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  Golden Lion Of Granpère

  Anthony Trollope

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  Golden Lion Of Granpère by Anthony Trollope is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: This short novel was published in 1872 and is one of Trolllope's most highly regarded works. The novel is set in the Lion d'Or, the only hotel in a small town in Lorraine, owned by Michel Voss. This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  The Voice of God - From their...

  Winifred Holtby

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  Winifred Holtby was born on 23rd June 1898 to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston in Yorkshire.  
  A governess provided her early education before she went to Queen Margaret's School in Scarborough.  After passing the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford in 1917, she decided to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in early 1918.  However, soon after her arrival in France, the War ended. 
  She returned to study at Oxford and met fellow student Vera Brittain.  After graduating from Oxford, in 1921, Winifred and Vera moved to London, hoping to establish themselves as authors. 
  Her early novels met with only moderate success but as a journalist she was both prolific and increasingly well-known.  Her articles graced more than 20 newspapers and magazines, including the Manchester Guardian newspaper.   
  Winifred was a committed feminist, socialist and pacifist.  She gave many lectures for the League of Nations Union.  She was also active in the Independent Labour Party and was a campaigner for the unionisation of black workers in South Africa. 
  In 1931 the symptoms of high blood pressure, recurrent headaches and bouts of lassitude brought forth a diagnosis of Bright's disease.  She was given two years to live and now put all her efforts into what was to become her crowning achievement: South Riding.  Released posthumously it received lavish praise and enormous sales.  Her canon of works tackle difficult subjects head on, many in unusual ways, brimming with verve and usually strong female protagonists. 
  Winifred Holtby died on 29th September 1935 in London.  She was 37.

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  The Ball and the Cross - A Novel

  G. K. Chesterton

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  'The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues.'
  
  Serialised in 1905, The Ball and the Cross is a fascinating and nuanced exploration of the spiritual and rationalist world views.
  
  Evan Maclan, a devout Catholic, and James Turnball, a fiery atheist, agree to duel after a heated argument over religion. But every time the two men attempt to put an end to things, the authorities interfere – duelling, after all, is forbidden. In order to evade the law, the two men travel across England only to be confronted with a series of absurd events that challenge each of their beliefs and values. The result is an entertaining and sympathetically written account of an unlikely friendship that stands the test of time. Inspired by Chesterton's many debates with his good friend, George Bernard Shaw, The Ball and the Cross is a thoughtful and engaging narrative that champions conviction in a sceptical world. This audiobook edition is engagingly read by Roger May.
  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) was an English novelist, philosopher, journalist and critic. A Christian apologist, he is famed for creating the fictional priest-detective Father Brown. His writing was also renowned for his sense of humour: known as 'the prince of paradox', Chesterton often turned common sayings upside down. Admired by several of his literary contemporaries, Chesterton's work is still widely read today.

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  The Scarlet Plague

  Jack London

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  A grandfather tells his grandchildren of a previous world, one before a global pandemic wipes out nearly all mankind. Raw and melancholy, The Scarlet Plague is Jack London’s apocalyptic story about how one civilization rose and fell. Originally published in 1912 by London Magazine.

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  A House of Gentlefolk

  Ivan Turgenev

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  Lavretsky comes home to his estate at forty, ruined by a wife he has left in Paris, and meets a girl of nineteen who plays the piano — and then a newspaper reports that the wife is dead. Turgenev was the first Russian read across Europe and admired by Flaubert and James; this 1859 novel was the one Russians loved most in his lifetime, and the last scene, in a monastery garden, is the quietest ending he wrote.

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  White Nights

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  For four luminous nights, two lonely souls find refuge in each other beneath the pale summer sky of St. Petersburg. 
   
  Known only as the Dreamer, a sensitive and solitary young man has spent years retreating from ordinary life into an elaborate world of imagination. He wanders the city alone, forming silent attachments to its streets, buildings, and passing strangers while longing for a genuine human connection. 
   
  Then, beside a canal during one of St. Petersburg’s celebrated white nights, he meets Nastenka. 
   
  She is young, heartbroken, and waiting for a former lodger who promised to return and marry her. As the Dreamer listens to her story, the two form an immediate and tender friendship. Over four unforgettable nights, they share their fears, hopes, disappointments, and dreams of a happier future. 
   
  But while Nastenka waits for the man she already loves, the Dreamer begins imagining a life with her. 
   
  Caught between fantasy and reality, devotion and desire, he must decide whether one perfect moment of happiness can be enough—even when it cannot last. 
   
  Tender, intimate, and quietly devastating, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s *White Nights* is a timeless exploration of loneliness, unrequited love, romantic illusion, and the painful courage required to step beyond the safety of one’s dreams. 
   
  Narrated by Miguel Khoury.

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