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  The Ghosts of Piccadilly

  George Slythe Street

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  The Ghosts of Piccadilly (1907) is a "gossip book" about the famous inhabitants of Piccadilly, by G. S. Street. "If any part of any city deserves a book to itself, it is Piccadilly. We shall stand before some house in the hours when the traffic is stilled, and I shall tell of its history, of the men and women who dwelt there, and talked and loved and gambled and lived and died. I shall follow the lines of my temperament and tastes rather than those of completeness and impartiality: it is likely that I shall be voluble about Byron and reticent about Macaulay." - Excerpt from the book

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  The Swoop! - Unabridged

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standing-room." The invaders are the Russians under Grand Duke Vodkakoff, the Germans under Prince Otto of Saxe-Pfennig – the reigning British monarch of the day was Edward VII of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha — the Swiss Navy, the Monegasques, a band of Moroccan brigands under Raisuli, the Young Turks, the Mad Mullah from Somalialand, the Chinese under Prince Ping Pong Pang, and the Bollygollans in war canoes… Artist Bio Author: Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.

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  Her Lover

  Maxim Gorky

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  Her Lover is a short story by Russian writer Maxim Gorky. Debates three views. The first one is human loneliness, lack of communication, fragmented and lost identity in modern industrialized Russian society, which was actually a general view in the early decades of the twentieth century. Secondly, Gorky endows his fictional character Teresa with the Romantic energy which enables her to survive her misery and loneliness by inventing an imaginary lover. Finally, the paper examines the views of prejudice and "self-sufficiency" which put serious hurdles before real communication and thus cause the spiritual and moral decay in social life and relationships.Famous Novels of the author Maxim Gorky: Goremyka Pavel, Published in English as Orphan Paul, Foma Gordeyev, Three of Them,  Also translated as Three Men, The Mother, The Life of a Useless Man,  A Confession, Okurov City, The Life of Matvei Kozhemyakin, The Artamonov Business, Life of Klim Samgin.

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  A Study in Scarlet

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "A Study in Scarlet" is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle.  
  The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would go on to become one of the most well-known detective duos in literature.  
  When a gruesome murder is discovered with the word "RACHE" scrawled in blood, Sherlock Holmes uses his unique powers of deduction to uncover a hidden story of passion, betrayal, and retribution.

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  The Awakening

  Kate Chopin

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  Kate Chopin’s groundbreaking novel of early feminism set against the evocative backdrop of turn-of-the-century New OrleansEdna Pontellier is trapped. By her marriage, by her responsibilities to two young sons, by the expectations of Creole society. When she falls in love with the charming and flirtatious Robert Lebrun during a summer on the Louisiana coast, Edna awakens to a new sense of herself, and to the possibility of true independence. Mademoiselle Reisz, a locally renowned musician, offers one example of the self-sufficient, artistic existence Edna might lead. An affair with the notorious womanizer Alcée Arobin warns of the passion and danger inherent in living outside the boundaries of convention. Torn between the life that was handed to her and the one she wants to live, Edna makes a shocking decision.Overwhelmingly criticized in its day for its frank depictions of female sexuality, marriage, and a woman’s desire for independence, The Awakening is now celebrated as one of the earliest—and most revolutionary—feminist novels in American literature.

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  The Magnificent Seventeen

  Various Various

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  The Magnificent Seventeen is a musical adventure through 17 famous works of poetry and prose, with renowned Australian narrator and producer, Lindsay Radford. CONTENTS-1. Introduction2. "The Creation", from The Book Of Genesis, in The Bible.3. "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love", by Christopher Marlowe.4. "The Daffodils", by William Wordsworth.5. "Sonnet 43 (How Do I Love Thee ?)", by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.6. "The Man From Snowy River", by Andrew Barton Paterson.7. "The Village Blacksmith", by Henry Longfellow.8. "The Charge Of The Light Brigade", by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.9. "The Bixby Letter", by Abraham Lincoln.10. "She Walks In Beauty", by Lord Byron.11. "The Destruction Of Sennacherib", by Lord Byron.12. "To A Skylark", by Percy Shelley.13. "Written The Night Before His Execution", by Chidiock Tichborne.14. "Soliloquy From Romeo And Juliet", by William Shakespeare.15. "Monologue From Julius Caesar", by William Shakespeare.16. "Soliloquy From Hamlet", by William Shakespeare.17. "Sonnet 17", by William Shakespeare.18. "Sonnet 18", by William Shakespeare.

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