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  Robinson Crusoe

  Daniel Defoe

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  The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (of York, Mariner Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where in all the Men perished but Himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The audiobook is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an account of supposedly factual events, is known as a "false document" and gives a realistic frame story.

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  Colonel Starbottle's Client and...

  Bret Harte

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  Society has forgiven Jo Corbin for killing a man, but can he forgive himself? Will the postmistress lose all in a bid to help a friend escape justice? Will the new teaching assistant's unorthodox ways tame the unruly pioneer children? These are just three of the nine wonderful short stories from Bret Harte, set in wild and woolly nineteenth-century California.Bret Harte's witty, sometimes heart-rending tales of frontier California earned him acclaim during the 1860s as the new prophet of American letters. His books-The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, and M'liss-helped establish the foundations of western American fiction. This book includes the following classic tales:-"Colonel Starbottle's Client"-"The Postmistress of Laurel Run"-"A Night at Hays"-"Johnson's Old Woman"-"The New Assistant at Pine Clearing School"-"In a Pioneer Restaurant"-"A Treasure of the Galleon"-"Out of a Pioneer's Trunk"-"The Ghosts of Stukeley Castle"

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  Bedtime Stories For Adults -...

  Oscar Wilde

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  As a child being read to was one of the greatest joys imaginable.  A loved one would start a tale whilst you were all cosy warm in bed with the lights nodding off.  Anything could happen but sleep would come and dreams would start and all was good with the world.  Adults too long for reassurance, for comfort, for calm.  Sometimes they may get that.  But with classic authors such as Oscar Wilde, O Henry, Saki, Rabindranath Tagore and many others they may not.  Expect the unexpected. 
   
  1 - Bedtime Stories for Adults  - An Introduction 
  2 - Kabuliwallah by Rabindranath Tagore 
  3 - Springtime a la Carte by O Henry 
  4 - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf 
  5 - Speed by Sinclair Lewis 
  6 - Tobermory by Saki 
  7 - The Ransom of Red Chief by O Henry 
  8 - The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde 
  9 - The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather 
  10 - Transients in Arcadia by O Henry 
  11 - An Angel in Disguise by T S Arthur 
  12 - The Skylight Room by O Henry 
  13 - The Magic Shop by H G Wells 
  14 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry 
  15 - The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde 
  16 - The Great Good Place by Henry James

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  The Invisible Man

  H. G. Wells

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  "The Invisible Man" (1897) is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells.The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it.What will he do when he runs out of money? Listen to this audiobook to find out how did Wells finish the story of the use of this still-not-available-but-desired invention.

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  Hunchback of Notre-Dame Book 6...

  Victor Hugo

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  The Hunchback of Notre-Dame or Notre-Dame de Paris is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831.The story is set in Paris in 1482 during the reign of Louis XI. The gypsy Esmeralda (born as Agnes) captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, but especially Quasimodo and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his obsessive lust for Esmeralda and the rules of Notre Dame Cathedral. He orders Quasimodo to kidnap her, but Quasimodo is captured by Phoebus and his guards, who save Esmeralda. Gringoire, who attempted to help Esmeralda but was knocked out by Quasimodo, is about to be hanged by beggars when Esmeralda saves him by agreeing to marry him for four years.

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  Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 8

  Anton Chekhov, Beatrix Potter,...

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  This selection of stories and tales is perfect for that cold winter night to cosy up around fireplace and enter magical world of far away lands or kingdoms of the past. 
  This volume opens with two tales from Beatrix Potter: "The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse" and "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin", followed by "Puss in Boots" by Charles Perrault. And in the second half we have Anton Chekhov's story, "A Gentleman Friend", followed by William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night".

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