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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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  Crome Yellow

  Aldous Huxley

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  Crome Yellow, first novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1921. The book is a social satire of the British literati in the period following World War I. The book revolves around the hapless love affair of Denis Stone, a sensitive poet, and Anne Wimbush. Anne’s uncle, Henry Wimbush, hosts a party at his country estate, Crome, that brings together a humorous coterie of characters. Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature

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  The Vision of the Dead Creole -...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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  50 Essential Classics You Must...

  Anonimo, George Eliot, William...

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  A sweeping journey through the foundations, triumphs, and transformations of British literature.
  
  This monumental volume gathers fifty of the most influential and enduring works ever written in the English language. From the heroic epic of Beowulf to the philosophical sublimity of the Romantic poets, from Shakespeare's immortal tragedies to the visionary science fiction of H. G. Wells, this collection traces the evolution of a literary tradition that shaped the modern world.
  
  Organized chronologically and thematically, the anthology reveals how medieval allegory gave way to Renaissance drama, how the novel emerged as a dominant art form, and how the nineteenth century produced a golden age of storytelling. It concludes with poetic masterpieces that continue to define the emotional and intellectual reach of English expression.
  
  Featuring:
  
  • Foundational medieval epics and allegories
  • The great tragedies and comedies of Shakespeare
  • The birth and rise of the English novel
  • Victorian realism and Gothic imagination
  • Imperial adventure and early science fiction
  • The lyric revolution of the Romantic poets
  
  Carefully curated for both general readers and students, this edition offers a coherent and historically grounded path through over a millennium of literary achievement.
  
  A library in a single volume — indispensable, timeless, and essential.
  
  
  
  Included Works
  
  Beowulf — anonymous
  
  Piers Plowman — William Langland
  
  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — anonymous
  
  Le Morte d'Arthur — Sir Thomas Malory
  
  Utopia — Thomas More
  
  Doctor Faustus — Christopher Marlowe
  
  The Faerie Queene — Edmund Spenser
  
  Paradise Lost — John Milton
  
  Hamlet — William Shakespeare
  
  King Lear — William Shakespeare
  
  Macbeth — William Shakespeare
  
  Othello — William Shakespeare
  
  Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare
  
  A Midsummer Night's Dream — William Shakespeare
  
  The Tempest — William Shakespeare
  
  Volpone — Ben Jonson
  
  Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe
  
  Gulliver's Travels — Jonathan Swift
  
  Pamela — Samuel Richardson
  
  Tom Jones — Henry Fielding
  
  Tristram Shandy — Laurence Sterne
  
  The Vicar of Wakefield — Oliver Goldsmith
  
  The Monk — Matthew Gregory Lewis
  
  Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
  
  The Last Man — Mary Shelley
  
  Vathek — William Beckford
  
  Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
  
  Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
  
  Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë
  
  David Copperfield — Charles Dickens
  
  Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
  
  Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens
  
  Middlemarch — George Eliot
  
  Tess of the d'Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy
  
  Far from the Madding Crowd — Thomas Hardy
  
  Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
  
  The Time Machine — H. G. Wells
  
  The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells
  
  The Invisible Man — H. G. Wells
  
  The Island of Doctor Moreau — H. G. Wells
  
  She — H. Rider Haggard
  
  King Solomon's Mines — H. Rider Haggard
  
  Kim — Rudyard Kipling
  
  The Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling
  
  Songs of Innocence and of Experience — William Blake
  
  Lyrical Ballads — William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  
  Selected Poems — John Keats
  
  Selected Poems — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  Les Misérables - Audiobook

  Victor Hugo, Classic Audiobooks,...

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  Les Misérables is a sweeping epic of human suffering, resistance, and redemption set against the backdrop of 19th-century France. The novel centers on Jean Valjean, a man who transforms from a hardened ex-convict into a symbol of compassion and moral strength. His journey touches the lives of others, including the tragic Fantine, the innocent Cosette, the determined Marius, and the relentless Inspector Javert.Through intersecting stories of love, poverty, injustice, and revolution, Victor Hugo reveals the deep fractures of society while upholding the enduring hope for change. The novel is both a personal tale of redemption and a broader cry for social reform.Profound, emotional, and timeless, Les Misérables remains one of the most powerful novels ever written.

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  The Man of the Crowd

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  More classic horror narrations on Jonathan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks 
  Title: The Man of the Crowd 
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1840 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series: Timeless Terrors 
  Number: 98 
  Description: 
  The Man of the Crowd is a haunting exploration of urban isolation, obsession, and the inscrutable depths of the human soul. The story follows an unnamed narrator convalescing in a London coffeehouse, who becomes fixated on a mysterious old man glimpsed through the window. Compelled by an inexplicable fascination, he follows the stranger through the teeming streets of the city—through markets, alleys, theaters, and slums—only to discover that the man cannot endure solitude and seems condemned to wander endlessly among the masses. 
  Unlike tales driven by overt horror, The Man of the Crowd derives its unease from psychological pursuit and existential mystery. Poe masterfully portrays the modern city as both spectacle and labyrinth—a place where anonymity conceals hidden truths and where proximity does not equal connection. The old man remains unreadable, a living cipher who embodies what the narrator calls “the type and the genius of deep crime,” yet whose secret is never revealed. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures Poe’s atmosphere of restless movement and mounting obsession, drawing listeners into a nocturnal journey through shadowed streets and crowded thoroughfares. The Man of the Crowd endures as a foundational work of psychological fiction—where the greatest mystery lies not in what is seen, but in what can never be fully known.

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