paragrab (1849)66. Landor's Cottage (1849)67. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1837)68. The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)Show book
"The Island of Doctor Moreau" is a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells, first published in 1896. The story revolves around Edward Prendick, a shipwreck survivor who finds himself on a remote island controlled by the mysterious Doctor Moreau. Moreau, a disgraced vivisectionist, is conducting horrifying experiments, transforming animals into human-like creatures. As Prendick explores the island, he grapples with themes of identity, morality, and the ethical limits of scientific exploration.Show book
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was a British writer, clergyman and member of the landed gentry, having inherited an estate of 3,000 acres. While a young curate, he met and fell in love with a beautiful 16-year-old mill worker. He paid for her education and married her, and they subsequently had 15 children. Their relationship formed the inspiration for George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, which was turned into the musical My Fair Lady. Baring-Gould's strangest and most enduring works are those which are based on fantastical medieval myths and folklore. "The Red-Haired Girl" is a ghost story about an eerie and ominous servant girl who stalks the house, watching its inhabitants malevolently.Show book
