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  A Midsummer Nights Dream

  William Shakespeare

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  We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the many comedies written by William Shakespeare . It was written around 1595 and first published in Shakespeare's first quarto in 1600. The exact reason for why this play was produced has been lost to time; some historians theorize that it could have been written for an aristocratic wedding, or for Queen Elizabeth I to celebrate the feast of St. John. The play opens with Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, planning the celebration of their marriage. During their visit to Athens four guests—Demetrius, Lysander, Helena, and Hermia—are trying to find their own spouses and to follow each other into the woods. Also entering the woods are six actors practicing a play for the duke and his new wife. Unbeknownst to all, they have also entered the realm of the fairy kingdom, ruled by King Oberon and Queen Titania and inhabited by the mischievous Puck.

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  The Golden Honeymoon

  Ring Lardner

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  The Golden Honeymoon is a story about the road, a long marriage, old memories, and the kind of conversation that's been going on for fifty years — and shows no sign of stopping.
  There's Florida sunshine, checkerboard pride, the quiet company of shared days, an unexpected brush with the past, and more oranges than anyone really asked for.
  Told in the voice of a man who always has something to say — and a wife who's heard every word — this Ring Lardner classic is funny, plainspoken, and sharper than it first lets on.
  A story about what's left unsaid when you've already said everything else.

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  Sherlock Holmes: The Five Orange...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Five Orange Pips, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fifth of the 12 stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1891. 
  John Openshaw tells Holmes about two strange deaths in his family. In 1883, his uncle died two months after receiving a letter from India, inscribed "KKK", with five orange pips enclosed. In 1885, Openshaw's father received a similar letter and died three days afterward. Openshaw recently received a similar letter and asks for advice. 
  Holmes tells Openshaw to do as the letter asks and leave a diary page, which Holmes deduces is connected to the Ku Klux Klan, on the garden sundial. Openshaw is killed before he can do so, but Holmes discovers the killers have been travelling on a sailing ship and sends a letter with five orange pips. The ship is lost at sea. 
  Public Domain (P)2016 Listen & Live Audio

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  The Judge's House

  Bram Stoker

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  The Judge's House by Bram Stoker is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: When the time for his examination drew near Malcolm Malcolmson made up his mind to go somewhere to read by himself. He feared the attractions of the seaside, and also he feared completely rural isolation, for of old he knew it charms, and so he determined to find some unpretentious little town where This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  El Corazón Delator

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. ¿Cómo puede estar loco quien planea un crimen con tanta paciencia, tanta astucia, tanta perfección? 
   
  El narrador insiste en su cordura mientras confiesa lo indecible: durante siete noches vigiló el sueño de un anciano al que decía querer, obsesionado con un solo detalle intolerable —aquel ojo pálido, velado, de buitre. A la octava noche, actuó. 
   
  El cuerpo quedó oculto bajo las tablas del suelo. La policía no sospechó nada. Todo estaba resuelto. 
   
  Y entonces empezó a oírse un latido sordo, apagado, cada vez más fuerte, bajo el entarimado... 
   
  Un relato breve y devastador sobre la culpa que no se deja enterrar, narrado desde el interior de una mente que se desmorona.

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  Persuasion

  Jane Austen

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  Jane Austens last ever published work, Persuasion is a tale reconnection, romance and the virtues of maturity. When mature and sensible Anne Elliot's spendthrift father: The Baronet Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall is forced to rent the property and relocate to Bath due to his arrears, Anne is surprised that the tenant is married to the sister of Captain Frederick Wentworth, a man whom she had been persuaded to break off her engagement with eight years ago. Inevitably this brings the man she had thought forever lost to her back into her personal circle, can she reclaim a love she thinks lost? Will she even try? 
   Narrated by Michael Ward.

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