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  Rudyard Kipling The Collection

  Rudyard Kipling

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  This Audiobook contains the Collection of Rudyard Kipling:- The jungle book- Just So Stories- Kim- Captains Courageous- Mowgli: All of the Mowgli Stories from the Jungle Books- Puck of Pook's Hill - France At War On the Frontier of Civilization- Letters of Travel- A Fleet In Being- The Fringes Of The Fleet- American Notes

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  The Thomas Hardy Collection...

  Thomas Hardy

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  Three novels of love, ambition, and nineteenth-century English society.   This volume includes three of the greatest works by the iconic Victorian novelist.  The Return of the Native: Eustacia Vye yearns to escape the village of Egdon Heath, but her marriage to a well-traveled man doesn’t bring the adventure she craves, in this novel that brilliantly evokes the dangerous allure of romantic fantasies.  Tess of the D’Urbervilles: A young woman struggles against tradition and circumstance in this story of love, class, and deceit.  The Woodlanders: Grace Melbury is torn between a wealthy, unfaithful husband and the humble woodsman she truly loves in this novel that examines the perils of social ambition.

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  Elizabeth and Her German Garden

  Elizabeth Von Arnim

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  Elizabeth von Arnim, who is best known for her later novel The Enchanted April, married a Prussian aristocrat and, with their five children, lived in Nassenheide, Pomerania. Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a semi-autobiographical novel about the joy that the protagonist finds in the delights of her Pomeranian garden, which provides relief from the stifling environment of her household. The novel was originally published anonymously because von Arnim feared that her husband, whom she satirised in the book, would disapprove.Each season of the year is wittily recorded, bringing new events and visitors, conveyed through von Arnim’s idiosyncratic perspective, while the ‘kingdom of heaven’ of the garden provides a calm place where the author finds solace.

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  Within a Budding Grove – Part 2

  Marcel Proust

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  In Part Two of Within a Budding Grove, young Marcel falls under the spell of an enchanting group of adolescent girls. At first intoxicated by their beauty and athletic energy, he finds it difficult choose between them. But gradually he finds himself drawn to the beautiful Albertine – though without guessing how much she is to mean to him in the future. Within a Budding Grove is the second book of Marcel Proust’s monumental, quasi-autobiographical novel Remembrance of Things Past. It was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1919.

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  The Blind Man

  D H Lawrence

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  'The Blind Man' is a delicate study of a loving relationship blighted by the man's blindness and disfigurement in the first world war. The arrival of an old friend of the woman brings into the open feelings and fears previously suppressed.

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  Wodjabet

  C.E. Montague

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  Charles Edward Montague was born in London on New Year’s Day, 1867 and educated at the City of London School and then Balliol College, Oxford. 
   
  At university, Montague, a keen writer, wrote several literary reviews for the Manchester Guardian and was then invited for a month’s trial and, after impressing, to work there.   
   
  Montague and the editor, C. P. Scott shared the same political views and between them they turned the Manchester Guardian into a vibrant and campaigning newspaper.  They were for Irish Home Rule and against both the Boer War and the First World War. 
   
  But, after the war had begun, Montague believed that it was important to give full and unequivocal support to the British government.  Despite his age, 47, he was determined to serve. 
   
  Montague was soon promoted to the rank of second lieutenant and with it a transfer to Military Intelligence. The war also brought about a crisis in his faith and it was suitable resolved by Montague temporarily putting it to one side and carrying on with the fighting. 
   
  In November 1918 the war was over and Montague could now return home to his wife and family and also to the Manchester Guardian where he would continue to work until retirement in 1925.  
   
  For Montague the war had been corrosive but it had given him much to write about, both for the paper and also for his books, which he now hoped to spend more time on.  Among those to flow from his pen are the novels A Hind Let Loose and Rough Justice as well as collections of short stories, other essays and a travel book. 
   
  He finally retired in 1925, and settled down to become a full-time writer in the last years of his life.  
   
  Charles Edward Montague died in Manchester on May 28th, 1928 at the age of 61.

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