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The Forgotten Authors - Men - Volume 4: W G Kelly to William Mudford

by W G Kelly, Mikhail Lermontov, William Mudford ...

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
Lessons in Literature - Short Stories Exploring Peoples Greatest Fears

by Edgar Allan Poe, William Mudford, Richard Connell ...

We all have fears. They may be irrational, dark or even logically coherent, but we all believe that, at some point, we will be subject to their grasp and punishment. Here our classic authors ladle up stories that both shock and resonate. ... Read more

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We all have fears. They may be irrational, dark or even logically coherent, but we all believe that, at some point, we will be subject to their grasp and punishment. Here our classic authors ladle up stories that both shock and resonate.
... Read more
3 Stories - Set in Sicily

by Luigi Pirandello, William Mudford, Giovanni Verga ...

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 mo ... 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 mo
... Read more
The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

Volume 9

by Alastair Gunn, William Mudford, John Yonge Akerman, Mary Ann Bird, Elizabeth Gaskell, Catherine Crowe, Emerson Bennett, Amelia B. Edwards, Henry James, John William De Forest, John Gladwyn Jebb, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, William Wilthew Fenn, Isabella Banks, G. L. Worrall, Wilkie Collins, F. Marion Crawford, Lettice Galbraith, M. R. James, Wilhelmina FitzClarence, J. E. P. Muddock ...

Series Book 9 - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Twenty ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the ninth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 9 in the series contains stories published between 1841 and 1899, by British and American authors, including many not previously anthologized. Readers new to this ... Read more

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Twenty ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the ninth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 9 in the series contains stories published between 1841 and 1899, by British and American authors, including many not previously anthologized. Readers new to this
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The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

Volume 4

by Alastair Gunn, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Washington Irving, William Mudford, Thomas Hood, John Yonge Akerman, Bayle St. John, Dudley Costello, Fitz-James O’Brien, Charles Dickens, George John Whyte-Melville, James Hain Friswell, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Wilkinson Speight, John Berwick Harwood, Thomas Quiller Couch, Robert Stephen Hawker, George Manville Fenn, Tom Hood, George MacDonald, Nathaniel Hawthorne ...

Series Book 4 - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the fourth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 4 in the series spans the years 1835 to 1869 and includes stories from a wide range of male authors; English, Irish, Scottish and American. Includes tales by ... Read more

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Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the fourth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 4 in the series spans the years 1835 to 1869 and includes stories from a wide range of male authors; English, Irish, Scottish and American. Includes tales by
... Read more
The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

Volume 10

by Alastair Gunn, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, William Mudford, Mary Ann Bird, Ellen Wood, Margaret Verne, Mary Elizabeth Braddon ...

Series Book 10 - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Wimbourne Books presents the tenth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 10 in the series spans the years 1838 to 1898 and includes stories from a wide range of authors; English, Irish, Scottish and American. Includes tales by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Nesbit and Margaret Oliphant. ... Read more

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Wimbourne Books presents the tenth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 10 in the series spans the years 1838 to 1898 and includes stories from a wide range of authors; English, Irish, Scottish and American. Includes tales by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Nesbit and Margaret Oliphant.
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Short Stories Set in Italy – The English Language in a Foreign Land

Set upon even the most beautiful of backgrounds can lie the darkest secrets

by Edgar Allan Poe, H G Wells, Amelia Edwards, E F Benson, Edith Wharton, F Marion Crawford, Frank R Stockton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Garnett, Vernon Lee, Willa Cather, William Mudford ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, Christopher Ragland, Janet Maw ...

Unabridged

16 hours 11 min

The cliché is of the artist starving in his garret. Be it poet or author it seems romantic but lacks somewhat in the comforts and quality of life.Somewhat better then to live and write in perhaps the Classical Cultural centre of the world; Italy. A gloried land that sates the appetite yet something increases its ambition and its yearning for further reach. Being an English author in a new and ... Read more

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The cliché is of the artist starving in his garret. Be it poet or author it seems romantic but lacks somewhat in the comforts and quality of life.Somewhat better then to live and write in perhaps the Classical Cultural centre of the world; Italy. A gloried land that sates the appetite yet something increases its ambition and its yearning for further reach. Being an English author in a new and
... 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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Buried Alive Stories

Stories about many peoples worst fear imaginable

by Edgar Allan Poe, William Mudford, Honore de Balzac, Ambrose Bierce ...

Narrated by William Dufris, Bill Wallis, John-Michael MacDonald ...

Unabridged

3 hours 57 min

Deep within us is the dread of dying of moving on from life to another state of being. We assume it comes about through accident, perhaps even murder or disease that can be sudden or can take years to pull us into oblivion. But perhaps trumping all of these is the fear of being buried alive. The sheer terror of being totally trapped, unable to summon help and escape, fills one and all with a ... Read more

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Deep within us is the dread of dying of moving on from life to another state of being. We assume it comes about through accident, perhaps even murder or disease that can be sudden or can take years to pull us into oblivion. But perhaps trumping all of these is the fear of being buried alive. The sheer terror of being totally trapped, unable to summon help and escape, fills one and all with a
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows – 1800 – 1849

Embrace the darkness

by Catherine Crowe, E T A Hoffman, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernst Raupach, Honoré de Balzac, Johann Hebel, John Willaim Polidori, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Prosper Merimee, Richard Harris Barham, Sheridan Le Fanu, The Brothers Grimm, Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Wilhelm Hauff, William Makepeace Thackeray, William Mudford ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

15 hours 56 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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Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 7

R H Malden to Ward Muir

by Thomas Mann, Sadat Hasan Manto, Richard Marsh, Leonard Merrick, Richard Middleton, Kalman Mikszath, Robert Duncan Milne, Arthur Moore, Arthur Morrison, William Mudford, Richard Garnett, Mary Louisa Molesworth ...

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

Unabridged

12 hours 20 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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Stories with Sad Endings

The stories that really stick with you

by Anton Chekhov, Jack London, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Joseph Conrad, Honore de Balzac, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Fyodor Sologub, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ivan Turgenev, O Henry, W F Harvey, Barry Pain, William Mudford, Arthur Machen, Mary E Mann ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland ...

Unabridged

13 hours 4 min

For some stories there is no happy resolving of the narratives and the characters struggle against the odds that are always destined to overwhelm them. In these stories our authors reveal and examine situations where the only possible outcome is sadness, and sometimes even worse. ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

For some stories there is no happy resolving of the narratives and the characters struggle against the odds that are always destined to overwhelm them. In these stories our authors reveal and examine situations where the only possible outcome is sadness, and sometimes even worse.
... Read more

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The Forgotten Authors - Men - Volume 4: W G Kelly to William Mudford

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The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

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