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  Scenes of Clerical Life - Three...

  George Eliot

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  Three stories of Midland clergymen - one poor and put upon, one in love with a girl whose heart is elsewhere, one who rescues a lawyer's wife from drink. Eliot's first fiction, published anonymously in Blackwood's; Dickens read it and wrote to say he was sure the author was a woman, which nobody else had guessed.

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  Wuthering Heights

  Emily Brontë

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This book by Emily Bronte is a classic of English literature.   
   
   
  "Wuthering Heights" is a passionate, obsessive love story between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father.  After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and believing his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He then proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. 
   
   
  The forlong love in the story is matched by the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur.  The novel is both brutal and beautiful in equal measure.

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  Thérèse Raquin - Audiobook

  Émile Zola, Classic Audiobooks,...

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  Thérèse Raquin is Émile Zola's chilling psychological novel about passion, guilt, and the destructive power of suppressed desire. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Thérèse begins a dangerous affair with her husband's friend, leading to a crime that will haunt them both. As their shared guilt festers, Zola examines the dark corners of human conscience with cold precision.Written in stark, naturalistic style, this early masterpiece shocked readers of the 19th century and still unsettles today. Thérèse Raquin is a gripping and tragic exploration of moral decay, suffocating domesticity, and the consequences of forbidden love.

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  Lady Audley's Secret

  M. E. Braddon

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  A governess with no past marries a rich baronet, and her new nephew begins to wonder what became of the friend who disappeared the week she arrived. Braddon acted on stage under a false name to keep her mother, then wrote eighty novels; this one made her fortune and defined the sensation novel — bigamy, arson and a body down a well, in the drawing rooms readers actually lived in.

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  Winnie The Pooh

  A.A. Milne

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  “A hug is always the right size.”  
  Winnie the Pooh  
  After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends.”  
  Eeyore  
  “The things that make me different are the things that make me, me.” 
  Piglet 
  “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.” 
  Christopher Robin 
   
   
  Winnie-the-Pooh also called Pooh Bear and Pooh, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh, and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner.3:10Alan Alexander Milne was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.

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  The Surprising Adventures Of...

  Rudolph Erich Raspe

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  Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen, was an actual baron living in 18th-century Hanover famous for entertaining his guests with outrageously embellished tales of his wartime exploits—so much so that his nickname in German is Lügenbaron , or "Baron of Lies." When Rudolph Eric Raspe , a writer and scientist living in England, heard of the Baron's tales, he wrote his own versions centered around a fictional Baron Munchausen. While the real Baron wasn't amused to have his name attached to a silly character famous for his bald-faced lies, Raspe's tales became hugely popular, reprinted for hundreds of years and illustrated just as many times. These very short tales were originally intended as contemporary satire, but their outrageous silliness is still entertaining today. Rudolph Erich Raspe was a significant literary figure whose work has stood the test of time. This public domain edition preserves the original text in its entirety, making it accessible to modern readers and scholars alike. Fantastical literature has always allowed writers to explore human truths through the lens of the impossible and the magical. The Surprising Adventures Of Baron Munchausen draws on mythology, folklore, and pure invention to construct a world that illuminates our own.

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