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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

by Jerome K. Jerome, James Joyce, Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling, Madame de la Fayette, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Mann, William Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Richardson, VOLUME 1, VOLUME 2, VOLUME 3, VOLUME 4, VOLUME 5, VOLUME 6, VOLUME 7, George Sand, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, Henryk Sienkiewicz, May Sinclair, Upton Sinclair, Stendhal, Laurence Sterne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jonathan Swift, Rabindranath Tagore, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Ivan Turgenev, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Lew Wallace, H.G. Wells, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Cao Xueqin, Émile Zola ...

This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites. ... Read more

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This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.
... Read more
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Forgotten Authors, The - Men - Volume 6

Morgan Robertson to Francis Brett Young

by Morgan Robertson, Sax Rohmer, Benjamin Rosenblatt, Ömer Seyfettin, Oswald Sickert, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Hristo Smirenski, Karl Hans Ströbl, E G Swain, Martin Swayne, Allen Upward, Michael Vincent, Edward Lucas White ...

Narrated by Michael Lyons, Mark Rice-Oxley, Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

14 hours 29 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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Six of the Best – Charles Dickens

Their legacy in 6 classic stories

by Charles Dickens ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

3 hours 2 min

Charles Dickens was born on the 7th February 1812, in Portsmouth, England, the second of eight children. The family endured many financial struggles and, when he was just 12, his father was sent to Marshalsea debtors' prison, the result of which was Dickens finished his education and went to work in a rat-infested boot-blacking factory to help pay off the debt. These experiences of neglect and ... Read more

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Charles Dickens was born on the 7th February 1812, in Portsmouth, England, the second of eight children. The family endured many financial struggles and, when he was just 12, his father was sent to Marshalsea debtors' prison, the result of which was Dickens finished his education and went to work in a rat-infested boot-blacking factory to help pay off the debt. These experiences of neglect and
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H G Wells - Six of the Best

Their legacy in 6 classic stories

by H G Wells ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Richard Mitchley, Eliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

4 hours 23 min

Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’.The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly ... Read more

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Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’.The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly
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Six of the Best - John Galsworthy

Their legacy in 6 classic stories

by John Galsworthy ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Robert Maskell, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

4 hours 3 min

John Galsworthy was born on the 14th August 1867 on the family estate, Parkfield, in Kingston-upon-Thames. His family’s wealth came from the shipping industryAt age nine he began his education at Saugeen, a Bournemouth preparatory school, before moving to Harrow school in 1881, distinguishing himself as an athlete.Galsworthy attended New College, Oxford to read law and left with a second-class ... Read more

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John Galsworthy was born on the 14th August 1867 on the family estate, Parkfield, in Kingston-upon-Thames. His family’s wealth came from the shipping industryAt age nine he began his education at Saugeen, a Bournemouth preparatory school, before moving to Harrow school in 1881, distinguishing himself as an athlete.Galsworthy attended New College, Oxford to read law and left with a second-class
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Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 6

Fergus Hume to Stanley Victor Makower

by Fergus Hume, Violet Jacob, Lionel Johnson, Mor Jokai, W G Kelly, Arabella Kenealy, Vladimir Korolenko, Selma Lagerlöf, Mikhail Lermontov, Cornelia Levetzow, Alfred Lichtenstein, Jean Lorrain, Arthur Lynch ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Janet Fullerlove, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

12 hours 7 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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Professor's Mummy, The

Egyptian artifacts, abuse, love and murder all mix in this Victorian thriller

by Fergus Hume ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

33 min

Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys' High School before studying law at the University of Otago. Hume was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885.He moved to become a barrister’s clerk to Melbourne and once there also began writing plays. The ... Read more

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Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys' High School before studying law at the University of Otago. Hume was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885.He moved to become a barrister’s clerk to Melbourne and once there also began writing plays. The
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Ghost-Ship, The

A unique and humorous take on a ghost story

by Richard Middleton ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

22 min

Richard Barham Middleton was born on the 28th October 1882 in Staines, Middlesex.His education was primarily at Cranbrook School in Kent before he began work as a clerk, in 1901, at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation in London. There he struggled with constraints and boundaries and by night he took to a bohemian lifestyle.Middleton moved into rooms in Blackfriars and joined the New Bohemians ... Read more

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Richard Barham Middleton was born on the 28th October 1882 in Staines, Middlesex.His education was primarily at Cranbrook School in Kent before he began work as a clerk, in 1901, at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation in London. There he struggled with constraints and boundaries and by night he took to a bohemian lifestyle.Middleton moved into rooms in Blackfriars and joined the New Bohemians
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Media, The - A Short Story Collection

Classic stories before the age of social media

by Henry James, E M Delafield, E M Delafield, Frank R Stockton, H D Everett, W F Arnold, Barry Pain, Dorothy Edwards, Robert Duncan Milne, Owen Oliver, Winifred Holtby0, Charlotte Perkins Gilman1, C E Montague2 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley3, Robert Maskell4, Eric Roberts5 ...

Unabridged

7 hours 49 min

The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting.However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s ... Read more

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The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting.However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s
... Read more
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Missing Model, The

The ghost of a model returns to unmask her murderer

by Lettice Galbraith ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

37 min

Lettice Galbraith is yet another of those mysterious women of British literature of whom little was recorded.Lizzie Susan Gibson was born on the 27th January 1859 in Kingston-Upon-Hull in Yorkshire into a comfortable middle-class family.Her education was primarily private but at fifteen her father died, and life became rather different.After several years in London, she moved with her mother to ... Read more

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Lettice Galbraith is yet another of those mysterious women of British literature of whom little was recorded.Lizzie Susan Gibson was born on the 27th January 1859 in Kingston-Upon-Hull in Yorkshire into a comfortable middle-class family.Her education was primarily private but at fifteen her father died, and life became rather different.After several years in London, she moved with her mother to
... Read more
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Fernandino Eboli

A twisting tale of stolen identity and revenge set upon the Napoleonic wars in Italy

by Mary Shelley ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

51 min

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born on the 30th August 1797 in Somers Town, London.Her mother, the famous feminist philosopher, educator, and writer Mary Wollstonecraft died when Mary was only 11 days old and she was raised by her father, the philosopher, novelist, journalist, and perpetually in debt, William Godwin.Though Mary received little formal education her father taught her a broad range ... Read more

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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born on the 30th August 1797 in Somers Town, London.Her mother, the famous feminist philosopher, educator, and writer Mary Wollstonecraft died when Mary was only 11 days old and she was raised by her father, the philosopher, novelist, journalist, and perpetually in debt, William Godwin.Though Mary received little formal education her father taught her a broad range
... Read more
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Assassin, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Karl Hans Strӧbl ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

40 min

Karl Hans Strӧbl was born in Jihlava, Moravia in the Czech Republic, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on the 18th of January 1877.His education finished with his studies at the University of Prague, where he became involved in nationalist student politics, a precursor to his later right-wing and anti-semitic viewpoints.In 1910 he wrote an apocalyptic novel ‘Eleagabal Kuperus’, which was ... Read more

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Karl Hans Strӧbl was born in Jihlava, Moravia in the Czech Republic, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on the 18th of January 1877.His education finished with his studies at the University of Prague, where he became involved in nationalist student politics, a precursor to his later right-wing and anti-semitic viewpoints.In 1910 he wrote an apocalyptic novel ‘Eleagabal Kuperus’, which was
... Read more

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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

Forgotten Authors, The - Men - Volume 6

Six of the Best – Charles Dickens

H G Wells - Six of the Best

Six of the Best - John Galsworthy

Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 6

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Media, The - A Short Story Collection

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