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  Notes from Underground

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era. (The New Yorker) 
   
  Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th-century fiction and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. 
   
  In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature. 
   
  Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original. This audio edition of Notes from Underground is the only recording of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation of Dostoevsky’s classic work. 
   
  Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of Notes from Underground is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English. 
   
  This audiobook is skillfully read by Alan Turton, with audio engineering by Raconteurs Audio. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. 
   
  Copyright (c) 1993 Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Recorded by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. (P) 2025 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

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  The Squaw - A Classic Gothic...

  Bram Stoker

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  A single drop of blood. A mother's quiet vow of vengeance. And a legendary coffin of spikes waiting in the dark... On a picturesque honeymoon in Nuremberg, a young couple and their eccentric companion, Elias, find their idyllic vacation shattered by a careless accident. With one misplaced stone, Elias kills a tiny kitten. From the shadows, the mother - a pitch-black cat with eyes of liquid fire - witnesses the deed, locking onto Elias with a silent, human-like promise of unspeakable hatred. Wherever they turn, the relentless predator follows, stalking them straight into the chilling vaults of the Torture Tower, where the grim Iron Virgin waits. Driven by arrogant bravado, Elias is about to discover that some debts can only be paid in blood. From Bram Stoker, the legendary creator of Dracula, comes an atmospheric nightmare of inescapable retribution. The trap is set, and the hunter is closing in. There is no escape. Press play now to unleash the nightmare!

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  The Autobiography of an...

  James Weldon Johnson

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  He could choose how the world would see him—but at what cost to himself?
  Told as a deeply personal confession, this groundbreaking novel follows a gifted young man of mixed race as he navigates America's rigid color line. Faced with discrimination, opportunity, fear, and ambition, he ultimately makes a life-altering decision to "pass" as white—gaining security while sacrificing a vital part of his identity.
  
  Hailed as "one of the most important novels of the Harlem Renaissance," James Weldon Johnson's work is both intimate and political, exposing the psychological toll of racism and the quiet pain behind outward success. Its themes of identity, belonging, and moral compromise remain urgently relevant.
  
  If you seek literature that challenges, enlightens, and reveals the hidden costs of conformity, this essential classic will leave a lasting impression.
  
  Open the book—and confront the question of who we become when survival demands silence.

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  Ethan Frome

  Edith Wharton

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  A farmer trapped by a hard New England winter, a sick wife who rules from her chair, and the girl who has come to keep house for them. Wharton framed it as a story reconstructed by a stranger years later, so the reader knows from the first pages that something has already gone wrong. She wrote it as a stylistic exercise and produced the least forgiving book of her career.

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  A Little Joke - From their pens...

  Anthony Hope

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  Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9th February 1863 in Clapton, London.  
  He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford.  Hope trained as a lawyer and barrister and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1887. Despite what was thought to be a promising legal career he had literary ambitions and wrote in his spare time. 
  His early works appeared in various periodicals of the day but for his first book ‘A Man of Mark’ (1890), with no publisher interested, he published with his own resources.  
  More novels and short stories followed, including the mildly successful ‘Mr Witt's Widow’ in 1892. Hope even found time to run as the Liberal candidate for Wycombe in the election that same year but was unsuccessful. 
  His first major literary success came with ‘The Dolly Dialogues’, a collection of previously published magazine pieces followed very quickly by his instant classic, ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’. He now gave up the vestiges of his legal career to pursue writing full-time. 
  Despite never again reaching the same pinnacle of success he was popular and wrote prolifically across novels, plays and of course, short stories though his writing output rapidly diminished after the war. 
  In 1918 he was knighted for his contribution to propaganda efforts during World War I.  
  His short stories are delicate, mannered and often surprising with their wit, humour and interplay of characters who say one thing and usually mean another.  He was very definitely a writer of escapist rather than serious fare but they are no less enjoyable for that. 
  Anthony Hope died of throat cancer on 8th July 1933 at his country home, Heath Farm at Walton-on-the-Hill in Surrey. He was 70.

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  A Room of One's Own

  Virginia Woolf

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  What does a woman need in order to create freely?
  
  First published in 1929, A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf is one of the most influential feminist essays ever written. Drawing from lectures delivered at women's colleges, Woolf explores the relationship between gender, creativity, money, and intellectual freedom.
  
  With sharp insight and elegant prose, Woolf argues that women have been historically denied the material and social conditions necessary for artistic expression. Her famous assertion—that a woman needs financial independence and a space of her own to write—has become a cornerstone of feminist thought.
  
  This work blends literary criticism, history, and social commentary, challenging readers to rethink power, authorship, and whose voices are heard in culture.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll explore:
  
  Woolf's groundbreaking ideas on women and creativity
  
  A critique of gender inequality in literature and education
  
  Reflections on independence, identity, and artistic freedom
  
  A foundational text of modern feminist theory
  
  Studied in universities worldwide and cited across generations, A Room of One's Own remains essential reading for anyone interested in feminism, literature, and the struggle for intellectual equality.
  
  Read the book that changed how the world thinks about women and art. Buy now and experience one of the most important essays of the twentieth century.

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