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Brought to you by Penguin. 'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.' Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood...

Step into a world of enchantment and gentle wonder as you unwind and drift peacefully toward sleep with this soothing collection of magical bedtime stories for grown-ups. Magical Fairytales for Relaxation & Sleep is a calming anthology of timeless fairytales, lovingly narrated by Joanne D'Amico, the voice behind the beloved Drift Off podcast.

In the tradition of her acclaimed fairy-tale-inspired novel, The Serpent's Shadow, best-selling author Mercedes Lackey re-imagines Sleeping Beauty-as a dark and enchanting Edwardian fantasy.Marina is the cherished daughter of the wealthy Roeswood family, practioners of Elemental Magic. But evil portents have warned her parents that Marina will be killed before her 18th birthday-by the hand of her own aunt.

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, complete audiobook narrated by "MadMorph" (creator and voice of the "Down To Sleep" book Podcast) Down To Sleep is a podcast where I read books and bedtime stories to you, to help you relax and fall asleep. Listened to by millions around the world. Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen about the love story between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. A beloved romantic classic with many movie and TV adaptations, and this is the best audiobook version ever.

Whether it is sex, drugs, or infatuation with the occult, Mrs. Manford and her extended family of socialites are determined to escape the pain, boredom, and emptiness of life through whatever form of “twilight sleep” they can devise or procure. Far ahead of its time, this Wharton classic employed modernist techniques such as an ever changing narration among the novel’s characters and a close examination of the characters’ self-identities and relationships with one another to tell a tale rich with irony and wit about the upper crust’s own undoing.

Destress and delve into these relaxing tales for adults and teens... Join the thousands of people who have found the perfect bedtime stories to help you sleep! This collection is designed to help readers unwind and drift off to sleep. Based on the popular selections from the Just Sleep podcast...

Twilight Sleep, a gothic satire of Jazz Age New York, was an instant best-seller when it was released in 1927. Quintessential Edith Wharton, it is stylish and sharp, at turns scathing, hilarious and melodramatic, but also deeply and surprisingly human. In a modernist twist, the story is told by three distinct narrators—19-year-old Nona Manford, her unflappable socialite mother Pauline, and Nona’s father and Pauline’s second husband, divorce lawyer Dexter Manford. All are trying to save the marriage of Nona’s half-brother, Jim Wyant, and his wife Lita.

Esta espectacular colección para niños contiene más de 30 ilustraciones para crear una mejor experiencia para usted y sus hijos.

Let the day gently fade away as you settle in with this comforting collection of beloved classic tales, thoughtfully narrated to help you relax and drift into restful sleep. Cozy Bedtime Classics for Relaxation & Sleep brings together three timeless stories that have enchanted generations: The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, along with Hans Christian Andersen's cherished tales Thumbelina and The Ugly Duckling.

Someone wants Marla Mason dead. Usually that's not news. As chief sorcerer of Felport, someone always wants her dead. But this time she's the target of a renegade assassin who specializes in killing his victims over days, months, or even years. Not to mention a mysterious knife-wielding killer in black who pops up in the most unexpected places.

Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (1787) by Charles Brockden Brown is considered one of the first American Gothic novels. The castles and crypts of the European Gothic literary tradition is replaced by the mountains and valleys of the hostile American wilderness, including the tense relationship between Americans and Indians on the frontier. In some ways a detective story, the novel is complex in its examination of gender relations, religious and ethnic clashes, and the complicated psychology of its titular character.

Welcome to Sleep Stories, relaxing stories that are engineered to help you fall asleep faster and stay sleeping through the night. You'll deeply relax your body and mind with our special sleep introduction, and then be lulled to sleep by the soothing voice of Rachael Meddows reading First Love. First Love is one of Russian literature's most renowned love stories. It's a vivid and sensitive account of adolescent love, about a 16-year-old who falls in love with a beautiful but older woman living next door.

Beyond the Wall of Sleep, written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1919, is a fascinating blend of science fiction, cosmic horror, and metaphysical exploration. First published in Pine Cones in 1919 and later in Fantasy Fan in 1934, the story reflects Lovecraft's early fascination with dreams, the human mind, and the mysterious realms that exist beyond physical reality. It serves as an example of Lovecraft’s ability to merge speculative ideas with an evocative, dreamlike narrative.

A Margery story. The storyteller interacts with a very young niece. No matter how he thinks to convince Margery that he needed a nap she refuses to follow. If you’ve ever had a child who asks lots of questions and dreams up new ways to command your attention you will identify with the trials of the storyteller. A short story from the mind of Winnie the Pooh creator A.A. Milne.

Lovecraftian themes abound in the tales of an intern at a madhouse and an illiterate madman. Slater, the madman whose unspeakable crimes led him to the madhouse, is continuously awakened in this story by surprisingly literate hallucinations of a glowing entity seeking revenge. Inspired by Slater’s uneducated background and the telepathic machine that he had made in his yesteryear, the intern delves deep into Joe Slater - who is receiving telepathic messages from a being of light.

A former intern and a worker of a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer. He describes Slater as a "typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region, who corresponds exactly with the 'white trash' of the South", for whom "laws and morals are nonexistent" and whose "general mental status is probably below that of any other native American people".

Aristotle’s writings cover many subjects, including aesthetics, biology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government. They constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. "On Sleep and Sleeplessness" attempts to explain the reasons for sleeping. He argues that sleep and wakefulness are both affections of the activity of the primary faculty of sense-perception.

Old English legends have been around for centuries, and few are more popular than the stories of Arthur, Merlin, and the Lady of the Fountain. In this collection, we dive into all three stories and the history behind them. Let the words hypnotize you into a soothing sleep with each story's unique sleep induction. You'll feel relaxed, quiet your mind, and get a deep sleep that will last all night long.

A collection of classic short stories for the restless sleeper.... "A Dream of Wild Bees" by Olive Schreiner, "The Face" by E. F. Benson, "The Dream" by A. J. Alan, "In a Far-Off World" by Olive Schreiner, "A Soothing Dream" by Fedor Sologub, "Life's Gifts" by Olive Schreiner, "A Curious Dream" by Mark Twain, "The Artist's Secret" by Olive Schreiner and "A Joy Ride" by A. J. Alan.