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This wonderful collection of 18 short stories includes work by some of literature's most treasured names, including Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Wilde, and many more. This superlative treasury includes "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe; "A Piece of String" by Guy Le Maupassant; "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin; "The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf; "Nuns at Lunch" by Aldous Huxley, and many more!

The fifth volume in CSA Word's massively popular complete and unabridged ‘Short Stories’ collection is bound to please. With something for everyone this collection of classic stories read by only the best-suited and most established readers will delight the ears as a vintage wine excites the gullet; The Vintage Collection is audible gold. Features eye-catching typographical series design.

Represented here are 16 short stories by seven great American writers, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a way that was distinctly American.

The inevitable is understood by each and every one of us who faces the final calling. So too are the effects on those left behind. The memories are there but the empty space, the void can never be refilled. It remains a dark, unreliable pit of loneliness. The sadness and often depression, the lack of will to continue may swamp us all. Unquenchable, undeniable. But loss can, after mourning, give the opportunity to reappraise the lost and how we can each move forward. In the literary world an accessible balance can be given.

This book contains the following works: Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug, William Shakespeare: Romeo And Juliet, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust, Mark Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Translator: Constance Garnett), Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World, Henry James: The Turn of the Screw, Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince (Translator: Marina Zhigalova), Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Kate Chopin: The Awakening.

From 14 best-selling authors comes a new crime thriller anthology guaranteed to keep you up all night.

High on God gives the first robust and plausible explanation for why megachurches have conquered the churchgoing market of America. Without condescension or exaggeration, the authors show the genius of megachurches: the power of charisma, the design of facilities, the training of leaders, the emotional dynamics, and the strategies that bring people together and lead them to serve and help others. 

Thirty little gems by some of the world's great classic short story writers, including: 'The Flying Man' by H. G. Wells, 'Between Rounds' by O. Henry, 'A School Story' by M. R. James, 'A Pair of Silk Stockings' by Kate Chopin, 'A Deal in Ostriches' by H. G. Wells, 'The Piano Next Door' by Elia W. Peattie, 'Royal Visitors' by E. F. Benson, 'The Stolen Bacillus' by H. G. Wells, 'The Story of Chugoro' by Lafcadio Hearn, 'One Law for the Rich' by Stacy Aumonier, 'My Enemy and Myself' by Vincent O'Sullivan and more.

A collection of stories about America's bloodiest conflict by some of the greatest writers of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Here are eight stories from master American writers of the 19th century. They vary from sinister tales by Ambrose Bierce - why is that window boarded up? - and a reflective moment in the life of a woman without children, but forced to look after children, to classic short stories by O. Henry and Stephen Crane. There is even an elegiac description of an eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans.

With research showing that as many as 50 per cent of us are introverts, why are so many of us still playing an extrovert's game? Career coach and self-professed introvert Kate James has heard hundreds of smart, creative introverts tell a similar story: despite being motivated and hardworking...

Many of us experience feelings of being stuck in the wrong life and disconnected from our true selves. Australian mindfulness coach and bestselling author Kate James has coached thousands of clients in similar situations. Now, Kate introduces us to a range of techniques, based on her knowledge...

16 modern fiction superstars shine a startling light on the romance and pain of the infamous literary pair Heathcliff and Cathy. Short stories to stir the heart and awaken vital conversation about love. Sixteen stories inspired by Wuthering Heights. In ‘Terminus’ a young woman hides in an...

Kate James' tips on how to live a more mindful and stress-free life - an essential collection to discover practical ways to feel more at peace with life and within yourself. We don’t have control over life’s challenges, but we can control how we deal with them. This collection from Kate James - successful coach, meditation teacher, speaker and writer - is full of easy to digest insights and exercises that will help you bounce back from unexpected challenges and changes and will help you discover more about yourself and what will make you happy.

A selection of stories to entertain for when you have a spare 10 minutes, including "After the Race", by James Joyce; "Three Questions", by Leo Tolstoy; "The Child's Story", by Charles Dickens; and "A Transgression", by Anton Chekhov, read by Sir Michael Redgrave.

The American literary tradition has, in a far shorter span of time than others throughout history, achieved a glowing and glittering reputation. From its transatlantic roots it has absorbed the sons and daughters of other cultures, other lands and made them part of her own. Within this melting pot of styles, genres and wordplay one fact stands out: In the American short story, literary tradition has a strong, vibrant and almost inclusive history, if you know where to look.

With the pace of modern life it can often be difficult to pause, reflect and find composure. We all need a quiet, still space we can go to recalibrate and regain calm. This beautiful audiobook from bestselling lifestyle author Kate James is that quiet, still space. Practical, warm and soothingly accessible, Create Calm provides all the tools you need to cultivate a more peaceful and positive inner world.

[Contains explicit content] Featuring sets from Sean Patton, James Adomian, Brooks Wheelan, Baron Vaughn and Chris Fairbanks.

A later-in-life sweet and wholesome romance set in a small town Avalon Montgomery’s perfect life shatters when she catches her husband cheating during their housewarming party – for their brand-new home. Even worse, he’s been unfaithful with Avalon’s best friend, who lives next door. Starting over at forty-two is harder than she thought. She leaves the city and moves to a remote ranch to be near her sister. But she wasn’t planning to meet Mason Mitchell. Mason is handsome and kind, and he’s a firefighter as well as a horse rancher. Just like Avalon, Mason’s not eager to rush ...

Chiyo Matsutani is a young college student in San Francisco and Hiro Fujimoto has nearly paid off the loan on his Sacramento farm. Both are American citizens when they’re rounded up in 1942 and sent to an incarceration camp where they meet, fall in love, and marry. But when they’re released three years later, Hiro’s farm - like the property of so many Japanese Americans - has been seized. They take the only jobs available to them, as housekeeper and gardener for a wealthy family in Oakland where they face casual racism, harassment, and an unending future of dreary servitude. Based on a ...