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  HG Wells Twice Told Tales - Read...

  H G Wells

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  About this Audiobook 
  Cover Design by David Earl DeWitt | ZacaPublishing.com 
  Original and Public Domain Source Material was used to Publish this Collection 
  Available at Spotify & Other Distributors! 
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  This audiobook is a real treat! We have a collection of rare HG Wells stories that includes the unique Welles Meets Wells radio broadcast of 1940 between HG Wells and Orson Welles discussing his famous broadcast The War of the Worlds and the state of the world on KTSA Radio October 28th, 1940. 
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  Your Stories 
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  1. Under the Knife 
  2. Le Marie Terrible 
  3. The Man Who Could Work Miracles 
  4. The Sea Raiders 
  5. The Empire of the Ants 
  6. The Valley of Spiders 
  7. A Deal in Ostriches 
  8. The Treasure in the Forest 
  9. The Stolen Bacillus 10. The Star 
  11. Introduction and the Wells and Welles Meeting 
  12. Introduction and War of the Worlds 
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  Run Time: 05:53:09.63 
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  The Unpleasantness at the...

  Dorothy L. Sayers

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  General Fentiman is found dead on the afternoon of November 11 in his armchair at the Bellona Club—just hours after the passing of his wealthy estranged sister. At ninety years old, his physician certifies death by natural causes. The important question, then, is not how he died, but when, as the answer determines the fate of an inheritance worth half a million pounds. If he died after his sister, her fortune stands to go to his grandsons, who are sorely in need of the funds. However, if his sister outlived him—even if only briefly—the money instead goes to his sister's companion, Ann Dorland. Fellow Bellona Club member and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey has to untangle a series of events to determine the general's precise time of death—and figure out if it was, in fact, a result of natural causes.

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  Middlemarch (Book 2: Old and Young)

  George Eliot

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  Middlemarch (Book 2: Old and Young), A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. It appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midlands town, from 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Leavened with comic elements, Middlemarch approaches significant historical events in a realist mode: the Reform Act 1832, early railways, and the accession of King William IV. It looks at medicine of the time and reactionary views in a settled community facing unwelcome change. Eliot began writing the two pieces that formed the novel in 1869–1870 and completed it in 1871. Initial reviews were mixed, but it is now seen widely as her best work and one of the great English novels.

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  The Outsider

  Albert Camus

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  The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus's novels to be published, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria, who, weeks after his mother's funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault's first-person narrative before and after the killing.

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  Bliss

  Katherine Mansfield

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  "Bliss" is a modernist short story by Katherine Mansfield first published in 1918. It was published in the English Review in August 1918 and later reprinted in Bliss and Other Stories.
  The story follows a dinner party given by Bertha Young and her husband Harry.

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  A Portrait of the Artist

  Stephen Dedalus

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  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man tells the story of Stephen Dedalus, a boy growing up in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century, as he gradually decides to cast off all his social, familial, and religious constraints to live a life devoted to the art of writing. As a young boy, Stephen's Catholic faith and Irish nationality heavily influence him. He attends a strict religious boarding school called Clongowes Wood College. At first, Stephen is lonely and homesick at school, but as time passes he finds his place among the other boys. He enjoys his visits home, even though family tensions run high after the death of the Irish political leader Charles Stewart Parnell. This sensitive subject becomes the topic of a furious, politically charged argument over the family's Christmas dinner. This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to become an artist and a man.Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographic novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses.

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