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  The Complete Fiction of H P...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  CONTENTS:01. The Nameless City02. The Festival03-04. The Colour Out of Space05-07. The Call of Cthulhu08-17. The Dunwich Horror18-25. The Whisperer in Darkness26 . A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson27-28.The Haunter of the Dark29-33. The Shadow Over Innsmouth34. Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"35-42. The Shadow Out of Time43-54. At the Mountains of Madness55-79.The Case of Charles Dexter Ward80. Azathoth81. Beyond the Wall of Sleep82. Celephaïs83. Cool Air84. Dagon85. Ex Oblivione86-87. Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family88. From Beyond89. He90-95. Herbert West-Reanimator96. Hypnos97. In the Vault98. Memory99. Nyarlathotep100. Pickman's Model101. The Book102. The Cats of Ulthar103. The Descendant104. The Doom That Came to Sarnath105-110. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath101. The Evil Clergyman112. The Picture In the House . 113. The Outsider114.The Music of Erich Zann115-121. The Horror at Red Hook122.-123 The Hound 124. The History of the Necronomicon125-128 The Lurking Fear. 129. The Moon-Bog130. The Music of Erich Zann131. The Other Gods132. The Outsider133. The Picture in the House134. The Quest of Iranon135. The Rats in the Walls136-140. The Shunned House141. The Silver Key142. The Statement of Randolph Carter143. The Strange High House in the Mist144. The Street145. The Temple146. The Terrible Old Man147-153. The Thing on the Doorstep154. The Tomb155. The Transition of Juan Romero156. The Tree157. The Unnamable158. The White Ship159. What the Moon Brings160. Polaris161. The Very Old Folk162. Ibid163. Old Bugs164-162. Sweet Ermengarde, or, The Heart of a Country Girl171-172. The Dreams in the witch House

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  Right Ho Jeeves

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  What begins as a well-intentioned effort quickly spirals into a masterpiece of comic chaos. 
  At his Aunt Dahlia’s country estate, Bertie Wooster finds himself surrounded by romantic entanglements, wounded pride, and a cast of eccentrics that seem determined to complicate life at every turn. Confident in his own abilities—and against the better judgment of his ever-reliable valet—Bertie takes it upon himself to set things right. 
  The result? 
  Utter pandemonium. 
  Between a lovesick newt enthusiast, a fiery French chef on the brink, broken engagements, and a prize-giving ceremony headed for disaster, Bertie’s interventions only deepen the confusion. With social catastrophe looming and his own freedom at risk, he must do the unthinkable: admit defeat and turn once more to the incomparable Jeeves. 
  With razor-sharp wit, perfectly timed farce, and unforgettable characters, Right Ho, Jeeves stands as one of P. G. Wodehouse’s finest comic achievements. 
  Narrated with warmth and precision by Paul Landergan, this production captures every nuance of Wodehouse’s timeless humor. 
  🎧 This audiobook is produced under the Certified Human Voice™ standard—performed entirely by a human narrator, with no AI-generated voices.

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  Selected Short Stories

  Rabindranath Tagore

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  Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 
   
  Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. More than a century later, his stories still feel startlingly alive. 
  In Selected Short Stories, one of the world's great literary voices turns his clear, compassionate gaze on ordinary lives caught at extraordinary moments. A haunted marble palace on a lonely riverside, a talkative child and the Afghan fruit-seller who loves her as his own daughter, a village boy exiled to the suffocating city, a mute girl given in marriage, a loyal servant destroyed by devotion -- Tagore finds the epic in the everyday, the universal in the intimate. 
  Blending lyric beauty with psychological insight, these tales move effortlessly between Calcutta streets and quiet villages, between ghostly apparitions and the harsh light of social reality. They are stories of love and separation, guilt and sacrifice, poverty and pride. But above all, the frail, fierce dignity of the human heart. 
  Admired by writers from W.B. Yeats to William Butler, compared to Chekhov and Maupassant yet unlike anyone but himself, Tagore helped shape modern world literature. His fiction has been read, retranslated, and rediscovered across continents for generations. 
  This collection is the perfect doorway into his work -- essential for lovers of classic literature, book clubs seeking deeply moving stories, and any reader who wants to understand why Tagore's voice, born in nineteenth-century Bengal, still speaks so powerfully to our own time.

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  Just Patty and When Patty Went...

  Jean Webster

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  Patty Wyatt is a fun-loving, headstrong, and intelligent girl who gets herself into mischief and learns valuable lessons, both in and out of the classroom. Now you can hear the complete story in this box set, from Patty’s boarding school days to her college life. Just Patty was masterfully crafted by Jean Webster as a prequel to her classic title, When Patty Went to College.  
  Producer’s note: These audiobooks were read from the original texts, which were products of their time. When the books were written, it was common in American society to caricature certain ethnic groups for the sake of humor. This type of humor was wrong then and is wrong now, but to remove these inexcusable jokes and harmful portrayals would be equal to pretending that they never existed. Instead, we chose to leave the text as written, in order to shed some light on the issue, allowing for discussions in book groups and school settings and hopefully inspiring future generations to write with more accurate representation in the future.

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  Martin Eden

  Jack London

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  Martin Eden by Jack London is the story of a self-taught sailor turned writer who rises from poverty to literary fame. Martin Eden, a working-class dreamer, falls in love with Ruth Morse, an upper-class woman whose family initially rejects him. Driven by ambition and passion, he educates himself voraciously, transforming into a skilled writer. As his works gain recognition, Martin grapples with alienation, disillusionment, and the emptiness of success. While Ruth embraces his achievements, their class differences and evolving values drive them apart. Ultimately, Martin’s existential despair leads to a tragic conclusion, reflecting London’s exploration of ambition, individualism, and the cost of pursuing one's dreams.

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  The Chimes

  Charles Dickens

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  The second in his series of "Christmas books," after A Christmas Carol. The Chimes is a lesser known, but no less powerful story by Charles Dickens of christmastime and the plight of the poor. Trotty Veck is a poor porter and father, who despairing of the poors lot, is shown a terrifying vision by the "Ghosts of the Chimes" of a world without him. 
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

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