The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

In a world of war, ambition, and political intrigue, love can be as dangerous as power. In The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal follows the extraordinary journey of Fabrice del Dongo, a young Italian aristocrat whose idealism and fascination with Napoleon draw him into a turbulent world of war, politics, romance, and ambition. Fabrice's adventures take him through the upheavals of Napoleonic Europe and the sophisticated political world of Restoration Italy. Along the way, he becomes entangl...

Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma is a glittering, ironical masterpiece born from his own restless life in Napoleon's shadow and Italy's fevered political world. Inspired by real people and events, it plunges into a society where honor, desire, reputation, and power are inseparable, and where the author's sharp eye exposes both passion and corruption with unsparing wit. Against the upheavals of post-Napoleonic Lombardy, the proud Marchese del Dongo and his sister, Countess Pietranera, s...

Despite the disappearances of both his mom and dad, Tsubasa hasn’t given up on uncovering the Ichinose family’s secrets! A photo album might hold the key to the family’s past, so Tsubasa and his remaining family set out to find the places the pictures were taken. However, just as it seems like they might finally be closing in on answers, the fake Kakeru reveals something that Tsubasa will regret ever having learned.

Tsubasa couldn’t be happier living with Sota, Kenta, and Ayano! They don’t yell, they don’t fight, they don’t argue—every day is just perfect! However, as Sota tries to patch over Kenta’s troubling behavior with smiles and endless positivity, Tsubasa begins to see that there is no escape from the interpersonal struggles that all families face—even if you insist you aren’t one.

After waking up in the hospital, Tsubasa Ichinose learns that he and his family were in a car accident that has left them all suffering from amnesia. Despite not knowing anything about each other, Tsubasa and his family begin bonding as they explore the kind of family they must have been. However, upon returning home to a messy house filled with locked doors, it starts becoming clear that the idyllic family life they’d imagined couldn’t be further from the truth.

Tsubasa’s sister, Shiori, is mad, and Tsubasa just doesn’t understand why—all he wanted to do was help! But after a heart-to-heart with his dad, he’s able to better understand his own feelings as he heads out to confront the grown man that Shiori’s dating. But even as brother and sister strengthen their bond, another secret is set to tear the family apart again.

Tsubasa’s finally awake, having recovered from his years-long coma, and while his mom and dad are happy to have him home, Shiori is less than thrilled to see her amnesiac big brother again. But even as Tsubasa tries to adjust to living in reality again, it seems fragments of his coma dream continue to linger in his sleep—and someone in the family doesn’t want him asking why.

Tsubasa has finally had enough of trying to live inside a dream. No matter how ideal a life he and his family pretend to have, they can’t erase the struggles and frustrations they have. Now only one question remains: Can Tsubasa convince them to give up this hopeless pursuit and accept the bittersweet truth of reality, or will he be drawn back into the dream?

What will a young man sacrifice to rise above his social position? In The Red and the Black, Stendhal tells the compelling story of Julien Sorel, an intelligent and ambitious young man determined to escape his humble origins and rise within French society. Julien navigates a world shaped by social class, political power, religion, ambition, and appearances. His intelligence and determination open doors that would otherwise remain closed, but his pursuit of status becomes increasingly compl...

Enlightenment and Revolution – Great Figures of the 18th Century The 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment, great discoveries, and political revolutions. New ideas about freedom, reason, and human rights changed the world. Scientists pushed the boundaries of knowledge, composers created timeless masterpieces, and statesmen forged new nations. This audiobook introduces 14 extraordinary figures who shaped their era: from Voltaire and Rousseau to Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, and on t...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri] - Emma [Jane Austen] - Persuasion [Jane Austen] - Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] - Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] - Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë] - Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] - The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] - Don Quixote [Miguel de Cervantes] - Heart of Darkness [Joseph Conrad] - Nostromo [Joseph Conrad] - Mo...