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3 Stories - Success at What Cost

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Hope, Amy Levy ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

1 hour 12 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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3 Stories About - Marrying for Money or Happiness

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Khalil Gibran, Amy Levy, Tod Robbins ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Marie-Pierre, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

2 hours 11 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The English Women

The top ten Short Stories of all time written by English female authors

by Elizabeth Gaskell, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley, Amy Levy, Charlotte Mew, Edith Nesbit, Ella D'Arcy, Mary Cholmonderly, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Radclyffe Hall ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

6 hours 16 min

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 ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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
... Read more
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - Suicide

The top ten short stories of all time that deal with suicide and suicidal characters

by Franz Kafka, Guy de Maupassant, Alexander Kuprin, Amy Levy, Honoré de Balzac, Lydia Maria Child, Mary Shelley, Rabindranath Tagore, Victor Hugo, Willa Cather ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

6 hours 3 min

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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
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Wonder Of Women - Suicide Stories

Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, Amy Levy, Amy Levy, Mary Shelley, Lydia Maria Child, Bithia Mary Croker, Mary Webb, Philippa Forest, Mary Elizabeth Braddon0, Catherine Wells1 ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow2, David Shaw-Parker3, Ghizela rowe4 ...

Unabridged

6 hours 4 min

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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
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3 Stories About - Suicidal Thoughts

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Kate Chopin, Amy Levy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

1 hour 25 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Short Stories About Mental Illness

A collection of stories about characters struggling with their mental health

by Nikolai Gogol, Amy Levy, Catherine Wells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Sologub, Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Andreyev, Radclyffe Hall, Vsevolod Garshin, Willa Cather ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

11 hours 47 min

For many of us illness refers solely to the physical. Accidents and disease wear us down, hiccup our life from childhood to old age. But everyone empathises, understands and helps us on the road to recovery.Mental illness though can still carry a stigma. A case of ‘you’re not trying hard enough’, ‘or knuckling down and getting on with it’. But in more recent decades mental issues have come to be ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

For many of us illness refers solely to the physical. Accidents and disease wear us down, hiccup our life from childhood to old age. But everyone empathises, understands and helps us on the road to recovery.Mental illness though can still carry a stigma. A case of ‘you’re not trying hard enough’, ‘or knuckling down and getting on with it’. But in more recent decades mental issues have come to be
... Read more
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Short Stories About Suicide

Explore suicide stories and suicidal characters in this deep psychological collection.

by Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostovesky, Ambrose Bierce, Amy Levy, Franz Kafka, Honore De Balzac, Joseph Conrad, Kate Chopin, Mary Shelley, O Henry, Rabindranath Tagore, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, Virginia Woolf ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

15 hours 17 min

Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch.But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives. Indeed their lives, in their own eyes, become almost meaningless, their sense of themselves subsumed under a myriad of problems, whether ... Read more

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Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch.But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives. Indeed their lives, in their own eyes, become almost meaningless, their sense of themselves subsumed under a myriad of problems, whether
... Read more
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3 Stories About - Women’s Insecurities on Appearances

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Alice Dunbar Nelson, Amy Levy, F Scott Fitzgerald ...

Narrated by Darrell Joe, Janet Fullerlove, Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

2 hours 27 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
The Romance of a Shop

by Amy Levy ...

Series Book 9 - Smith & Taylor Classics
Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop (1888) follows the four Lorimer sisters in the wake of their father’s death.Penniless and reliant on each other, they decide to open a photography studio at 20B Baker Street, offering the citizens of London quality portraits. It’s the 1880s and photography is not only growing in popularity and accessibility, but those with a critical eye are elevating the medium ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop (1888) follows the four Lorimer sisters in the wake of their father’s death.Penniless and reliant on each other, they decide to open a photography studio at 20B Baker Street, offering the citizens of London quality portraits. It’s the 1880s and photography is not only growing in popularity and accessibility, but those with a critical eye are elevating the medium
... Read more
The Romance of a Shop

With a Biography by Richard Garnett

by Amy Levy, Richard Garnett ...

Centring on the Lorimer sisters, who open a photography business after the death of their father, The Romance of a Shop offers a vivid portrait of women determined to achieve independence in a society that offers them few options.Set in late Victorian London, the story explores work, friendship, ambition, and financial survival, presenting a thoughtful examination of the lives of the ‘New Women’ ... Read more

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Centring on the Lorimer sisters, who open a photography business after the death of their father, The Romance of a Shop offers a vivid portrait of women determined to achieve independence in a society that offers them few options.Set in late Victorian London, the story explores work, friendship, ambition, and financial survival, presenting a thoughtful examination of the lives of the ‘New Women’
... Read more
The Complete Works, Novels, Plays, Stories, Ideas, and Writings of Amy Levy

by Amy Levy ...

The Complete Works, Novels, Plays, Stories, Ideas, and Writings of Amy LevyThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - A London Plane-Tree, and Other Verse2 - A Minor Poet and Other Verse3 - The Romance of a Shop4 - Miss Meredith ... Read more

$2.99 USD

The Complete Works, Novels, Plays, Stories, Ideas, and Writings of Amy LevyThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - A London Plane-Tree, and Other Verse2 - A Minor Poet and Other Verse3 - The Romance of a Shop4 - Miss Meredith
... Read more

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