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  The Great Gatsby - A tragic...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  The Roaring Twenties shimmer with unimaginable wealth, dangerous secrets, and a love that could destroy everything it touches. 
  When young, aspiring bond salesman Nick Carraway moves to the wealthy enclave of West Egg, Long Island, he finds himself living next door to a mysterious millionaire. Jay Gatsby is a man who throws dazzling, extravagant parties but remains isolated in his own mansion, staring out at a single green light across the bay. Drawn into the intoxicating world of the ultra-rich, Nick reunites with his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her domineering husband, Tom. Soon, Nick becomes the unwitting linchpin in Gatsby's desperate, decade-long quest to reclaim his lost love, Daisy. But beneath the champagne-soaked nights, jazz-filled ballrooms, and glittering facades lies a volatile cocktail of jealousy, infidelity, and blinding ambition that threatens to shatter their gilded world forever. 
  Why you will love this: This definitive Literary Fiction audiobook is the quintessential portrait of the Jazz Age. Listeners will be captivated by its lyrical prose, timeless tropes of star-crossed lovers, and biting social commentary on the hollow pursuit of the American Dream. If you crave atmospheric settings, complex character studies, and tragic romance driven by unforgettable archetypes, this cinematic narration will transport you straight to 1922. 
  About the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald was a defining voice of the 20th century whose works captured the glittering excess and inherent disillusionment of the Jazz Age. With his unmatched elegant prose and sharp cultural critiques, Fitzgerald cemented his legacy as one of the greatest American writers of all time.

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  A Ghost Story - From their pens...

  Mark Twain

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  Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri on the 30th November 1835 and is far better known by his pen name of Mark Twain.  An American writer and humorist of the first order he is perhaps best known for his novels ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and its sequel ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ which are often described with that mythic line The Great American Novel. 
  Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri which would later provide the backdrop to these great novels.  Apprenticed to a printer he also became a typesetter and then a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi.  Later, heading west with his brother Orion to make his fortune, he failed at gold mining and instead turned to journalism and thence his true calling as a writer of humorous stories where his wit and humor sparkled from every paragraph, his craft evident with every page and punctured target. 
  A staunch supporter of copyright protections this helped him keep much of the wealth his writing created, though much money was also lost on investments that he pursued in his love for science and technology as well as investing in his own inventions. 
  Twain was born during a visit by Halley’s comet, and he predicted that he would go out with it as well.  He died the day after its subsequent return on 21st April 1910, at his house, Stormfield, located in Redding, Connecticut.

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  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde

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  Oscar Wilde's only novel is a dazzling and dangerous fable of beauty, vanity, and moral ruin. When the impossibly handsome young Dorian Gray idly wishes that his portrait might bear the burden of age and sin in his place, the wish is granted: Dorian stays forever youthful while the painting silently records the disfigurement of his every cruelty. Seduced by the epigrammatic philosophy of Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian sinks into a secret life of pleasure and corruption — as the hidden canvas grows ever more monstrous. Wickedly witty and unmistakably Gothic, this accessible modern edition presents Wilde's masterpiece newly typeset for today's readers.

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  The Puppet Crown

  Harold MacGrath

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  A small European kingdom, a dying king, a duchess who wants the throne for her line, an Austrian loan falling due, and an American who happens to be in the capital. MacGrath was a Syracuse newspaperman who became one of the best-paid novelists of his day and among the first to write seriously for the screen; this 1901 romance is briskly cynical about how kingdoms are actually disposed of — by bankers.

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  Notes from Underground

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era. (The New Yorker) 
   
  Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th-century fiction and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. 
   
  In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature. 
   
  Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original. This audio edition of Notes from Underground is the only recording of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation of Dostoevsky’s classic work. 
   
  Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of Notes from Underground is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English. 
   
  This audiobook is skillfully read by Alan Turton, with audio engineering by Raconteurs Audio. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. 
   
  Copyright (c) 1993 Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Recorded by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. (P) 2025 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

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  That Affair Next Door

  Anna Katharine Green

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  When Miss Amelia Butterworth observes a couple entering the neighboring Van Burnam mansion, her instinct tells her that something isn't right. Investigating, she discovers a woman's body and realizes she has stumbled upon a murder, and that she's a vitally important witness. But Miss Butterworth aspires to be more than simply a witness, however important—she sets out to solve the crime. Initially she works in competition with the famed New York detective, Ebenezer Gryce , but as the mystery deepens, nothing but their cooperation will lead to the truth. With the creation of the character of Miss Butterworth, Anna Katharine Green anticipated by thirty years the advent of Agatha Christie's more famous elder spinster and amateur sleuth, Miss Marple . Anna Katharine Green (died 1935) was a major literary figure of the early 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, That Affair Next Door exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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