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  Beautiful and Damned Book 1 The...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after the Great War and in the early 1920s. As in his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters in this novel are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The work generally is considered to be based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with his wife Zelda Fitzgerald.The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. Gloria and Anthony's story deals with the hardships of a relationship, especially when each character has a tendency to be selfish.

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  Ethan Frome

  Edith Wharton

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  Burdened by poverty and spiritually dulled by a loveless marriage to Zeena, his older and ailing wife, Ethan Frome is emotionally stirred by the arrival of their youthful cousin, Mattie Silver, who becomes employed as household help. Mattie's presence not only brightens a gloomy house but also stirs long-dormant feelings in Ethan. However, their growing love for each other is discovered by the embittered Zeena, and it presages an ending to the tale that is both shocking and savagely ironic.

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  The Speck on the Lens

  John Kendrick Bangs

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  John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was a popular American author, editor and satirist. 'The Speck on the Lens' is the story of an occulist who is approached by an unusual character holding a strange tin box. He introduces himself as the inventor of a special telescopic device with very unusual properties...but it is accessible only to someone with a very unique type of eye. The oculist, he says, has this kind of eye. The doctor puts the device to his eye and is astounded by what he sees. But then he perceives a strange speck on the lens...and things take a weird turn....

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  Tales from the Book of the...

  Richard F. Burton

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  Bawdy and exotic, Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night features the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformation, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain and appease the brutal King Shahryar. First introduced in the West in 1704, the stories of "The Thousand and One Nights" are most familiar to American readers in sanitized children's versions. This modern edition, culled from the first three volumes of Richard F. Burton's famous ten-volume translation, restores the sensuality and lushness of the original Arabic. Intricate and imaginative, these stories continue to captivate audiences as they have for centuries.The following stories can be found in this audiobook:"Tale of the Bull and the Ass""Tale of the Trader and the Jinni""The First Shaykh's Story""The Second Shaykh's Story""The Third Shaykh's Story""The Fisherman and the Jinni""The Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban""King Sindibad and his Falcon""The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot""The Tale of the Prince and the Ogress""The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince""The Tale of the Three Apples""The Hunchback's Tale""The Nazarene Broker's Story""The Reeve's Tale""The Tale of the Jewish Doctor""The Tale of the Tailor""The Barber's Tale of Himself""The Barber's Tale of His First Brother""The Barber's Tale of His Second Brother""The Barber's Tale of His Third Brother""The Barber's Tale of His Fourth Brother""The Barber's Tale of His Fifth Brother""The Barber's Tale of His Sixth Brother""The End of the Tailor's Tale""Nur Al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis Al-Jalis""The Birds and Beasts and the Carpenter""The Hermits""Tale of the Water Fowl and the Tortoise"

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  The Crimes of England

  G. K. Chesterton

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  From the book: "Second, when telling such lies as may seem necessary to your international standing, do not tell the lies to the people who know the truth. Do not tell the Eskimos that snow is bright green; nor tell the negroes in Africa that the sun never shines in that Dark Continent. Rather tell the Eskimos that the sun never shines in Africa; and then, turning to the tropical Africans, see if they will believe that snow is green. Similarly, the course indicated for you is to slander the Russians to the English and the English to the Russians; and there are hundreds of good old reliable slanders which can still be used against both of them. There are probably still Russians who believe that every English gentleman puts a rope round his wife's neck and sells her in Smithfield. There are certainly still Englishmen who believe that every Russian gentleman takes a rope to his wife's back and whips her every day. But these stories, picturesque and useful as they are, have a limit to their use like everything else; and the limit consists in the fact that they are not true, and that there necessarily exists a group of persons who know they are not true. It is so with matters of fact about which you asseverate so positively to us, as if they were matters of opinion."

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  Anne of Avonlea (Unabridged)

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from Anne of Green Gables, as well as new ones like Mr Harrison, Miss Lavendar Lewis, Paul Irving, and the twins Dora and Davy.

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