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  About Smells

  Mark Twain

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  Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was a great American writer and journalist. He was born in 1835 in Missouri. Twain started working at the age of 12. He helped his brother, who published a newspaper. That's how his first articles appeared. In 1864 he moved to San Francisco where cooperated with publishing houses . The most famous novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Hemingway said that the hole American literature starts from this books. His works are full of humor and adventures, but they also tell us about America of that time with it's cruelty, violence, injustice and racism.  In the short story "About smells" Mark Twain talks about some Rev. T. De Witt Talmage who complains of an unpleasant smell coming from the working man in a church. In sarcastic manner, Twain criticize these words and modern Christians who forgot what underlies their religion.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  The Chimes

  Charles Dickens

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  The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, published in 1844. Its contemporary setting is the "Hungry Forties", a time of social and political unrest, and the book has a strong moral message. It remained popular for many years, although its fame has since been eclipsed by that of A Christmas Carol, the first of the series.

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  The Red Signal - A Parker Pyne...

  Agatha Christie

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  At a séance, Sir Alington, a venerable expert of the mental condition, is pestered by Mrs. Eversleigh about the importance of the sixth sense. Soon, a young man named Dermot is drawn in and tells them both about the sixth sense he experiences, a red signal that spells danger. He is about to tell them of the last time he saw the red signal when he stops himself. The last time he had the signal was earlier that very evening. But how could there be danger at a simple gathering of old friends? Will the evening bring forth whatever impending danger that Dermot senses?

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  Man of the Month Club: MAY - An...

  Ann Omasta, Callie Love

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  Poppy is the most annoying woman Cooper has ever met, so why can’t he stop thinking about her? 
  When Poppy Pendleton swoops in and steals Cooper Bridgerton’s parking space just before May’s Man of the Month Club meeting, it’s obvious these two are destined to be enemies. 
  For the second month in a row, Poppy is selected as the most compatible woman by the popular matchmaking application. 
  May’s bachelor, Cooper, and the other ladies are convinced it must be a glitch in the technology. 
  Outspoken, obnoxious Poppy can’t possibly be the best match for dashing, swoon-worthy Cooper. Can she? 
  Will Poppy and Cooper be able to shift their contentious relationship from enemies to lovers? Either way, sparks are sure to fly! Listen to their story in Man of the Month Club: MAY. 
  The Hot Shots of Romance Quickies are scorching short stories featuring sexy heroes, curvy heroines, seductive insta-love, sizzling bedroom scenes, and satisfying happily-ever-after endings. Start anywhere. Binge-listen to them all. Grab MAY now and enjoy a perfectly-portioned taste of steamy romance to satisfy your craving.

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  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  Mark Twain

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  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived.Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. Tom dirties his clothes in a fight and is made to whitewash the fence the next day as punishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege of doing his work. He then trades the treasures for Sunday School tickets which one normally receives for memorizing verses, redeeming them for a Bible, much to the surprise and bewilderment of the superintendent who thought "it was simply preposterous that this boy had warehoused two thousand sheaves of Scriptural wisdom on his premises—a dozen would strain his capacity, without a doubt."Tom falls in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get "engaged" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been "engaged" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.

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  The Ebb-Tide

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox.Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a plentiful life. The thought is intoxicating... and so is the cargo, which they sample. Inattention nearly brings them to grief in a sudden storm. This sobering experience is followed by another — apparently the dead officers had a similar ambition! — and their dreams of riches vanish.

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