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More classic ghost stories from the golden age of spookiness. Eight stories by eight great writers, curated for your hair-raising pleasure. Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Company weave marvelous spells that whisk you into times and places you never thought you'd experience. Frightful and delightful.

Inside this bundle, you’ll find three stories which established Edith Wharton as a literary legend. Originally written over a hundred years ago, these stories have stood the test of time to resonate in the hearts of people to this very day. Reflecting the life of the upper-class aristocrats and socialites, The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence offer tragic tales, while Ethan Frome tells a story in a small wintery town of Massachusetts.

Dragons of every size, color, and temperament reside in this delightful collection of clever tales by Edith Nesbit. There are dragons big, small, friendly, and fierce. Let our family of narrators lead you on a journey of discovery and wonder. This collection includes one of Nesbit's stories not included in the original, "The Last of the Dragons."

Wicca is a gentle religion that will transform the way you choose to live your life and be the gateway to your personal transformation and spiritual awakening that you have been looking for. This book will expand your knowledge from beginner to expert level. By the time you have finished my book, I can guarantee that you will feel invigorated and optimistic about leading the Wiccan way of life. Let me take you through the journey of learning Wicca in an easily digestible way, so you can immediately apply what you have learnt.

The Age of Innocence was first published in 1920 by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the 1870s, in upper-class "Gilded Age" New York City.

Charity Royal is bored with her life in the small town of North Dormer. She was born to poor parents from "up the Mountain" who gave her up to the town's learned person, Lawyer Royall, but she still dreams of an even better and more exciting life outside of the town. She secures a job at North Dormer's library, a job that she is neglectful of, in an attempt to save up money so she could eventually leave the town and Mr. Royall's care.

"The Wonderful Garden" tells the story of the Stanmore children, who spend the summer holidays with their Great-Uncle Charles in his beautiful old house. They find out an astonishing and exciting family secret from one of the Great-Uncle's stories - that they have a witch for an ancestor! The kids manage to find a secret book of magic and learn to use all kinds of plants and flowers in spells. They start to make some good luck charms on people around them.

The story of "The Age of Innocence" is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s, during the so-called Gilded Age. Newland Archer has the perfect life. He is rich, young, good looking and member of the New York High Society. Newland is engaged to a lovely, delightful girl, May Welland and later they get married. When her cousin (Ellen Olenska), comes back from Europe, her presence threatens their happiness as Newland develops feelings for her... Wharton manages to dissect the hypocrisy of a society where customs and position take center stage.

"The Magic City" tells the story of Philip, who goes off to live with his new step sister Lucy. He has trouble adjusting at first, thrown into a world different from his previous life and abandoned by his sister while she is on her honeymoon. To entertain himself he builds a giant model city from things around the house: game pieces, books, blocks, bowls, etc. Then through some magic he finds himself inside the city, and it is alive with the people he has populated it with. Some soldiers find him and tell him that two outsiders are bound to show up.

Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort, is a compilation of articles Wharton wrote for Scribner’s Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post, reporting from the Western Front during WWI. Living in Paris, she was trapped in France when travel became impossible after Germany declared war and French mobilization began. She was one of a number of expatriate American writers living there, primarily women, who became involved in war charities during the opening months of the conflict, years before the United States abandoned its official policy of neutrality.

Frank Hofmann liest unter dem titelgebenden Thema "Granitland" gesammelte, autobiographische Texte und Gedichte der Autorin Edith Iltschev-Döberl. Ein einzigartiges Hörerlebnis.

Ethan Frome is a book published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993.

The Bojabi Tree is a version of a traditional West African story. Scarce rainfall has hit the African plains. Animals are becoming more and more desperate to find something to eat when they happen upon an amazing tree with enticing fruit. The problem is that they don’t know the name of the tree and if the fruit is safe to eat. The starving animals decide to send messengers to King Leo, the king of the beasts, to learn the name of the tree. But each messenger returns having forgotten the name of the tree.

"What an incalculable sum of gifts and virtues went to make up the monster's daily meal." So observes American expatriate painter John Campton, whose only son is conscripted to military service in France at the beginning of WWI. In Edith Wharton's saga, A Son at the Front, we share the character's anguish as thousands of young men are sacrificed to the insatiable appetite of the war. The lessons are as relevant today as they were almost 100 years ago.

The Book of Dragons has eight wonderful tales of exiting dragons! Including one dragon made of ice, another that relaxes in in the General Post Office, and a fire-breather that flies out of a magical book and consumes a whole soccer team... Contents: "The Book of Beasts", "Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger", "The Deliverers of Their Country", "The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told", "The Island of the Nine Whirlpools", "The Dragon Tamers", "The Fiery Dragon, or The Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold", "Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice".

Kate is deeply in love with her fiancé. She is planning their wedding and future life together, however, she discovers a secret that he has that will forever change what she thinks of him. With this new insight, she is toils with her desire to be morally accountable; and for him to "do the right thing"... Much later in life; she finds herself in a comparable situation, only this time with her own son.

Undine Spragg is a Midwestern girl who tries to ascend in New York City society. The Spraggs, a family of midwesterners from the fictional city of Apex who have made money through somewhat shady financial dealings, arrive in New York City at the encouragement of their beautiful, ambitious, but socially-naive daughter, Undine. She marries Ralph Marvell, a member of an old New York family that no longer enjoys significant wealth.

The Magic World shows us the worlds of 12 incredible fantasy stories: "The Cat-hood of Maurice" (a boy abuses the family cat, and learns to see things from the feline point of view), "The Mixed Mine" (two boys find a magic spyglass, and use it to make their fortunes), "Accidental Magic" (Quentin falls asleep on the altarstone at Stonehenge, and wakes in Atlantis), "The Princess and the Hedge-pig" (King Ozymandias and Queen Eliza plan a secret christening for their Princess Ozyliza, to avoid a wicked fairy's curse).

Stephen has to come up with a way to make more money in order to be able to marry his beloved. He has in his possession a pile of old love letters from a celebrated writer, deceased, at this time. She was called Margaret and was very much in love with Stephen. He finds out he can make lots of profits were he to have the letters published; but he hesitates because he had never really loved her and had not treated her very well. Since their relationship was never known by society at large; he resolves to sell them and publish them anonymously.

The Irish R.M. is a series of books set in the turn-of-the-20th-century west of Ireland. The humor in this audiobook is greatly enhanced if the listener has a broad understanding of the history of Ireland's relationship with England, and how Ireland was governed, as well as the Irish country way of life. The show isn't political, although caricatures of Irish and British people are used for the benefits of humorous purposes.