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Top 10 Short Stories, The - Classic Sci-Fi Horror

The top ten classic science fiction horror stories

by Robert Louis Stevenson, H P Lovecraft, Jack London, Violet Hunt, Ambrose Bierce, William Hope Hodgson, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne ...

Narrated by Garrick Hagon, David Shaw-Parker, Lisa Bowerman ...

Unabridged

8 hours 35 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
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Top 10 Short Stories – The 1910’s – The Women, The

The top ten Short Stories of the 1910's written by female authors

by Edith Wharton, Susan Glaspell, Zona Gale, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Annie McCary, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Nesbit, Gertrude Stein, Violet Hunt ...

Narrated by Eve Karph, Laurel Lefkow, Warren Keyes ...

Unabridged

5 hours 34 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 of a Death Foretold - A Short Story Collection

Death will come to us all. Sometimes some people see it a little earlier.

by H G Wells, W F Harvey, W F Harvey, Achmed Abdullah, Amelia Edwards, Fitz James O'Brien, Violet Hunt ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, Christopher Ragland, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

5 hours 5 min

Let’s be clear. Reality is absolute and what takes place is both honest and real even if at times what happens cannot be fully explained.However, in this collection our writers including W F Harvey, Violet Hunt, H G Wells and Amelia Edwards and others look at reality from a different angle. What if reality had an extra layer placed upon it that we could see and feel and interact with and yet ... Read more

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Let’s be clear. Reality is absolute and what takes place is both honest and real even if at times what happens cannot be fully explained.However, in this collection our writers including W F Harvey, Violet Hunt, H G Wells and Amelia Edwards and others look at reality from a different angle. What if reality had an extra layer placed upon it that we could see and feel and interact with and yet
... Read more
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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

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

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker, Marie-Pierre ...

Unabridged

6 hours 26 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 - Psychological Thriller

Embrace the darkness

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Nikolai Gogol, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Mikhail Bulgakov, Violet Mary Firth, Violet Hunt, A C Benson ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

6 hours 11 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
Tales of the Uneasy

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Violet Hunt ...

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. In Violet Hunt's Tales of the Uneasy, polished social comedy gives way to a series of unsettling reckonings about love, pride, and the unseen pressure of fate. At the center stands Alice Damer, a beautiful, self-possessed woman who treats romance as a game she can manage—until devotion, disappointment, and time ... Read more

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This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. In Violet Hunt's Tales of the Uneasy, polished social comedy gives way to a series of unsettling reckonings about love, pride, and the unseen pressure of fate. At the center stands Alice Damer, a beautiful, self-possessed woman who treats romance as a game she can manage—until devotion, disappointment, and time
... Read more
The Celebrity at Home

by Violet Hunt ...

In "The Celebrity at Home," the narrative likely revolves around the life of a prominent or famous individual who finds themselves in the intimate setting of home. The novel may delve into the public persona versus the private self, exploring the challenges and pressures faced by celebrities in maintaining their public image while navigating personal relationships and struggles.Hunt's writing ... Read more

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In "The Celebrity at Home," the narrative likely revolves around the life of a prominent or famous individual who finds themselves in the intimate setting of home. The novel may delve into the public persona versus the private self, exploring the challenges and pressures faced by celebrities in maintaining their public image while navigating personal relationships and struggles.Hunt's writing
... Read more
Violet Hunt – A Short Story Collection: 'She was a flirt, and men were her material''

by Violet Hunt ...

Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists.As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms including short stories, novels, memoir, and biography. Her novels are excellent examples of New Woman fiction and help illustrate her ... Read more

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Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists.As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms including short stories, novels, memoir, and biography. Her novels are excellent examples of New Woman fiction and help illustrate her
... Read more
The Human Interest: A Study in Incompatibilities

by Violet Hunt ...

She was beginning to find him less obscure, for she had learned to seek for the expression of him in his art: the art by which he chose to reveal himself to those who had the will and the skill to read. Where other men spoke or wrote, he painted. She had only to look at the beautifully stained bits of paper that issued from his hand, to watch the wonderful combinations of colour—subtle, passionate ... Read more

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She was beginning to find him less obscure, for she had learned to seek for the expression of him in his art: the art by which he chose to reveal himself to those who had the will and the skill to read. Where other men spoke or wrote, he painted. She had only to look at the beautifully stained bits of paper that issued from his hand, to watch the wonderful combinations of colour—subtle, passionate
... Read more
The Human Interest: A Study in Incompatibilities

by Violet Hunt ...

In The Human Interest: A Study in Incompatibilities, Violet Hunt explores the complexities of human relationships and the often subtle incompatibilities that arise between individuals. The novel is a study of character interactions, focusing on the ways in which personal differences and social expectations can lead to conflict and misunderstanding.The story is set against the backdrop of early ... Read more

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In The Human Interest: A Study in Incompatibilities, Violet Hunt explores the complexities of human relationships and the often subtle incompatibilities that arise between individuals. The novel is a study of character interactions, focusing on the ways in which personal differences and social expectations can lead to conflict and misunderstanding.The story is set against the backdrop of early
... Read more
Suffragettes & Social Activists - A Short Story Collection

by Violet Hunt, Winifred Holtby, Ella D'Arcy ...

In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but, for the overwhelming majority, your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did. Those that did take part in ... Read more

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In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but, for the overwhelming majority, your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did. Those that did take part in
... Read more
The Neglected Authors - Women: The Complete Edition – Gertrude Atherton to Leonara Wodehouse

by Violet Hunt, E M Delafield, Helena Blavatsky ...

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

$13.99 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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