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  Moby-Dick; or the Whale - A...

  Herman Melville

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  "Call me Ishmael." 
  With those three immortal words, the gates swing open to the greatest maritime adventure ever written. Driven by an unrelenting melancholy, a young drifter named Ishmael takes to the sea, seeking the untamed majesty of the global oceans. But what he finds is a floating purgatory, commanded by a man whose soul is consumed by a single, catastrophic obsession. 
  In Moby-Dick; or, the Whale, Herman Melville crafts a sprawling, encyclopedic tapestry of nineteenth-century whaling, intertwining gritty high-seas realism with profound philosophical terror. You will brave the frozen wharves of New Bedford, share a room with the tattooed cannibal harpooneer Queequeg, and ultimately set sail aboard the doomed Pequod. 
  Masterfully narrated by Andre Reaves, this production breathes thundering new life into a literary leviathan. Reaves captures the salt, the spray, and the encroaching madness, pulling listeners straight into the howling gales of the Atlantic and the Pacific. From Father Mapple's fire-and-brimstone sermon to the terrifying mythos of the great white whale himself, this is not just a book to be heard—it is a voyage to be survived. 
  Are you ready to cast off your lines and face the tempest?

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  A Voice from the Pit - From...

  Bernard Capes

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  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.

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  Ben Hur A Tale Of The Christ -...

  Lew Wallace

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  Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to the fleet as a galley-slave, while his family is imprisoned and the family goods confiscated. When Ben-Hur saves the fleet captain from drowning after his ship is sunk in a fight with pirates, that officer adopts him as son and heir. With Roman training, Ben-Hur distinguishes himself in the arena and the palistrae and appears to be on the way to high military command. With the help of a faithful family retainer and a generous Arab sheik, Ben-Hur is enabled to take part in a widely touted chariot race, where one of the other charioteers is the boyhood friend who connived to punish him for the accident and split his estate. That rival is crippled, financially and bodily, in a no-holds-barred race (memorable from the 1959 movie with Charlton Heston). Ben-Hur turns his attention to the prophesied King of the Jews, when through the sheik he meets Balthasar, one of the Three Wise Men, and hears of the child born years ago. Will Ben-Hur be the general who brings victories to the King, and finally liberates Israel from the oppressive Roman yoke? In his quest for the answer, Ben-Hur seeks out the Nazarene, now rumored to be The Messiah. THAT hero needs no introduction. Curious about the lack of kingly trappings and ambitions about this man, Ben-Hur begins to suspect that his kingdom is not of this world. And with him, we receive a gut-wrenching eye-witness view of Jesus’ arrest, humiliation, and crucifixion. Lewis Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana.

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  The Woman in White

  Wilkie Collins

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  Who is the woman in white—and why does her story refuse to stay buried?
  
  First published in 1859, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is one of the earliest and most influential mystery novels ever written. Blending suspense, romance, and psychological intrigue, the story begins with a chance nighttime encounter that draws an ordinary drawing teacher into a web of deception, stolen identity, and dangerous secrets.
  
  Told through multiple narrators, the novel unfolds like a case file, revealing clues piece by piece as tension builds. With unforgettable villains, atmospheric settings, and a relentlessly gripping plot, Collins created a new form of storytelling that paved the way for modern detective fiction.
  
  This classic novel explores themes of justice, obsession, and the vulnerability of women in Victorian society, while keeping readers in suspense until the final revelation.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll experience:
  
  One of the first great mystery and sensation novels
  
  A masterful plot driven by secrets and identity
  
  Gothic atmosphere and psychological tension
  
  A landmark work that shaped crime and suspense fiction
  
  Widely read and studied for over a century, The Woman in White remains essential reading for fans of classic mysteries and Victorian literature.
  
  Enter the mystery that changed the genre. Buy now and experience one of the greatest suspense novels ever written.

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  The Miracle - From their pens to...

  John Davys Beresford

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  John Davys Beresford was born on 17th March 1873.  His life was blighted by infantile paralysis which left him partially disabled. 
  After an education at Oundle school he trained to be an architect.  However, he quickly decided that his life was to be centred on a literary career.  His first offerings were in drama and as a journalist. 
  As well as being a book reviewer for the Manchester Guardian he contributed to New Statesman, The Spectator, Westminster Gazette, and the Theosophist magazine The Aryan Path.   
  His spiritual journey in early adulthood had claimed him as an agnostic, in defiance of his clergyman father.  This view he later abandoned in preference to describing himself as a Theosophist and a pacifist. 
  As well as many novels, many themed with spiritual and philosophical elements.  Beresford was also a gifted short story writer particularly across the science-fiction, horror and ghost genres. 
  All of these elements helped him to obtain a prominent place in Edwardian Literary London. 
  John Davys Beresford died on the 2nd February 1947. He was 73.

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  Two Little Soldiers - From their...

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5th, 1850 near Dieppe in France.  
  Maupassant’s early life was badly torn when at age 11 (his younger brother Hervé was then five) his mother, Laure, a headstrong and independent-minded woman, risked social disgrace in order to obtain a legal separation from her husband. 
  After the separation, Laure kept custody of her two boys. With the father now forcibly absent, Laure became the most influential and important figure in the young boy's life.   
  Maupassant’s education was such that he rebelled against religion and other societal norms but a developing friendship with Gustave Flaubert began to turn his mind towards creativity and writing. 
  After graduation he volunteered for the Franco-Prussian war. With its end he moved to Paris to work as a clerk in the Navy Department.  Gustave Flaubert now took him under his wing.  Acting as a literary guardian to him, he guided the eager Maupassant to debuts in journalism and literature.  For Maupassant these were exciting times and the awakening of his creative talents and ambitions. 
  In 1880 he published what is considered his first great work, ‘Boule de Suif’, (translated as as ‘Dumpling’, ‘Butterball’, ‘Ball of Fat’, or ‘Ball of Lard’) which met with a success that was both instant and overwhelming.  Flaubert at once acknowledged that it was ‘a masterpiece that will endure.’ Maupassant had used his talents and experiences in the war to create something unique.  
  This decade from 1880 to 1891 was to be the most pivotal of his career.  With an audience now made available by the success of ‘Boule de Suif’ Maupassant organised himself to work methodically and relentlessly to produce between two and four volumes of work a year.  The melding of his talents and business sense and the continual hunger of sources for his works made him wealthy. 
  In his later years he developed a desire for solitude, an obsession for self-preservation, and a fear of death as well as a paranoia of persecution caused by the syphilis he had contracted in his youth.  
  On January 2nd, 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat.  Unsuccessful he was committed to the private asylum of Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris.  It was here on July 6th, 1893 that Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant died at the age of only 42.

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