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  She - Audiobook

  H. Rider Haggard, Classic...

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  She tells the mesmerizing tale of Ayesha, an immortal queen ruling a lost African kingdom, and the men who encounter her. When Professor Holly and his ward Leo Vincey follow an ancient clue, they discover not only a hidden civilization but a woman whose beauty and power defy time itself.This novel mixes fantasy, mythology, and philosophical themes. Both mysterious and tragic, She is one of Haggard's most influential works—an exploration of immortality, obsession, and colonial imagination. Ayesha remains one of the most iconic figures in adventure literature.

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  The Facts in the Case of...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan.   
  He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted although he now referred to himself as Edgar Allan Poe.  His father alternatively spoiled or chastised him and tension was frequent over gambling debts and monies for his education.  His university years to study ancient and modern languages was cut short by lack of money and he enlisted as a private in the army claiming he was 22, it is more probable he was 18. After 2 years he obtained a discharge in order to take up an appointment at the military academy, West Point, where he failed to become an officer. 
  Poe had released his 1st poetry volume in 1827 and after his 3rd turned to prose and placing short stories in several magazines and journals.  At age 26 he obtained a licence to marry his cousin.  She was a mere 13 but they stayed together until her death from tuberculosis 11 years after. 
  In January 1845 ‘The Raven’ was published and became an instant classic.  Thereafter followed the prose works for which he is now so rightly famed as a master of the mysterious and the macabre. 
  Edgar Allan Poe died at the tragically early age of 40 on 7th October 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. Newspapers at the time reported Poe's death as ‘congestion of the brain’ or ‘cerebral inflammation’, common euphemisms for death from disreputable causes such as alcoholism but the actual cause of death remains a mystery.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Mens...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain,...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  As the new nation gathered its strength it pushed into new territories, underwent a tumultuous civil war and tried to reconcile itself into a whole.  Its authors wrote stories of intense beauty and detailed witness.  Literature was engaging and persuasive and now a mass-market industry open to a far wider audience. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 -  The 19th Century - The American Men - An Introduction 
  2 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  3 - The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain 
  4 - The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James 
  5 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving 
  6 - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane 
  7 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce 
  8 - The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte 
  9 - The Repairer of Reputations Part 1 by Robert W Chambers 
  10 - The Repairer of Reputations Part 2 by Robert W Chambers 
  11 - The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank Stockton 
  12 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Sherlock Holmes: The Boscombe...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Immerse yourself in the suspenseful world of Sherlock Holmes with The Boscombe Valley Mystery, the fourth part of the Sherlock Holmes Short Story collection, narrated by Jake Urry. In this thrilling tale by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes and Watson are called to the countryside to investigate the murder of Charles McCarthy. With the primary suspect being McCarthy's son, the case seems straightforward, but Holmes's keen insight reveals deeper layers of intrigue. 
  Jake Urry's narration breathes life into the characters and the atmospheric setting of Victorian England. Perfect for both avid Sherlock Holmes fans and new listeners, this audiobook offers a captivating journey through one of Holmes's most challenging cases. Experience the deductive brilliance and suspense of The Boscombe Valley Mystery in this new recording.

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  Aristocratic Education - From...

  Stephen Leacock

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  Stephen P H Butler Leacock FRSC was born on the 30th December 1869 in Swanmore, near Southampton, England, the third of eleven children. 
  The family emigrated to Canada in 1876 to live on a 100-acre farm in Sutton, Ontario.  There Leacock was home-schooled and later enrolled into the elite private school Upper Canada College in Toronto.  Academically he was very strong and enrolled at the University of Toronto to study languages and literature.  He left there after his alcoholic father abandoned the family and finances were too stretched to continue his attendance.  He now enrolled in a three-month course at Strathroy Collegiate Institute to become a qualified high school teacher and with it a regular income. 
  Leacock published humorous articles in many Canadian and US magazines but his real passion was economics and political theory.  In 1899 he enrolled for postgraduate studies at the University of Chicago and earned his PhD in 1903. 
  His marriage to Beatrix Hamilton produced a single child 15 years later.  Over time father and son developed a love-hate relationship, partially caused by his son’s diminutive stature of only four feet.  
  He accepted a post at McGill University and kept it until he retired in 1936.  His work ‘Elements of Political Science’, was adopted as a standard textbook for two decades and was also his most profitable.  He now also began public speaking and lecturing.  
  In 1910, he privately printed some articles as ‘Literary Lapses’.  It was then released by a recognised publisher, and he became a commercially successful writer.  His collections of light-hearted whimsy, parody, nonsense, and satire were now frequently published along with biographies and several award-winning volumes on Canada. 
  Politically Leacock was a difficult creature.  He opposed women’s right to vote, was a champion of Empire but advocated social welfare legislation and wealth redistribution, but he often caused friction with his racist views. 
  Leacock has been forgotten as an economist, but it’s often said that in 1911 more people had heard of him than had heard of Canada.  For the decade after 1915 Leacock was the most popular humorist in the English-speaking world. 
  Stephen Leacock died on 28th March 1944 of throat cancer in Toronto, Canada.  He was 74.

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  Carmilla

  Sheridan Le Fanu

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  A Gothic Horror of the Vampire, predating Dracula by some 26 years. Carmilla is a tale of creeping horror, narrated by a young girl, who finds herself beset by a mysterious illness, that her newfound and mysterious friend, Carmilla surely can't have anything to do with... Considered one of the founding works within the Vampire genre, its influence can be found throughout popular horror fiction and other media. 
  Written by Sheridan Le Fanu and narrated by Michael Ward.

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