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  Nurse's Stories (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.NURSE'S STORIES: There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit when Iam in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been.

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  Beowulf

  Francis Barton Gummere

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  Beowulf was composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet. Francis Barton Gummere translates this beautiful poem. Beowulf is an epic poem. The main character, Beowulf, proves himself a hero as he battles against supernatural demons and beasts.

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  The Swiss Family Robinson: The...

  Jules Verne

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  Jules Verne achieved a triumph when his imagination, fired by Rudolph Wyss’ “The Swiss Family Robinson,” was impelled to carry the story a step farther in “The Castaways of the Flag.” An island was ever his spiritual home; and no one was ever happier upon one. “The Castaways of the Flag” is a satisfactory sequel to “The Swiss Family Robinson” because it is the production of Jules Verne, an original genius, set in motion by Rudolph Wyss. Wherever “The Swiss Family Robinson” is heard, “The Castaways of the Flag” should also be heard.

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  Reginald in Russia - and Other...

  Saki Saki

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  “Reginald in Russia and other sketches” was published in 1910 and was the second of Saki's collections of short stories following “Reginald” (1904). It consists of 15 stories or “sketches” as the author calls them and contains two of his most famous tales “Gabriel Ernest” and “The Reticence of Lady Anne.” The stories are:Reginald in RussiaThe Reticence of Lady AnneThe Lost SanjakThe Sex that Doesn't ShopThe Blood-Feud of Toad-WaterA Young Turkish CatastropheJudkin of the ParcelsGabriel ErnestThe Saint and the GoblinThe Soul of LaploshkaThe BagThe StrategistCross CurrentsThe Baker's Dozen (A Playlet)The Mouse

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  Babbitt

  Sinclair Lewis

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  This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books."

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  Northanger Abbey - Unabridged

  Jane Austen

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  This early novel is often called Jane Austen's Gothic parody. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers are quintessential gothic ingredients;, but the listener is also rewarded with Austen's typical and wonderful sense of satirical humor!.. Our heroine is Catherine Morland, a seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, an avid reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her with doubt and fear... What lies behind the death of Henry's mother? Is there a terrible family secret? Can she really rely on Henry? Or has our lovely heroine just read to many gothic stories?

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