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  David Copperfield

  Charles Dickens

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  The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account), commonly known as David Copperfield, is a novel in the bildungsroman genre by Charles Dickens, narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield, detailing his adventures in his journey from infancy to maturity. It was first published as a serial in 1849-50, and as a book in 1850.David Copperfield is also an autobiographical novel: "a very complicated weaving of truth and invention", with events following Dickens's own life. Of the books he wrote, it was his favourite. Called "the triumph of the art of Dickens", it marks a turning point in his work, separating the novels of youth and those of maturity.At first glance, the work is modelled on 18th-century "personal histories" that were very popular, like Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews or Tom Jones, but David Copperfield is a more carefully structured work. It begins, like other novels by Dickens, with a bleak picture of childhood in Victorian England, followed by young Copperfield's slow social ascent, as he painfully provides for his aunt, while continuing his studies.Dickens wrote without an outline, unlike his previous novel, Dombey and Son. Some aspects of the story were fixed in his mind from the start, but others were undecided until the serial publications were underway. The novel has a primary theme of growth and change, but Dickens also satirises many aspects of Victorian life. These include the plight of prostitutes, the status of women in marriage, class structure, the criminal justice system, the quality of schools and the employment of children in factories.

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  Language of Flowers The...

  H. G. Wells

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  "The Language of Flowers" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic.During the early Victorian revival of chivalry the Language of Flowers had some considerable vogue. The Romeo of the mutton-chop whiskers was expected to keep this delicate symbolism in view, and even to display his wit by some dainty conceits in it.

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  Classic Scary Tales Volume 1

  Washington Irving, Mary Shelley,...

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  Vampires, Werewolves, Mummies, Ghouls, Ghosts and Mad Scientists. Written by some of the greatest minds of all time, and narrated by award-winning narrator B.J. Harrison. Come listen to Indian curses from a leprous albino. See a student of Alchemy take a secret draught of the elixir of life. Visit Count Dracula on Walpurgis Nacht. Follow Harry Houdini as he is kidnapped and trapped within the secret horrors of the Egyptian pyramids. Whether it’s the terror of a pit and a pendulum, a terrifying headless horseman, or midnight grave robbers, there is something here for everyone who wants to hear a classic scary story when the lights are down low.Stories include: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving, "The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Shelley, "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs, "The Vampyre" by John Polidori, "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling, "The Hand" by Guy de Maupassant, "The Body Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Music of Eric Zahn" by H.P. Lovecraft, "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker, "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Lot No. 249" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe, "In Letters of Fire" by Gaston Leroux, "Feathertop" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" by H.P. Lovecraft, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Oh Whistle, and I'll Come To You My Lad" by M. R. James, "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant.

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  Iphigenia Among the Taurians

  Euripedes

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  The brilliant and gripping classical drama of mistaken identities, divine intervention, a long-suffering family, and the rescue of a long-lost sister. 
   
  I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus. 
   
  My father killed me. 
   
  Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review calls her work “personal, necessary, and important,” while Publishers Weekly says she is “nothing less than brilliant.” Her poetry—enigmatic yet approachable, deeply personal yet universal in scope, wildly mutable yet always recognizable as her distinct voice—invests contemporary concerns with the epic resonance and power of the Greek classics that she has studied, taught, and translated for decades. 
   
  Iphigenia Among the Taurians is the latest in Carson’s series of translations of the plays of Euripides. Originally published as part of the third edition of Chicago’s Complete Greek Tragedies, it is published here as a stand-alone volume for the first time. In Carson’s stunning translation, Euripides’s play—full of mistaken identities, dangerous misunderstandings, and unexpected interventions by gods and men—is as fierce and fresh as any contemporary drama. Carson has accomplished one of the rarest feats of translation: maintaining fidelity to a writer’s words even as she inflects them with her own unique poetic voice. 
   
  Destined to become the standard translation of the play, Iphigenia Among the Taurians is a remarkable accomplishment, and an unforgettable work of poetic drama.

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  The Bogman

  Walter Macken

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  Orphaned as a child, Cahal Kinsella returns from an industrial school in Letterfrack to the small farming village of Caherlo in West Galway, to live under the rule of his tyrannical grandfather. Cahal must learn to assert his individuality if he is to have any hope of freedom from his misery.
  With humour and humanity, Walter Macken paints a haunting, memorable portrait of the hard life of subsistence farming, of loveless arranged marriages, and rebellion against suffocating social mores.
  Written in 1952, this masterpiece is brought back to life in New Island's Modern Irish Classics series.

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  Deal in Ostriches A (Unabridged)

  H. G. Wells

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  "A Deal in Ostriches" is a short story by the British writer H. G. Wells. It is a cautionary tale about simple human greed. The taxidermist of Wells' story "Triumphs of a Taxidermist" (1894) makes a return appearance as the narrator of the story.

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