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Forgotten Authors, The - Men - Volume 4

W G Kelly to William Mudford

by 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 ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Robert Maskell, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

15 hours 10 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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Detective Stories – Volume 4

L T Meade to Arthur B Reeve

by Arthur Morrison, Nicholas Olde, Baroness Orczy, Max Pemberton, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Ralph Plummer, Edgar Allan Poe, Eric Purves, Arthur B Reeve ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, Robert Maskell, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

8 hours 24 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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Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 4

Jane Findlater to George Griffiths

by Jane Findlater, Charles Foley, Andrew Forrester, Anatole France, Jacques Futrelle, Richard Garnett, Théophile Gautier, Perceval Gibbon, R Murray Gilchrist, Giovanni Boccaccio, George Gissing, Carlo Gozzi, Stefan Grabinski ...

Narrated by Fiona McKinnon, Eric Meyers, Robert Maskell ...

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
The Ultimate Submarine Compendium: 36 Captivating Reads

Undersea Adventures, Naval History, Invention, and Wartime Tales from the Victorian Age to World War I

by A. Frederick Collins, Virgil D. Collins, Edward Stratemeyer, Willis J. Abbot, Charles William Sleeman, Thomas W. Corbin, Charles W. Domville-Fife, Georg-GÃ¼nther Freiherr von Forstner, Robert Fulton, Herbert C. Fyfe, Henry John Sir Newbolt, Freiherr von E. Spiegel, Farnham Bishop, Harold Wheeler, William Barclay Parsons, Paul KÃ¶nig, Ajax, Jules Verne, Luis Senarens, T. D. Hallam, Victor G. Durham, Donald Grayson, A. Hyatt Verrill, Clair W. Hayes, H. Irving Hancock, Percy F. Westerman, James R. Driscoll, G. Harvey Ralphson, Elmer Tracey Barnes, John Blaine, Roy Rockwood ...

The Ultimate Submarine Compendium: 36 Captivating Reads charts the submarine's emergence as both technological marvel and literary emblem of modernity. Ranging from technical exposition, naval history, and eyewitness-inflected discussion to adventure fiction, juvenile serials, and speculative romance, the volume reveals how undersea navigation inspired dreams of scientific mastery alongside ... Read more

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The Ultimate Submarine Compendium: 36 Captivating Reads charts the submarine's emergence as both technological marvel and literary emblem of modernity. Ranging from technical exposition, naval history, and eyewitness-inflected discussion to adventure fiction, juvenile serials, and speculative romance, the volume reveals how undersea navigation inspired dreams of scientific mastery alongside
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The Ultimate Pirate Saga: 43 Storybooks of Swashbuckling Adventures

A Panoramic Anthology of Mutiny, Treasure, Maritime Outlaws, and Sea Adventure

by Robert Ervin Howard, Booth Tarkington, Charles S. Brooks, EsmÃ¨ Stuart, Samuel Fletcher, William MacLeod Raine, Nicholas Carter, Charles Dickens, John Masefield, Daniel Defoe, Frank Richard Stockton, Yung-lun YÃ¼an, E. Keble Chatterton, Poul Anderson, Stanley Lane-Poole, J. D. Jerrold Kelley, Oscar Herrmann, Otto A. Rothert, E. Hamilton Currey, William Henry Giles Kingston, G. A. Henty, Howard Pyle, R. M. Ballantyne, Richard Clynton, Ruel Perley Smith, Harry Collingwood, Charles Boardman Hawes, Percy F. Westerman, Van Powell, Harold L. Goodwin, John C. Hutcheson, Bracebridge Hemyng, Howard Roger Garis, Carey Rockwell, Fanny Loviot ...

The Ultimate Pirate Saga: 43 Storybooks of Swashbuckling Adventures assembles a capacious maritime archive in which piracy becomes a lens for adventure, empire, commerce, captivity, and moral ambiguity. Ranging from historical romance and boys' adventure fiction to detective tales, sea yarns, satire, and speculative voyages, the volume traces the changing literary uses of the pirate across ... Read more

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The Ultimate Pirate Saga: 43 Storybooks of Swashbuckling Adventures assembles a capacious maritime archive in which piracy becomes a lens for adventure, empire, commerce, captivity, and moral ambiguity. Ranging from historical romance and boys' adventure fiction to detective tales, sea yarns, satire, and speculative voyages, the volume traces the changing literary uses of the pirate across
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The straw king

crows' revenge in ancient Egypt by Robert Wanyoike

by Robert Wanyoike, AI ...

Ancient Egypt, a land of mystery and wonder, often conjures images of mighty pharaohs, towering pyramids, and powerful gods. Yet, beyond the grandeur, lies a rich tapestry of daily life, of farmers toiling in the fields, of families working together to ensure their survival, and of conflicts arising from the competition for resources.In this story, we venture into the heart of ancient Egypt's ... Read more

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Ancient Egypt, a land of mystery and wonder, often conjures images of mighty pharaohs, towering pyramids, and powerful gods. Yet, beyond the grandeur, lies a rich tapestry of daily life, of farmers toiling in the fields, of families working together to ensure their survival, and of conflicts arising from the competition for resources.In this story, we venture into the heart of ancient Egypt's
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Professor's Mummy, The

Egyptian artifacts, abuse, love and murder all mix in this Victorian thriller

by Fergus Hume ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

33 min

Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys' High School before studying law at the University of Otago. Hume was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885.He moved to become a barrister’s clerk to Melbourne and once there also began writing plays. The ... Read more

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Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys' High School before studying law at the University of Otago. Hume was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885.He moved to become a barrister’s clerk to Melbourne and once there also began writing plays. The
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Media, The - A Short Story Collection

Classic stories before the age of social media

by 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 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley3, Robert Maskell4, Eric Roberts5 ...

Unabridged

7 hours 49 min

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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
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3 Christmas Stories - Sad Russian

A trio of Xmas themed stories for the holiday season

by Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Tom Mclean, Tom Mclean ...

Unabridged

32 min

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 ... 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 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
... Read more
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Stories About Curses

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

by 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 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley2, Robbie McNab3, Robert Maskell4 ...

Unabridged

7 hours 6 min

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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
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Pre-1950 Stories about Societies Pressure on Women

Touching stories written when women were marginalised in society

by 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 ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Robert Maskell, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

6 hours 23 min

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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows – The 1880’s

Embrace the darkness

by Louisa Baldwin, Anton Chekhov, Vsevolod Garshin, Thomas Hardy, Dorothy Havers, Lafcadio Hearn, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Rudyard Kipling, Amy Levy, Guy de Maupassant, Edward Page Mitchell0, Mary Louisa Molesworth1, Edith Nesbit2, Margaret Oliphant3, Margaret Oliphant4, Mary E Penn5, Charlotte Riddell6, Robert Louis Stevenson7, Leo Tolstoy8, Oscar Wilde9 ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell0, Richard Mitchley1, Christopher Ragland2 ...

Unabridged

12 hours 59 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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Forgotten Authors, The - Men - Volume 4

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The straw king

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