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  Decameron The - Audiobook

  Giovanni Boccaccio, Classic...

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  The Decameron is one of the most joyful, daring, and human books ever written. Set in 14th-century Florence, it gathers ten young men and women who flee the plague to a secluded villa, where they pass the days by telling stories — a hundred tales of love, wit, deception, and fortune.Through these voices, Boccaccio captures every shade of human nature, from innocence to cunning, devotion to desire. His storytellers speak with freedom and humor, finding in laughter a way to defy despair and affirm life itself.Playful yet profound, The Decameron celebrates resilience and imagination in the face of mortality. It is not only a monument of Italian literature but also a reminder that storytelling — even in the darkest times — is humanity's most life-affirming art.

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  A Diagnosis of Death - From...

  Ambrose Bierce

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  Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24th June 1842 at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents were poor but they introduced him to literature at an early age, instilling in him a deep appreciation of books, the written word and the elegance of language.  
  Growing up in Koscuisko County, Indiana poverty and religion were defining features of his childhood, and he would later describe his parents as “unwashed savages” and fanatically religious, showing him little affection but always quick to punish. He came to resent religion, and his introduction to literature appears to be their only positive effect. 
  At age 15 Bierce left home to become a printer’s devil, mixing ink and fetching type at The Northern Indian, a small Ohio paper. Falsely accused of theft he returned to his farm and spent time sending out work in the hopes of being published. 
  His Uncle Lucius advised he be sent to the Kentucky Military Institute. A year later he was commissioned as an Officer.  As the Civil War started Bierce enlisted in the 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment.  
  In April 1862 Bierce fought at the Battle of Shiloh, an experience which, though terrifying, became the source of several short stories. Two years later he sustained a serious head wound and was off duty for several months. He was discharged in early 1865.  
  A later expedition to inspect military outposts across the Great Plains took him all the way to San Francisco. He remained there to become involved with publishing and editing and to marry, Mary Ellen on Christmas Day 1871.  They had a child, Day, the following year.  
  In 1872 the family moved to England for 3 years where he wrote for Fun magazine. His son, Leigh, was born, and first book, ‘The Fiend’s Delight’, was published.  
  They returned to San Francisco and to work for a number of papers where he gained admiration for his crime reporting. In 1887 he began a column at the William Randolph Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner.  
  Bierce’s marriage fell apart when he discovered compromising letters to his wife from a secret admirer. The following year, 1889 his son Day committed suicide, depressed by romantic rejection. 
  In 1891 Bierce wrote and published the collection of 26 short stories which included ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’.  Success and further works including poetry followed.  
  Bierce with Hearst’s resources helped uncover a financial plot by a railroad to turn 130 million dollars of loans into a handout. Confronted by the railroad and asked to name his price Bierce answered “my price is $130 million dollars. If, when you are ready to pay, I happen to be out of town, you may hand it over to my friend, the Treasurer of the United States”.  
  He now began his first foray as a fabulist, publishing ‘Fantastic Fables’ in 1899.  But tragedy again struck two years later when his second son Leigh died of pneumonia relating to his alcoholism.  
  He continued to write short stories and poetry and also published ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’.  
  At the age of 71, in 1913 Bierce departed from Washington, D.C., for a tour of the battlefields where he had fought during the civil war. At the city of Chihuahua he wrote his last known communication, a letter to a friend. It’s closing words were “as to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination,” Ambrose Bierce then vanished without trace.

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  The Adventures of Sally

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  A girl comes into a small legacy, backs a friend's play with it, and discovers what New York does with money and enthusiasm. Wodehouse wrote this in 1922 in the middle of his Broadway years, and Sally is his best straight heroine — the comedy is intact, but she earns her way out, and the man she should not marry is drawn with real cruelty.

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  Dracula's halloween

  Bram Stoker

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  DRACULA'S HALLOWEEN by Bram Stoker is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror 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: Jonathan Harker's Journal 3 May. Bistritz. — Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through 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 House At Pooh Corner

  A. A. Milne

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  We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? This entry in the Winnie-the-Pooh series continues the adventures of Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. This volume introduces Tigger, an unintentional troublemaker who might bounce just a little too much. The stories center on themes of friendship, bravery, all-around silliness, and even sadness as Christopher Robin grows up. A. A. Milne (died 1956) was an influential writer of the modernist period. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, The House At Pooh Corner 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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  Sherlock Holmes The Sign of the...

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Classic...

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  The Sign of the Four is the second book in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary series about Sherlock Holmes, following A Study in Scarlet. This gripping novel delves into one of Holmes and Dr. Watson's most thrilling cases, featuring mysterious murders, a hidden treasure, and a pact sealed by betrayal. Set in Victorian England, the story unravels a dark and captivating tale involving a secret society, exotic intrigue, and a perilous chase through the streets of London.This book also introduces Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan, adding an emotional depth to the narrative. With its complex plot and dynamic storytelling, The Sign of the Four solidifies Sherlock Holmes's place as one of the most iconic detectives in literature.

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