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The Merry Men

by Robert Louis Stevenson, R L Stevenson, 1stworld Library ...

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. ... Read more

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The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works.
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WAKING UP IN SEPTEMBER

by ROBERT T NELSON, ROBERT T NELSON, Robert T 1 Nelson ...

Series Book 1 - waking up in september
In this powerful memoir, Robert Nelson takes readers on a raw, emotional journey through his turbulent childhood and the scars that shaped his adult life. Born into a household where violence, fear, and silence were the norm, Robert's early years were filled with trauma and confusion. From witnessing his mother's abuse to enduring humiliating punishments from his father, his young life was marked ... Read more

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In this powerful memoir, Robert Nelson takes readers on a raw, emotional journey through his turbulent childhood and the scars that shaped his adult life. Born into a household where violence, fear, and silence were the norm, Robert's early years were filled with trauma and confusion. From witnessing his mother's abuse to enduring humiliating punishments from his father, his young life was marked
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Writing Teams - A Short Story Collection

Two is better than one

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

Narrated by Michael Lyons, Stephen Hogan, Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

4 hours 43 min

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, ... Read more

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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,
... Read more
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Detective Stories – Volume 1

A J Alan to Rose Champion de Crespigny

by Harold Begbie, Algernon Blackwood, Ernest Bramah, A M Burrage, William E Burton, G K Chesterton, J Storer Clouston, J J Connington, Elizabeth Corbett ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Herbert Gregg, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

8 hours 3 min

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult ... Read more

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The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult
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Vampire of Vespuccia, The

Story from one of the most famous, or infamous, British figures of the 20th Century

by Aleister Crowley ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

29 min

Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire.He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes.Life for Crowley was to abandon his parents’ Christian faith and instead to inject ... Read more

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Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire.He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes.Life for Crowley was to abandon his parents’ Christian faith and instead to inject
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Seeing People Off

Social conventions are brilliantly unpacked by one of our greatest writers.

by Max Beerbohm ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

13 min

Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was born on 24th August 1872 in Kensington, London.Beerbohm was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford and by now was already writing and drawing to a professional standard.By 1894, having developed his personality as a dandy and humorist, and a rising star in English letters, he left Oxford without a degree but began to publish, initially in ... Read more

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Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was born on 24th August 1872 in Kensington, London.Beerbohm was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford and by now was already writing and drawing to a professional standard.By 1894, having developed his personality as a dandy and humorist, and a rising star in English letters, he left Oxford without a degree but began to publish, initially in
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Virgin, The

Story from one of the most famous, or infamous, British figures of the 20th Century

by Aleister Crowley ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

19 min

Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire.He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes.Life for Crowley was to abandon his parents’ Christian faith and instead to inject ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire.He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes.Life for Crowley was to abandon his parents’ Christian faith and instead to inject
... Read more
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Chronic Argonauts, The

One of the earliest time travel stories ever written

by H G Wells ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

1 hour 2 min

Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’.The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly, and Wells didn’t display much literary interest until, in 1874, he accidentally broke his leg and was left to recover in bed, largely entertained ... Read more

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Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’.The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly, and Wells didn’t display much literary interest until, in 1874, he accidentally broke his leg and was left to recover in bed, largely entertained
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Poetry of Alfred Lichtenstein, The

Surrealist German poet who was killed in WW1

by Alfred Lichtenstein ...

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

Unabridged

55 min

Alfred Lichtenstein was born on the 23rd August 1889, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, the son of a Jewish manufacturer. He grew up in Berlin before studying law at Erlangen in Bavaria.A writer in the Expressionist style his poems and stories are short but beautifully honed works. His tragically curtailed life allowed only a small part of his talents to rest with us. Undoubtedly a full life would have given ... Read more

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Alfred Lichtenstein was born on the 23rd August 1889, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, the son of a Jewish manufacturer. He grew up in Berlin before studying law at Erlangen in Bavaria.A writer in the Expressionist style his poems and stories are short but beautifully honed works. His tragically curtailed life allowed only a small part of his talents to rest with us. Undoubtedly a full life would have given
... Read more
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Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 1

J Y Ackerman to Regina Miriam Bloch

by J Y Ackerman, Juhani Aho, Grant Allen, Edmondo de Amicus, F Anstey, Richard Harris Barham, Sabine Baring-Gould, Max Beerbohm, Aphra Behn, A C Benson, R H Benson, Stella Benson, Samuel Blas ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Robert Maskell, Michael Lyons ...

Unabridged

12 hours 25 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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Foundations of Fiction, The - Dystopian

The stories that created one of the most popular genres in fiction

by H G Wells, Alexander Kuprin, Robert Duncan Milne, Robert Duncan Milne, Owen Oliver, Valery Bryusov, Simon Newcomb, Robert Barr, Stella Benson, Robert W Chambers ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick0, Robert Maskell1, Christopher Ragland2 ...

Unabridged

7 hours 41 min

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows - Volume 1

Embrace the darkness

by Achmed Abdullah, J Y Ackerman, Leonid Andreyev, F Anstey, Alice and Claude Askew, Gertrude Atherton.wav, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Mary Austin, Louisa Baldwin, Louisa Baldwin, Honore de Balzac0, Richard Harris Barham1, Sabine Baring-Gould2, Robert Barr3, Charles Baudelaire4, Barbara Baynton5, Harold Begbie6, Arnold Bennett7, Stella Benson8, A C Benson9, E F Benson0, R H Benson1, Ambrose Bierce2 ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley3, David Shaw-Parker4, Robert Maskell5 ...

Unabridged

11 hours 40 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

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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