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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 1920's - The English

The top ten short stories written in the 1920s by authors from England

by Virginia Woolf, D H Lawrence, A M Burrage, Algernon Blackwood, E F Benson, G K Chesterton, Helen Simpson, M R James, Marjorie Bowen, Radclyffe Hall ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

6 hours 9 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
Manufactured Crisis: The War to End America

by James Simpson ...

Few could have imagined ten years ago where we'd be in America today: We are confronted on all sides by interminable crises that threaten the very fabric of our nation—from a border flooded with millions of migrants from all over the world, to a fentanyl crisis killing more American youths every year than the past three wars combined. Radical transgender activism and other cultural insanity has ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Few could have imagined ten years ago where we'd be in America today: We are confronted on all sides by interminable crises that threaten the very fabric of our nation—from a border flooded with millions of migrants from all over the world, to a fentanyl crisis killing more American youths every year than the past three wars combined. Radical transgender activism and other cultural insanity has
... Read more
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Once a Hero (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

Serrano Legacy 4

by Elizabeth Moon ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Nanette Savard, Elisabeth Demery, Sherri Simpson, Peter Stray, Kate Foster, Scott McCormick, James Konicek, David Coyne, Tom Simpson, Tim Carlin, Jeff Baker, Tim Getman, Mort Shelby, Thomas Penny, Eric Messner, Michael Glenn, Sunny Lasskey, Jason Stiles, Dylan Lynch, Andy Clemence, Ken Jackson, Richard Rohan, Colleen Delany, Terence Aselford ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Serrano Legacy
Unabridged

5 hours 47 min

Esmay Suiza wasn't a member of a great Navy family like the Serranos. She'd had to make her way on grit alone, which meant it wasn't likely she'd ever make admiral and "hoist her own flag." Well, that was fine with her: all Esmay wanted was a secure berth where she could be part of something greater than herself, and otherwise just live her life in peace. But what we want or think we want from ... Read more

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Esmay Suiza wasn't a member of a great Navy family like the Serranos. She'd had to make her way on grit alone, which meant it wasn't likely she'd ever make admiral and "hoist her own flag." Well, that was fine with her: all Esmay wanted was a secure berth where she could be part of something greater than herself, and otherwise just live her life in peace. But what we want or think we want from
... Read more
Directing an Independent Film

by James F Simpson ...

All you need to know about directing an independent film. James Simpson has over thirty films experience, with films starring actors including Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Charlize Theron to name a few. This book details useful tips in directing a film, whether this is your first film or you are an experienced director. Techniques for getting the most from your actors and crew and avoiding the ... Read more

$13.99 USD

All you need to know about directing an independent film. James Simpson has over thirty films experience, with films starring actors including Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Charlize Theron to name a few. This book details useful tips in directing a film, whether this is your first film or you are an experienced director. Techniques for getting the most from your actors and crew and avoiding the
... Read more
Charlottesville Fantastic: Arcane Echoes from Virginia's Heartland

by James Blakey, Catherine Simpson, Deidra Whitt Lovegren, Kent M. Peterson, Caitlin Woodford, James Cole, Genevieve Lyons, Jordan Garris, K.G. Gardner, E.F. Buckles, James Verlon ...

Visit a Cville that's not quite like the one you know.Charlottesville Fantastic: Arcane Echoes from Virginia's Heartland invites you to experience the mysterious, the supernatural, and the humorous.Meet unforgettable characters including a vampire at a UVA sorority, a four-hundred-year-old dragon hidden in Shenandoah National Park, and an enigmatic tuxedo cat on the Downtown Mall. Twenty tales in ... Read more

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Visit a Cville that's not quite like the one you know.Charlottesville Fantastic: Arcane Echoes from Virginia's Heartland invites you to experience the mysterious, the supernatural, and the humorous.Meet unforgettable characters including a vampire at a UVA sorority, a four-hundred-year-old dragon hidden in Shenandoah National Park, and an enigmatic tuxedo cat on the Downtown Mall. Twenty tales in
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The Oxford Chaucer

Edited by Christopher Cannon, James Simpson ...

This authoritative edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer presents Chaucer's works for a new generation of students, and for a wide range of general readers. It provides all that undergraduates and graduate students will need to understand and appreciate Chaucer in his original Middle English, as well as an extensive scholarly apparatus. A detailed introduction situates Chaucer's works ... Read more

$28.99 USD

This authoritative edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer presents Chaucer's works for a new generation of students, and for a wide range of general readers. It provides all that undergraduates and graduate students will need to understand and appreciate Chaucer in his original Middle English, as well as an extensive scholarly apparatus. A detailed introduction situates Chaucer's works
... Read more
Burning to Read

by James Simpson ...

Amid present-day conflagrations, this illuminating book reminds us of the sources, and profound consequences, of Christian fundamentalism in the sixteenth century. Simpson focuses on the cultural transformation in early modern England that allowed common people to read the Bible for the first time. The last wave of fundamentalist reading in the West provoked 150 years of violent upheaval; as we ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Amid present-day conflagrations, this illuminating book reminds us of the sources, and profound consequences, of Christian fundamentalism in the sixteenth century. Simpson focuses on the cultural transformation in early modern England that allowed common people to read the Bible for the first time. The last wave of fundamentalist reading in the West provoked 150 years of violent upheaval; as we
... Read more
Family Farmers, Land Reforms and Political Action

An Alternative Economic History of Interwar Europe

by James Simpson ...

Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
This book examines how European farmers responded to the economic and political challenges created by the First World War and the Great Depression. The difficulties of interwar Europe have been frequently explored, but rarely from the perspective of the agricultural sector, where two-fifths of the population earned their livelihood, mostly as small, family farmers.The traditional literature argues ... Read more

$125.99 USD

This book examines how European farmers responded to the economic and political challenges created by the First World War and the Great Depression. The difficulties of interwar Europe have been frequently explored, but rarely from the perspective of the agricultural sector, where two-fifths of the population earned their livelihood, mostly as small, family farmers.The traditional literature argues
... Read more
Video Nasty Mayhem: The Inside Story of VIPCO

by James Simpson ...

Great Britain, the 1980s. VHS is rapidly becoming popular, and the more gory and violent the movies, the better. One company has latched on to this trend quickly – selling and renting controversial films to the public. It is called the Video Instant Picture Company, a.k.a. VIPCO.Founded and run by Michael Lee – Mike to his friends – this small independent video distributor would swiftly grow into ... Read more

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Great Britain, the 1980s. VHS is rapidly becoming popular, and the more gory and violent the movies, the better. One company has latched on to this trend quickly – selling and renting controversial films to the public. It is called the Video Instant Picture Company, a.k.a. VIPCO.Founded and run by Michael Lee – Mike to his friends – this small independent video distributor would swiftly grow into
... Read more
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Engaging the Enemy (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

Vatta's War 3

by Elizabeth Moon ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Nanette Savard, Lily Beacon, Christopher Scheeren, Colleen Delany, Ken Jackson, Mort Shelby, Jeff Baker, Steven Carpenter, Elizabeth Jernigan, David Coyne, Christopher Graybill, Richard Rohan, Tim Getman, Barbara Pinolini, Terence Aselford, Michael Glenn, Andy Clemence, Eric Messner, Yasmin Tuazon, Dylan Lynch, Sherri Simpson, James Lewis, Thomas Penny, Laura Quinn, Kate Foster, Danny Gavigan, Joe Brack, James Konicek, Johann Dettweiler, Nathanial Perry ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Vatta's War
Unabridged

6 hours 19 min

In the aftermath of the cold-blooded assassinations that killed her parents and shattered the Vatta intersteller shipping empire, Kylara Vatta sets out to avenge the killings and salvage the family business. Ky soon discovers a conspiracy of terrifying scope, breathtaking audacity, and utter ruthlessness. The only hope against such powerful evil is for all the space merchants to band together. ... Read more

$21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In the aftermath of the cold-blooded assassinations that killed her parents and shattered the Vatta intersteller shipping empire, Kylara Vatta sets out to avenge the killings and salvage the family business. Ky soon discovers a conspiracy of terrifying scope, breathtaking audacity, and utter ruthlessness. The only hope against such powerful evil is for all the space merchants to band together.
... Read more
Goethe and Patriarchy

Faust and the Fates of Desire

by James Simpson ...

"This book traces the history of a complex sexual fantasy which features recurrently in Goethe's writings from his days as a student in Leipzig to the final years as Europe's most celebrated living poet. Simpson shows how the young man's fantasy of innocent sexuality became an increasingly troubled one during the poet's first decade in Weimar. Goethe began to recognize in it a submerged element: ... Read more

$94.99 USD

"This book traces the history of a complex sexual fantasy which features recurrently in Goethe's writings from his days as a student in Leipzig to the final years as Europe's most celebrated living poet. Simpson shows how the young man's fantasy of innocent sexuality became an increasingly troubled one during the poet's first decade in Weimar. Goethe began to recognize in it a submerged element:
... Read more
Permanent Revolution

The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism

by James Simpson ...

How did the Reformation, which initially promoted decidedly illiberal positions, end up laying the groundwork for Western liberalism?The English Reformation began as an evangelical movement driven by an unyielding belief in predestination, intolerance, stringent literalism, political quietism, and destructive iconoclasm. Yet by 1688, this illiberal early modern upheaval would deliver the ... Read more

$25.99 USD

How did the Reformation, which initially promoted decidedly illiberal positions, end up laying the groundwork for Western liberalism?The English Reformation began as an evangelical movement driven by an unyielding belief in predestination, intolerance, stringent literalism, political quietism, and destructive iconoclasm. Yet by 1688, this illiberal early modern upheaval would deliver the
... Read more

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