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  Poems and Songs of Lancashire

  Edwin Waugh

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  A selection of poems in the Lancashire dialect by the foremost exponent of the form. A printer by training, Edwin Waugh left his trade for secretarial work and began his literary career in 1852. His first dialect poem, 'Come whoam to thi' childer and me', was written at the Clarence Hotel, Manchester, on 10 June 1856 and published in the Manchester Examiner the following day. Edwin Waugh is perhaps Lancashire's greatest poet in both dialect and English. The audiobook is a celebration of his insight into the human condition and of his beautiful descriptions of nature.

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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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  The Madman

  Kahlil Gibran

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  The Madman is a book written by Kahlil Gibran, which was published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1918, with illustrations reproduced from original drawings by the author. It was Gibran's first book in English to be published, also marking the beginning of the second phase of Gibran's career. May Ziadeh, with whom Gibran had been corresponding since 1912, reviewed it in Al-Hilal, a magazine in Egypt. It has been described as a spiritual powerhouse. Edited by Macc Kay Production executive Avalon Giuliano ICON Intern Eden Giuliano Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission ©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret Giuliano Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well known movie actor.

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  World Set Free The (Unabridged)

  H. G. Wells

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  This chilling, futuristic novel, written in 1913 and first published the following year, was incredibly prophetic on a major scale. Wells was a genius and visionary, as demonstrated by many of his other works, but this book is clearly one of his best. He predicts nuclear warfare years before research began and describes the chain reactions involved and the resulting radiation. He describes a weapon of enormous destructive power, used from the air that would wipe out everything for miles, and actually used the term "atomic bombs." This book may have been at least part of the original inspiration for the development of atomic weapons, as well as presenting many other ideas that would ultimately come to pass. Some ideas may still be coming, including a one-world government referred to as The World Republic, that will attempt to end all wars.

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  The Mysterious Island

  Jules Verne

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  During the Civil War, five Union soldiers and a dog quietly escape from the clutches of the Confederate Army at Richmond, Virginia by hot air balloon. Their intention was to simply drift safely over to the Union lines and rejoin their own troops.  Instead, while aloft, they were caught in a high wind and whisked hundreds of miles out to sea.  The men carried no provisions for survival and had no idea where they were.  Under those circumstances their future was bleak.  Worse yet, the balloon was leaking air and slowly deflating.  As the balloon made its slow descent from the sky, the men were fortunate to spot an island in the distance.  As the balloon dropped lower and lower it also drifted closer to the island.  When the basket hit the sea, the partially deflated balloon dragged it violently across the surface and scattered the men among the waves.  The men were able to swim to their only refuge...The Mysterious Island.  At first the island was accomodating, but then it became more mysterious as unusual and strange happenings occured.  Something deep in the depths of the island seemed to have control...something mysterious and unidentifiable....

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  Main Street

  Sinclair Lewis

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  This classic by Sinclair Lewis shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire. Main Street attacks the conformity and dullness of early-twentieth-century midwestern village life in the story of Carol Milford, the city girl who marries the town doctor. Her efforts to bring culture to the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, and petty, small-minded bigotry. The first popular bestseller to attack conventional ideas about marriage, gender roles, and small town life, Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist.

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