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  Return of the Soldier The...

  Rebecca West

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  A shell-shocked soldier returns from the First World War. There are three women who love him and who are waiting for him. But he can only remember two of them as they were years ago, and he cannot remember his wife at all. The three women have a choice - to leave him or to "cure" him.

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  Surprising Adventures of Baron...

  Rudolph Erich Raspe

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  Baron Munchausen recounts his entertaining tall-tale adventures to his friends. His adventures in Volume I include: a big storm, a battle against a lion and crocodile, his amazing marksmanship, hunting conquests, an insane cloak, amazing feats on an extraordinary horse, time spent as a prisoner of war and slave, a trip to North America and one to Constantinople, the rescuing of a woman, journeys to the moon, among others. Volume II tells of the Baron's preparations for a trip to Africa and the host of adventures he encounters there. He then continues on with his travels - England, North America, Russia. Each of the Baron's tales are more fanciful than the last.

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  Fanny Herself: A Passionate...

  Edna Ferber

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  Fanny Herself: A Passionate Instinct was originally published as a serialized story under the title Fanny Herself in The American Magazine from April to November 1917. Jewel Audiobooks is proud to present the first unabridged edition of this American classic! 
   
  The story revolves around Fanny Brandeis, starting with her childhood in Winnebago, WI, where her parents run a shop. After Fanny's father dies, her mother Molly must make extremely difficult choices about Fanny's and her brother Theodore's educations. These choices set the course for the entire family throughout their lives. 
   
  Rather than rely on dialogue to advance the plot, noted American author Edna Ferber is an exceptional storyteller who delights the listener with narrative. 
   
  Although the book is now 100 years old, it contains lessons that are still valuable. Like many of us, Fanny must decide whether to pursue wealth or follow her creative dreams. Can she be happy, and will she find love? 
   
  Author Edna Ferber won the Pultizer Prize for Novel in 1925 and may be best known for her book Show Boat, which was adapted into a successful and long-running musical. 
   
  Look for the companion Kindle ebook containing all of M. Leone Bracker's beautiful, hand-drawn illustrations that accompanied the 1917 magazine series.

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  Black Jack (Unabridged)

  Rudyard Kipling

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  First published in the Soldiers Three volume of The Indian Railway Library in 1888, and collected in Soldiers Three and Other Stories in the same year.Many years before, as a private in the Black Tyrone, Mulvaney had found himself living in a barrack room with a group of bad characters. Their sergeant was hard on them, and they planned to get revenge on him, but Mulvaney would have nothing to do with the idea.

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  Russian Short Story The - Volume...

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai...

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  The Russian novel has a reputation that is immense, both in narrative and in length.  Unquestionably though the ideas, themes and characters make many novels rightly revered as world class, as icons of literature. 
   
  Perhaps an easier way to enjoy a wider selection of the Russian heritage, with its varied and glorious literary talents, is with the short story.  These gems sparkle and beguile the mind with their characters and narrative, exploring facets of society and the human condition that more Western authors somehow find more difficult to navigate, or to explore, explain and relate to.   
   
  The Russian short story is, in many respects, in a genre of its own.  It is at its captivating best whether it’s an exploration of real-life experiences, through fantasy and fables and on to total absurdity. 
   
  In a land so vast it is unsurprising that it is a world almost unto itself. Cultures and landscapes of differing hues are packed together bound only by the wilful bonds and force of Empire. 
   
  The stories in this collection traverse the decades where one might be a serf under an absolute monarch, and the reality of that was pretty near to slavery, into an emancipation of sorts in the fields, or towns under the despotic will of landowners and the rich into the upheavals of Empire and then the overthrow of the ruling class and its replacement by the communists, who promised equality for all and delivered a society where the down-trodden remained the lowest yet vital cog of the state machine and its will.  
   
  Whilst Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Chekhov are a given in any Russian collection we also explore and include Andreyev, Korolenko, Turgenev, Blavatsky and many others to create a world rich and dense across a sprawling landscape of diverse people, riddled with the class and unfairness in perhaps some of the most turbulent times that Russia has ever experienced. 
   
  01 - The Russian Short Story - Volume 3 - An Introduction 
  02 - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  03 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 1 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  04 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 2 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  05 - Bobok by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  06 - How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials by Nikolai Schedrin 
  07 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy 
  08 - Aloysha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy 
  09 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 
  10 - The Snowstorm - Part 1 by Leo Tolstoy 
  11 - The Snowstorm - Part 2 by Leo Tolstoy 
  12 - God Sees The Truth But Waits by Leo Tolstoy

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  Little Mother Up the Morderberg

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career, that he first explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of the day. He described his stories as "a miscellany of inventions," yet his enthusiasm for science was tempered by an awareness of its horrifying destructive powers and the threat it could pose to the human race. A consummate storyteller, he made fantastic creatures and machines entirely believable, and by placing ordinary men and women in extraordinary situations, he explored what it means to be alive in a century of rapid scientific progress. "Little Mother Up the Morderberg," is a humorous tale about a mother and son trekking to the top of a mountain.

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