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

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

de Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, Alicia Ramsay, Bessie Kyffin-Taylor.wav, Elinor Mordaunt, Helen Simpson, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary Webb, Violet Hunt ...

Narrado por Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker, Marie-Pierre ...

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6 hora 26 minutos

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 ... Leer más

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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
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Neglected Authors, The - Women - Volume 3

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

de Hannah More, Rosa Mulholland, Margaret Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Ada Radford, Charlotte Riddell, Olive Schreiner, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Helen Simpson, May Sinclair0, Georgia F Stewart1, Netta Syrett2, Ruth D Todd3, Mary Webb4, Catherine Wells5, Eudora Welty6, Leonara Wodehouse7 ...

Narrado por Marie-Pierre8, Elliot Fitzpatrick9, Laurel Ross0 ...

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10 hora 12 minutos

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Leer más

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
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Acadian Driftwood

One Family and the Great Expulsion

de Tyler LeBlanc ...

Narrado por Pierre Simpson ...

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5 hora 37 minutos

Winner, Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingA Hill Times Top 100 selectionA Canada’s History BestsellerPiecing together his family history through archival documents, Tyler LeBlanc tells the story of his ancestor Joseph LeBlanc and the LeBlanc family during the Great Expulsion. A unique biographical approach to the history of the ... Leer más

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Winner, Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingA Hill Times Top 100 selectionA Canada’s History BestsellerPiecing together his family history through archival documents, Tyler LeBlanc tells the story of his ancestor Joseph LeBlanc and the LeBlanc family during the Great Expulsion. A unique biographical approach to the history of the
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Her Dark Materials - Volume 4

Mary E Penn to Virginia Woolf

de Mary E Penn, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Kate and Hesketh Pritchard, Violet Quirk, Alicia Ramsay, Katherine Rickford, Charlotte Riddell, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Mary Shelley, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Helen Simpson, May Sinclair, Lady Eleanor Smith, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Hesba Stretton, Emma Vane, Clara Venn, Mary Webb, Catherine Wells, Edith Wharton, Ethel Lina White, Mrs Ellen Wood, Virginia Woolf ...

Narrado por Lisa Bowerman, Marie-Pierre, Ghizela Rowe ...

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12 hora 14 minutos

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile ... Leer más

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In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile
... Leer más
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Antony and Cleopatra

de William Shakespeare, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright ...

Narrado por a full cast, David Burke, Charles Simpson, Eve Matheson, Trevor Martin, Estelle Kohler, Emma Gregory, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Ciaran Hinds ...

Series series The Arkangel Shakespeare Collection
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3 hora 23 minutos

Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of the Roman world, has become the thrall of the fascinating Cleopatra.Affairs of state call Mark Antony to Rome, but the attractions of the queen of Egypt prove impossible to resist. From one of history’s greatest love stories Shakespeare builds this magnificent tragedy of the clash between love and duty.Cleopatra is played by Estelle Kohler, Mark Antony by ... Leer más

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Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of the Roman world, has become the thrall of the fascinating Cleopatra.Affairs of state call Mark Antony to Rome, but the attractions of the queen of Egypt prove impossible to resist. From one of history’s greatest love stories Shakespeare builds this magnificent tragedy of the clash between love and duty.Cleopatra is played by Estelle Kohler, Mark Antony by
... Leer más
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Crow Valley Karaoke Championships, The

A Novel

de Ali Bryan ...

Narrado por Erin Moon, Christina Traister, Tanya Eby, Alex Perone, Pierre Simpson ...

Completo

9 hora 29 minutos

A prison escape, a bear on the loose, botched lyrics. What more could go wrong with Crow Valley’s most anticipated night of the year?A year after forest fires ravaged the town of Crow Valley and claimed the life of Dale Jepson―karaoke legend, local prison guard, and all-around good guy―the community hosts a high-stakes karaoke competition. But when a convicted murderer escapes from nearby Crow ... Leer más

$35.99 USD

A prison escape, a bear on the loose, botched lyrics. What more could go wrong with Crow Valley’s most anticipated night of the year?A year after forest fires ravaged the town of Crow Valley and claimed the life of Dale Jepson―karaoke legend, local prison guard, and all-around good guy―the community hosts a high-stakes karaoke competition. But when a convicted murderer escapes from nearby Crow
... Leer más
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Stories of Dark Powers

Not everyone uses their powers for good…

de Aleister Crowley, M R James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Helen Simpson, D K Broster, Violet Hunt, Anthony Hope, Dion Fortune ...

Narrado por Lisa Bowerman, Mark Rice-Oxley, Marie-Pierre ...

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Some very few amongst are a little different. They look the same, possibly act the same but, somehow, we might suspect that they are a little out of tune, a little off.Their difference is that they have dark powers. Powers for the greedy benefit of themselves and not you or I. In these stories our authors have them doing some quite unconscionable actions that disturb and menace those around them ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

Some very few amongst are a little different. They look the same, possibly act the same but, somehow, we might suspect that they are a little out of tune, a little off.Their difference is that they have dark powers. Powers for the greedy benefit of themselves and not you or I. In these stories our authors have them doing some quite unconscionable actions that disturb and menace those around them
... Leer más
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Young Magic

Power may be good by nature or evil in design

de Helen Simpson ...

Narrado por Marie-Pierre, Ghizela Rowe ...

Completo

1 horas 2 minutos

Helen de Guerry Simpson was born in Sydney, Australia on the 1st December 1897. As a 17 year old she was sent to France and then on to Oxford, England to complete her education. Whilst there she founded the Oxford Women's Dramatic Society. She was sent down in 1921 apparently for breaking regulations prohibiting men and women students from acting together.Her early work of poems, plays, a novel ... Leer más

$4.99 USD

Helen de Guerry Simpson was born in Sydney, Australia on the 1st December 1897. As a 17 year old she was sent to France and then on to Oxford, England to complete her education. Whilst there she founded the Oxford Women's Dramatic Society. She was sent down in 1921 apparently for breaking regulations prohibiting men and women students from acting together.Her early work of poems, plays, a novel
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Poursuivre la mission

Explorations d'une galaxie près de chez nous

de Pierre Barrette, Megan Bédard, Audrey Boutin, Elaine Després, Christine Hébert, André-Philippe Lapointe, Élisabeth Simpson, Catherine Côté, Stéphane Crête ...

Quelle est la mission ? Dans la série télévisée culte Dans une galaxie près de chez vous créée par Claude Legault et Pierre-Yves Bernard, la mission de l’équipage du Romano Fafard, qui quitte la terre le 28 octobre 2034 vers les confins de l’univers, est de trouver une nouvelle planète habitable pour accueillir six milliards de tatas. Son pessimisme clairvoyant nous rappelle aujourd’hui que la ... Leer más

$16.99 USD

Quelle est la mission ? Dans la série télévisée culte Dans une galaxie près de chez vous créée par Claude Legault et Pierre-Yves Bernard, la mission de l’équipage du Romano Fafard, qui quitte la terre le 28 octobre 2034 vers les confins de l’univers, est de trouver une nouvelle planète habitable pour accueillir six milliards de tatas. Son pessimisme clairvoyant nous rappelle aujourd’hui que la
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The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales

de Hannah More ...

Summary: The titular story centers on a humble shepherd named David Saunders, who lives on the Salisbury Plain. Despite his poverty, David is depicted as a model of Christian virtue, demonstrating contentment, piety, and moral integrity. He supports his large family through hard work and relies on his faith to endure life's hardships.Themes: The primary themes include the virtues of simplicity, ... Leer más

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Summary: The titular story centers on a humble shepherd named David Saunders, who lives on the Salisbury Plain. Despite his poverty, David is depicted as a model of Christian virtue, demonstrating contentment, piety, and moral integrity. He supports his large family through hard work and relies on his faith to endure life's hardships.Themes: The primary themes include the virtues of simplicity,
... Leer más
Stories for the Young; Or, Cheap Repository Tracts Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI.

de Hannah More ...

Hannah More's "Cheap Repository" series consisted of a wide range of short stories, essays, and poems designed to promote moral values and Christian virtues among the poor and working-class population of Britain. The tracts covered various topics such as honesty, thrift, kindness, and piety, and they often featured simple, relatable characters and situations that readers could easily identify with ... Leer más

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Hannah More's "Cheap Repository" series consisted of a wide range of short stories, essays, and poems designed to promote moral values and Christian virtues among the poor and working-class population of Britain. The tracts covered various topics such as honesty, thrift, kindness, and piety, and they often featured simple, relatable characters and situations that readers could easily identify with
... Leer más
Coelebs In Search of a Wife

de Hannah More ...

Set in early 19th-century England, the novel follows the experiences of Charles "Coelebs" Stanley, a young and wealthy bachelor who is determined to find a wife who possesses both virtue and intelligence. Throughout the story, Coelebs encounters various women from different social backgrounds, each presenting a different model of womanhood.As Coelebs navigates the complexities of courtship and ... Leer más

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Set in early 19th-century England, the novel follows the experiences of Charles "Coelebs" Stanley, a young and wealthy bachelor who is determined to find a wife who possesses both virtue and intelligence. Throughout the story, Coelebs encounters various women from different social backgrounds, each presenting a different model of womanhood.As Coelebs navigates the complexities of courtship and
... Leer más