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  My Man Jeeves

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  My Man Jeeves is a work by P. G. Wodehouse now brought to you in this new audio-book edition of the timeless classic.
   
  Bertram Wooster is an English gentleman living in New York, who seems to get himself into all sorts of jams. It’s up to his manservant Jeeves to come up with the plan to save the day from unpleasant houseguests, stingy uncles, broken hearts, and hard-partying aunts.
   
  My Man Jeeves is sure to please anyone with a taste for pithy buffoonery, moronic misunderstandings, gaffes, and aristocratic slapstick.An Author's Republic audio production.

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  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

  Patrick Henry

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  On 20 March 1775, The Second Virginia Convention convened at St. John's Church in Richmond. They assembled to consider weighty matters concerning the tyranny and oppression of the Crown. Many favored continued conciliatory measures. A thirty-nine year old delegate from Hanover County named Patrick Henry took a seat in the third pew. 
  Here sat a man with a burden. He knew he faced "an irresolute body; that he would be opposed by the powerful, wealthy, Tory element among the members. He realized that the Loyalists were insidiously entrenched and the outcome was uncertain. Pätrick Henry's risk was tremendous — one that could easily bring him to the block." 
  But Mr. Henry feared not man that can destroy only the body — he feared God who can destroy both body and soul. "Liberty" burned in his heart and flowed through his veins. "Death" was to be preferred before cowering in fear before the British leviathan. Mr. Henry was the archetype Southerner whose motto "Liberty or death, " exhibited a bravery and patriotism seldom seen today. 
  Here is his famous speech delivered 23 March 1775.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - 19th...

  Anton Chekhov, Ambrose Bierce,...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  Across far flung territories that are undergoing a forced globalization by military and Imperial means stories emerge from near and far of times that perfectly illustrate societies as they make their way through this bustling century of demands, opportunities, greed and despair.  
     
  The need for mass entertainment in a myriad of cheap periodicals and magazines brought forth wonders of word, of wit and of narrative. 
  1 - The Top 10 - The 19th Century - An Introduction 
  2 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce 
  3 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov 
  4 - Desirees Baby by Kate Chopin 
  5 - Passion In The Desert by Honoré de Balzac 
  6 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 
  7 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  8 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol 
  9 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  10 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  11 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev

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  Odour of Chrysanthemums

  D H Lawrence

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  ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1911. Lawrence is at his best in this story, taken from the scenes of his childhood and based on characters he knew intimately. He reworked the story in the play, ‘The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd’ but in this short story version, Lawrence sees the tragic episode through the eyes of the wife. The theme of a loveless marriage, redeemed by death is one which Lawrence was to come back to in other stories.

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  Only a Dream

  H. Rider Haggard

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  Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856 – 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure stories, often set in exotic locations, especially Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre."Only a Dream" is a ghost story about the strange experience of a widower about to remarry, who is visited on the eve of his wedding by the ghastly apparition of his dead first wife.

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  Black Jack - Booktrack Edition

  Max Brand

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  Listen to Black Jack with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. 
  The son of a notorious outlaw is adopted into a wealthy, law-abiding family as an infant after his father is killed in an attempted robbery. Will he follow in the footsteps of his outlaw father or will his life be guided by the respectable woman who nurtured him to manhood? Another exciting tale by the master of the pulp western, Max Brand.

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