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Nikolai Gogol - A Short Story Collection

The absurdist Masters most compelling tale. Ukranian born short story great that influenced the likes of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.

by Nikolai Gogol ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

4 hours 37 min

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born on 1st April 1809 to a father, descended from Ukrainian Cossacks and a mother with a military background in the Ukrainian town of Sorochyntsi, then part of the Russian Empire and rich in Cossack traditions and folklore.His father wrote poetry and plays which the young Gogol helped stage at his uncle’s home theatre. This helped ignite in him a love of literature ... Read more

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born on 1st April 1809 to a father, descended from Ukrainian Cossacks and a mother with a military background in the Ukrainian town of Sorochyntsi, then part of the Russian Empire and rich in Cossack traditions and folklore.His father wrote poetry and plays which the young Gogol helped stage at his uncle’s home theatre. This helped ignite in him a love of literature
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Russian Short Story, The - Volume 4

Nikolai Lyeskov to Anton Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov, Helena Blavatsky, Vladimir Korolenko ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

7 hours 17 min

The Russian novel has a reputation that is immense, both in narrative and in length. Unquestionably though the ideas, themes and characters make many novels rightly revered as world class, as icons of literature.Perhaps an easier way to enjoy a wider selection of the Russian heritage, with its varied and glorious literary talents, is with the short story. These gems sparkle and beguile the mind ... Read more

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The Russian novel has a reputation that is immense, both in narrative and in length. Unquestionably though the ideas, themes and characters make many novels rightly revered as world class, as icons of literature.Perhaps an easier way to enjoy a wider selection of the Russian heritage, with its varied and glorious literary talents, is with the short story. These gems sparkle and beguile the mind
... Read more
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Detective Stories – Curious Crimes

Truth and justice by way of clues

by Baroness Orczy, Mark Twain, J Storer Clouston, Ethel Lina White, J Jefferson Farjeon, Headon Hill, Jacques Futrelle, Victor L Whitechurch, George Griffiths, Nicholas Olde, Richard Marsh ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

5 hours 35 min

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult ... Read more

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The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult
... Read more
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 1920's - The Europeans

The ten best stories written from 1920-1929 by European authors

by Mikhail Bulgakov, Franz Kafka, D H Lawrence, Stefan Zweig, Hristo Smirenski, Luigi Pirandello, Isaac Babel, John Buchan, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Dorothy Edwards ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

5 hours 53 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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Stories From the Shadows - Vampires

Embrace the darkness

by John Willaim Polidori, E T A Hoffman, Jan Neruda, Phil Robinson, Hume Nisbet, E F Benson, F G Loring, Ernst Raupach ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

4 hours 40 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
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Prison Life - A Short Story Collection

The bars of a prison cannot contain the human spirit.

by Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Auguste Villiers de I'Ísle-Adam, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Victor Hugo, William Mudford ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

4 hours 26 min

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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
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3 Stories - Horror Stories in Letters

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

by Sheridan Le Fanu, Vernon Lee, Rhoda Broughton ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, Ghizela Rowe, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

3 hours 14 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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E T A Hoffman - A Short Story Collection

German Romantic titan of Gothic horror and fantasy

by E T A Hoffman ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

5 hours 29 min

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman was born on the 24th January 1776, the youngest of three children, in Königsberg, then in Prussia but now part of the Kaliningrad Russian enclave.His parents separated when he was two and for many years life was to be provincial and, despite his talents for the creative arts and the classics, much was passing him by.At 20 Hoffman obtained employment as a clerk and to ... Read more

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Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman was born on the 24th January 1776, the youngest of three children, in Königsberg, then in Prussia but now part of the Kaliningrad Russian enclave.His parents separated when he was two and for many years life was to be provincial and, despite his talents for the creative arts and the classics, much was passing him by.At 20 Hoffman obtained employment as a clerk and to
... Read more
Asia's Latent Nuclear Powers

Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

by Mark Fitzpatrick ...

Series series Adelphi series
If the nuclear weapons club were to further expand, would America�s democratic allies in Northeast Asia be among the next entrants? Japan, South Korea and Taiwan all have robust civilian nuclear energy programmes that make them �virtual nuclear powers� according to many analysts. All three once pursued nuclear weapons and all face growing security threats from nuclear-armed adversaries. But will ... Read more

$30.99 USD

If the nuclear weapons club were to further expand, would America�s democratic allies in Northeast Asia be among the next entrants? Japan, South Korea and Taiwan all have robust civilian nuclear energy programmes that make them �virtual nuclear powers� according to many analysts. All three once pursued nuclear weapons and all face growing security threats from nuclear-armed adversaries. But will
... Read more
Unreal City

by Mark Fitzpatrick ...

A lost manuscript from the pen of obscure Scots-Irish writer Martin Caulder, recently come to light.A pseudonymous work for the Olympia Press in Paris in the 1960s.A mysterious packet of papers from the 1920s.A Strange Case from the 1890s in fin de siècle Paris.William Crowe and Stephen Devlin, Irish exiles and students of the Occult, have made a dangerous wager: who shall be the first to woo ... Read more

$8.99 USD

A lost manuscript from the pen of obscure Scots-Irish writer Martin Caulder, recently come to light.A pseudonymous work for the Olympia Press in Paris in the 1960s.A mysterious packet of papers from the 1920s.A Strange Case from the 1890s in fin de siècle Paris.William Crowe and Stephen Devlin, Irish exiles and students of the Occult, have made a dangerous wager: who shall be the first to woo
... Read more
Archie (2015-) #27

by Mark Waid, Audrey Mok, Kelly Fitzpatrick ...

Series Book 27 - Archie (2015-)
“The Heart of Riverdale” reaches its epic conclusion—and nothing’s as it was! Friendships and romances have changed, loyalties have been tested, and Archie is at a crossroads. ... Read more

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“The Heart of Riverdale” reaches its epic conclusion—and nothing’s as it was! Friendships and romances have changed, loyalties have been tested, and Archie is at a crossroads.
... Read more
The Iranian Nuclear Crisis

Avoiding worst-case outcomes

by Mark Fitzpatrick ...

Series series Adelphi series
This paper explains how Iran developed its nuclear programme to the point where it threatens to achieve a weapons capability within a short time frame, and analyses Western policy responses aimed at forestalling that capability. Key questions are addressed: will the world have to accept an Iranian uranium-enrichment programme, and does having a weapons capability mean having the Bomb?For nearly ... Read more

$47.99 USD

This paper explains how Iran developed its nuclear programme to the point where it threatens to achieve a weapons capability within a short time frame, and analyses Western policy responses aimed at forestalling that capability. Key questions are addressed: will the world have to accept an Iranian uranium-enrichment programme, and does having a weapons capability mean having the Bomb?For nearly
... Read more

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