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  The Diary Of A Dead Officer

  Arthur Graeme West

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  Published posthumously in 1919, this collection of diary entries presents a scathing picture of army life and is said to be one of the most vivid accounts of daily life in the trenches. It chronicles West's increasing disillusion with war and his move toward pacifist and atheist beliefs. The final part consists of his powerful war poems, including God, How I Hate You, You Young Cheerful Men, and Night Patrol. West was killed by a sniper in 1917. In view of some of his poems, one wonders if death was not unwelcome. Arthur Graeme West was a British writer and war poet. West was born in Eaton, Norfolk, educated at Highgate School, then Blundell's School and Balliol College, Oxford, and killed by a sniper in 1917.

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  The collected works of Honoré de...

  Honoré de Balzac

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  What if an entire society could be captured in fiction?
  
  The Collected Works of Honoré de Balzac brings together the monumental writings of one of the greatest novelists in literary history. Through La Comédie Humaine, Balzac set out to portray French society in all its complexity—ambition and failure, wealth and poverty, love, power, corruption, and desire—across interconnected novels and stories.
  
  Balzac's characters move through salons, streets, courts, and country houses, reappearing across works to form a living, breathing portrait of nineteenth-century France. His sharp observation, psychological depth, and social insight laid the groundwork for modern realism and influenced writers from Dickens to Proust.
  
  This comprehensive collection reveals Balzac not only as a storyteller, but as a historian of human ambition and social struggle.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll explore:
  
  The complete scope of La Comédie Humaine
  
  Interconnected novels and stories portraying French society
  
  Foundational works of literary realism
  
  One of the most ambitious projects in world literature
  
  Studied in universities worldwide and admired for nearly two centuries, Balzac's collected works remain essential reading for anyone interested in classic fiction, social history, and the art of the novel.
  
  Enter a world where every ambition leaves a trace. Buy now and experience the collected works of Honoré de Balzac.

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  Witch's Loaves - From their pens...

  O Henry

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  William Sydney Porter was born on 11th September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At age 3 his mother died from tuberculosis. From an early age it was clear Porter had a large appetite for reading as he absorbed the world around him. 
  He first attended at a school run by his aunt before enrolling at the Lindsey Street High School and then worked at his uncle’s drugstore and gained a pharmacists’ license in 1881.  
  A persistent cough took him to Texas in the hope that a change of climate would help his symptoms. He took on various types of work, initially from ranch hand and cook and then as varied as pharmacist, draftsman, bank teller and journalist. He also began to write, though for now, purely as a hobby. 
  He was a member of several singing and dramatic groups when he met 17 year old Athol Estes, daughter of a wealthy Austin family. Despite her mother’s objection owing to Athol’s tuberculosis, they began courting and in July 1887, they eloped and soon married. 
  Athol, impressed by his writing, encouraged him to get them published. A job as a draftsman at the Texas General Land Office paid a healthy $100 dollars per month and life was good. 
  But then life turned cruel. His son died a few hours after birth although a daughter, Margaret, came the following year.  His job had to be vacated but another was found at the First National Bank of Austin. The bank operated informally and Porter was careless in keeping the books. He lost that job but began writing for the humourous weekly The Rolling Stone and the Houston Post. Some time later the federal Bank auditors went through his former accounts and he was arrested on charges of embezzlement. 
  Porter fled the day before his trial to Honduras. Holed up for several months he began to write.  Athol had become too ill to travel to meet him and learning that her health was deteriorating he surrendered to the court in February 1897.  Bail was obtained so that he could stay with Athol during her final days.  
  Porter was sentenced to five years at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. His pharmacy qualifications got him the job of night druggist.  His sentence also gave him time to write and publish fourteen short stories. In December 1899 in McClure’s Magazine he published a short story as O Henry.  
  He was released two years early in July 1901, and reunited with Margaret, now 11, in Pittsburgh.  He now began his most prolific period of writing; a short story per week for the New York World, while also publishing works in other magazines.  Eventually over 600 of his short stories were published. 
  Porter was a heavy drinker and in 1908 his health, which had deteriorated for several years, took a dramatic turn for the worse, as did his writing.  
  O Henry died of cirrhosis of the liver complicated by diabetes and an enlarged heart on 5th June 1910.

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  The Horla - Classic Tales Edition

  Guy de Maupassant

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  An invisible, alien parasite slowly takes over the penetrating mind of a French Nobleman. He slowly loses control over his thoughts, his words, and his deeds. Is it insanity? Or is it, the Horla?

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  Old English Poetry

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  It should not be doubted that at least one-third of the affection with which we regard the elder poets of Great Britain should be-attributed to what is, in itself, a thing apart from poetry-we mean to the simple love of the antique-and that, again, a third of even the proper poetic sentiment inspiredby their writings should be ascribed to a fact which, while it has strict connection with poetry in the abstract, and with the old British poems themselves, should not be looked upon as a merit appertaining to the authors of the poems.

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  The Brothers Karamazov - A...

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  A vicious patriarch, three fractured brothers, and a murder that will put the human soul on trial. 
  In 19th-century Russia, the greedy and cruel landowner Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov has spent a lifetime neglecting his three sons: the passionate and destructive Dmitri, the coldly rational intellectual Ivan, and the pure-hearted spiritual novice, Alyosha. When a bitter dispute erupts over a vast inheritance and the love of a local temptress, the fragile ties binding the family finally snap. As tensions reach a boiling point, a brutal patricide shocks the town, forcing each brother to grapple with his own guilt, faith, and the dark inheritance of the Karamazov blood. Who is truly to blame when everyone has a motive? 
  Listeners of Classic Literary Fiction will be deeply captivated by Dostoyevsky's crowning achievement. This gripping psychological drama brilliantly blends philosophical debates on free will, morality, and God with the fast-paced intrigue of a murder mystery. If you love immersive character studies, explosive family sagas, and timeless philosophical literature, this breathtaking audiobook performance will hold you spellbound until the final verdict is reached. 
  About the Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) was a legendary Russian novelist, philosopher, and essayist known for his profound psychological penetration into the darkest corners of the human heart. His brilliant works, written during times of immense personal and political turmoil, remain cornerstones of world literature.

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