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Media, The - A Short Story Collection

Classic stories before the age of social media

de Henry James, E M Delafield, E M Delafield, Frank R Stockton, H D Everett, W F Arnold, Barry Pain, Dorothy Edwards, Robert Duncan Milne, Owen Oliver, Winifred Holtby0, Charlotte Perkins Gilman1, C E Montague2 ...

Narrado por Richard Mitchley3, Robert Maskell4, Eric Roberts5 ...

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7 hora 49 minutos

The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting.However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s ... Leer más

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The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting.However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s
... Leer más
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Lessons from Literature - Stories Dealing with Death and Loss

Learn from the oldest form of communication and education - storytelling

de Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Mary Shelley, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Winifred Holtby, Winifred Holtby, D H Lawrence, Barry Pain0, Johann Hebel1, Stacy Aumonier2, Mary Butts3, Mary Cholmondeley4, O Henry5, Katherine Mansfield6, Gertrude Atherton7, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps8, Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev9, Vera Jelihovsky0 ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell1, Richard Mitchley2, Eric Meyers3 ...

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10 hora 54 minutos

Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings.In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and ... Leer más

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Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings.In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and
... Leer más
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Detective Stories – Mysteries

Truth and justice by way of clues

de Arthur Conan Doyle, Nicholas Olde, Ernest Bramah, Jacques Futrelle, Rose Champion de Crespigny, G K Chesterton, Frank Howel Evans, Arthur Morrison, George Griffiths, Maurice LeBlanc, Arthur Gask, Headon Hill ...

Narrado por Mark Rice-Oxley, Robert Maskell, David Shaw-Parker ...

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9 hora 54 minutos

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult ... Leer más

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The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult
... Leer más
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Forgotten Authors, The - Men - The Complete Edition

Don't let great literature die

de Grant Allen, Edmondo de Amicus, F Anstey, Richard Harris Barham, Sabine Baring-Gould, Max Beerbohm, Camillo Boito, Guy Boothby, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William E Burton, Georges Eekhourd, Anatole France, Théophile Gautier, Perceval Gibbon, Stefan Grabinski, William Dean Howells, Thomas Mann, John Willaim Polidori ...

Narrado por David Shaw-Parker, Jake Urry, Robert Maskell ...

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65 hora 15 minutos

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Leer más

$49.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Leer más
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Detective Stories – Police Investigation

Truth and justice by way of clues

de William E Burton, Ralph Plummer, G K Chesterton, Ernest Bramah, Clarence Rook, Ethel Lina White, Arthur Morrison, George R Sims, Arthur Gask ...

Narrado por Mark Rice-Oxley, Robert Maskell, David Shaw-Parker ...

Completo

6 hora 19 minutos

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult ... Leer más

$19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult
... Leer más
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Water Running Out

A cruel Aunt continously abuses her nephew until he reaches breaking point

de Ethel Lina White ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell ...

Completo

28 minutos

Ethel Lina White was born on the 2nd April 1876 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in Wales.Her family were wealthy due to her father’s invention of a waterproofing material used, initially, for the London Underground.Ethel started writing when she was only a child and published essays and poems in children’s papers. She was also a talented artist.As an adult she began to write short stories and, some ... Leer más

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Ethel Lina White was born on the 2nd April 1876 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in Wales.Her family were wealthy due to her father’s invention of a waterproofing material used, initially, for the London Underground.Ethel started writing when she was only a child and published essays and poems in children’s papers. She was also a talented artist.As an adult she began to write short stories and, some
... Leer más
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Classic Sci-Fi Stories NOT by Isaac Asimov

The name that first comes to mind isn't always the best

de H G Wells, Jack London, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, H P Lovecraft, H P Lovecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jules Verne, Edward Page Mitchell, Mary Shelley0, Voltaire1, Owen Oliver2, Owen Oliver3, L T Meade4, Robert Duncan Milne5, Washington Irving6, Robert Barr7, Valery Bryusov8, Fred M White9, Herbert C Ridout0, Fitz James O'Brien1 ...

Narrado por Richard Mitchley2, Christopher Ragland3, Robert Maskell4 ...

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20 hora 1 minutos

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured ... Leer más

$39.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured
... Leer más
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Flying Leave, The

A WW1 soliders childhood traumas return on his leave from trench duty

de Ethel Lina White ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell ...

Completo

26 minutos

Ethel Lina White was born on the 2nd April 1876 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in Wales.Her family were wealthy due to her father’s invention of a waterproofing material used, initially, for the London Underground.Ethel started writing when she was only a child and published essays and poems in children’s papers. She was also a talented artist.As an adult she began to write short stories and, some ... Leer más

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Ethel Lina White was born on the 2nd April 1876 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in Wales.Her family were wealthy due to her father’s invention of a waterproofing material used, initially, for the London Underground.Ethel started writing when she was only a child and published essays and poems in children’s papers. She was also a talented artist.As an adult she began to write short stories and, some
... Leer más
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Forgotten Authors, The - Men - Volume 3

Théophile Gautier to Mór Jókai

de Théophile Gautier, Perceval Gibbon, R Murray Gilchrist, Giovanni Boccaccio, George Gissing, Carlo Gozzi, Stefan Grabiński, Frederick Greenwood, George Griffiths, The Brothers Grimm, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, Augustus Hare, Headon Hill, Fergus Hume, Lionel Johnson, Mór Jókai ...

Narrado por Mark Rice-Oxley, Robert Maskell ...

Completo

13 hora 50 minutos

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Leer más

$19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Leer más
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Stories Set On Trains

Enjoy the journey

de Saki, Aleister Crowley, Richard Marsh, Leonara Wodehouse, Arthur Morrison, Amelia Edwards, Sabine Baring-Gould, W G Kelly, Barry Pain, John Davys Beresford, Gertrude Colmore ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell, David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

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4 hora 50 minutos

A train seems a very reliable mode to bring out the best in authors and sometimes the worst in their fictional characters. In this volume our narratives are usually set inside the carriage compartment where they are really are up close and personal with each other. All our authors need to do is to light the touchpaper and stand well back. ... Leer más

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A train seems a very reliable mode to bring out the best in authors and sometimes the worst in their fictional characters. In this volume our narratives are usually set inside the carriage compartment where they are really are up close and personal with each other. All our authors need to do is to light the touchpaper and stand well back.
... Leer más
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Detective Stories – Murder

Truth and justice by way of clues

de Ethel Lina White, Edgar Allan Poe, J J Connington, Arthur Morrison, David Winser, Richard Marsh, George R Sims, George R Sims, Leonara Wodehouse, Thomas W Hanshew, Josephine Tey0, Nicholas Olde1, Clarence Rook2, Victor L Whitechurch3 ...

Narrado por Christopher Ragland4, Elliot Fitzpatrick5, Robert Maskell6 ...

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8 hora 25 minutos

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult ... Leer más

$29.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult
... Leer más
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Wonder Of Women - The Darker Sex

Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

de George Eliot, George Eliot, Edith Nesbit, Elinor Mordaunt, May Sinclair, Lady Eleanor Smith, Bessie Kyffin Taylor, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary E Penn, Lettice Galbraith, Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens0, Violet Jacob1, Clotilde Graves writing as Richard Dehan2, Mary Elizabeth Braddon3, Fanny Kemble Johnson4, Violet Quirk5, Charlotte Riddell6, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps7, Fernan Caballeron8, Sarah Orne Jewett9 ...

Narrado por Laurel Lefkow0, Lisa Bowerman1, Robert Maskell2 ...

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10 hora 41 minutos

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 ... Leer más

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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
... Leer más