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  old fashioned girl An

  Louisa May Alcott

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  An Old-Fashioned Girl – A Timeless Tale of Heart and Virtue 
  Step into the charming world of Polly Milton, a simple country girl with a heart full of kindness and values that stand the test of time. In a society dazzled by wealth and appearances, Polly’s honesty, warmth, and unwavering sense of morality challenge the norms of the fashionable city life she enters. 
  As she befriends the wealthy Shaw family, Polly’s humble nature brings unexpected lessons to those around her—especially to Fanny Shaw, who is drawn to Polly’s sincerity despite their contrasting lifestyles. Through love, loss, and self-discovery, Polly’s journey highlights the power of true friendship, resilience, and staying true to oneself. 
  A heartwarming and uplifting novel from the beloved author of Little Women, An Old-Fashioned Girl is a celebration of timeless values in an ever-changing world. 
  🎧 Narrated by an AI voice for a smooth and engaging listening experience.

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  The Garden Party and Other Stories

  Katherine Mansfield

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  Written during the final stages of her illness, "The Garden Party and Other Stories" is full of a sense of urgency and was Katherine Mansfield's last collection to be published during her lifetime. The fifteen stories featured, many of them set in her native New Zealand, vary in length and tone from the opening story, "At the Bay, " a vivid impressionistic evocation of family life, to the short, sharp sketch "Mrs. Brill, " in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed when she overhears two young lovers mocking her. Sensitive revelations of human behaviour, these stories reveal Mansfield's supreme talent as an innovator who freed the story from its conventions and gave it a new strength and prestige.

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  The Odyssey

  Homer Homer

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  The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War. After the war itself, which lasted ten years, his journey lasted for ten additional years, during which time he encountered many perils and all his crewmate were killed. In his absence, Odysseus was assumed dead, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus had to contend with a group of unruly suitors who were competing for Penelope's hand in marriage.The Odyssey was originally composed in Homeric Greek in around the 8th or 7th century BCE and, by the mid-6th century BCE, had become part of the Greek literary canon. In antiquity, Homer's authorship of the poem was not questioned, but contemporary scholarship predominantly assumes that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed independently, and the stories themselves formed as part of a long oral tradition.  Scholars still reflect on the narrative significance of certain groups in the poem, such as women and slaves, who have a more prominent role in the epic than in many other works of ancient literature. This focus is especially remarkable when considered beside the Iliad, which centers the exploits of soldiers and kings during the Trojan War.The Odyssey is regarded as one of the most significant works of the Western canon. The first English translation of the Odyssey was in the 16th century. Adaptations and re-imaginings continue to be produced across a wide variety of mediums. In 2018, when BBC Culture polled experts around the world to find literature's most enduring narrative, the Odyssey topped the list. Here is the great tale as an exciting extended Icon Audiobook!

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  David Copperfield

  Charles Dickens

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  A childhood marked by hardship. A youth shaped by resilience. A life transformed by love, loss, and unbreakable hope.
  From the moment David Copperfield enters the world, his path is filled with challenges—cruelty at home, betrayal, poverty, and the struggle to find his place in a vast and unforgiving world. Yet through every trial, he grows: meeting unforgettable friends and foes, learning hard truths, and discovering the strength of his own character.
  
  Praised as "the novel Dickens loved most," this epic coming-of-age tale captures the full sweep of human experience with humor, heart, and emotional depth. Readers across generations cherish its vivid characters—Steerforth, Agnes, Uriah Heep, Mr. Micawber—and the hope that even the darkest beginnings can lead to a brighter future.
  
  If you love rich storytelling, powerful emotions, and classics that stay with you for life, this masterpiece is essential reading.
  
  Start David's journey today—and let his triumphs and trials inspire your own.

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  Howards End

  E. M. Forster

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  The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist - all these narratives intersect at an estate called Howards End. The fate of this country home symbolizes the future of England in an exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends during the post-Victorian era.
  
  This 1910 novel established Forster's reputation as a writer held in the highest regard, and that he later referred to as "my best novel."

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  Cool Air - From their pens to...

  HP Lovecraft

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  Howard Phillips Lovecraft is among the greatest American masters of fantasy and the supernatural.  
  Born in 1890, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, his health was uncertain from childhood and he led a sheltered early life. His semi-invalidism enabled him to read omnivorously, and as a shy imaginative child he began to invent what would in his adult life become a whole macabre fantastic world of his own, peopled by creatures out of his own weird imagination.  
  As an adult he was retiring, almost a recluse. Tall, thin and pale, but with bright alert eyes, he was much given to wandering his native city in the dark hours of the night, and he became a devoted student of its antiquities.  
  Although he began to write early he had nothing published until he was in his twenties. He set many of his stories around the imaginary town of Arkham, and invented an entire mythology of his own, its core being the demoniac cult of Cthulhu, based on the lore or legend that the world was at one time inhabited by another race who, in practising black magic, lost their foothold or were expelled, yet live on outside, ever ready to take possession of this earth again. 
  Since his early death in 1937 his stories have continued to attract attention and praise from an ever-growing audience.

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