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  The Widow And The Wife - A...

  George Eliot

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  In the quiet, calculating world of a provincial English town, the deepest wars are fought in sitting rooms and hushed libraries. 
  Dorothea Casaubon is finally free from a loveless marriage—but trapped by the terms of her late husband's cruel will. A young widow bursting with passionate ideals, she yearns for the one man society forbids her to have: the brilliant but impoverished Will Ladislaw. 
  Meanwhile, the rest of Middlemarch continues its delicate dance of ambition and ruin. Dr. Tertius Lydgate watches his arrogant dreams crumble under the crushing weight of hidden debt and his beautiful wife's quiet, devastating obstinacy. And young Fred Vincy risks his inheritance and his family's wrath for the chance to win the heart of pragmatic Mary Garth, stepping away from the church to labor in the soil. 
  George Eliot’s penetrating gaze captures the tragedy of mismatched souls, the burden of societal expectation, and the intricate webs of human connection. Middlemarch Book 6: The Widow and the Wife is an unmissable crescendo in one of literature's greatest achievements.

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  The Adventure of the Golden...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.One wretched November night, Inspector Stanley Hopkins visits Holmes at 221B Baker Street to discuss the violent death of Willoughby Smith, secretary to aged invalid Professor Coram. Coram had dismissed his previous two secretaries. The murder happened at Yoxley Old Place near Chatham, Kent, with a sealing-wax knife of the professor's as the weapon. Hopkins can identify no motive for the killing, with Smith having no enemies or trouble in his past. Smith was found by Coram's maid, who recounts his last words as "The professor; it was she."The maid further told Hopkins that prior to the murder she heard Smith leave his room and walk down to the study; she had been hanging curtains and did not see him, only recognizing his brisk step. The professor was in bed at the time. A minute later, a hoarse scream issued from the study, and the maid, hesitating briefly, inspected and found the murder. She later tells Holmes that Smith went out for a walk not long before the murder...Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.

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  The Sound And The Fury

  William Faulkner

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  We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? The Sound and the Fury is one of William Faulkner's most celebrated novels, and a landmark of American literature. Famous for its non-chronological structure and experimental style, the novel focuses on the once-prominent Compson family, descendants of planter aristocrats who have declined in both social standing and material wealth. As white landowners in the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha in Mississippi, they continue to employ an African-American family to serve them. Each of the Compson parents has withdrawn from responsibility for their children, so the matriarch of the servant family, Dilsey, effectively raises their three sons and daughter. Each of the four parts of the novel is told from a different point of view, with each of the first three sections narrated by a different Compson son. In the first chapter, set on the day before Easter Sunday in 1928, the narrator is the mentally disabled thirty-three-year-old Benjy. The second chapter enters the mind of troubled Harvard student Quentin, who is finishing his year at the university. The third chapter, set on Good Friday, 1928, is narrated by the callous and mercenary brother Jason, who now works as a clerk at a farming supply store; and finally, on Easter Sunday 1928, the perspective is that of an omniscient narrator, though the main character of the section emerges as Dilsey. Central to each of the sons' sections is their sister Caddy, whose rebellion as a young woman brings pain upon Benjy, profoundly disturbs Quentin, enrages Jason, and accelerates the family's already precipitous decline. The book is noted for its nonlinearity, not only in the order of its four narratives but in the sequences of events recorded within the first two of them: Faulkner makes heavy use of a "stream-of-consciousness" style to relate Benjy's and Quentin's memories and thoughts, which jump around temporally. Non-standard italics and punctuation contribute to the effect. The influence of James Joyce upon the first two narratives was immediately.

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  A Romance of Youth

  François Coppée

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  A schoolmaster's son grows up poor in Paris, loses his father, keeps his mother, falls in love above him, and finds out what a small salary means. Coppée was called the poet of the humble for his verse about clerks and seamstresses, and was elected to the Académie at forty-two; this novel is that sympathy at length — nothing extraordinary happens, and the accumulation is the point.

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  Frankenstein - or The Modern...

  Mary Shelley

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  Award-winning actress Julie Harris delivers a chilling reading of the most famous and compelling horror story of all time.
  Victor Frankenstein is a young scientist whose experiments in alchemy lead to a disturbing achievement—the ability to create new life from dead body parts. His ultimate creation—a large, monstrous creature—wreaks havoc, but in ways much different from those depicted on film. To hear the original tale, curl up on a lonely evening—with lights low and perhaps a storm raging outside—and return to the 19th century to experience a classic evocation of the macabre story.

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  Washington Square

  Henry James

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  Catherine is well on her way to becoming a spinster. She’s 21 and part of New York’s upper-class society, but she has never had a flirt and is plain-looking without the sparkling personality to make up for it. Or so her father thinks. Because when the handsome Mr. Morris Townsend catches her eye, Catherine falls head over heels in love with him. But does Townsend really like her back, or does he just like all the money she is set to inherit? Based on a true story as told to him by a friend, ‘Washington Square’ (1880) is probably Henry James’ most accessible novel. Fans of Jane Austen will definitely like this. 
  Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author who already by his mid-20s was regarded as one of the most skilful short story writers of his time. Later he would write several classic novels including ‘Daisy Miller’ (1878) and ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ (1881). He spent much of his life in Europe and became and British citizen shortly before his death.

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