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  Romance in Marseille

  Claude Mckay

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  Published for the first time, the pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, black modernism,and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition.Romance in Marseille traces the adventures of a rowdy troupe of dockworkers, prostitutes, and political organizers—collectively straight and queer, disabled and able-bodied, African, European, Caribbean, and American. Set largelyin the culture-blending Vieux Port of Marseille at the height of the Jazz Age, the novel takes flight along with Lafala,an acutely disabled but abruptly wealthy West African sailor. While stowing away on a transatlantic ship, Lafala isdiscovered and locked in a frigid closet. Badly frostbitten by the time the boat docks, the once-nimble dancer losesboth of his lower legs. Thanks to a successful lawsuit against the shipping line, Lafala doubles back to Marseille andresumes his trans-African affair with Aslima, a Moroccan courtesan. With its scenes of black bodies fighting forpleasure and liberty, McKay’s novel explores the heritage of slavery amid an unforgiving modern economy.

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  "Gloria-Scott" The (Unabridged)

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Gloria Scott, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It is chronologically the earliest case in Sherlock Holmes canon. This story is related mainly by Holmes rather than Watson, and is the first case to which Holmes applied his powers of deduction, having treated it as a mere hobby until this time. This is one of the two Sherlock Holmes stories in which a protagonist is haunted by an old acquaintance for an old crime. The other is "The Boscombe Valley Mystery". It is also one of his many stories that deal with the fate of characters who return to England after having spent time abroad in the colonies of the British Empire. In his university days, Holmes spent a month with his friend, Victor Trevor, at Victor's father's estate in Norfolk. While there, Holmes amazed his host, Victor's father, who was a Justice of the Peace and a landowner. He had made his fortune in the goldfields in Australia. One of Holmes's deductions was that the elder Mr. Trevor was once connected with someone with the initials "J. A." whom he wanted to forget. His host then passed out on the table. Holmes had touched a sore spot, and possibly did not believe the old man's explanation once he had come back to himself that J. A. had been an old lover.

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  Twenty Two Goblins

  Multiple Authors

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  These 22 stories are told by the Goblin to the King Vikram. King Vikram faces many difficulties in bringing the vetala to the tantric. Each time Vikram tries to capture the vetala, it tells a story that ends with a riddle. If Vikram cannot answer the question correctly, the vampire consents to remain in captivity. If the king answers the question correctly, the vampire would escape and return to his tree. In some variations, the king is required to speak if he knows the answer, else his head will burst. This work is taken form baital pachisi and One of its oldest recensions is found incorporated in the Katha-Sarit-Sagara ("Ocean of the Streams of Story"), a work in Sanskrit compiled in the 11th century by Somadeva. (Wikipedia)

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  Anthony and Cleopatra

  William Shakespeare

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  A full cast classic recording of one of Shakespeares best-loved tragedies.

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  Cranford

  Elizabeth Gaskell

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  Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell's best-known work, is a humorous account of a nineteenth-century English village dominated by a group of genteel but modestly circumstanced women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister, Miss Matty. But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster, imagined burglaries, tragic accidents, and the reappearance of long-lost relatives.By eschewing the conventional marriage plot with its nubile heroines and focusing instead on a group of middle-aged and elderly spinsters, Gaskell does something highly unusual within the novel genre. Through her masterful management of the novel's tone, she underscores the value and dignity of single women's lives even as she causes us to laugh at her characters' foibles. Charles Dickens was the first of many readers to extol its wit and charm, and it has consistently been Gaskell's most popular work.

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  Last Of The Mohicans

  James Fenimore Cooper

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  Set in the wild forests between the British and French colonies in the mid-18th-century wars, The Last of the Mohicans brims with action. Hawk-eye, first of the tough but honourable heroes of the frontier, leads a mixed band on a perilous journey. In the course of their experiences, all are tested to the utmost. Hawk-eye and Chingachgook reveal true courage, Heyward shows doggedness and Magua proves treacherous. Uncas, last of the Mohicans, emerges as their saviour - but too late to save Cora, the heroine.

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