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  This Side of Paradise

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Embark on a captivating journey into the Jazz Age with "This Side of Paradise" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, now available as a mesmerizing audiobook. In this groundbreaking novel, listeners will be transported to the vibrant world of post-World War I America, where they'll follow the tumultuous life of the enigmatic protagonist, Amory Blaine. 
  As the story unfolds, listeners will be swept up in Amory's quest for love, success, and meaning in a rapidly changing world. From his days as a privileged young man at Princeton University to his adventures in New York City's high society, Fitzgerald's evocative prose captures the spirit of a generation grappling with the promise and disillusionment of the American Dream. 
  Perfect for fans of classic literature and coming-of-age stories, this audiobook delivers a compelling performance that will transport listeners to another time and place. Whether you're a longtime admirer of Fitzgerald's work or new to his writing, "This Side of Paradise" promises to enchant and captivate. 
  So, if you're ready to experience the glamour, romance, and tragedy of the Roaring Twenties, start listening to "This Side of Paradise" today and immerse yourself in the timeless allure of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Start Listening to "This Side of Paradise" today!

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  General Custer - Folly At Little...

  Elizabeth Bacon Custer

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  Since the Battle of Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) possessed one of the most unique places in American history. Although he was a capable cavalry officer who served honorably during the Civil War, he remains one of the most instantly identifiable and famous military men in American history due to the fact he was killed during one of the country’s most well known and ignominious defeats, the Battle of Little Bighorn. And yet, this one relatively insignificant battle during America’s Indian Wars has become one of the country’s most mythologized events and continues to fascinate Americans nearly 140 years later. Though he’s now best remembered for “Custer’s Last Stand”, Custer mastered the art of public relations, dressing impeccably and having newspaper correspondents accompany him on the campaign, all in an effort to help cultivate and enhance his legacy. For nearly 58 years, Elizabeth Bacon Custer was probably the most famous widow in the world. In this lively, fascinating, loving portrait of life on the plains with her already-famous husband, Libbie tells a civilized audience of the excitement, fun, and perils endured at a remote frontier post. Intelligent and beautiful, Libbie was a partner, confidant, and booster to the general, as well as an important figure in the social life of the posts he commanded. This book has been used as source material on the general's life as well as the frontier army for well over a century. Celebrated among the prominent people of her day, Libbie never remarried after Custer's death at the Little Bighorn in 1876. She spent the rest of her life writing and lecturing about him, burnishing his reputation and keeping his memory alive. Long a jewel of western Americana, this book continues to find and entertain new audiences in the 21st century.

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  Vincente Blasco Ibanez - A Short...

  Vincente Blasco Ibanez

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  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born in Valencia, Spain on 29th January 1867.  
   
  At university, he studied law and graduated in 1888 but never felt the urgency to practice - he was more interested in politics, journalism, literature and women.   
   
  Politically he was a militant Republican partisan and, in his youth, founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (The People). The newspaper was taken to court many times and he made many enemies. In one incident he was shot and almost killed. In 1896, Ibáñez was arrested and sentenced to a few months in prison. 
   
  Despite this colourful background he found time to write novels. His first published work was ‘La Araña Negra’ (The Black Spider) in 1892, a work that he later repudiated although at the time it was a useful vehicle for him to express his anti-clerical views. 
   
  In 1894, he published ‘Arroz y Tartana’ (Airs and Graces), about a late 19th Century widow in Valencia trying to keep up appearances in order to marry her daughters well.   
   
  Ibáñez’s next sequence of books studied rural life in the farmlands of Valencia and failed to gain much of an audience.   
   
  His writing now took on a new direction with its now familiar sensational and melodramatic themes in 1908 with ‘Sangre y Arena’ (Blood and Sand), which follows the career of Juan Gallardo from his poor beginnings as a child in Seville, to his rise to becoming a famous matador in Madrid 
   
  However, his greatest success was ‘Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) in 1916, which tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War.  It was a literary and commercial sensation and became the best-selling book of 1919.  It also propelled Rudolph Valentino to stardom in the 1921 film. 
   
  Ironically his fame in the English-speaking world has come not as a novelist but as the stories behind some of Hollywood’s greatest silent movies. 
   
  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez died in Menton, France on January 28th, 1928, the day before his 61st birthday. 
   
  01 - Vicente Blasco Ibanez - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - Compassion by Vicente Blasco Ibanez 
  03 - Luxury by Vicente Blasco Ibanez 
  04 - Rabies by Vicente Blasco Ibanez 
  05 - The Last Lion by Vicente Blasco Ibanez 
  06 - The Windfall by Vicente Blasco Ibanez<

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  Robin Hood

  Paul Creswick

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  The adventures of legendary Robin Hood, a heroic outlaw who chooses to rob from the rich to help the poor. He lives with his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest, in Nottinghamshire. Robin Hood is known for his mastery of archery as well as his talent for disguising himself.

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  The Lancashire Witches

  William Harrison Ainsworth

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  The classic Victorian novel of romance and an unholy feud reaching across generations, based on the Lancashire witch trials of 1612.Widely considered to be a masterpiece of nineteenth–century gothic literature, William Ainsworth’s The Lancashire Witches begins in 1536 with a fateful confrontation atop the notorious Pendle Hill. Falsely accused of witchcraft and condemned to death, Nicholas Demdike sold his soul to Satan in exchange for his escape and revenge. But even as he sees his rival executed, Demdike’s daughter is cursed to be a witch and a mother to witches.Many years later, Mother Demdike is feared throughout Lancashire for her dark powers. Her innocent granddaughter Alizon is determined to draw the Demdike family back to the church. But as Alizon falls in love and the secret of her birth is revealed, a conflict among rival witches leaves her fate hanging in the balance, until their cursed fate once again returns them all to Pendle Hill.

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  The Enormous Radio

  John Cheever

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  Performed by Meryl Streep 
  Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have. 
  As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.""

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