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Short Stories About Trickery & Deception

"Tales of manipulation, broken promises and tests of faith. As a general rule we are a trusting lot. You say something and, whilst I might disagree, I believe you are acting in good faith. Of course this may be just the beginning of a ruse. If I trust you I might let down my guard, I might seek to share and to create a bond between us. But, if you can’t be trusted, if you have an ulterior motive I might lose out. In the hands of authors such as Maxim Gorky, Ella D’Arcy, Rudyard Kipling, Ivan Turgenev and may others reality may not be what it quite seems. 1 - Short Stories About Trickery & Deception - An Introduction2 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling3 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling4 - Chelkash - Part 1 by Maxim Gorky5 - Chelkash - Part 2 by Maxim Gorky6 - Chelkash - Part 3 by Maxim Gorky7 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton8 - The She-Wolf by Saki9 - Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet by O Henry10 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart11 - Mrs Packletide's Tiger by Saki12 - As the Crow Flies by John Davys Beresford13 - The Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft14 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev15 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy16 - The Connoisseur by Perceval Gibbon17 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin18 - The Hired Baby, A Romance of the London Streets by Mary Mackay writing as Marie Corelli19 - The Open Window by Saki20 - Revenge by Samuel Blas21 - Cheating The Gallows by Israel Zangwill22 - Putois by Anatole France23 - Post Mortem by Barry Pain"

Anatole France , Barry Pain , Edith Wharton , Ella D'Arcy , Georgia F Stewart , H.P. Lovecraft , Israel Zangwill , Ivan Turgenev , John Davys Beresford , Kate Chopin , Mary Mackay Writing As Marie Corelli , Maxim Gorky , O Henry , Perceval Gibbon , Rudyard Kipling , Saki , Samuel Blas (Author), Mark Rice-Oxley , Richard Mitchley , Warren Keyes (Narrator)

Audiobook · 11 hrs 13 mins

Stories About Imagination & Dreams

"The world inside your mind where anything is possible .It is a common quality amongst us that we all have imagination and dreams. These are positives with which to embrace life and move forward. Unfortunately, our classic literary scribes including Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Virginia Woolf and a host of others also bring forth narratives which not only include a darker, more venal side but those of a lighter flavour. 1 - Stories about Imagination and Dreams - An Introduction2 - The Horla by Guy De Maupassant3 - The Sphinx by Edgar Allan Poe4 - The Kiss by Anton Chekhov5 - The Dream by O Henry6 - An Unwritten Novel by Virginia Woolf7 - The Dream Woman by Wilkie Collins8 - The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin9 - The Dream by Mary Shelley10 - A Dream of Wild Bees by Olive Schreiner11 - Angele Au Couvent by Mary Butts12 - The Coffin Maker by Alexander Pushkin13 - The Art of BookMaking by Washington Irving14 - Plato's Dream by Voltaire15 - Sredni Vashtar by Saki16 - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostovesky17 - A Bread and Butter Miss by Saki18 - Polaris by H P Lovecraft19 - The Ghostly Kiss by Lafcadio Hearn20 - The Looking Glass by Anton Chekhov21 - The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet22 - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf23 - The Great Good Place by Henry James24 - The Leather Funnel by Arthur Conan Doyle25 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells26 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G Wells"

Alexander Pushkin , Anton Chekhov , Edgar Allan Poe , Fyodor Dostovesky , Guy De Maupassant , H.G. Wells , H.P. Lovecraft , Henry James , Hume Nisbet , Lafcadio Hearn , Mary Butts , Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , O Henry , Olive Schreiner , Saki , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Virginia Woolf , Voltaire , Washington Irving , Wilkie Collins (Author), Eric Meyers , Ian Holm , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 11 hrs 46 mins

"Joseph Conrad was born on 3rd December 1857 in Berdychiv in the Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. His birthplace had been part of Poland which its neighbours dismembered into their own Empires.Conrad’s early years were spent in constant movement, his father was politically active and frequently in trouble trying to help re-ignite a Polish state which meant arrests and exile and the young Conrad himself suffered from ill-health, spending a year at a retreat in Kyiv recovering. By 11 he was orphaned. His education was mainly private and although he was a voracious reader, he was a poor academic student. Now, being raised by an uncle who wanted Conrad to have a worthwhile job, it was hoped that a merchant-marine career might bring out the best of him.At 16 he was sent to Marseille to embark on that adventure. Conrad himself was determined to be both a sailor and a great writer.Life on board a ship was full of adventures and experiences which included gun-running and close quarter encounters with political conspiracies.By his mid 30’s Conrad had returned to shore permanently to add his prodigious literary talents to full time writing. Although he wrote with a comprehensive command in English his spoken English was often cited as ‘horrible’. He was now also a British Citizen. Conrad brought to English Literature both narrative mastery, compelling prose and fully formed characters as well as a deeper examination of the human psyche in a wealth of work. He wrote many novels, short stories, nonfiction, and memoirs which are rightly regarded today as some of the finest in English literature. Jospeh Conrad died on the 3rd August 1924 at Bishopsbourne, Kent in England. He was 66."

Joseph Conrad (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Joseph Conrad - A Short Story Collection

Audiobook · 4 hrs 58 mins

Louisa Baldwin - A Short Story Collection

"Louisa MacDonald was born in 1845, one of eleven children of part Scottish descent. Together with three of her sisters they were known as the ‘MacDonald sisters’ primarily because of their marriages to well-known men. In 1866 she married the wealthy industrialist Alfred Baldwin in a double wedding with her sister Anne. After giving birth to Stanley on the 3rd August 1867, who would go on to become Prime Minister, she drifted into an unhappy life in her then residence in Worcestershire. She had at least one miscarriage and days alone depressed and in darkness.During the 1870’s the couple travelled to find a lasting cure and tried a variety of treatments which led to her recovery in 1883. She now became a leading figure in her local village of Wilden, near Stourbridge.Her writing career of novels, short stories and poetry is often overlooked, as was the case with so many women, yet her works reveal many talents and a gift for melding odd and weird circumstances into seemingly everyday life. Louisa Baldwin died in 1925.1 - Louisa Baldwin - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - The Empty Picture Frame by Louisa Baldwin3 - The Shadow on the Blind by Louisa Baldwin4 - The Weird of the Walfords by Louisa Baldwin5 - Many Waters Cannot Quench Love by Louisa Baldwin6 - My Next Door Neighbour by Louisa Baldwin"

Louisa Baldwin (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 3 hrs 19 mins

Supernatural - An Anthology of Fear

"Fear affects us all in some way, shape or form. Whilst we would rather shy away from it in real life, when it comes to stories, we tend to move towards it.It’s a strange attraction given that for most of us undoubtedly the word ‘Supernatural’ is one riven with dark intent and malicious promise. In this volume of short stories our malevolent authors, including the talents of H P Lovecraft, Edgar Alan Poe, Charles Dickens, M R James, Victor Hugo, E T A Hoffman and many, many others, seem to take great delight in assaulting our senses with heart stopping narratives designed to put the fear of God, the Devil and just about every other form of disturbed terror into our eager hearts and minds.1 - The Supernatural - An Anthology of Fear - An Introduction2 - The Horla by Guy de Maupassant3 - The Facts In The Case of Monsieur Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe4 - The Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens5 - A Ghost Story by Mark Twain6 - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Sheridan Le Fanu7 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving8 - The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling9 - The Moon Bog by H P Lovecraft10 - The Ebony Frame by Edith Nesbit11 - The Furnished Room by O Henry12 - The Open Window by Saki13 - Couching at the Door by D K Broster14 - The Upper Berth by F Marion Crawford15 - The Bus Conductor by E F Benson16 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards17 - What Was It by Fitz James O'Brien18 - N by Arthur Machen19 - The Sumach by Ulric Daubeny20 - Hodge by Elinor Mordaunt21 - John Silence, Physican Extraordinary by Algernon Blackwood22 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs23 - My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan24 - The Ankardyne Pew by W F Harvey25 - A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo26 - The Lost Reflection by E T A Hoffman27 - Lost Hearts by M R James28 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson"

Victor Hugo (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 17 hrs 29 mins

Arnold Bennett - A Short Story Collection

"Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. For a short time he worked for his solicitor father before realising that to advance his life he would need to become his own man. Moving to London at twenty-one he obtained work as a solicitor’s clerk and gradually moved into a career of journalism. At the turn of the century he turned full time to writing and shortly thereafter in 1903 he moved to Paris and in 1908 published to great acclaim The Old Wives Tale. With this his reputation was set. Clayhanger and The Old Wives Tale are perhaps his greatest and most lauded novels. 1 - Arnold Bennett - An Introduction2 - Mimi by Arnold Bennett3 - The Supreme Illusion by Arnold Bennett4 - A Letter Home by Arnold Bennett5 - The Letter and the Lie by Arnold Bennett6 - The Ghost of Lord Clarenceux by Arnold Bennett7 - Phantom by Arnold Bennett"

Arnold Bennett (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 57 mins

3 Stories - War at Home

"There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears. 01 - 3 Stories - War At Home02 - War by Luigi Pirandello03 - Them Others by Stacy Aumonier04 - The Casualty List by Winifred Holtby"

Luigi Pirandello , Stacy Amounier , Winifred Holtby (Author), David Shaw-Parker , Ghizela Rowe , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 6 mins

3 Stories - Prostitutes

"There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears.01 - 3 Stories - Prostitutes02 - The Maison Tellier by Guy de Maupassant03 - Luxury by Vicente Blasco Ibanez04 - Cordelia the Crude by Wallace Thurman"

Guy De Maupassant , Vincente Blasco Ibanez , Wallace Thurman (Author), David Shaw-Parker , Jamal West , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 14 mins

3 Stories About - Moving On

"There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears.01 - 3 Stories - Moving On02 - The Voyage by Katherine Mansfield03 - His Smile by Susan Glaspell04 - Elenora by Edgar Allan Poe"

Edgar Allan Poe , Katherine Mansfield , Susan Glaspell (Author), Eric Meyers , Laurel Lefkow , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

3 Stories - Madness in Diaries

"There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears.01 - 3 Stories - Madness in a Diary02 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy03 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain04 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol"

Barry Pain , Leo Tolstoy , Nikolai Gogol (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 40 mins

"There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears.01 - 3 Stories - Absurd02 - The Nose by Nikolai Gogol03 - The Astounding Adventure of Wheeler J Calamity, Related by Himslef by W S Gilbert04 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 2 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky"

Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Nikolai Gogol , W S Gilbert (Author), David Shaw-Parker , Mark Rice-Oxley , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 2 hrs 3 mins

3 Stories - Blind Characters

Aphra Behn , Ernest Bramah , Mikhail Lermontov (Author), Amanda Weston , David Shaw-Parker , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 44 mins

"There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears.01 - 3 Stories - Fantasy02 - The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H G Wells03 - When I Was a Witch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman04 - The Clock That Went Backward by Edward Page Mitchell"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Edward Page Mitchell , H.G. Wells (Author), Christopher Ragland , Laurel Lefkow , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 47 mins

3 Stories About - Appearance Vs Reality

Anton Chekhov , E T A Hoffman , Washington Irving (Author), Eric Meyers , Mark Rice-Oxley , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 41 mins

3 Stories About - Life & Existence

"There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears. 01 - 3 Stories About - Life & Existence02 - The Four Fists by F Scott Fitzgerald03 - Mold of the Earth by Boleslaw Prus04 - The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte"

Boleslaw Prus , Bret Harte , F Scott Fitzgerald (Author), Eric Meyers , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 19 mins

3 Stories About - Death

"There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears.01 - 3 Stories About - Death02 - Son by Ivan Bunin03 - The Last Leaf by O Henry04 - The Fly by Katherine Mansfield"

Ivan Bunin , Katherine Mansfield , O Henry (Author), Ghizela Rowe , Laurel Lefkow , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 3 mins

3 Stories About - Love

"There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears.01 - 3 Stories About - Love02 - Kabuliwallah by Rabindranath Tagore03 - Bliss by Katherine Mansfield04 - Hearts and Hands by O Henry"

Katherine Mansfield , O Henry , Rabindranath Tagore (Author), Eve Karpf , Laurel Lefkow , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Wonder Of Women - Ghost Stories

"Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed. 1 - Women of Wonder - Ghost Stories - An Introduction2 - Man Size In Marble by Edith Nesbit3 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton4 - The Story of Salome by Amelia Edwards5 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman6 - A Spirit Elopement by Clotilde Graves7 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps8 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood9 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards10 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton11 - The Ghost at the Rath by Rosa Mulholland12 - Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor House by Clara Venn13 - The Ghost by Catherine Wells14 - The Ghost in the Clock Room by Hesba Stretton15 - The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne16 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant17 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant18 - To Let by B M Croker19 - Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley.wav20 - The Runaway by Marion Hepworth-Dixon21 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards22 - The 4 15 Express by Amelia Edwards23 - The Token by May Sinclair24 - The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton25 - The Readjustment by Mary Austin26 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon27 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell28 - Dionea - Part 1 by Vernon Lee29 - Dionea - Part 2 by Vernon Lee30 - John Charrington's Wedding by Edith Nesbit"

Amelia B. Edwards , B M Croker , Catherine Wells , Clara Venn , Clotilde Graves , Edith Nesbit , Edith Wharton , Elizabeth Gaskell , Elizabeth Stuart Phelps , Gertrude Atherton , Hesba Stretton , Madeline Yale Wynne , Margaret Oliphant , Marion Hepworth-Dixon , Mary Austin , Mary Cholmondeley , Mary E Wilkins Freeman , Mary Elizabeth Braddon , May Sinclair , Mrs Ellen Wood , Rhoda Broughton , Rosa Mulholland , Vernon Lee (Author), Elliot Fitzpatrick , Lisa Bowerman , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 16 hrs 37 mins

Wonder Of Women - Supernatural Romance Stories

Amelia B. Edwards , Clothilde Graves , Edith Nesbit , Elizabeth Stuart Phelps , Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Author), David Shaw-Parker , Lisa Bowerman , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 2 hrs 43 mins

Wonder Of Women - Murder Stories

Amelia B. Edwards , Arabella Kenealy , Baroness Emmuska Orczy , Baroness Orczy , Edith Nesbit , Edith Stewart Drewery , Ethel Lina White , Lady Eleanor Smith , Mary E Mann , Pauline E Hopkins , Ruth D Todd , Susan Glaspell , Winifred Holtby (Author), Laurel Lefkow , Mark Rice-Oxley , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs 10 mins

Wonder Of Women - To Make A Long Story Short

"Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed. 1 - Women of Wonder - To Make A Long Story Short - An Introduction2 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin3 - The Story of Sir Bertrand by Anna Laetitia Barbauld4 - All Souls Eve by Dora Sigerson Shorter5 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts6 - Conversation on Conversation by Harriet Beecher Stowe7 - The Preacher at Hill Station by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman8 - The Palace of Death by Emily Bronte9 - The Lie by Holloway Horn10 - The Readjustment by Mary Austin11 - Suggestion by Mrs Ernest Leverson12 - A Pen and Ink Effect by Frances E Huntley13 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart14 - My Flirtations by Ella Hepworth Dixon writing as Margaret Wynham15 - The Three Kisses by Violet Quirk16 - A Redeeming Sacrifice by Lucy Maud Montgomery17 - Many Waters Cannot Quench Love by Louisa Baldwin18 - Aunt Hetty on Matrimony by Fanny Fern, the writing pseudonym for Sarah Payton Parton19 - Aunt Lindy. A Story Founded on Real Life by Victoria Earle Matthews20 - Cousin Mary by Mary Russell Mitford21 - Cuchulain of Muirthemne. The Only Son of Aoife by Lady Augusta Gregory22 - The Peterkins Decide to Learn the Languages by Lucretia Peabody Hale23 - My Honoured Master by Catherine Anne Dawson Scott24 - The Man With No Face by Gertrude Minnie Robins25 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson26 - In No Strange Land by Katharine Butler27 - The Mystery of the Gables by Elsie Norris28 - Guests Unexpected. A Thanksgiving Story by Maude K Griffin29 - Breaking the Color Line by Annie McCary30 - The Casualty List by Winifred Holtby31 - The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare32 - A Knot of Ribbon by Laurence Alma-Tadema33 - A Dream of Wild Bees by Olive Schreiner34 - A Lost Masterpiece by Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright writing as George Egerton35 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd36 - The Shape of Fear by Elia W Peattie37 - Fear by Catherine Wells38 - The Little Skeleton by Mary Anne Atherstone writing as M A Bird39 - Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte40 - The Tyburn Ghost by Wilhelmina FitzClarence, The Countess of Munster41 - When the Devil Was Well by Gertrude Atherton.wav"

Anna Laetitia Barbauld , Annie McCary , Catherine Anne Dawson Scott , Catherine Wells , Charlotte Bronte , Dora Sigerson Shorter , Elia W Peattie , Ella Hepworth Dixon writing as Margaret Wynham , Elsie Norris , Emily Bronte , Fanny Fern , Fanny Kemble Johnson , Frances E Huntley , Georgia F Stewart , Gertrude Atherton , Gertrude Minnie Robins , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Holloway Horn , Katharine Butler , Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman , L.M. Montgomery , Lady Augusta Gregory , Laurence Alma-Tadema , Louisa Baldwin , Lucretia Peabody Hale , Mary Anne Atherstone writing as M A Bird , Mary Anne Hoare , Mary Austin , Mary Butts , Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright writing as George Egerton , Mary Russell Mitford , Maude K Griffin , Mrs Ernest Leverson , Olive Schreiner , Ruth D Todd , The Countess of Munster , Victoria Earle Matthews , Violet Quirk , Wilhelmina FitzClarence , Winifred Holtby , the writing pseudonym for Sarah Payton Parton (Author), Ghizela Rowe , Kelly Burke , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs 23 mins

Wonder Of Women - Stories About Affairs

Ada Radford , Edith Nesbit , Edith Wharton , Ellen Glasgow , Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens , Kate Chopin , Marjorie Bowen , May Sinclair , Virginia Woolf (Author), Janet Maw , Liza Ross , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 5 hrs 18 mins

"A gloriously talented poet who although now almost forgotten wrote verse that is still powerful and prescient"

Francis Thompson (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

The Ballad of East & West

"Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Mumbai, India on 30th December 1865. As was the custom in those days, he and his sister were sent back to England when he was 5. The ill-treatment and cruelty by the Portsmouth couple they boarded with Kipling said contributed to the onset of his literary life. At 16 he returned to India to work on a local paper where he was soon contributing and writing. It also exposed him to the issues of identity and national allegiance which pervade much of his work. In 1886, his ‘Departmental Ditties’, collection of verse appeared in print followed by 39 short stories for his newspaper over only 8 months. These were then published as ‘Plain Tales from the Hills’, shortly after his 22nd birthday. He continued his prolific pace of writing before being dismissed in a dispute and, taking his pay-off and the profits from the sale of some publishing rights, decided to return to London, travelling via Rangoon, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States, all the while writing articles, and arriving at Liverpool in October 1889.Over the next two years he saw further works published as books and in magazines, as well as a nervous breakdown for which he was prescribed a sea voyage, to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and India. Happier times came with marriage to Caroline Starr Balestier in January 1892. The honeymoon began in Vermont and ended in Yokahama where they heard their bank had failed. They returned to Vermont and settled. Caroline was now pregnant and he was planning the ‘Jungle Books’. A failed arbitration between the US and England resulted in an argument between Caroline’s brother and Kipling, and then his arrest. At the hearing he was mortified by the exposure of his private life and after settling the matter they returned to England and life in Torquay. ‘Kim’ was published in 1902, and ‘Just So Stories for Little Children’, a year later. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature with the citation “in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterise the creations of this world-famous author”. When the Great War erupted, he scorned those who refused conscription. His son enlisted and was killed at the Battle of Loos in September 1915, at 18, an exploding shell had ripped his face apart. This death inspired Kipling’s writing thereafter, but the tragedy broke his life and by 1930 his prolific pen had almost ceased.Rudyard Kipling died on 18th January 1936 from a perforated duodenal ulcer. He was 70. His ashes are buried at Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey."

Rudyard Kipling (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

"Algernon Charles Swinburne was born on April 5th, 1837, in London, into a wealthy Northumbrian family. He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, but did not complete a degree. In 1860 Swinburne published two verse dramas but achieved his first literary success in 1865 with Atalanta in Calydon, written in the form of classical Greek tragedy. The following year "Poems and Ballads" brought him instant notoriety. He was now identified with "indecent" themes and the precept of art for art's sake. Although he produced much after this success in general his popularity and critical reputation declined. The most important qualities of Swinburne's work are an intense lyricism, his intricately extended and evocative imagery, metrical virtuosity, rich use of assonance and alliteration, and bold, complex rhythms. Swinburne's physical appearance was small, frail, and plagued by several other oddities of physique and temperament. Throughout the 1860s and 1870s he drank excessively and was prone to accidents that often left him bruised, bloody, or unconscious. Until his forties he suffered intermittent physical collapses that necessitated removal to his parents' home while he recovered. Throughout his career Swinburne also published literary criticism of great worth. His deep knowledge of world literatures contributed to a critical style rich in quotation, allusion, and comparison. He is particularly noted for discerning studies of Elizabethan dramatists and of many English and French poets and novelists. As well he was a noted essayist and wrote two novels.In 1879, Swinburne's friend and literary agent, Theodore Watts-Dunton, intervened during a time when Swinburne was dangerously ill. Watts-Dunton isolated Swinburne at a suburban home in Putney and gradually weaned him from alcohol, former companions and many other habits as well. Much of his poetry in this period may be inferior but some individual poems are exceptional; "By the North Sea," "Evening on the Broads," "A Nympholept," "The Lake of Gaube," and "Neap-Tide." Swinburne lived another thirty years with Watts-Dunton. He denied Swinburne's friends access to him, controlled the poet's money, and restricted his activities. It is often quoted that 'he saved the man but killed the poet'. Swinburne died on April 10th, 1909 at the age of seventy-two."

Algernon Charles Swinburne (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

"Lettice Galbraith is yet another of those mysterious women of British literature of whom little was recorded.Lizzie Susan Gibson was born on the 27th January 1859 in Kingston-Upon-Hull in Yorkshire into a comfortable middle-class family.Her education was primarily private but at fifteen her father died, and life became rather different.After several years in London, she moved with her mother to Reigate in Surrey. In 1885 she published her first story anonymously and her pseudonym ‘Lettice Galbraith’ only appeared from late 1892.Although her canon of works is small, she mainly achieved her reputation on a single volume of ghost and supernatural stories entitled ‘New Ghost Stories’.After her mother’s death in 1901 she moved to London and continued to write, this time moving on from the short story to the novel, as well as reverting to her given name.For the last two decades of her life, she did not continue her literary career.Lettice Galbraith died on 8th July 1932 at Downe, then in Kent. She was 73."

Lettice Galbraith (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Baroness Orczy - A Short Story Collection

"Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, or more familiarly, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, was born on the 23rd September 1865, in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary.The family lived in their ancestral home; a great, rambling farmhouse on the river Tarna. Orczy’s memories of the time were of sophisticated parties, sparkling conversation, joyful dancing and gypsy music. But fear of a peasant uprising meant moving to Budapest and then many years of semi-nomadic travels across Europe.Arriving in London in 1880 Orczy, aged 15, studied painting and, a few years later, had some pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy.London, she now felt, was home, her spiritual birthplace. Art school also provided a husband; the young illustrator, Montague Barstow, the son of an English clergyman. Determined to prove herself as a writer she plunged headlong into a writing career shortly after her son’s birth. In a mere five weeks she wrote the adventure classic ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’. Originally rejected, she re-worked it as a successful play. It was then published as a best-selling book in 1905 and later a very successful movie. Politically Orczy was a conservative with an unwavering belief in the superiority of the aristocracy and of the British Empire. During World War I, she formed the Women of England's Active Service League, tasked with recruiting female volunteers "to persuade every man I know to offer his service to his country". In the coming years the family lived on an estate in Kent, in a tasteful London home and an extravagant villa in Monte Carlo. All the while Orczy’s pen wrote novels, short stories, plays, translations and, eventually, her autobiography. Baroness Orczy died on the 12th November 1947 at Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire. She was 82."

Baroness Orczy (Author), Mark Rice-Oxley , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 2 hrs 51 mins

3 Stories About - Disapproving Fathers

Elizabeth Gaskell , Leo Tolstoy , Stephen Crane (Author), Eric Meyers , Mark Rice-Oxley , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 26 mins

3 Stories About - Social Standing

Elizabeth Gaskell , F Scott Fitzgerald , O Henry (Author), John-Michael MacDonald , Laurel Lefkow , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 56 mins

3 Stories About - Life After Death

Edith Wharton , Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Gertrude Atherton (Author), Laurel Lefkow , Mark Rice-Oxley , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 23 mins

3 Stories About - Dead Women Returning as Ghosts

H Rider Haggard , Rudyard Kipling , The Vision of the Dead Creole (Author), David Shaw-Parker , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 24 mins

3 Stories About - Cannibals

H.P. Lovecraft , M.R. James , The Brothers Grimm (Author), David Shaw-Parker , Elliot Fitzpatrick , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 12 mins

3 Stories About - Ambition

Arnold Bennett , Herman Melville , Paul Laurence Dunbar (Author), Christopher Ragland , Darrell Joe , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 59 mins

3 Stories About - Caves

C J Cutliffe Hyne , John Buchan , W J Wintle (Author), Mark Rice-Oxley , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 2 hrs 36 mins

3 Stories About - Blackmail

Ethel Lina White , Saki , W W Jacobs (Author), Eve Karpf , Richard Mitchley , Robert Maskell (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 4 mins

3 Stories About - Gambling Addiction

Alexander Pushkin , D.H. Lawrence , Saki (Author), David Shaw-Parker , Elliot Fitzpatrick , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 53 mins

3 Stories About - Suicidal Thoughts

Amy Levy , Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Kate Chopin (Author), David Shaw-Parker , Laurel Lefkow , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 25 mins

3 Stories - Set On Ships

Ambrose Bierce , F Marion Crawford , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Christopher Ragland , John-Michael MacDonald , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 39 mins

3 Stories - Set Entirely on Trains

Saki , Virginia Woolf , W G Kelly (Author), David Shaw-Parker , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

3 Stories - With Religious Critiques

Anton Chekhov , Leonid Andreyev , Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author), Christopher Ragland , David Shaw-Parker , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

3 Horror Stories - Set in Suffolk by M R James

M.R. James (Author), David Shaw-Parker , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 1 hr 55 mins

3 Horror Stories - About Body Parts Gaining Powers

A J Alan , F Marion Crawford , W F Harvey (Author), David Shaw-Parker , Mark Rice-Oxley , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 2 hrs 35 mins

Horror Stories At Sea

"Being on a ship is usually very safe. The days of sinking after hitting an iceberg are almost unthinkable. A ship goes from one port to another, seemingly without a care in the world. Advanced technology has kept this means of transport as no more uncomfortable as maybe a bit of queasiness after going up and down in a storm. But worse? No, not really possible, is it?In this volume our authors beg to differ. They would like to bring us stories where being on a ship is simply the worse place to be. Horror and terror, and worse, infest their narratives and threaten all and everything aboard. 1 - Horror Stories at Sea - An Introduction2 - The Brute by Joseph Conrad3 - The Horla by Guy De Maupassant 4 - A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo5 - The Shamraken Homeward-Bounder by William Hope Hodgson6 - The Striped Chest by Arthur Conan Doyle7 - The Upper Berth by F Marion Crawford8 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson"

F Marion Crawford , Guy De Maupassant , Joseph Conrad , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Victor Hugo , William Hope Hodgson (Author), Christopher Ragland , Ian Holm , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 4 hrs 31 mins

Stories About Miners And Mining

"Man has learnt to control his dominion by the use of what initially lay about him; wood and stone for shelter and building as well as resources from the plant and animal worlds over which he slowly obtained dominion. But as he organised into Nations and Empires, he needed more with which to keep the whole machine spinning. Society was growing and consuming more. But many of the richer seams of fuel and minerals lay buried underground. These riches needed exploiting, brought to the surface to be used and sold. In this volume our authors detail sharp-eyed narratives on people whose lives were connected and directed by what happened underground.1 - Stories About Mines and Mining - An Introduction2 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence3 - The Mine Cart by Ryunosuke Akutagawa4 - The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte5 - An Unexpected Reunion by Johann Hebel6 - The Mines of Falun - Part 1 by E T A Hoffman7 - The Mines of Falun - Part 2 by E T A Hoffman8 - Her Turn by D H Lawrence"

Bret Harte , D.H. Lawrence , E T A Hoffman , Johann Hebel , Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Author), David Shaw-Parker , Eric Meyers , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 3 hrs 12 mins

Stories To Make You Laugh

"Pure laughter, whether our own or others, makes us all feel more comfortable with the world and situations we find ourselves in. Why something is funny is hard to say but we know that there are people who are funny and can say funny things. It’s an immediate advantage for them.In this volume your hosts including Mark Twain, Nikolai Gogol, J M Barrie, O Henry and many others who range from the simply funny and the absurd to ….. well, other ways of funny.1 - Stories to Make You Laugh - An Introduction2 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 1 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky3 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 2 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky4 - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County by Mark Twain5 - The Mouse by Saki6 - How I Killed a Bear by Charles Dudley Warner7 - The Nose by Nikolai Gogol8 - Luck by Mark Twain9 - My Financial Career by Stephen Leacock10 - The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde11 - The Ransom of Red Chief by O Henry12 - The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner13 - How the Widow Won the Deacon by William James Lampton14 - How To Tell A Story by Mark Twain15 - The Idiot's Journalism Scheme by John Kendrick Bangs16 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J M Barrie17 - Lost in a London Fog by Louisa May Alcott18 - Revenge by Ambrose Bierce19 - John Mortonson's Funeral by Ambrose Bierce20 - The Death of a Government Clerk by Anton Chekhov21 - The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether by Edgar Alan Poe22 - Eve's Diary by Mark Twain23 - Bobok by Fyodor Dostoyevsky"

Ambrose Bierce , Anton Chekhov , Charles Dudley Warner , Edgar Alan Poe , Fyodor Dostoyevsky , J. M. Barrie , John Kendrick Bangs , Louisa May Alcott , Mark Twain , Nikolai Gogol , O Henry , Oscar Wilde , Ring Lardner , Saki , Stephen Leacock , William James Lampton (Author), Eric Meyers , Laurel Lefkow , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 8 hrs 36 mins

Stories About Curses

"All words have a value, they have a truth. Even misinforming us is part of their job. But they are only words, sticks and stones etc etc.But in this volume our authors explore the use of curses. These strings of words might seem harmless enough if you don’t believe they can have any ill effect. Little by little, though, sometimes they do. Our brains connect curse with that action, that happening and now we might be seeing them as cause and effect. Perhaps that curse really does have some power, some potency, and if that is so maybe that curse is malevolent and its true purpose is not to wish us good. 1 - Stories about Curses - An Introduction2 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy3 - The Arm of Mrs Egan by W F Harvey4 - The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling5 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs6 - The Brute by Joseph Conrad7 - Lost in a Pyramid (or the Mummy's Curse) by Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard8 - The Ash Tree by M R James.wav9 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman10 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt11 - The Mass for the Dead by Edith Nesbit12 - The Weird of the Walfords by Louisa Baldwin13 - Casting the Runes by M R James"

Edith Nesbit , Joseph Conrad , Louisa Baldwin , Louisa May Alcott , M.R. James , Mary E Wilkins Freeman , Rudyard Kipling , Thomas Hardy , W F Harvey , W W Jacobs , William Hunt (Author), Richard Mitchley , Robbie McNab , Robert Maskell (Narrator)

Audiobook · 7 hrs 6 mins

Philosophical Stories

"We love reason, advancing through facts to reach a conclusion that explains exactly where we are at. When literary masters create their stories on this theme we are left with some quite brilliant and riveting works that help us gain fascinating insight into both author, story and the world beyond.1 - Philosophical Stories - An Introduction2 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka3 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 1 by Herman Melville4 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 2 by Herman Melville5 - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky6 - Parker Adderson, Philosopher by Ambrose Bierce7 - Dickory Cronke, The Dumb Philosopher or Great Britain's Wonder by Daniel D8 - Plato's Dream by Voltaire9 - The Shades, A Phantasy by Vladimir Korolenko10 - Gods in Exile by Heinrich Heine11 - An Evening Guest by Alexander Kuprin12 - Bellerophon To Anteia by Mary Butts13 - Putois by Anatole France14 - The Lightning Rod Man by Herman Melville15 - Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce16 - A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka"

Alexander Kuprin , Ambrose Bierce , Anatole France , Daniel D , Franz Kafka , Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Heinrich Heine , Herman Melville , Mary Butts , Vladimir Korolenko , Voltaire (Author), Christopher Ragland , Eric Meyers , Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs 14 mins

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