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ID: 501474

Title: Story of the Wedding Tour

Author: Margaret Oliphant

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:59:09

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Margaret Oliphant Wilson was born on 4th April 1828 in East Lothian in Scotland but spent her childhood in Midlothian, Glasgow and Liverpool. She wrote from a young age and in 1849 had her first novel about the Scottish Free Church movement, a cause her parents sympathized with, published. Her next, 'Caleb Field', a couple of years later, led to a lifelong association with Blackwood Magazine to which she contributed more than a 100 articles and reviews.In May 1852, she married her cousin, Frank Wilson Oliphant, an artist working in stained glass, and settled in Camden, London. Together they had six children but tragically three died in infancy. Unfortunately, Frank developed tuberculosis and so they moved in January 1859 to Florence, and then south to Rome, where he died. Margaret was devastated and was left with the burden of supporting herself and their three children. She returned to England and with her prolific literary work increased her commercial reputation and the size of her reading audience. Margaret worked tirelessly to sustain her popularity with her supernatural tales and historical fiction.Unfortunately, her family life continued to be fraught with tragedies due to the further death of her one remaining daughter, financial ruin for her alcoholic brother and unfulfilled ambitions for her two sons followed by their deaths in 1890 and 1894. She had settled in Windsor near Eton where her sons had been educated in 1866 and was buried there following her death on 25th June, 1897.Despite the short time she lived in Scotland, much of her writing displays strong connections in terms of settings, themes and its oral tradition. Margaret was admired for her range of supernatural tales, which resonated with her fascination for the afterlife and given her own experience, provided a sense of comfort to those grieving. She also wrote about the injustice faced by women and evidenced here by her strong tale:- 'A Story of a Wedding Tour' describing a young bride deserting her husband for a life that would give her a chance to express her own desires.

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ID: 529987

Title: Anthony Hope - A Short Story Collection

Author: Anthony Hope

Narrator: David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe, Mark Rice-Oxley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:04:20

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9th February 1863 in Clapton, London. He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford. Hope trained as a lawyer and barrister and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1887. Despite what was thought to be a promising legal career he had literary ambitions and wrote in his spare time.His early works appeared in various periodicals of the day but for his first book 'A Man of Mark' (1890), with no publisher interested, he published with his own resources. More novels and short stories followed, including the mildly successful 'Mr Witt's Widow' in 1892. Hope even found time to run as the Liberal candidate for Wycombe in the election that same year but was unsuccessful.His first major literary success came with 'The Dolly Dialogues', a collection of previously published magazine pieces followed very quickly by his instant classic, 'The Prisoner of Zenda'. He now gave up the vestiges of his legal career to pursue writing full-time.Despite never again reaching the same pinnacle of success he was popular and wrote prolifically across novels, plays and of course, short stories though his writing output rapidly diminished after the war.In 1918 he was knighted for his contribution to propaganda efforts during World War I. His short stories are delicate, mannered and often surprising with their wit, humour and interplay of characters who say one thing and usually mean another. He was very definitely a writer of escapist rather than serious fare but they are no less enjoyable for that.Anthony Hope died of throat cancer on 8th July 1933 at his country home, Heath Farm at Walton-on-the-Hill in Surrey. He was 70.1 - Anthony Hope - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - Foreordained by Anthony Hope3 - A Little Joke by Anthony Hope4 - A Guardian of Morality by Anthony Hope5 - Lucifera by Anthony Hope6 - A Sucessful Rehearsal by Anthony Hope7 - Middleton's Model by Anthony Hope8 - How They Stopped the 'Run' by Anthony Hope9 - My Astral Body by Anthony Hope

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ID: 545992

Title: Saki - A Short Story Collection

Author: Saki

Narrator: David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe, Mark Rice-Oxley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:34:53

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Hector Hugh Munro, more familiarly known by his pen-name 'Saki' was born in what was then Akyab in British Burma on 18th December 1870. His father was an Inspector General for the Indian Imperial Police, and his mother the daughter of a Rear Admiral.When he was 2 his mother died and he and his siblings were sent back to England to be raised by their grandmother and paternal maiden aunts in a strict, puritanical household near Barnstaple, Devon. Educated by governesses Saki used many of these women as character models for his later writing.At 17 his father retried and returned to England and then embarked on a series of European travels with Saki and his siblings.After a short stint working in Burma with the Indian Imperial Police Saki decided to move to London to make a living as a writer. Initially he wrote as a journalist for a number of newspapers and magazines before attempting an historical study, 'The Rise of the Russian Empire', whose real value lay in directing him to writing short stories instead, the first of which, 'Dogged', he published in 1899.From here it was a short stab of the pen to writing political satire before in 1902 he became the foreign correspondent for The Morning Post, first in the Balkans, then Russia, Paris and back to London in 1908, where 'the agreeable life of a man of letters with a brilliant reputation awaited him.' Collections of his short stories full of witty, mischievous and often macabre stories that satirized Edwardian society and two novels now appeared in the years up to the Great War. At its' outbreak he was 43 but managed to join as an ordinary trooper. More than once he returned to the battlefield when officially too sick or injured. On 14th November 1916 Hector Hugh Munro was sheltering in crater during the Battle of the Ancre, when he was shot and killed by a German sniper. According to several sources, his last words were "Put that bloody cigarette out!"1 - Saki - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - The Reticence of Lady Anne by Saki3 - The Open Window by Saki4 - A Bread and Butter Miss by Saki5 - The Story of St Vespaluus by Saki6 - Esme by Saki7 - Laura by Saki8 - Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse That Helped by Saki9 - The Mouse by Saki10 - The Easter Egg by Saki11 - The Bull by Saki12 - The She-Wolf by Saki13 - The Interlopers by Saki

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ID: 529996

Title: Ballad

Author: Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St Vincent Millay, Oscar Wilde

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lefkow, Sean Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:41:18

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

The ballad is one of the oldest poetic forms in English and are simply poems or songs that tell a story. Traditionally they are composed in quatrains, with common meter that follow an a b c b rhyming structure and this, together with the simple language (often the dialect of the region), made them easier to memorise and recite by wandering minstrels as they were passed down orally. Originally derived from the Medieval French the name suggests that they were to dance to and whilst widely used around Europe and other parts of the world, became characteristic of British poetry from the Middle Ages to the 19th century when it settled into our current usage of the term as a slow sentimental song.By the 17th century the printed version of ballads, often with music and illustration, known as Broadsides or Broadsheets, circulated, probably in their millions throughout Britain and remained popular until the Victorian era when they lost prestige.Whether they be folk, literary or lyrical, most ballads contain a self-contained, concise, plot driven story told in the third person narrative, often featuring dialogue and moving at a pace with an emotional urgency to arrive at a dramatic conclusion. The subject of ballads are limitless and they can be tragic, historical or comic.Maybe it's because of childhood associations or that we all enjoy a cracking good story told in rhyme but as this volume demonstrates, the ballad has endless appeal. We include favourites such as Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Edna St Vincent Millay's The Ballad of the Harp Weaver, Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee as well as classics such as Sir Patrick Spens, the Ballad of Reading Gaol by Wilde and La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Keats. There's many more known and lesser known in this volume celebrating this most popular and accessible poetic form.

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ID: 507090

Title: Kiss

Author: Anton Chekhov

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:47:25

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29th January 1860 in Taganrog, on the south coast of Russia. His family life was difficult; his father was strict and over-bearing but his mother was a passionate story-teller, a subject Chekhov warmed to. As he later said; 'our talents we got from our father, but our soul from our mother'. At school Chekhov was distinctly average. At 16 his father mis-managed his finances and was declared bankrupt. His family fled to Moscow. Chekhov remained and eked out a living by various means, including writing and selling short sketches to newspapers, to finish his schooling. That completed and with a scholarship to Moscow University obtained he rejoined his family.He was able to help support them by selling satirical sketches and vignettes of Russian lifestyles and gradually obtained further commissions. In 1884, he qualified as a physician and, although it earned him little, he often treated the poor for free, he was fond of saying 'Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.'His own health was now an issue as he began to cough up blood, a symptom of tuberculosis. Despite this his writing success enabled him to move the family into more comfortable accommodation. Chekhov wrote over 500 short stories which included many, many classics including 'The Kiss' and 'The Lady with a Dog'. His collection 'At Dusk' won him the coveted Pushkin Prize when was only 26. He was also a major playwright beginning with the huge success of 'Ivanov' in 1887. In 1892 Chekhov bought a country estate north of Moscow. Here his medical skills and money helped the peasants tackle outbreaks of cholera and bouts of famine. He also built three schools, a fire station and a clinic. It left him with less time for writing but the interactions with real people gained him detailed knowledge about the peasantry and their living conditions for his stories. His most famous work, 'The Seagull' was received disastrously at its premiere in St Petersburg. It was later restaged in Moscow to highlight its psychological aspects and was a huge success. It led to 'Uncle Vanya', 'The Three Sisters' and 'The Cherry Orchard'. Chekhov suffered a major lung hemorrhage in 1897 while visiting Moscow. A formal diagnosis confirmed tuberculosis and the doctors ordered changes to his lifestyle. Despite a dread of weddings the elusive literary bachelor quietly married the actress Olga Knipper, whom he had met at rehearsals for 'The Seagull', on 25th May 1901.By May 1904 with his tuberculosis worsening and death imminent he set off for the German town of Badenweiler writing cheerful, witty letters to his family and assuring them his health was improving. On 15th July 1904 Anton Chekhov died at Badenweiler. He was 44.

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ID: 514264

Title: Great Slave

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: Christopher Ragland, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:52:15

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Pearl Zane Grey was born on 31st January 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. From an early age, he was intrigued by history, fishing, baseball, and writing. Grey was an avid reader of adventure stories, consuming dime store novels by the dozen. By age fifteen he had written his first story; 'Jim of the Cave'. His father, a difficult man, tore it to shreds and then beat him.A keen fisherman and with dreams of playing in the major leagues Grey was spotted by a baseball scout and received offers from colleges.He enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania to study dentistry. Naturally arriving on a scholarship really meant you had to be able to play. And he could, though in the end as a practical career move he resolved that dentistry was the way forward. Grey set up his dental practice in New York as Dr. Zane Grey in 1896. But with ambitions to be a writer in a city with so many publishers evenings were set aside for writing.His first magazine article, about one of his fishing expeditions was published in 1902. It was not until 1910 that he wrote his first Western, 'The Heritage of the Desert'. It was a breakthrough title and quickly became a bestseller. His themes of Manifest Destiny, the conquest of the Old West, and men wrestling with elemental conditions were the hallmarks of his career. Two years later Grey produced his all-time best-seller 'The Riders of the Purple Sage', with its publication he became a household name. During the crash and subsequent depression of the 1930s, the publishing industry was hard. Sales fell. But Grey was astute. He had avoided the Stock Market, he was still writing and popular and continued to earn royalty income. In all he wrote over 90 books including some on fishing and baseball. He was also selling stories to film companies as Hollywood was eager to exploit popular culture.On 23rd October 1939 Zane Grey died of heart failure at his home in Altadena, California. He was 67.

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ID: 564874

Title: Bloodline

Author: Jess Lourey

Narrator: Whitney Dykhouse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:38:29

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

An ITW Thriller Award and Anthony Award winner.

Perfect town. Perfect homes. Perfect families. It’s enough to drive some women mad…

In a tale inspired by real events, pregnant journalist Joan Harken is cautiously excited to follow her fiancé back to his Minnesota hometown. After spending a childhood on the move and chasing the screams and swirls of news-rich city life, she’s eager to settle down. Lilydale’s motto, “Come Home Forever,” couldn’t be more inviting.

And yet, something is off in the picture-perfect village.

The friendliness borders on intrusive. Joan can’t shake the feeling that every move she makes is being tracked. An archaic organization still seems to hold the town in thrall. So does the sinister secret of a little boy who vanished decades ago. And unless Joan is imagining things, a frighteningly familiar figure from her past is on watch in the shadows.

Her fiancé tells her she’s being paranoid. He might be right. Then again, she might have moved to the deadliest small town on earth.

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ID: 545991

Title: Barry Pain - A Short Story Collection

Author: Barry Pain

Narrator: David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:27:24

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Barry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children.He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he read classics and contributed to and edited Granta.Four years of service as an Army coach followed before he moved to London. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine published his short story 'The Hundred Gates'. This opened the way for Pain to advance his literary career on several fronts. He became a contributor to Punch and The Speaker, as well as joining the staff of both the Daily Chronicle and Black and White. In 1897 he succeeded Jerome K Jerome as editor of To-Day but still contributed regularly, until 1928, to the Windsor Magazine.It is often said that Pain was discovered by Robert Louis Stevenson, who compared his work to that of Guy de Maupassant. It's an apt comparison. Pain was also a master of disturbing prose but able to inject parody and light comedy into many of his works. A simple premise could in his hands suddenly expand into a world very real but somehow emotionally fraught and on the very edge of darkness as many of these short stories demonstrate. Despite applying his talents to several genres and forms today Pain is more readily thought of, especially during the first decade of the 20th Century, as perhaps the leading British humorist of his day. These stories reveal a darker side and beg to differ.Barry Pain died on 5th May 1928 in Bushey, Hertfordshire.1 - Barry Pain - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain3 - The Act of Heroism by Barry Pain4 - The Green Light by Barry Pain5 - A Complete Recovery by Barry Pain6 - The Magnet by Barry Pain7 - The End of a Show by Barry Pain8 - The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit by Barry Pain9 - Murder, from The Memoirs of Constantine Dix by Barry Pain10 - Post Mortem by Barry Pain

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ID: 501481

Title: Poetry of Angels

Author: Emily Dickinson, Wb Yeats, William Blake

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:39:22

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Angels are undeniably associated with religion and more usually Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Often they are seen as supernatural beings, benevolent celestial intermediaries interposed between God, Heaven and humanity.They are protectors, our heavenly guides, and the servants of God. They are also His Messengers. The faithful seek their blessing, their help. A visitation is a miraculous event, filled with reverence, awe and shared with the wider community as a sign that faith has reward.Other religions also make note of angelic contributions including Sikhism and Zoroastrianism. There is also the unnerving distinction that there are 'fallen Angels' that seep dark, malevolent forces into the world. They tempt, they betray, they lead us where it is not safe to go.But faith once more resolves the dilemma; good will overcome evil. And whether a believer or not, there is a comfort that the angels of our hearts are the ones of love, of care and compassion.Obviously there are complications, a fact that our classic poets through the centuries, including Alexander Pope, Edmund Spenser, Radclyffe Hall and Hafiz, use as they write verse to explain, to reveal and to help us understand exactly why Angels are so prevalent amongst our thoughts. - 1 - The Poetry of Angels - An Introduction2 - I Felt an Angel by Anonymous3 - The Angel by William Blake4 - The Angel's Visit by Charlotte L Forten Grimke5 - The Angels by Rainer Maria Rilke6 - The Woman and the Angel by Robert William Service7 - The Man to the Angel by George William Russell8 - Ex Ore Infantium by Francis Thompson9 - The Child Angel by Rabindranath Tagore10 - A Poem for Children with Thoughts On Death by Jupiter Hammon11 - The Guardian Angel by Robert Browning12 - The Angel's Message by Clara Ann Thompson13 - Angels From the Realms of Glory by James Montgomery14 - Wondrous Sight For Men and Angels by Ann Griffiths15 - The Ministry of Angels by Edmund Spenser16 - The Angels of Man by Bliss Carman17 - The Two Angels by Radclyffe Hall18 - My Sweet Crushed Angel by Hafiz19 - Two or Three Angels by Stephen Crane20 - The Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Proctor21 - Israfel by Edgar Allan Poe22 - The Song of the Seven Archangels by Ernest Rhys23 - The Angel by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov24 - To.... by James Monroe Whitfield25 - Angels Everywhere by Rosa Mulholland26 - An Angel in the House by James Henry Leigh Hunt27 - The Angel That Presided by William Blake28 - A Cradle Song by W B Yeats29 - Playmates by Emily Dickinson30 - Once in a Saintly Passion by James Thomson31 - To Rosemary, on the Methods by Which She Might Become an Angel by Stephen Vincent Benet32 - It Was Wrong To Do This, Said the Angel by Stephen Crane33 - Angels, in the Early Morning by Emily Dickinson34 - The Angel and the Clown by Vachel Lindsay35 - Behind the Scenes. Empire by Arthur Symons36 - To Be An Angel by Francois Couperin37 - The Stillness Of Angels by Daniel Sheehan38 - One Evening by Guillaume Apollinaire39 - A Poor Torn Heart, A Tattered Heart by Emily Dickinson40 - Drifts That Bar My Door by Adah Isaacs Menken41 - Sonnet CLIV - The Little Love-God by William Shakespeare42 - By the Sides of Angels by Daniel Sheehan43 - Rosa Mundi by Arthur Symons44 - The Willowwood Sonnets.

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ID: 529998

Title: Dead at 44

Author: Anton Chekhov, D.H. Lawrence, Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrator: David Shaw-Parker, Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:06:25

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Science, better diet, advanced medicines are all part of a process that in the modern age keep most of us going to a ripe old age.In previous times some diseases could only be slowed and not defeated. There toil of relentless attack on our physical forms brought misery and decay. Add to this that within our number some will self-destruct, demons will pursue their inner thoughts and life will be too painful to bear. Some may shuffle off the mortal coil for no discernible reason, but life will end early, they will not take up their three-score year and ten.In this collection of short stories some of our most popular and well-known authors are grouped together with an unfortunate tag: dead at 44.These authors are not run-of-the-mill or ten a penny; they are literary leviathans who left enduring works of literature and sadly may have left us many more had they lived. We will never know.Death for these authors was usually due to many health issues but primarily: -Anton Chekhov - TuberculosisD H Lawrence - TuberculosisF Scott Fitzgerald - Heart attackRobert Louis Stevenson - Cerebral hemorrhageHenry Harland - Tuberculosis01 - Dead at 44 - An Introduction02 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov03 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence04 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald05 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson06 - A Responsibility by Henry Harland

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