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Free Download Preface to Murder: Bridget Hart Series by M S Morris, Esther Wane, Tantor Audio
English | September 28, 2021 | ISBN: B09FYJTT4H | 8 hours and 17 minutes | M4B | 112 Mb
A dangerous book. A hidden secret. A deadly betrayal.
The Oxford Literary Festival is in full swing, but Detective Inspector Bridget Hart isn’t there to learn about books. Instead, she’s been given the task of protecting Diane Gilbert, a controversial author who has received a death threat. Diane doesn’t seem to think she needs Bridget’s protection, but when the worst happens, Bridget’s role switches to running a murder enquiry.
The only clues Bridget has to go on relate to Diane’s new book which examines the murky world of international arms deals. Under pressure to identify the killer, Bridget finds herself drawn into the clandestine world of foreign governments and the British Security Service. She’ll need all her wiles and the full cooperation of her team to follow the twisting trail of evidence to its logical conclusion.

Free Download Leofranc Holford-Strevens, "Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Praefatio et Libri I-X) "
English | ISBN: 0199695016 | 2020 | 464 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius’ Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text by Peter K. Marshall, published in 1968 but soon superseded by Marshall’s own later discoveries as well as by other scholarship. Based on a thorough reconsideration of the manuscripts, of the indirect tradition, and of both the Latin and the Greek text, this new edition utilizes manuscript evidence unknown to previous editors, refines the standard account of relations between the earlier manuscripts, and distinguishes between readings in the later manuscripts derived from an older lost witness and those resulting from error or interpolation. All known witnesses to the indirect tradition as preserved in four florilegia have been examined, at times enabling readings less well supported by the manuscripts of the direct tradition to be restored. Above all, the approach to the transmitted text evinces a more sceptical, less trusting view than that of many recent editors: the apparatus criticus contains numerous emendations and suggestions, and in several places corrects the attribution of previous scholars’ conjectures, yet remains more generous than Marshall’s and avoids trivial details.

Free Download William C. Carter, "Marcel Proust: A Life, with a New Preface by the Author "
English | ISBN: 0300191790 | 2013 | 946 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
The extraordinary life and times of Marcel Proust, one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century, by "Proust’s definitive biographer" (Harold Bloom)