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The Top 10 Short Stories - Northern Europe

by Minna Canth, Knut Hamsun, Hans Christian Anderson ...

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
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The Workman's Wife, Anna Liisa

by Minna Canth ...

Minna Canth is one of the most important figures in Finnish literature, famous as a champion of social reform and observer of human nature. Translated by Alisa Manninen, the author of the biography Minna Canth: Writing to Challenge, these classic plays show Canth at her finest. The Workman's Wife (1885) When Johanna marries Risto, the money she had earned becomes his. Risto's drinking drags them ... Read more

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Minna Canth is one of the most important figures in Finnish literature, famous as a champion of social reform and observer of human nature. Translated by Alisa Manninen, the author of the biography Minna Canth: Writing to Challenge, these classic plays show Canth at her finest. The Workman's Wife (1885) When Johanna marries Risto, the money she had earned becomes his. Risto's drinking drags them
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - Nordic

The top 10 short stories of all time by Nordic authors

by Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsoe, Juhani Aho, Minna Canth, Knut Hamsun, August Strindberg, Eimar H Kvaran, Anna Wahlenburg, Hans Christian Anderson, Cornelia Levetzow, Bjornstjerne Bjornson ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, David Shaw-Parker, Janet Fullerlove ...

Unabridged

3 hours 13 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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Nursemaid, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Minna Canth ...

Narrated by Janet Fullerlove ...

Unabridged

15 min

The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centu-ries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Minna Canth. ... Read more

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The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centu-ries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Minna Canth.
... Read more
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Forgotten Authors, The - Women - Born 1800 - 1849

Don't let great literature die

by Anna Maria Hall, George Sands, Elizabeth Anna Hart, Hesba Stretton, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Cornelia Levetzow, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Minna Canth, Louisa Baldwin, Elizabeth Corbett, Dorothy Havers, Anna Katharine Green ...

Narrated by Janet Fullerlove, Tanya Thomson, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

10 hours 48 min

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. ... Read more

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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.
... Read more
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Nursemaid, The

Story from a major Finnish author and activist

by Minna Canth ...

Narrated by Janet Fullerlove ...

Unabridged

15 min

Before Scandi literature became so popular neglected authors, such as Minna Canth, were at the forefront of European writing. Real talent endures. ... Read more

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Before Scandi literature became so popular neglected authors, such as Minna Canth, were at the forefront of European writing. Real talent endures.
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Forgotten Authors, The - Women - Volume 1

Alice Askew to Ethel Dell

by Louisa Baldwin, Aphra Behn, Stella Benson, D K Broster, Fernan Caballeron, Mona Caird, Minna Canth, Catherine Crowe, Grazia Deledda, Ethel Dell ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, Janet Fullerlove, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

10 hours 35 min

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. ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with 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.
... Read more
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Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 2

M McDonell Bodkin Q C to Constance Cotterell

by Camillo Boito, Guy Boothby, D K Broster, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William E Burton, Fernan Caballeron, Mona Caird, Ivan Cankar, Minna Canth, Bernard Capes, Ion Luca Caragiale, Arthur Gask, Gertrude Colmore ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

12 hours 30 min

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. ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with 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.
... Read more
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Forgotten Authors, The - Women - The Complete Edition

Don't let great literature die

by Louisa Baldwin, Aphra Behn, Stella Benson, Fernan Caballeron, Mona Caird, Minna Canth, Ethel Dell, Sarah Grand, Elizabeth Anna Hart, Holloway Horn, Emily Pauline Johnson, George Sand, Matilde Serao, Lady Eleanor Smith ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Janet Fullerlove, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

20 hours 49 min

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. ... Read more

$39.99 USD or Free with 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.
... Read more
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Forgotten Authors, The - Women - Born 1850 - 1899

Don't let great literature die

by Louisa Baldwin, Aphra Behn, Stella Benson, Regina Miriam Bloch, D K Broster, Fernan Caballeron, Mona Caird, Minna Canth, Grazia Deledda, Ethel Dell, Eliza Haywood, Violet Jacob, Selma Lagerlöf, Marie Belloc Lowndes, George Sand, Matilde Serao ...

Narrated by Janet Fullerlove, Robert Maskell, Lisa Bowerman ...

Unabridged

16 hours 12 min

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. ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with 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.
... Read more
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - Northern Europe

The top 10 short stories of all time by authors from Northern Europe

by Minna Canth, August Strindberg, Knut Hamsun, Eimar H Kvaran, Oscar Wilde, Cornelia Levetzow, Hans Christian Anderson, Arthur Machen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edith Nesbit ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Janet Fullerlove ...

Unabridged

6 hours 23 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

Beyond the Wire

by James D. Shipman ...

From the bestselling author of Irena’s War comes a gripping novel of historical fiction based on one of the most extraordinary true stories of World War II—an uprising behind the walls of Auschwitz concentration camp.October 1944: In the long, narrow undressing rooms in Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoner Jakub Bak toils under the scrutiny of SS guards. Like other members of the Sonderkommando, Jakub was ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of Irena’s War comes a gripping novel of historical fiction based on one of the most extraordinary true stories of World War II—an uprising behind the walls of Auschwitz concentration camp.October 1944: In the long, narrow undressing rooms in Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoner Jakub Bak toils under the scrutiny of SS guards. Like other members of the Sonderkommando, Jakub was
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