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Countess Ellen Olenska, separated from her European husband, returns to old New York society. She bears with her an independence and an awareness of life which stirs the educated sensitivity of the charming Newland Archer, engaged to be married to her cousin, May Welland. Though he accepts the society's standards and rules he is acutely aware of their limitations. He knows May will assure him a conventional future but Ellen, scandalously separated from her husband, forces Archer to question his values and beliefs.

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the recording begins and ends with some of Dickens's best-known words, and between those lines is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the audiobook tells the story of a French doctor who is imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille in Paris. Upon his release, he moves to London with his daughter, Lucie, whom he had never met.

With its first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on March 8, 1981, this dramatised tale of Middle Earth became an instant global classic. It boasts a truly outstanding cast including Ian Holm (as Frodo), Michael Hordern (as Gandalf), Robert Stephens (as Aragorn), Bill Nighy (as Sam Gamgee) and John Le...

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a house in London, he soon discovers some strange and shocking things about his new client. And then some strange things start happening back in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby, a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent...

A vivid and affectionate portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid-19th century, Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women, relating the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Through a series of satirical vignettes, Gaskell sympathetically portrays changing small town customs and values in mid-Victorian England....

Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was 36. They were married when Clare was 23 and Henry was 31. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.

१९६३ साली ‘पूर्वरंग’ची पहिली आवृत्ती प्रसिध्द झाली...

Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the author’s death, The Book of Disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prose-poetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory. Credited to Pessoa’s alter ego, Bernardo Soares, who chronicles his contemplations in this so-called "factless" autobiography, the work is a journey of one man’s soul and, by extension, of all human souls that allow their minds and hearts to roam far and free.

It began in a women's club in London on a February afternoon. A discreet advertisement in The Times, addressed to "Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine..." lures four very different women away from the dismal British weather to San Salvatore, a castle high above a bay on the sunny Italian Riviera. There, the Mediterranean spirit stirs the souls of Mrs Arbuthnot, Mrs Wilkins, Lady Caroline Dester, and Mrs Fisher, and remarkable changes occur.

The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words.

He believes he is destined to rule America. Everyone else may see a very different reality. After a serious accident and a stay in an asylum, Hildred Castaigne becomes convinced that he is the rightful heir to America's Imperial Dynasty. Obsessed with power and influenced by the forbidden play...

In Vardan, Premchand masterfully unfolds the poignant story of childhood sweethearts whose dreams of a beautiful future together are tragically thwarted. Set against the backdrop of societal expectations and personal sacrifice, this novel explores the depths of love and the harsh realities that can shatter even the most cherished dreams.

Millennia have passed since the dharma yudhha of the cousins shook the land of Bharata. But this history of our ancestors continues to fascinate us. Even today, we have passionate discussions about the people and their actions in the epic, fervidly defending our favourites and denouncing others...

A haunting study of longing, memory, and the price of ambition. When rising statesman Lionel Wallace confides a lifelong secret to an old schoolmate, he reveals the vision that has shaped—and shadowed—his every choice: a green door set in a white wall, opening onto an enchanted garden of...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Kauppamatkustaja Gregor Samsa herää eräänä aamuna levottomien unien jälkeen ja huomaa muuttuneensa valtavaksi syöpäläiseksi. Oven takana perhe tivaa, miksei hän ole jo lähtenyt töihin. Gregor yrittää vastata, mutta kurkusta kumpuava ääni...

He wanted to create life. He never imagined the responsibility that would follow. Driven by ambition and a hunger for forbidden knowledge, Victor Frankenstein discovers how to bring lifeless matter to life. But when his experiment succeeds, he recoils from the being he has created—and abandons it. His decision sets in motion a tragedy that stretches from the mountains of Switzerland to the frozen reaches of the Arctic. Alone in a world that fears his appearance, the Creature learns to speak, to read, and to dream of companionship.

Published in 1875, this short story collection, Tales of the Argonauts, written by Bret Harte (1836-1902), consists of eight stories. The term "argonaut" was applied to the thousands of immigrants from all over the world who responded to the 1848-1855 California Gold Rush. They brought their home cultures and attitudes with them. And by living together, they began creating a new way of life on the West Coast. Harte arrived in 1854, when there were still people seeking their fortunes while living in decidedly primitive conditions.

Classic short stories by a beloved virtuoso of language, craft, and madness from the American South “His writing was anarchic and wonderfully funny. He sounded like what you’d get if you stirred three heaping teaspoons of Thomas Pynchon and Terry Southern into a jar of Eudora Welty...

Featuring a foreword by MJ Lenderman Harry Crews’s savagely funny and gritty portrait of discipline, obsession, control, and power Shereel Dupont, formerly the secretary Dorothy Turnipseed, trains rigorously at the behest of her boss turned personal trainer Russell (“Muscle”) Morgan...