Editora: Bu Classics Books
A solitary weaver, embittered by betrayal and obsessed with his hoard of gold, finds his life transformed by the arrival of an orphaned child. This heartwarming fable explores the healing power of human connection, contrasting the sterility of wealth with the richness of love and community.
From the moment Lucia Holley finds a dead body in the family boathouse, she knows no peace. Set on the outskirts of New York during World War II, The Blank Wall is a psychological suspense novel which traces an increasingly chaotic chain of events as Lucia endeavours to protect herself and her family. Lucia had forbidden her teenage daughter Bee from meeting Ted Darby, the unsavoury older man who now lies sprawled and lifeless before her. To Lucia’s horror, after she moves the body, two strangers arrive at her home in quick succession. They both threaten blackmail, insinuating she knows about Darby’s disappearance. The county police also begin investigating Darby’s unexplained death.Every evening, as Lucia writes to her husband away at sea, she finds herself relating niceties, omitting the truth about the net rapidly closing in on her household. Aided by her trusted maid Sybil, Lucia fends off inquiries from police lieutenant Levy and curious neighbours alike. When one of the blackmailers begins to soften and takes Lucia’s side, her family immediately grow suspicious, and Lucia is in even greater danger than before.First published in 1947, The Blank Wall is part of the Persephone Audiobook Collection, a series of forgotten classics including neglected fiction and non-fiction by women writers.Ver livro
Doctor Starchenko and Lyzhin, a young deputy examining magistrate, arrive at Syrnya to attend to the case of Lesnitsky, an insurance agent, who, upon arrival to the village three days before, entered the local zemstvo house, ordered himself a samovar, unpacked his food packets, and then all of as sudden shot himself. The suicide was so bizarre, that the inquest was deemed to be necessary...Ver livro
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in the 1894 anthology The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young Indian mongoose. An English family have just moved to a house in India. They find Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the mongoose flooded out of his burrow. A pair of large cobras, Nag and Nagaina, attempt unsuccessfully to kill him. He hears the cobras plotting to kill the father in the house, and attacks Nag in the bathroom. The sound of the fight attracts the father, who shoots Nag. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi destroys Nagaina's eggs and chases her into her "rat-hole" where he kills her too.Ver livro
It is a moot point whether burglary is to be considered as a sport, a trade, or an art. For a trade, the technique is scarcely rigid enough, and its claims to be considered an art are vitiated by the mercenary element that qualifies its triumphs. On the whole it seems to be most justly ranked as sport, a sport for which no rules are at present formulated, and of which the prizes are distributed in an extremely informal manner. It was this informality of burglary that led to the regrettable extinction of two promising beginners at Hammerpond Park. The stakes offered in this affair consisted chiefly of diamonds and other personal bric-a-brac belonging to the newly married Lady Aveling. Lady Aveling, as the reader will remember, was the only daughter of Mrs Montague Pangs, the well-known hostess. Her marriage to Lord Aveling was extensively advertised in the papers, the quantity and quality of her wedding presents, and the fact that the honeymoon was to be spent at Hammerpond. The announcement of these valuable prizes created a considerable sensation in the small circle in which Mr Teddy Watkins was the undisputed leader, and it was decided that, accompanied by a duly qualified assistant, he should visit the village of Hammerpond in his professional capacity."Ver livro
Bernard Edward Joseph Capes was born on the 30th August 1854 in London. He was one of 11 children. His early work was as a journalist and this developed into writing many short stories for the periodicals of the time including Blackwood's, Cassell's, Cornhill Magazine, Illustrated London News, Macmillan's Magazine, Mall Magazine, Pearson's Magazine, The Idler, and The Queen. It took him many years to decide that writing full-time could be a sustainable career path. His initial success came with ‘The Mill of Silence’. As well as being published it garnered second prize at a competition sponsored by the Chicago Record. He exceeded that by winning it the following year with ‘The Lake of Wine’. Capes quickly became both prolific and popular. As well as his stories and articles for the periodicals he wrote around 40 volumes across novels, poetry, history as well as romance and mystery novels. Bernard Capes died on 2nd November 1918 in the flu epidemic.Ver livro
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. The novel, influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction, is considered a classic of English literature. Wuthering Heights was accepted by publisher Thomas Newby along with Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey before the success of their sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, but they were published later. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited a second edition of Wuthering Heights, which was published in 1850. Wuthering Heights is now widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, but contemporaneous reviews were polarised. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, including domestic abuse, and for its challenges to Victorian morality, religion, and the class system. CREATED: Narrated by Abigail Weir Author: Emily Brontë Date of original publication: 1847 Genre: novel Language : English Version : unabridged, full/complete Without subtitlesVer livro
