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ID: 548525

Title: Tachypomp

Author: Edward Page Mitchell

Narrator: Eric Meyers, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:34:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on 24th March 1852 into a wealthy family. When he was eight the family moved to a house on New York's famed Fifth Avenue.In 1863 he witnessed the Draft Riots and in the aftermath Mitchell's father moved the family to Tar River, North Carolina. It was there, at the age of fourteen, that his letters were first published in the local newspaper The Bath Times.In 1872, at age twenty, whilst on a train journey to Bath, Maine, a hot cinder from the engine's smokestack flew in through the window blinding his left eye. After several weeks, while doctors attempted to restore his sight, his uninjured right eye underwent sympathetic blindness. He was now completely blind. His burnt left eye eventually regained its sight, but his uninjured right eye remained blind and was later replaced with a prosthetic glass eye. While recovering from this surgery, Mitchell wrote his dazzling story 'The Tachypomp'.Mitchell's influence on science fiction writing is incredible and pre-dated many major themes. He wrote about a man made invisible, a time-travel machine, a thinking computer, teleportation, superior mutants and mind transfer. Add to this other stories which predicted travel by pneumatic tube, electrical heating, newspapers printed at home, food-pellet concentrates, international broadcasts, and suspended animation through cryogenics and they amount to talents that are not as publicly lauded as they should be.Edward Page Mitchell died of a cerebral hemorrhage in New London, Connecticut on 22nd January 1927. He was 76.The Tachypomp is a glorious mixture of a youth looking to impress his prospective father-in-law with a seemingly outlandish solution to a scientific problem.

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ID: 548523

Title: Three Wars

Author: Emile Zola

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Mark Rice-Oxley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:49:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was born in Paris on 2nd April 1840. When he was 3 the family moved to Aix-en-Provence in the southeast. At 7 his father died, leaving the family on a meagre pension. In 1858, they returned to Paris. His mother had planned a law career for Émile, but he failed his baccalauréat examination twice.He took jobs as a clerk in a shipping firm and then in the sales department for the publisher Hachette. Zola also wrote political, literary and art reviews for newspapers. As a writer Zola wrote numerous short stories, essays, plays and novels. When 'La Confession de Claude' was published and received the attention of the police Hachette fired him. He continued to write and after his first major novel, 'Thérèse Raquin' (1867), Zola started the series called 'Les Rougon-Macquart', a carefully planned twenty-volume history of a single family under the reign of Napoléon III. With the publication of 'L'Assommoir', Zola became wealthy. His subsequent works, 'Nana' and La Débâcle fared even better, increasing both fame and bank balance. He was now a figurehead of the literary bourgeoisie. However, despite several nominations, he was never elected to the prestigious Académie Française.The infamous Dreyfus Affair infuriated Zola who wrote in defence of Alfred Dreyfus. His plan was to be prosecuted for libel so that the truth would be exposed. It went badly wrong. Zola was convicted for criminal libel in February 1898 and removed from the Legion of Honour. The judgment was overturned but a new suit began. Zola fled to England only to return when an Amnesty was granted. Zola said of the affair, "The truth is on the march, and nothing shall stop it."Émile Zola died on 29th September 1902 of carbon monoxide poisoning caused by an improperly ventilated chimney. On 4th June 1908 Zola's remains were transferred to the Panthéon, where he shares a crypt with Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas.

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ID: 501472

Title: Paul's Case

Author: Willa Cather

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Leftkow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:58:28

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Willa Sibert Cather had Welsh ancestry but like her parents Charles and Mary, was born in Virginia, on 7th December 1873. Despite strong roots in the community, Willa was 9, when the family moved to Nebraska, to work the rich soil and avoid TB of which there were numerous outbreaks in Virginia. The vastness and drama of the Nebraska prairie and its' extreme weather conditions as well as the many diverse cultures of the local families proved to be a major influence on her and can be evidenced in much of her later writing. Her first writing was for the local journal when she was at the University of Nebraska and later became the managing editor of the student newspaper. In 1896 she obtained work for a woman's magazine in Pittsburgh and soon after became a regular contributor to the Pittsburgh Leader and wrote poetry and short stories for the Library, another local publication. Her first collection of short stories, 'The Troll Garden', was published in 1905 and contains several of her most famous including 'A Wagner Matinee' and 'Paul's Case.' As a writer Cather was now taking immense strides forward. Between 1913 and 1918 Cather wrote her Prairie Trilogy: 'O Pioneers!', 'The Song of the Lark', and 'My Ántonia' and in 1922 the Pulitizer Prize was hers for her novel 'One of Ours' set during WWI. Acknowledged as one of America's greatest writers' further honours flowed. In 1943 she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The following year Cather received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. A determinedly private person, Cather destroyed many old drafts, personal papers, and letters. Her will would also restrict the ability of scholars to quote from personal papers that remained.On 24th April 1947, Willa Siebert Cather died of a cerebral haemorrhage at her Manhattan home. She was 73.

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ID: 529962

Title: Silence

Author: Leonid Andreyev

Narrator: David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:42:38

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was born on 21st August in Oryol, Russia to a middle-class family of Polish, Ukranian and Finnish ancestry.He studied law in Moscow before working as a police-court reporter for a daily newspaper. His literary efforts at this time were confined to poetry and those he did try to get published were all rejected. In 1898 his first short story 'Bargamot and Garaska', published in the 'Kurier' newspaper caught the attention and friendship of Maxim Gorky. Andreyev now discarded any other career path apart from that of author.His first collection of short stories appeared in 1901 and sold over a quarter of a million copies. He was a sensation. Using his interest in psychology and psychiatry gave him an almost unrivalled ability to delve into the human psyche and create astonishing characters.During the first Russian revolution Andreyev was a staunch defender of democratic ideals and many of his stories reflected the heated mood of the times. With the 1905 Revolution's failure his work became pessimistic and despairing. By the beginning of the following decade he began losing his audience to new literary movements such as the Futurists.He published little after 1914 except political writings, instead working as the literary editor of the 'Russian Will' newspaper. When the Bolsheviks took power he sensed catastrophe was coming and moved to Finland where he spent his last years in poverty distraught at the outcome of the Revolution.Leonid Andreyev died of heart failure on 12th September 1919 at the age of 48 in Mustamäki, Finland.His classic story 'Silence' is a haunting and a desperately sad account of a family broken by death and unable to reconcile their feelings.

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ID: 530000

Title: Dead at 46

Author: George Gissing, H.P. Lovecraft, Oscar Wilde

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

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:51:42

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 46.These authors are not run-of-the-mill or ten a penny; many 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:-Oscar Wilde - MeningitisGeorge Gissing - General ill health left him unable to recover from a chill H P Lovecraft - CancerMary Webb - Unknown but she had been in increasingly bad health for some timePerceval Gibbon - Cause of death unknown01 - Dead at 46 - An Introduction02 - The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde03 - A Capitalist by George Gissing04 - The Call of Cthulhu by H P Lovecraft05 - Blessed Are the Meek by Mary Webb06 - The Connoisseur by Perceval Gibbon

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ID: 514258

Title: Purloined Letter

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Christopher Ragland, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:56:59

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan. He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted although he now referred to himself as Edgar Allan Poe. His father alternatively spoiled or chastised him and tension was frequent over gambling debts and monies for his education. His university years to study ancient and modern languages was cut short by lack of money and he enlisted as a private in the army claiming he was 22, it is more probable he was 18. After 2 years he obtained a discharge in order to take up an appointment at the military academy, West Point, where he failed to become an officer.Poe had released his 1st poetry volume in 1827 and after his 3rd turned to prose and placing short stories in several magazines and journals. At age 26 he obtained a licence to marry his cousin. She was a mere 13 but they stayed together until her death from tuberculosis 11 years after.In January 1845 'The Raven' was published and became an instant classic. Thereafter followed the prose works for which he is now so rightly famed as a master of the mysterious and the macabre.Edgar Allan Poe died at the tragically early age of 40 on 7th October 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. Newspapers at the time reported Poe's death as 'congestion of the brain' or 'cerebral inflammation', common euphemisms for death from disreputable causes such as alcoholism but the actual cause of death remains a mystery.Poe is also one of a number of authors credited with inventing the detective genre with his Parisian sleuth C. Auguste Dupin. He featured in three stories including the legendary 'Murders in the Rue Morgue' and by sheer deduction, logic and a touch of Gallic arrogance revealed what was hidden to the rest of us.

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ID: 545989

Title: Poetry of Richard Le Gallienne

Author: Richard Le Gallienne

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

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:07:01

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Richard Thomas Gallienne was born in Liverpool on 20th January, 1866.His first job was in an accountant's office, but this was quickly abandoned to pursue his first love as a professional writer. His first work, My Ladies' Sonnets, was published in 1887. In 1889 he became, for a brief time, literary secretary to Wilson Barrett the manager, actor, and playwright. Barrett enjoyed immense success with the staging of melodramas, which would later reach a peak with the historical tragedy The Sign of the Cross (1895).Le Gallienne joined the staff of The Star newspaper in 1891, and also wrote for various other papers under the pseudonym 'Logroller'. He contributed to the short-lived but influential quarterly periodical The Yellow Book, published between 1894 and 1897.His first wife, Mildred Lee, died in 1894 leaving their daughter, Hesper, in his care. In 1897 he married the Danish journalist Julie Norregard. However, the marriage would not be a success. She left him in 1903 and took their daughter Eva to live in Paris. They were eventually divorced in June 1911.Le Gallienne now moved to the United States and became resident there. On 27th October 1911, he married Mrs. Irma Perry, whose marriage to her first cousin, the painter and sculptor Roland Hinton Perry, had been dissolved in 1904. Le Gallienne and Irma had known each other for many years and had written an article together a few years earlier in 1906. Le Gallienne and Irma lived in Paris from the late 1920s, where Irma's daughter Gwen was by then an established figure in the expatriate bohème. Le Gallienne also added a regular newspaper column to the frequent publication of his poems, essays and other articles.By 1930 Le Gallienne's book publishing career had virtually ceased. During the latter years of that decade Le Gallienne lived in Menton on the French Riviera and, during the war years, in nearby Monaco. His house was commandeered by German troops and his handsome library was nearly sent back to Germany as bounty. Le Gallienne managed a successful appeal to a German officer in Monaco which allowed him to return to Menton to collect his books. To his credit Le Gallienne refused to write propaganda for the local German and Italian authorities, and financially was often in dire need. On one occasion he collapsed in the street due to hunger.Richard Thomas Gallienne died on 15th September 1947.

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ID: 548529

Title: Anton Chekhov - A Short Story Collection

Author: Anton Chekhov

Narrator: David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:23:51

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Classics

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. 1 - Anton Chekhov - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov3 - Volodya by Anton Chekhov4 - Misery by Anton Chekhov5 - The Death of a Government Clerk by Anton Chekhov6 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov7 - A Chameleon by Anton Chekhov 8 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov9 - The Student by Anton Chekhov10 - The Looking Glass by Anton Chekhov11 - Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov12 - About Love by Anton Chekhov13 - The Kiss by Anton Chekhov

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ID: 529985

Title: Sherwood Anderson - A Short Story Collection - Volume 1

Author: Sherwood Anderson

Narrator: Christopher Ragland, Eric Meyers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:43:34

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Sherwood Anderson was born on 13th September 1876 in Camden, Ohio.When his father's business failed the family was forced to move on a regular basis before finally settling in Clyde, Ohio. Anderson, one of 7 children, left school at 14 to take a number of jobs to help with the family finances. These were difficult years.He moved to Chicago in search of opportunities before joining the Army for the US-Spanish War of 1898. He then entered Wittenberg Academy in Springfield, Ohio to complete his education before moving back to Chicago to take up a writing job.In 1904 he married Cornelia Lane, her family had resources and Anderson was keen, with this family backing, to run a business.The early years of their marriage produced 3 children but a nervous breakdown in 1907 and another in 1912, despite his success as a business entrepreneur, resulted in him abandoning his family and deciding that a literary career would be best for him. A move back to Chicago resulted in a job in advertising, a divorce from Cornelia and marriage to Tennessee Mitchell. That same year his first book 'Windy McPherson's Son' was released and in 1919, his most famous book, 'Winesburg, Ohio', a collection of short stories about life in an Ohio town was released.Anderson continued to write short stories, novels and non-fiction but his only true bestseller came with 'Dark Laughter'. His influence on writers that followed, from Faulkner to Hemingway, was immense. He also married a further two times. Sherwood Anderson died in in Colón, Panama, on the 8th March, 1941. He was 64. An autopsy revealed that a swallowed toothpick had resulted in peritonitis.His headstone epitaph reads 'Life, Not Death is the Great Adventure.'1 - Sherwood Anderson - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction - Volume 12 - Brothers by Sherwood Anderson3 - Motherhood by Sherwood Anderson4 - Discovery of a Father by Sherwood Anderson5 - An Awakening by Sherwood Anderson6 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson7 - The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson

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ID: 501470

Title: Second Thoughts

Author: Arthur Moore

Narrator: David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:49:03

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

In this age of instant access to information it would be thought that anyone's past could be revealed. Alas for the Victorian author Arthur Moore, details are almost non-existent. Born on 14th January 1866 the only details that can be confirmed are that he wrote the short story 'Second Thoughts' and co-authored two works with Ernest Dowson. From there we only have the year of his death - 1934.However, his life aside 'Second Thoughts' is one of those short works, published in Volume 3 of the infamous Yellow Book in the late 1890's, that have given a certainty of his existence and merits attention based on the quality of this writing & invention.The story unfolds around a man returning home to England after almost twenty years away and finds things have changed that leave him both unsettled and unsure of how to move forward. Seeing, by chance, an old friend reawakens his curiosity .... and hopes.

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