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  Nathaniel Hawthorne - Short Stories

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Embark on a mesmerizing journey into the captivating world of Nathaniel Hawthorne's timeless tales with our digital audiobook collection.  
   
  Delve into the eerie and mysterious realms of 'An Old Woman's Tale,' experience the enigmatic 'The Intelligence Office,' and explore the profound allegories within 'The Vision of the Fountain.' Finally, get lost in the powerful narrative of 'The Great Stone Face.' With expert narrators bringing these classics to life, this collection promises hours of enthralling storytelling that will captivate listeners and transport them to Hawthorne's enchanting literary universe.

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  Ben Hur A Tale Of The Christ -...

  Lew Wallace

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  Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to the fleet as a galley-slave, while his family is imprisoned and the family goods confiscated. When Ben-Hur saves the fleet captain from drowning after his ship is sunk in a fight with pirates, that officer adopts him as son and heir. With Roman training, Ben-Hur distinguishes himself in the arena and the palistrae and appears to be on the way to high military command. With the help of a faithful family retainer and a generous Arab sheik, Ben-Hur is enabled to take part in a widely touted chariot race, where one of the other charioteers is the boyhood friend who connived to punish him for the accident and split his estate. That rival is crippled, financially and bodily, in a no-holds-barred race (memorable from the 1959 movie with Charlton Heston). Ben-Hur turns his attention to the prophesied King of the Jews, when through the sheik he meets Balthasar, one of the Three Wise Men, and hears of the child born years ago. Will Ben-Hur be the general who brings victories to the King, and finally liberates Israel from the oppressive Roman yoke? In his quest for the answer, Ben-Hur seeks out the Nazarene, now rumored to be The Messiah. THAT hero needs no introduction. Curious about the lack of kingly trappings and ambitions about this man, Ben-Hur begins to suspect that his kingdom is not of this world. And with him, we receive a gut-wrenching eye-witness view of Jesus’ arrest, humiliation, and crucifixion. Lewis Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana.

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  The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

  Mark Twain

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  Nowadays The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the most famous and popular novel by an American writer Mark Twain (his real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
  Huckleberry Finn is a teenager who runs away from his alcoholic father that was constantly beating him. On the way, an escaped black slave Jim, whose master was going to sell him to more cruel owners, joins him. Huck and Jim sail down the Mississippi River to Cairo in Illinois where slavery is abolished.
  The book is famous for its picturesque descriptions of people and towns along the Mississippi River. The actions happen before the Civil War in the south society that disappeared approximately 20 years before the publication of the novel. It is full of a satire on ingrained prejudices, racism in particular.

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  The Pit and the Pendulum

  Edgar Allen Poe

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  Another horrifying episode from the brilliant mind of Edgar Allen Poe. Imagine that you've been sentenced to death, but you don't know what the punishment is until it happens. The fear breathes life into a scream and BOOM!

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  The Idiot

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  "Beauty will save the world."
  
  Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a man of such pure honesty and childlike simplicity that he is mockingly dubbed "The Idiot," returns to the shark-infested waters of St. Petersburg society after years in a Swiss sanatorium. Seeking only to find the good in others, he is quickly ensnared in a volatile love triangle between the beautiful, traumatized "fallen woman" Nastasya Filippovna and the dark, obsessive merchant Rogozhin. As the Prince's saintly influence clashes with the vanity and greed of the Russian elite, Dostoevsky poses a devastating question: Can a truly good man survive in a world that is anything but?
  
  The Christ-Like Protagonist: Dostoevsky's goal was to depict a "perfectly beautiful" soul. Myshkin is a radical departure from the traditional literary hero; he is compassionate to a fault, lacks any ego, and suffers from epilepsy—a condition Dostoevsky shared and described with visceral, transcendent detail. The Prince is a mirror in which every other character sees their own failings and hidden virtues.
  
  A Tragedy of Modernity: The Idiot is a searing critique of a society obsessed with status, money, and intellectual posturing. Through the eccentric Epanchin family and the nihilistic youth of St. Petersburg, Dostoevsky captures a world on the brink of collapse, where genuine emotion is mistaken for madness and kindness is viewed as a fatal weakness. The novel's shocking conclusion remains one of the most powerful and debated endings in all of world literature.
  
  Experience the radiance and the darkness. Purchase "The Idiot" today and witness Dostoevsky's most heartbreaking achievement.

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  New Accelerator The (Unabridged)

  H. G. Wells

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  The New Accelerator features a fascinating depiction of the invention of what sounds a lot like an amphetamine (though technically they had already been invented a dozen years earlier). It will also remind Star Trek fans of the episode called Wink of an Eye.

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