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Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 9

Rina Ramsay to James Stephens

de Rina Ramsay, William Pett Ridge, Herbert C Ridout, Tod Robbins, Morley Roberts, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Sax Rohmer, Benjamin Rosenblatt, George Sand, Bruno Schulz, Matilde Serao, Ömer Seyfettin, Evelyn Sharp, Oswald Sickert, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Hristo Smirenski, Lady Eleanor Smith ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Stephen Hogan ...

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14 hora 36 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.
... Leer más
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Ghost-Ship, The

A unique and humorous take on a ghost story

de Richard Middleton ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell ...

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22 minutos

Richard Barham Middleton was born on the 28th October 1882 in Staines, Middlesex.His education was primarily at Cranbrook School in Kent before he began work as a clerk, in 1901, at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation in London. There he struggled with constraints and boundaries and by night he took to a bohemian lifestyle.Middleton moved into rooms in Blackfriars and joined the New Bohemians ... Leer más

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Richard Barham Middleton was born on the 28th October 1882 in Staines, Middlesex.His education was primarily at Cranbrook School in Kent before he began work as a clerk, in 1901, at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation in London. There he struggled with constraints and boundaries and by night he took to a bohemian lifestyle.Middleton moved into rooms in Blackfriars and joined the New Bohemians
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Stories About Curses

The immortal Monkeys Paw story, along with other equally amazing tales

de Thomas Hardy, W F Harvey, Rudyard Kipling, W W Jacobs, Joseph Conrad, Louisa May Alcott, M R James, M R James, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, William Hunt, Edith Nesbit0, Louisa Baldwin1 ...

Narrado por Richard Mitchley2, Robbie McNab3, Robert Maskell4 ...

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7 hora 6 minutos

All words have a value, they have a truth. Even misinforming us is part of their job. But they are only words, sticks and stones etc etc.But in this volume our authors explore the use of curses. These strings of words might seem harmless enough if you don’t believe they can have any ill effect. Little by little, though, sometimes they do. Our brains connect curse with that action, that happening ... Leer más

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All words have a value, they have a truth. Even misinforming us is part of their job. But they are only words, sticks and stones etc etc.But in this volume our authors explore the use of curses. These strings of words might seem harmless enough if you don’t believe they can have any ill effect. Little by little, though, sometimes they do. Our brains connect curse with that action, that happening
... Leer más
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3 Christmas Stories - Sad Russian

A trio of Xmas themed stories for the holiday season

de Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell, Tom Mclean, Tom Mclean ...

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32 minutos

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 ... Leer más

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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
... Leer más
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Media, The - A Short Story Collection

Classic stories before the age of social media

de Henry James, E M Delafield, E M Delafield, Frank R Stockton, H D Everett, W F Arnold, Barry Pain, Dorothy Edwards, Robert Duncan Milne, Owen Oliver, Winifred Holtby0, Charlotte Perkins Gilman1, C E Montague2 ...

Narrado por Richard Mitchley3, Robert Maskell4, Eric Roberts5 ...

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7 hora 49 minutos

The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting.However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s ... Leer más

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The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting.However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s
... Leer más
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Richard Middleton - A Short Story Collection

Talented turn of the century author that suffered from intense depression that led to his early suicide

de Richard Middleton ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell ...

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1 horas 47 minutos

Richard Barham Middleton was born on the 28th October 1882 in Staines, Middlesex.His education was primarily at Cranbrook School in Kent before he began work as a clerk, in 1901, at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation in London. There he struggled with constraints and boundaries and by night he took to a bohemian lifestyle.Middleton moved into rooms in Blackfriars and joined the New Bohemians ... Leer más

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Richard Barham Middleton was born on the 28th October 1882 in Staines, Middlesex.His education was primarily at Cranbrook School in Kent before he began work as a clerk, in 1901, at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation in London. There he struggled with constraints and boundaries and by night he took to a bohemian lifestyle.Middleton moved into rooms in Blackfriars and joined the New Bohemians
... Leer más
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Shadow on the Blind, The

19th Century haunted house tale

de Louisa Baldwin ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell ...

Completo

52 minutos

Louisa MacDonald was born in 1845, one of eleven children of part Scottish descent. Together with three of her sisters they were known as the ‘MacDonald sisters’ primarily because of their marriages to well-known men.In 1866 she married the wealthy industrialist Alfred Baldwin in a double wedding with her sister Anne.After giving birth to Stanley on the 3rd August 1867, who would go on to become ... Leer más

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Louisa MacDonald was born in 1845, one of eleven children of part Scottish descent. Together with three of her sisters they were known as the ‘MacDonald sisters’ primarily because of their marriages to well-known men.In 1866 she married the wealthy industrialist Alfred Baldwin in a double wedding with her sister Anne.After giving birth to Stanley on the 3rd August 1867, who would go on to become
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Forgotten Authors, The - Men - Volume 4

W G Kelly to William Mudford

de Vladimir Korolenko, Charles Lamb, Stephen Leacock, Mikhail Lermontov, Alfred Lichtenstein, F G Loring, Jean Lorrain, Arthur Lynch, Leonard Merrick, Richard Middleton, Kalman Mikszath, Robert Duncan Milne, Arthur Moore, Arthur Morrison, William Mudford ...

Narrado por David Shaw-Parker, Robert Maskell, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Completo

15 hora 10 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

$19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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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Forgotten Authors, The - Men - Volume 6

Morgan Robertson to Francis Brett Young

de Morgan Robertson, Sax Rohmer, Benjamin Rosenblatt, Ömer Seyfettin, Oswald Sickert, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Hristo Smirenski, Karl Hans Ströbl, E G Swain, Martin Swayne, Allen Upward, Michael Vincent, Edward Lucas White ...

Narrado por Michael Lyons, Mark Rice-Oxley, Robert Maskell ...

Completo

14 hora 29 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

$19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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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Forgotten Authors, The - The Europeans

Don't let great literature die

de Giovanni Boccaccio, Carlo Gozzi, Fernan Caballeron, Wilhelm Hauff, George Sand, Théophile Gautier, Mikhail Lermontov, Mór Jókai, Helena Blavatsky, Camillo Boito, Anatole France, Eca de Queiros, Vladimir Korolenko, Jean Lorrain, Nikolai Teleshov, Thomas Mann ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell, Mark Rice-Oxley, Janet Fullerlove ...

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23 hora 9 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

$29.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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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Pre-1950 Stories about Societies Pressure on Women

Touching stories written when women were marginalised in society

de Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Amy Levy, Kate Chopin, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Frances Watkins Harper, Gertrude Colmore, Mary Wilkins E Freeman, Bithia Mary Croker, Kenneth Grahame, Susan Glaspell, Mona Caird ...

Narrado por Laurel Lefkow, Robert Maskell, Ghizela Rowe ...

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6 hora 23 minutos

To be a woman is to be half the world’s population but, in many countries, unfortunately still now and for most of history, women were decidedly second class, normally no more than chattels and the bearers and nurturers of children. As society involved into a complex and overlapping system where education and equality begin to seek space things began to change. In this volume our authors describe ... Leer más

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To be a woman is to be half the world’s population but, in many countries, unfortunately still now and for most of history, women were decidedly second class, normally no more than chattels and the bearers and nurturers of children. As society involved into a complex and overlapping system where education and equality begin to seek space things began to change. In this volume our authors describe
... Leer más
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Writing Teams - A Short Story Collection

Two is better than one

de H P Lovecraft, Harry Houdini, Hesketh Pritchard, Kate Pritchard, Claude Askew, Alice Askew, Alexandre Chatrian, Emile Erckmann, L T Meade, Robert Eustace ...

Narrado por Michael Lyons, Stephen Hogan, Robert Maskell ...

Completo

4 hora 43 minutos

Writing can be a lonely art. Distractions and writers block are just two of the many impediments to a burnished stream of prose. But sometimes two heads really can be better than one. When one author decides to team up with another, either occasionally or full time, their new creations seem to amplify and encourage the words and ideas of each writer, helping to create narratives that are both new, ... Leer más

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Writing can be a lonely art. Distractions and writers block are just two of the many impediments to a burnished stream of prose. But sometimes two heads really can be better than one. When one author decides to team up with another, either occasionally or full time, their new creations seem to amplify and encourage the words and ideas of each writer, helping to create narratives that are both new,
... Leer más

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Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 9

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Media, The - A Short Story Collection

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