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MP3 Audio CD. The Shadow of a Sin CHAPTER I. "She is coming--my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat Had it lain for a century dead." A rich musical voice trolled out the words, not once, but many times over--carelessly at first, and then the full sense of them seemed to strike the singer. "'Had it lain for a century dead,'" he repeated slowly. "Ah, me! the difference between poetry and fact--when I have lain for a century dead, the light footfalls of a fair woman will not awaken me. 'Beyond the sun, woman's beauty and woman's love are of small account;' yet here--ah, when will she come?" The singer, who was growing impatient, was an exceedingly handsome young man--of not more than twenty--with a face that challenged all criticism--bright, careless, defiant, full of humor, yet with a gleam of poetry--a face that girls and women judge instantly, and always like. He did not look capable of wrong, this young lover, who sung his… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. A Fair Mystery: The Story of a Coquette tells the narrative of candid Mark Brace as he nearly loses his farmland, acquired from his forefathers, homeland to his wife, Patty, and little daughter, Mattie, then came a dark and stormy evening that was God?s response to all his prayers. A small baby, delicate and fair, was abandoned on their doorstep with a letter asking the couple, Mark and Patty to raise the child as theirs, to discipline the child to be good as she grows older, just like themselves, and to bear for their plights a hundred pounds every year. His farmland is kept, and all is serene for the meantime as the pretty baby, named as Doris, grows up into an even prettier child. Though, as she matures, her appreciation of her own beauty also grows with her, not to mention her dissimilarity from the kind farmers who took care of her. Doris yearns for lavishness, jewelries and plush, dazzling galas and passionate lovers. She is poised that her waiflike good looks and innate… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. A Fair Mystery: The Story of a Coquette tells the narrative of candid Mark Brace as he nearly loses his farmland, acquired from his forefathers, homeland to his wife, Patty, and little daughter, Mattie, then came a dark and stormy evening that was God?s response to all his prayers. A small baby, delicate and fair, was abandoned on their doorstep with a letter asking the couple, Mark and Patty to raise the child as theirs, to discipline the child to be good as she grows older, just like themselves, and to bear for their plights a hundred pounds every year. His farmland is kept, and all is serene for the meantime as the pretty baby, named as Doris, grows up into an even prettier child. Though, as she matures, her appreciation of her own beauty also grows with her, not to mention her dissimilarity from the kind farmers who took care of her. Doris yearns for lavishness, jewelries and plush, dazzling galas and passionate lovers. She is poised that her waiflike good looks and innate… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Shadow of a Sin CHAPTER I. "She is coming--my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat Had it lain for a century dead." A rich musical voice trolled out the words, not once, but many times over--carelessly at first, and then the full sense of them seemed to strike the singer. "'Had it lain for a century dead,'" he repeated slowly. "Ah, me! the difference between poetry and fact--when I have lain for a century dead, the light footfalls of a fair woman will not awaken me. 'Beyond the sun, woman's beauty and woman's love are of small account;' yet here--ah, when will she come?" The singer, who was growing impatient, was an exceedingly handsome young man--of not more than twenty--with a face that challenged all criticism--bright, careless, defiant, full of humor, yet with a gleam of poetry--a face that girls and women judge instantly, and always like. He did not look capable of wrong, this young lover, who sung his… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Divided by Dynasties the origins of the world, man and other creation legends are covered in the first chapters of this easy to read and understand book of the myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome. A detailed list of the third dynasty Olympian divinities is followed by a list of the Roman gods and goddesses. Every facet of each deity?s origin and nature is outlined as the ancient Greeks and Romans thought of them. Their importance, haunts, appearance and preferences are outlined to give the student of the classics a thorough understanding of their place in the ancient Greeks lives. Compiled in a smooth informative manner the book is easy to follow and understand. Flowing naturally from the background of the Roman and Greek cultural norms to the legends and myths this book respectfully portrays the vibrant mythologies of the deities of this religion. These myths and legends are what ancient people lived and died by and have inspired the greatest works of art and literature in the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Divided by Dynasties the origins of the world, man and other creation legends are covered in the first chapters of this easy to read and understand book of the myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome. A detailed list of the third dynasty Olympian divinities is followed by a list of the Roman gods and goddesses. Every facet of each deity?s origin and nature is outlined as the ancient Greeks and Romans thought of them. Their importance, haunts, appearance and preferences are outlined to give the student of the classics a thorough understanding of their place in the ancient Greeks lives. Compiled in a smooth informative manner the book is easy to follow and understand. Flowing naturally from the background of the Roman and Greek cultural norms to the legends and myths this book respectfully portrays the vibrant mythologies of the deities of this religion. These myths and legends are what ancient people lived and died by and have inspired the greatest works of art and literature in the… Read More

IDB Productions, 2010-01-01. Audio CD. New. Sealed MP3 Audio Disc

MP3 Audio CD. Encouraged by her own brother-in-law to tour Italy and find its ?enchanting? views, Lilia Herriton, a young English widow in search of a new life, does the unthinkable. Not only does she meets an Italian who is much younger than her, but she marries him on impulse and even becomes pregnant. When she dies in childbirth, her fate comes as no surprise to her pretentious upper middle-class English family. But when a well-meaning family friend makes a casual remark about the matter, they soon realize they have to gain custody of the child, if only to prevent the baby from growing up in such a ?savage? society.E.M. Forster uses his characters to show the distinct and clear to see contrast between upper class Edwardian society and the much more natural, yet highly stereotyped Italians. Although his views of Italy at the beginning of the 20th century are deliberately exaggerated, it manages to help the author make a clear point about England?s sterile and ego-driven upper class families ? a… Read More

IDB Productions, 2016-01-01. MP3 CD. New. This item is a brand new factory sealed MP3 disc supplied in a DVD case

IDB Productions, 2016-01-01. MP3 CD. New. This item is a brand new factory sealed MP3 disc supplied in a DVD case

MP3 Audio CD. E.M. Forster has penned a novel that is considered one of the best works of literature of post-Victorian England. The book is the empathic and powerful story of three very different families, whose destinies are at a crossroads at the Hertfordshire estate known by the name of Howards End. Named after the estate, the novel engages in themes that revolve around topics as diverse as politics, economics, philosophy or even England's future, showing many examples of the lifestyle and mannerisms associated with the era before the Great War.The Schlegel siblings are from a half-German family that's quite well off, as well as properly educated. The intelligent sisters are well-read and quite idealistic, aiming to make a difference in the world by helping a poor family in the area. The Basts are the young couple they have their eye on ? a family with a lower-middle class background. While they are barely able to sustain themselves, the Wilcoxes have plenty of money, but their economic and social… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. E.M. Forster has penned a novel that is considered one of the best works of literature of post-Victorian England. The book is the empathic and powerful story of three very different families, whose destinies are at a crossroads at the Hertfordshire estate known by the name of Howards End. Named after the estate, the novel engages in themes that revolve around topics as diverse as politics, economics, philosophy or even England's future, showing many examples of the lifestyle and mannerisms associated with the era before the Great War.The Schlegel siblings are from a half-German family that's quite well off, as well as properly educated. The intelligent sisters are well-read and quite idealistic, aiming to make a difference in the world by helping a poor family in the area. The Basts are the young couple they have their eye on ? a family with a lower-middle class background. While they are barely able to sustain themselves, the Wilcoxes have plenty of money, but their economic and social… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Encouraged by her own brother-in-law to tour Italy and find its ?enchanting? views, Lilia Herriton, a young English widow in search of a new life, does the unthinkable. Not only does she meets an Italian who is much younger than her, but she marries him on impulse and even becomes pregnant. When she dies in childbirth, her fate comes as no surprise to her pretentious upper middle-class English family. But when a well-meaning family friend makes a casual remark about the matter, they soon realize they have to gain custody of the child, if only to prevent the baby from growing up in such a ?savage? society.E.M. Forster uses his characters to show the distinct and clear to see contrast between upper class Edwardian society and the much more natural, yet highly stereotyped Italians. Although his views of Italy at the beginning of the 20th century are deliberately exaggerated, it manages to help the author make a clear point about England?s sterile and ego-driven upper class families ? a… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Mysteries of London vol. 1 part 2 CHAPTER LXVII. SCENES IN FASHIONABLE LIFE. TWO months elapsed from the date of the preceding event. It was now the commencement of March; and bleak winds had succeeded the hoary snows of winter. The scene changes to the house of Sir Rupert Harborough, in Tavistock Square. It was about one o'clock in the afternoon. The baronet was pacing the drawing-room with uneven steps, while Lady Cecilia lounged upon the sofa, turning over the pages of a new novel. "Now this is most provoking, Cecilia," exclaimed the baronet: "I never was so much in want of money in my life; and you refuse to adopt the only means which——" "Yes, Sir Rupert," interrupted the lady impatiently; "I refuse to give you my diamonds to pledge again—and all your arguments shall never persuade me to do so." "Your heart is too good, Cecilia——" "Oh! yes—you may try what coaxing will do; but I can… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Mysteries of London vol. 1 part 2 CHAPTER LXVII. SCENES IN FASHIONABLE LIFE. TWO months elapsed from the date of the preceding event. It was now the commencement of March; and bleak winds had succeeded the hoary snows of winter. The scene changes to the house of Sir Rupert Harborough, in Tavistock Square. It was about one o'clock in the afternoon. The baronet was pacing the drawing-room with uneven steps, while Lady Cecilia lounged upon the sofa, turning over the pages of a new novel. "Now this is most provoking, Cecilia," exclaimed the baronet: "I never was so much in want of money in my life; and you refuse to adopt the only means which——" "Yes, Sir Rupert," interrupted the lady impatiently; "I refuse to give you my diamonds to pledge again—and all your arguments shall never persuade me to do so." "Your heart is too good, Cecilia——" "Oh! yes—you may try what coaxing will do; but I can… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Mysteries of London vol. 1 part 1 CHAPTER I. THE OLD HOUSE IN SMITHFIELD. OUR narrative opens at the commencement of July, 1831. The night was dark and stormy. The sun had set behind huge piles of dingy purple clouds, which, after losing the golden hue with which they were for awhile tinged, became sombre and menacing. The blue portions of the sky that here and there had appeared before the sunset, were now rapidly covered over with those murky clouds which are the hiding-places of the storm, and which seemed to roll themselves together in dense and compact masses, ere they commenced the elemental war. In the same manner do the earthly squadrons of cavalry and mighty columns of infantry form themselves into one collected armament, that the power of their onslaught may be the more terrific and irresistible. That canopy of dark and threatening clouds was formed over London; and a stifling heat, which there was not a breath of wind to allay or mitigate, pervaded the streets of the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Mysteries of London vol. 1 part 1 CHAPTER I. THE OLD HOUSE IN SMITHFIELD. OUR narrative opens at the commencement of July, 1831. The night was dark and stormy. The sun had set behind huge piles of dingy purple clouds, which, after losing the golden hue with which they were for awhile tinged, became sombre and menacing. The blue portions of the sky that here and there had appeared before the sunset, were now rapidly covered over with those murky clouds which are the hiding-places of the storm, and which seemed to roll themselves together in dense and compact masses, ere they commenced the elemental war. In the same manner do the earthly squadrons of cavalry and mighty columns of infantry form themselves into one collected armament, that the power of their onslaught may be the more terrific and irresistible. That canopy of dark and threatening clouds was formed over London; and a stifling heat, which there was not a breath of wind to allay or mitigate, pervaded the streets of the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Getting Trapped Fast In The Ice And Surviving In The Extreme Conditions Of The ArcticAlthough known for his juvenile books, Robert Michael Ballantyne makes an impression with his novel, Fast in the Ice. It is an account of human endurance in the face of the extreme conditions of the Arctic while also being filled of adventure and survival against the odds.The novel presents a fictional vessel setting sail towards the North Pole, but did you know that Robert Michael Ballantyne actually knows what he is writing about? This Scottish writer left his homeland when he was just 16 and joined The Hudson?s Bay Company in Canada where he had the chance to experience what it was like to be locked in the frozen lands and battle the harsh winds.The novel deals with the expedition which is ill-conceived and prepared and it has trouble written all over it. The vessel leaves a British port for the Polar seas only to get trapped fast in the ice. The crew has to do everything in order to survive as the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Getting Trapped Fast In The Ice And Surviving In The Extreme Conditions Of The ArcticAlthough known for his juvenile books, Robert Michael Ballantyne makes an impression with his novel, Fast in the Ice. It is an account of human endurance in the face of the extreme conditions of the Arctic while also being filled of adventure and survival against the odds.The novel presents a fictional vessel setting sail towards the North Pole, but did you know that Robert Michael Ballantyne actually knows what he is writing about? This Scottish writer left his homeland when he was just 16 and joined The Hudson?s Bay Company in Canada where he had the chance to experience what it was like to be locked in the frozen lands and battle the harsh winds.The novel deals with the expedition which is ill-conceived and prepared and it has trouble written all over it. The vessel leaves a British port for the Polar seas only to get trapped fast in the ice. The crew has to do everything in order to survive as the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. With Fire and Sword (Byers) CHAPTER I My enlistment in the Union Army--The "Bushwhackers" of Missouri--The Quantrells and the James Brothers--Cutting a man's head off--My first adventure in the war--Capturing a guerrilla. I am writing down these sketches of adventures of mine from a daily journal or diary kept by me throughout the four years of the Civil War. Its pages are crumpled and old and yellow, but I can read them still. Fate so arranged it that I was the very first one to enlist in my regiment, and it all came about through a confusion of names. A patriotic mass-meeting was held in the court-house of the village where I lived. Everybody was there, and everybody was excited, for the war tocsin was sounding all over the country. A new regiment had been ordered by the governor, and no town was so quick in responding to the call as the village of Newton. We would be the very first. Drums were beating at the mass-meeting, fifes screaming, people shouting. There was a… Read More