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  The Decameron

  Giovanni Boccaccio

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  Set against the shadow of the Black Plague, The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio is a radiant tapestry of love, wit, tragedy, and the triumph of the human spirit. When Florence is ravaged by pestilence, ten young nobles — seven women and three men — flee to a countryside villa to escape the horrors of the city. Over ten days, they pass the time by telling one hundred stories: tales of romance and folly, devotion and deception, virtue and vice. 
  From the poetic tragedy of “Griselda” to the romantic daring of “Cymon and Iphigenia” and the moral allegory of “The Three Rings,” Boccaccio captures the full spectrum of human experience — earthy, wise, and profoundly moving. 
  Narrated with grace and warmth by Mary Ellin Kurtz, this timeless masterpiece invites listeners into a world where storytelling itself becomes an act of survival — and of joy.

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  In Our Time (1925 Edition) -...

  Ernest Hemingway

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  Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899. He served in World War I as an ambulance driver on the Italian front; he was wounded and decorated. After the war, he worked as a journalist before settling in Paris, where he met Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound, who shaped his literary voice. His prose was terse, his sentences short, and his stories of men and their battles with nature, with love, with their own souls. Hemingway wrote many novels and short stories: "The Sun Also Rises," "A Farewell to Arms," "For Whom the Bell Tolls," and "The Old Man and the Sea," for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. He lived in Key West, Cuba, and Idaho, always in pursuit of the perfect sentence, the true experience. 
  He married four times, loved deeply, and fought hard against his inner demons. Hemingway's life was marked by adventure, war, hunting, fishing, and an unyielding quest for authenticity. In 1954, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. On July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho, he ended his life with a shotgun. His works endure, capturing the essence of a man facing the world, striving for grace under pressure. 
  Frank Marcopolos lives in Florida with his dog, Sparky.

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  The Secret City

  Hugh Walpole

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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 Secret City is Walpole's sequel to his earlier book about Russian life, The Dark Forest . John Durward, the English protagonist from that book and a semi-autobiographical stand-in for Walpole, is visiting St. Petersburg (then Petrograd) when he runs in to some old friends from England. Through them he meets Vera and Nina, two young and bourgeois sisters, and Nicolai Markovitch, a downtrodden and ridiculous inventor. Semyonov, a brooding doctor who is the sisters' uncle and a character from The Dark Forest , returns as a dark, viperous thread weaving through the story. Durward narrates the lives of these bourgeois Russians as they love each other and fight amongst themselves in equal measure. But as they obliviously carry on their cozy, lamp-lit lives, the Russian Revolution breaks out around them. St. Petersburg quickly changes from a comfortable, elegant, and gently mysterious city to a bloody and cold scar across the face of civilization. As the air fills with the sound of gunfire and the smell of smoke and soot, Durward and his English and Russian friends become a microcosm of the chaos they find themselves engulfed in. Walpole lived some years in Russia during the Revolution, working as a journalist, then at the Russian Red Cross, and later as the Head of British Propaganda in St. Petersburg. His intimate knowledge of both the city and of the turbulent early days of the Revolution give The Secret City a more than convincing air. It's the first book to have won the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction , and is considered to be Walpole's most delicate and insightful work.

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  Under the Storm - or Steadfast's...

  Charlotte M. Yonge

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  Steadfast Kenton is fourteen, slow of speech and trusted: his father, churchwarden of Elmwood near Bristol, and the vicar have shown him the cave in Hermit's Gully where they have hidden the parish chalice and paten from the Parliament men. Then the war comes up the lane. Royalist troopers foraging round besieged Bristol plunder the farm and cut John Kenton down, and elder brother Jephthah rides off to take vengeance in a Puritan troop, leaving Stead with his sisters Patience and Rusha, the baby, a few beasts and the secret of the cave. Charlotte Yonge wrote it for young readers, to show what the civil war meant to quiet folk in cottages and farmhouses, and she did not soften it. Fifty-three plates after painters including Turner and Constable trace the cottage, field and lane of Steadfast's England, so the quiet world he defends stands before the reader in the same volume.

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  The Age of Innocence

  Edith Wharton

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  A world of glittering rules. A love that breaks them. A choice that could destroy everything.
  Set amid the rigid elegance of 1870s New York high society, The Age of Innocence follows Newland Archer—a man poised to marry the perfect social match—until the arrival of Countess Ellen Olenska, whose independence and passion awaken a longing he can no longer suppress. Torn between duty and desire, Newland must confront the silent forces that shape his world and threaten his happiness.
  
  Praised as "one of America's greatest novels," Wharton's masterpiece blends emotional depth, razor-sharp social observation, and exquisite prose. Readers treasure its themes of love, sacrifice, and the invisible cages of society.
  
  If you crave richly layered storytelling, unforgettable characters, and a romance shaped by impossible choices, this classic will captivate you.
  
  Step into Old New York—and experience a love story as fragile and beautiful as the world that binds it.

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  Fifty famous stories retold

  James Baldwin

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  There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of ones education. These stories are of several different classes. To one class belong the popular fairy tales which have delighted untold generations of children, and will continue to delight them to the end of time. To another class belong the limited number of fables that have come down to us through many channels from hoar antiquity. To a third belong the charming stories of olden times that are derived from the literatures of ancient peoples, such as the Greeks and the Hebrews. A fourth class includes the half-legendary tales of a distinctly later origin, which have for their subjects certain romantic episodes in the lives of well-known heroes and famous men, or in the history of a people. It is to this last class that most of the fifty stories contained in the present volume belong.

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