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Title: The Revolt of Mother

Author: Mary Wilkins E Freeman

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 43 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts on the 31st October 1852 to parents who were strict and orthodox Congregationalists.When she was a teenager the family moved to Brattleboro, Vermont and it was there she finished her education and began writing verse and stories for children.When the family's dry-goods store closed in 1873 the family, now impoverished, returned to Randolph where her mother was to die mother three years later.She published 'The Ghost Story' in 1881 after it won a short story competition. With elements of the supernatural and domestic realism she had hit upon a solid formula for success.Two years later her father died and with no immediate family and only a small estate she now committed to writing full-time to secure an income. For the times it was a brave move but her undoubted talent meant success would follow.Over her career she published more than two dozen volumes of short stories and novels and is most well-known for 'A New England Nun'. Her works were mainly set in New England and many of her female characters are strong and assertive, challenging contemporary stereotypes over their then roles, values and relationships in society. As a feminist she was keen to engage her audience in a discussion about the lack of control women had over many issues including the family finances.A meeting with the younger Dr. Charles Manning Freeman began a slow, decade long, courtship that endured many obstacles and delays until they eventually married on New Years Day, 1902. They built a home in Metuchen, where Mary was something of a local celebrity. Sadly her husband suffered from alcoholism and addiction to sleeping powders, fast horses and was also prone to womanizing. He was committed to the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane and with that the couple separated. After his death in 1923, he left his estate to his chauffeur and one dollar to Mary. On 13th March 1930, Mary E Wilkins Freeman suffered a fatal heart attack in Metuchen. She was 77.

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Title: The Converts

Author: Israel Zangwill

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 35 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Israel Zangwill was born in London on 21st January 1864, to a family of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. Zangwill was initially educated in Plymouth and Bristol. At age 9 he was enrolled in the Jews' Free School in Spitalfields in east London. Zangwill excelled here. He began to teach part-time at the school and eventually full time. Whilst teaching he also studied with the University of London and by 1884 had earned his BA with triple honours in philosophy, history, and the sciences.His writing earned him the sobriquet "the Dickens of the Ghetto" primarily based on his much lauded novel 'Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People' in 1892 and its glimpse of the poverty-stricken life in London's Jewish quarter.As a writer he was keen to reflect on his political and social outlooks. His simulation of Yiddish sentence structure in English aroused great interest. His mystery work, 'The Big Bow Mystery' (1892) was the first locked room mystery novel. Zangwill was also involved with narrowly focused Jewish issues as an assimilationist, an early Zionist, and later a territorialist. In the early 1890s he joined the Lovers of Zion movement in England. In 1897 he joined Theodor Herzl (considered the father of modern political Zionism) in founding the World Zionist Organization. Zangwill quit the established philosophy of Zionism when his plan for a homeland in Uganda was rejected and founded his own organisation; the Jewish Territorialist Organization. Its stated goal was to create a Jewish homeland in whatever territory in the world could be found for them. Amongst the challenges in his life he found time to write poetry. He had translated a medieval Jewish poet in 1903 and his volume 'Blind Children' in 1908 was well received. 'The Melting Pot' in 1909 made Zangwill's name as an admired playwright. When the play opened in Washington D.C., former President Theodore Roosevelt leaned over the edge of his box and shouted, "That's a great play, Mr. Zangwill, that's a great play." Israel Zangwill died on 1st August 1926 in Midhurst, West Sussex.

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Title: The Top 10 Short Stories - Revenge

Author: Vsevolod Garshin, Guy De Maupassant, F Scott Fitzgerald, O Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Susan Glaspell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Stephen Crane, H.G. Wells

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick, Laurel Lefkow, Bill Wallis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.Within these ten stories our authors including Edgar Allan Poe, H G Wells, Guy de Maupassant and a host of others demonstrate the power and the motivation that revenge demands. Yes, the pen is mightier and more brutal than the sword.01 - The Top 10 - Revenge - An Introduction02 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald03 - The Cone by H G Wells04 - The Hand by Guy de Maupassant05 - The Cask of Amontillardo by Edgar Allan Poe06 - The Signal by Vsevolod Garshin07 - The Caballero's Way by O Henry08 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon09 - The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane10 - The Scapegoat by Paul Laurence Dunbar11 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

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Title: The Top 10 Short Stories - Murder

Author: Robert W Chambers, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Prosper Merimee, Edgar Allan Poe, Susan Glaspell, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Nesbit, Sherwood Anderson, Oscar Wilde, Victor Hugo

Narrator: David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Garard Green

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.In this volume that most heinous of crimes is explored and dissected by the minds of our classic authors who show that the taking of another's life in print is so real that the possibility arises that they have carried out this deed in reality. Genius has many names.01 - The Top 10 - Murder - An Introduction02 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde03 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde04 - The Cask of Amontillardo by Edgar Allan Poe05 - Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo06 - In The Dark by Edith Nesbit07 - Brothers by Sherwood Anderson08 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood09 - Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee10 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell11 - In A Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa12 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 1 by Robert W Chambers13 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 2 by Robert W Chambers

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Title: The Top 10 Short Stories - The Twist

Author: Guy De Maupassant, O Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Edith Nesbit, Saki, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Katherine Mansfield, Edith Wharton

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Christopher Ragland, George S. Irving

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.In this volume we enjoy a favourite device of authors; the story is heading one way and suddenly twists in another direction entirely. In the pens of Ambrose Bierce, Nikolai Gogol, Saki and a host of others where you end up is the very question they propose. 01 - The Top 10 - The Twist - An Introduction02 - Roman Fever by Edith Wharton03 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant04 - The Nose by Nikolai Gogol05 - Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield06 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry07 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin08 - Man Size in Marble by Edith Nesbit09 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce10 - The Open Window by Saki11 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

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Title: Necessity'. An Eastern Tale

Author: Vladimir Korolenko

Narrator: Mark Rice-Oxley, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 46 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire on 27th July 1853.His father died when he was 13 and life was then often struck with bouts of poverty, which resulted in his education being somewhat erratic. A spell in exile at 23 was followed by another as the politics of the times opposed his volatile but heart-felt passions.Writing was also coming to the fore and in 1879 his debut short story telling of a young Narodnik searching for social and spiritual identity, was published.In 1881, Korolenko refused to swear allegiance to the new Russian Tsar and was again exiled, this time much farther afield. He spent the next three years doing manual work, but took time to study local customs and history. These impressions in exile provided rich material for his writings.In 1885 he was allowed to settle in Nizhny, where again he repeatedly questioned the authorities. That same year ‘Makar's Dream’ established his literary reputation and was part of his first collection ‘Sketches and Stories’, the following year.In the early 1890’s when famine struck Central Russia, he went to work on relief missions, collecting donations, supervising the delivery and distribution of food, opening 45 free canteens, all this while writing the graphic reports that would later be published as ‘In the Year of Famine’ in 1893.By 1896 despite some psychological disorders, he was well regarded amongst Russian writers and was even a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Throughout his writing career Korolenko was a staunch advocate of human rights, putting that sacred activity above what he called his 'part-time-writing'.In the Revolutionary year of 1905, under his editorship, Russkoye Bogatstvo published the Manifest by the Petersburg Soviet of the Workers' deputies. Korolenko was now repeatedly harassed by the authorities, had his flat raided many times and materials confiscated.As a lifetime opponent of Tsarism, he guardedly welcomed the Revolution of 1917. Once the nature of Bolshevism was established, he soon started to criticize it. During the Russian Civil War that ensued, he condemned both the Red Terror and the White Terror. Despite suffering from a progressive heart disorder, he collected food packages for children in famine-stricken Moscow and Petrograd as well as organised orphanages and shelters for the homeless. Vladimir Korolenko died in Poltava, Ukraine, of the complications of pneumonia on 25th December 1921. He was 68.

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Title: Prison Life - A Short Story Collection

Author: Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

For almost all of us the idea of being locked away in prison is a dreadful thought to consider. To be in that position, to get put away, for whatever reasons, for whatever pain or injury that was caused, whatever law was broken, the probability of years in a small, cramped space holds no appeal to anyone of reason and is almost always an absolute deterrent.Whilst some of the characters in these stories deserve prison, others are the victims of a mis-carriage. Our authors including Victor Hugo, Franz Kafka, William Mudford and Vincente Blasco Ibanez explore life inside, and how many of the flawed characters of their stories cope with the undoubted stresses and deprivations that their lives now cause them. It is a harsh world in microcosm.1 - Prison Life - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka3 - The Peasant Marey by Fyodor Dostoyevsky4 - Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo5 - The Story of B 24 by Arthur Conan Doyle6 - Parker Adderson, Philosopher by Ambrose Bierce7 - The Iron Shroud by William Mudford8 - The Windfall by Vicente Blasco Ibanez9 - The Secret of the Scaffold by Auguste Villiers de I'Ísle-Adam

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Title: Let Loose

Author: Mary Cholmonderly

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 49 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Mary Cholmondeley was born in Hodnet near Market Drayton in Shropshire on June 8th 1859, the third of eight children. Her father was appointed rector in 1874 in succession to his father. Much of the first 30 years of her life was taken up with helping her sickly mother run the household and her father with parish work, and she herself suffered with asthma. Mary began writing with in her teens. She wrote in her journal in 1877, "What a pleasure and interest it would be to me in life to write books. I must strike out a line of some kind, and if I do not marry (for at best that is hardly likely, as I possess neither beauty nor charms) I should want some definite occupation, besides the home duties." Mary began by publishing some stories in The Graphic and her first novel ‘The Danvers Jewels’ a detective story followed in 1887. It was followed by Sir Charles Danvers (1889), Diana Tempest (1893). After her father retired in 1896, she moved with him and her sister Diana to Condover Hall before selling it to move to Albert Gate Mansions in Knightsbridge, London. Mary wrote the best seller ‘Red Pottage’ in 1899. It satirised religious hypocrisy and the conceit of country life. It was denounced as immoral. It also explored female sexuality. During the war she did clerical work in the Carlton House Terrace Hospital. The sisters moved in1919 to 4 Argyll Road, Kensington, where Mary died, unmarried, on 15th July 1925.

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Title: Short Stories About A Deal with the Devil

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli, Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

It’s really very simple. You will sell me your eternal soul and in return I shall make you fabulously rich, powerful, talented and famous for your entire Earthly life. Or maybe even eternity.For an atheist it’s a great deal, though it does suggest atheism may have a weak point. For those of faith it’s a matter of jam now and purgatory tomorrow. A bargain many artists feel is something they can live with. For agnostics it’s usually a question of can the afterlife really be that bad, would workplace regulations reach all parts of heaven and hell.However, in this volume the terms are agreed and the Devil pays his fees and the character his dues, each happy to wait a few decades for the eternal payback.For us, it’s all a moot point. We would never offer up such a deal. After all just listen to the stories of those who have.01 - Short Stories About a Deal with the Devil - An Introduction02 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy03 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne04 - Belphagor by Niccolo Machiavelli05 - St Johns Eve by Nikolai Gogol06 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson07 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving08 - The Generous Gambler by Charles Baudelaire09 - A Journey of Little Profit by John Buchan10 - From the Memoirs of Satan by Wilhelm Hauff11 - The Devil's Wager by William Makepeace Thackeray12 - Madam Lucifer by Richard Garnett13 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 1 by Ernst Raupach14 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 2 by Ernst Raupach

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Title: Short Stories about Isolation & Loneliness

Author: Jack London, Nikolai Gogol

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, William Dufris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 30 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Time seems to move to a slower beat. Everything becomes more circumspect when you have no one to share the big things of life or even the everyday little things. The worry of being alone, to be apart from others. The solitary feeling for a short time might help to get things into perspective or cool a raging mind. But if it’s long term then the mind begins to play tricks. Conversations are between ourselves, no outside voice to support, to balance, to question or confirm. From there the path can be very unsettling. 01 - Short Stories About Isolation and Loneliness - An Introduction02 - Misery by Anton Chekhov03 - In a Far Country by Jack London04 - Regret by Guy de Maupassant05 - A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield06 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol07 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson08 - Her Lover by Maxim Gorky09 - The Mourner by Mary Shelley10 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman11 - Mumu by Ivan Turgenev12 - The Outsider by H P Lovecraft13 - Mr and Mrs Dove by Katherine Mansfield14 - Witch's Loaves by O Henry15 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov16 - A Lonely Ride by Bret Harte17 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall18 - The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte19 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov20 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather21 - The Looking Glass by Anton Chekhov22 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield23 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman24 - An Idyl of London by Beatrice Harraden25 - Adventure by Sherwood Anderson26 - Shut Out by F Anstey27 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain28 - Oil of Dog by Ambrose Bierce29 - Sokratics in the Strand by Amy Levy30 - When I Was Dead by Vincent O'Sullivan31 - The Face by E F Benson32 - The City by Leonid Andreyev33 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Overcoat'34 - Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield35 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov36 - The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce37 - Two Little Soldiers by Guy de Maupassant