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Israel Zangwill - A Short Story Collection

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 had 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 shows his promise in this new endeavour. '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. 1 - Israel Zangwill - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 2 - A Rose of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill 3 - Cheating The Gallows by Israel Zangwill 4 - The Converts by Israel Zangwill 5 - The Red Mark by Israel Zangwill 6 - The Silent Sisters by Israel Zangwill 7 - The Tug of Love by Israel Zangwill

Israel Zangwill (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe, Mark Rice-Oxley (Narrator)

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Necessity'. An Eastern Tale

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.

Vladimir Korolenko (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Mark Rice-Oxley (Narrator)

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Let Loose

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.

Mary Cholmonderly (Author), Elliot Fitzpatrick, Ghizela Rowe (Narrator)

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Stories of a Death Foretold - A Short Story Collection

Let’s be clear. Reality is absolute and what takes place is both honest and real even if at times what happens cannot be fully explained.However, in this collection our writers including W F Harvey, Violet Hunt, H G Wells and Amelia Edwards and others look at reality from a different angle. What if reality had an extra layer placed upon it that we could see and feel and interact with and yet logically could not actually exist. It’s a compelling premise as their characters roam the narratives of whether the present or what they are experiencing at that moment is real or imagined.1 - Stories of a Death Foretold - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells3 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G Wells4 - August Heat by W F Harvey5 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards6 - Light by Achmed Abdullah7 - The Night of No Weather by Violet Hunt8 - What Was It by Fitz James O'Brien9 - Across the Moors by W F Harvey10 - The Story of Salome by Amelia Edwards

H.G. Wells, W F Harvey (Author), Elliot Fitzpatrick, Ghizela Rowe (Narrator)

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The Beast with Five Fingers

William Fryer Harvey AM was born on 14th April 1885 into a wealthy Quaker family in Leeds, West Yorkshire.He was educated at the Quaker Bootham School in Yorkshire and Leighton Park School in Reading before university at Balliol College, Oxford. His health was fragile and he poured his energies into writing short stories and in 1910 published his first collection ‘Midnight House’.In the Great War he was with the Friends' Ambulance Unit and then served as a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Navy. There he received the Albert Medal for Lifesaving but lung damage received at that time troubled him for the rest of his life.He continued to write short stories, and even a memoir, but by 1925 ill health had forced his retirement to any outside work. Three years later he published his second collection which contained his macabre classic ‘The Beast with Five fingers’, only one more collection would come from his pen in his lifetime.For many years of his life he now lived in Switzerland with his wife but a yearning to be home saw them come back to England in 1935.W F Harvey died in Letchworth on the 4th June 1937. He was 52.

W F Harvey (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Mark Rice-Oxley (Narrator)

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The Devil Knows Best - A Short Story Collection

Ok, so here’s the deal. You would like untold riches, power, fame and flesh. I can give you that for the rest of your earthly life. But I would like a little something in return. Of course, nothing so coarse as to hamper your rampant greed for the rest of your life. No, merely your soul for eternity. Is it a bargain we both agree? Splendid. Let us begin. Greed and desire are all things in small measure that we sometimes pursue but in the hands of authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anatole France and others the appetite for both is somewhat more ambitious.1 - The Devil Knows Best - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - The Devil In Manuscript by Nathaniel Hawthorne3 - Belphagor by Niccolo Machiavelli4 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving5 - Lucifer by Anatole France6 - The Devil's Wager by William Makepeace Thackeray7 - Madam Lucifer by Richard Garnett8 - The Devil's Mother-in-Law by Fernan Caballeron9 - From the Memoirs of Satan by Wilhelm Hauff

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Niccolo Machiavelli (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - Heartbreak

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic. Heartbreak2 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde3 - A Poor Torn Heart, a Tattered Heart by Emily Dickinson4 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling5 - Loves Lies Bleeding by Algernon Charles Swinburne6 - Ebb by Edna St Vincent Millay7 - My Own Heart, Let Me Have More, Have Pity by Gerard Manley Hopkins8 - My Heart is Lame by Charlotte Mew9 - My Heart Cries by Kabir10 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing by William Shakespeare11 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron12 - We Parted in Silence by Isabella Valancy Crawford13 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Sean Barrett (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - Lesbian Love

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic. Lesbian Love2 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson3 - The Touch by Renee Vivien4 - Hands and Lips by Radclyffe Hall5 - For the Courtesan Ch'ing Lin by Wu Zao6 - Love by by Edith Sodergran7 - I Can Give Myself To Her by Akiko Yosano8 - My Heart is Lame by Charlotte Mew9 - If You Could Come by Katharine Lee Bates10 - My Divine Lysis by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz11 - I Have Not Had One Word From Her by Sappho12 - L'Amitie, To Mrs M. Awbrey by Katherine Phillips13 - A Valentine by Matilda Betham Edwards

Emily Dickinson, Radclyffe Hall (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Shyama Perera (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - Love

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic. Love - An Introduction2 - Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare3 - He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats4 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning5 - Bright Star by John Keats6 - Oh Lovers by Jalaluddin Rumi7 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley8 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller9 - A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns10 - She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron11 - The Good Morrow by John Donne12 - The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe13 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

Robert Burns, William Shakespeare (Author), Alex Jennings, Ghizela Rowe (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - Marriage

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic. Marriage - An Introduction2 - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran3 - The Bride by Laurence Hope aka Violet Nicholson4 - Nuptial Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti5 - Wedding Song by Jehudah Halevi6 - To a Husband by Anne Kingsmill Finch7 - Sonnet to My Wife by Thomas Hood8 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet9 - On His Deceased Wife by John Milton10 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence11 - Mutual Forebearance. Necessary to the Married State by William Cowper12 - Vice Vearsa by Ambrose Bierce13 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

John Milton, Khalil Gibran (Author), Elliot Fitzpatrick, Ghizela Rowe (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - Roses

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic. Roses - An Introduction2 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns3 - The Rose Has Flushed Red by Hafiz4 - A Wild Rose by Alfred Austin5 - Laughing Rose by William Henry Davies6 - Amid the Roses by Alice Dunbar Nelson7 - The Secret Rose by W B Yeats8 - Sonnet 54 - O! How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem by William Shakespeare9 - The Rose by John Cournos10 - Roses of a Dream by Damon Runyon11 - No Rose That in a Garden Ever Grew by Edna St Vincent Millay12 - Where Roses Would Not Dare to Go by Emily Dickinson13 - Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore

Hafiz, Robert Burns (Author), Alan Cumming, Ghizela Rowe (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - Suicide

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.Those taken away by their own hand leave many questions and many sorrows. In this volume ten of our vaunted authors share stories of tragedy and the early demise of characters who take a tortured path of no return.01 - The Top 10 - Suicide - An Introduction02 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka03 - Suicides by Guy de Maupassant04 - The Victory by Rabindranath Tagore05 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather06 - Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo07 - The Mourner by Mary Shelley08 - A Slav Soul by Alexander Kuprin09 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy10 - A Passion in the Desert by Honoré de Balzac11 - The Quadroons by Lydia Maria Child

Alexander Kuprin, Amy Levy, Franz Kafka, Guy De Maupassant, Honoré De Balzac, Lydia Maria Child, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Rabindranath Tagore, Victor Hugo, Willa Cather (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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