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  The Moving Finger - An detective...

  Rose Champion de Crespigny

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  Annie Rose Charlotte Key was born on 9th November 1859 in Kensington, London. 
   
  With a privileged background—her father was an admiral, her mother a Lady, Rose began her creative life as a painter before a stab at writing local history settled her into popular fiction. 
   
  Her works were solidly written and often described as having a ‘certain graceful facility’. 
   
  Her marriage to Philip Augustus Champion de Crespigny in 1878 resulted in a family of 4 children and a name of status. 
   
  Rose was a leading member of the Ridley Art Club, the Lyceum Club in Piccadilly, and of the British College of Psychic Science.  Victorian society had a particular fascination with spiritualism and in ‘The Moving Finger’ Rose uses the theme as a background to introduce her popular occult detective Norton Vyse into her series of short stories.  
   
  Rose Champion de Crespigny died on 10th February 1935.  She was 75.

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  Lady Susan

  Jane Austen

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  This high-spirited tale, told through an exchange of letters, is unique in Jane Austen’s small body of work. It is the story of Lady Susan, a brilliant, beautiful and morally reprehensible coquette who delights in making men fall in love with her, deceiving their wives into friendship and even tormenting her own daughter, cruelly bending her to her will.
  
  Austen clearly delighted in her wicked heroine—tracing Lady Susan’s maneuverings to remarry yet continue on with her lover, and to marry off her young daughter, with great wit, zest and unfailing panache.
  
  This little-known gem, Austen’s only epistolary work, is perhaps both her funniest and bitchiest book.
  
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  Les Misérables: Volume 4: The...

  Victor Hugo

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  Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.
  BOOK 2: ÉPONINE: Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening.

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  Our Bore (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.
  OUR BORE: It is unnecessary to say that we keep a bore. Everybody does. But, the bore whom we have the pleasure and honour of enumerating among our particular friends, is such a generic bore, and has so many traits (as it appears to us) in common with the great bore family, that we are tempted to make him the subject of the present notes. May he be generally accepted!

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  Middlemarch (Book 1: Miss Brooke)

  George Eliot

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  Middlemarch (Book 1: Miss Brooke), 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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  Heroes Heroines Mythos and...

  Anonymous, Mary E. Burt,...

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  About this AudiobookCover Design by David Earl DeWitt | ZacaPublishing.comAvailable at Spotify & Other Distributors!Public Domain Source Material was used in the Publication of this AudiobookAvailable at Spotify & Other Distributors! 
  -  “Heroes , Heroines, Mythos and Reality - 13 Stories of High Adventure” is Narrated by Kennedy Center Award winning actor Dennis Edward Delaney and contains classic adventures from literature, myth and real life! 
  Our Stories: 
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  1) The 7 Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor 
  by Anonymous 
  18the - 19th Century or 1914 
  2) Hercules 
  Adapted by Mary E. Burt and Zenaide A Ragozin 
  1900 
  3) Annie Oakley 
  Police Gazette (No byline) 
  May 14, 1892 
  4) Ursula Pendrill 
  by Evelyn Everett-Green 
  1903 
  5) Jesse Varcoe 
  by Evelyn Everett-Green 
  1903 
  6) Leiningen Versus the Ants 
  by Carl Stephenson 
  1937 
  7) Midwatch 
  by David Earl DeWitt 
  1978 
  8) Tarzan A Jungle Joke 
  by Edgar Rice Burroughs 
  1919 
  9) The Adventure of the Creeping Man 
  by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  1923 
  10) The Man Who Would Be King 
  by Rudyard Kipling 
  1888 
  11) The Mark of Zorro 
  by Johnston McCulley 
  1919 
  12) Thor's Day 
  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  1863 
  13) A Desperate Street Fight 
  by Richard Rule 
  1881 
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