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An account of life on the Goldfields of Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand by a Bank Official. At the present time—1888—it may appear almost impossible to many that a bank agency should have been in a tent; that bankers should have, often on foot, gone long distances to purchase gold from small storekeepers, the said gold often being carried by them on their backs, till the security (?) of some rough bush shanty had been reached; that instead of cedar counters, massive ledgers, impregnable strong-rooms, and all the appliances of modern banking, a gin case to write on, a note-book ...

Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD, countering the writings of Celsus, a pagan philosopher and controversialist who had written a scathing attack on Christianity in his treatise "The True Word". Among a variety of other charges, Celsus had denounced many Christian doctrines as irrational and criticized Christians themselves as uneducated, deluded, unpatriotic, close-minded towards reason, and too accepting of sinners. He had accused Jesus of performing his miracles using black magic rather...

Søren Kierkegaard is an engaging introduction to the life, ideas, and spiritual struggles of one of the most influential thinkers in modern philosophy.The audiobook explores Kierkegaard’s reflections on faith, anxiety, choice, individuality, responsibility, despair, and the meaning of existence. Rather than building a single philosophical system, Kierkegaard focused on the inner life of the individual and the difficult decisions each person must make.A central theme in his thought is the tension between reason and faith. Kierkegaard argued that some of the most important choices in life ...

Adrift in New York by Horatio Alger, Jr. is a classic nineteenth-century adventure about courage, identity, hardship, and the struggle to build a better life in the crowded streets of New York City.The story centers on Florence Linden, a young woman caught in a difficult family situation. Her uncle John is wealthy but deeply troubled by the long-ago disappearance of his son, Harvey. At the same time, Florence is pressured to marry her ambitious cousin Curtis Waring, who hopes to secure control of the family fortune. Refusing to accept a future she does not want, Florence chooses independence ...

"Gifted with poesy as are the Highlanders, and given to the praise of their country and their leaders, it would be expected that many poems would still be extant concerning the MacLeans and their ancestral dominions," wrote John Patterson MacLean in his "A History of the Clan MacLean," These selections, collected and arranged by J.P. Maclean comprise part of Note C of MacLean's treatise (pp. 406-452), although they were written by different authors for different reasons. Dealing with incidents experienced by the MacLeans throughout their long history this highland poetry reveals, in ways the ...

A story of two sets of lovers and the development of their relationships, set in rural France in the mid 19th century. - Summary by PeterTucker

The Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert is a lively collection of comic verse filled with satire, absurdity, wordplay, and the unmistakable wit that later helped make Gilbert famous through his collaborations with Arthur Sullivan.Originally written as humorous ballads, these poems turn everyday situations, social conventions, romance, ambition, authority, and human foolishness into playful stories with exaggerated characters and unexpected twists. Sailors, gentlemen, officials, lovers, and eccentrics all appear in a world where logic is constantly bent for comic effect.Gilbert’s humor is often ...

Beatrice by H. Rider Haggard is a romantic and emotionally intense novel that explores love, duty, sacrifice, and the conflict between personal happiness and social responsibility.At the center of the story is Beatrice, a strong and deeply sensitive woman whose life becomes entangled in a difficult relationship shaped by circumstance, morality, and impossible choices. Haggard moves away from the lost-world adventures for which he is best known and focuses instead on psychological tension, emotional loyalty, and the consequences of love that cannot easily be fulfilled.The novel examines the ...

This is the official report, published nearly 11 months after the first and only atomic bombings in history (to date), of a group of military physicians and engineers who accompanied the initial contingent of U.S. soldiers into the destroyed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The report presents a clinical description of the devastation, loss of life and continued suffering of the survivors that resulted from the world's first and only atomic bombings, to date. The appendix is an eyewitness account, contrasting vividly with the dispassionate sang-froid of the report itself, written by a German ...

The Hundred Best English Poems by Various is a rich anthology bringing together one hundred celebrated poems from some of the most influential voices in English literature.The collection explores a wide range of timeless themes, including love, beauty, nature, memory, faith, loss, mortality, war, and the passage of time. Each poem offers a different perspective, allowing listeners to experience both intimate personal reflections and grand poetic visions.Among the writers represented are William Shakespeare, John Milton, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor ...

The Awkward Age by Henry James is a sophisticated novel of manners exploring youth, society, reputation, and the difficult transition from adolescence into adulthood within the privileged world of late Victorian London.At the center of the story is Nanda Brookenham, an intelligent young woman entering a social environment filled with complicated relationships, unspoken expectations, flirtation, and carefully guarded appearances. As Nanda becomes increasingly aware of the adult world surrounding her, she must navigate the influence of her socially ambitious mother, Mrs. Brookenham, as well as ...

This is a collection of short poems and readings, both religious and secular, on death and bereavement. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to it.”Though firmly set in 1880s Paris, Maupassant's gripping story of an amoral journalist on the make could, with only slight modifications of detail, be updated to the 1960s, to the Reagan-Thatcher years, or maybe to the present day. Anti-hero Georges Duroy is a down-at-heel ex-soldier of no particular talent. Good-looking but somewhat lacking in self-confidence, he discovers an ability to control and exploit women - whereupon his career in journalism...

Barbara, an English girl and the eldest of her family, spends most days helping her widowed mother care for her younger siblings. Then disaster strikes - or so the children believe! Barbara is taken to France to see Paris by her father's formidable sister, Aunt Anne. She stays on in Brittany to perfect her French. In this series of funny stories about her adventures in France, we meet a cast of recurring characters - and both Barbara and Aunt Anne find love! (Summary by Sibella Denton)

“THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of Huysmans’ cult novel of 1884, which is also routinely called the Bible of Decadence. Accurate descriptions, both, of this bizarre masterpiece which has reverberated ever since through high and popular culture.“Against Nature” (or in this version “Against The Grain”) explores to the furthest limit the life of the world-rejecting aesthete living a reclusive existence devoted entirely to artificial paradises of his own devising. This is no solemn tract, however:...

This is the third of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Originally serialized in All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914, the novel was first published in book form by A. C. McClurg in 1916. In the previous novel Tarzan reclaimed his name and title as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke. In this novel he finds that proper society is just as vicious as the jungle when greedy men threaten him and his new family. Jane and her infant son Jack are kidnapped by Tarzan's enemies, Nikolas Rokoff and Alexis Paulvitch, who then trap Tarzan himself and attempt to exile him forever on a primitive island, bereft of all those ...

This is a fast-paced mystery, set in New York City, has two or three really interesting ("round") characters, a solid plot, no cheap plot-twists, two full-fledged sub/urban battles and some real surprises. Winifred Bartlett, a beautiful and poor orphan, suddenly finds herself homeless and out of a job. Prince Charming (nee Rex Carshaw) comes on to her by accident and begins to take an interest. As strange, apparently unconnected disasters continue to batter poor Winnie, Rex and two police detectives (the most interesting characters in the book) probe the causes and forces threatening the dear ...

Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life.The first part of the book, "The Relapse into Barbarism", is the account by some later historian of the fall of civilisation and its consequences, with a loving description of nature reclaiming England. The second part, "Wild England", is an adventure set many years later in the wild landscape and society.The book is not without its flaws (notably the abrupt...

Between the Lines by Boyd Cable is a vivid collection of First World War stories that brings listeners close to the daily reality of soldiers serving along the Western Front.Written with the immediacy of someone deeply familiar with military life, the book focuses less on grand strategy and more on the men living, working, waiting, and fighting in the trenches. Through episodes of danger, exhaustion, humor, fear, duty, and comradeship, Boyd Cable shows how ordinary soldiers endured an extraordinary environment.The stories move through shell-torn landscapes, communication trenches, dugouts, ...

Originally written in Sanskrit by Somdev Bhatt, the Vetala Panchavimshati or Baitâl Pachchisi, also popularly known as Vikram Betal is a collection of tales and legends from India. Set in the 11th century, the tales intend to impart moral/social lessons. The practices may not be viable anymore to the letter but the basic message may still act as a guide to help live good lives. - Summary by dc