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  Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 9

  William Shakespeare, IVAN...

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  A selection of stories about love and romance from the best storytellers of the world including Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Turgenev trying to express love in all its forms.This volume opens with iconic Romeo and Juliet's tragic love story dating back to antiquity, followed by very passionate and quite unusual love between a doctor and his patient in "The District Doctor" by Ivan Turgenev. And last, but not least, a story from the master of human relationship and psychology, Anton Chekhov and his story of "The Man in a Case".

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  The City of Dreadful Night

  James Thomson

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  James Thomson was born in Port Glasgow, Scotland on the 23rd November 1834.   
   
  At the age of 8 his sister died and his father suffered a stroke.  Thomson was now sent south to be raised in a London orphanage, the Royal Caledonian Asylum on Chalk near Holloway.  Shortly thereafter he was given the news that his mother had also now died. It was a bleak beginning to the next chapters of his life and would undoubtedly go a long way towards shaping both his character and his future. 
   
  Thomson trained as an army schoolmaster at the Royal Military Asylum in Chelsea and served in Ireland.  After a decade of Army life he left the military and moved to London to find work as a clerk. 
   
  What Thomson also possessed was a powerful and unique writing gift.  Unfortunately, his own demons curtailed him from leaving a larger literary legacy.  But what he did leave are works that can be difficult but very rewarding, allowing us to observe, to understand and make sense of themes and issues that we might at first shy away from.  He also used the suffix B V (Bysshe – taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley and Novalis - the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg) this was to avoid confusion with the earlier Scottish poet of the same name.  For Thomson life always had a complication. 
   
  Stories, essays and poems were submitted to various publications during his life and undoubtedly the creative high point of his life is ‘The City of Dreadful Night’.  Within its bleak verse are the struggles of Thomson’s own chaotic tortures with depression, insomnia and alcoholism in the uncaring world that surrounded him.  It was published to favourable reviews from the critics but by now Thomson’s health was rapidly declining. 
   
  James Thomson B V died, in London, at the age of 47, on 3rd June 1882, from a broken blood vessel in his bowel.

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  Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  This is the fifth story in the TARZAN adventure novels. Tarzan’s enemy in this book is a Belgian traitor and an Arab chieftain named, Achmet Zek. Tarzan intends to ‘liberate’ more jewels from the lost city of Opar, unaware that his enemies know of his plan and they intend to liberate the jewels from Tarzan. The running battle becomes so intense that Tarzan is incensed to the point of losing his newly-found, refined demeanor and becomes the beast of old with a terrible ferocity. The apeman once again responds to the wild call and goes forth to prove that he is truly the king of the jungle...

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  With the Night Mail: A Story of...

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Rudyard Kipling's thrilling science fiction novella With the Night Mail, follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling foul weather. Meanwhile, a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control enforces a rigid system of command and control in the skies and in world affairs, too.

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  50 children stories Vol: 1

  Joseph Jacobs, The Brothers...

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  This Audiobook contains the following works1. Tom Tit Tot2. Three Sillies3. The Rose-Tree4. The Old Woman and her Pig5. How Jack went to Seek his Fortune6. Mr. Vinegar7. Nix Nought Nothing8. Jack Hannaford9. Binnorie10. Mouse and Mouser11. Cap o' Rushes12. Teeny-Tiny13. Jack and the Beanstalk14. The Story of the Three Little Pigs15. The Master and his Pupil16. Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse17. Jack and his Golden Snuff-Box18. The Story of the Three Bears19. Jack the Giant-Killer20. Henny-Penny21. Childe Rowland22. Molly Whuppie23. The Red Ettin24. The Golden Arm25. The History of Tom Thumb26. Mr. Fox27. Lazy Jack28. Johnny-Cake29. Earl Mar's Daughter30. Mr. Miacca31. The Adventures of Aladdin by The Brothers Grimm32. The Ant and the Grasshopper by Aesop33. Cinderella by The Brothers Grimm34. The Elves and the Shoemaker35. The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen36. Five Little Pigs by Joseph Martin Kronheim37. Hansel and Gretel by The Brothers Grimm38. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen39. The Little Red Hen40. Little Red Riding Hood41. Rapunzel by The Brothers Grimm42. Snow White43. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter44. The Three Little Pigs45. Thumbelina46. The Tortoise and the Hare by Aesop47. The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen48. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams49. The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame (Part1)50. The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame (Part2)51.  The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen (Part1)52. The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen (Part2)

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  The Metamorphosis

  Franz Kafka

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  New translation of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.Poor Gregor Samsa! This guy wakes up one morning to discover that he's become a "monstrous vermin". The first pages of The Metamorphosis where Gregor tries to communicate through the bedroom door with his family, who think he's merely being lazy, is vintage screwball comedy. Indeed, scholars and readers alike have delighted in Kafka's gallows humor and matter-of-fact handling of the absurd and the terrifying.But it is one of the most enigmatic stories of all time, with an opening sentence that's unparalleled in all of literature.

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