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  Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

  Booker T. Washington

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  Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help black people learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and Native Americans. He describes his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and a feeling of dignity to students.

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  The Donkey Skin

  Andrew Lang

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  "The Donkey Skin" is a strange fairy tale of a princess who escapes an unwanted marriage by running away from the palace dressed in a donkey skin, to a hard life of poverty as a hen-wife. When a young prince happens to catch a glimpse of her without her donkey skin, he falls in love with her. But how is he to find the beautiful maiden again?

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  The Devil and Tom Walker

  Washington Irving

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  Washington Irving (1783 – 1859) was a short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. ‘The Devil and Tom Walker’ is a short story which first appeared in Irving’s 1824 collection Tales of a Traveller, and shows similarities to the German legend of Faust. The narrative first recounts the legend of the pirate, William Kidd, and his buried treasure. Later, Tom Walker and his wife, a greedy and miserly couple, appear. On a walk in the swamp, Tom meets the devil and strikes a deal with him, by offering Tom the pirate’s treasure in exchange for his soul …

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  The Death of a Government Clerk

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Chekhov's "The Death of a Government Clerk" humorously unfolds when a government official accidentally sneezes on a high-ranking official. The tale navigates the protagonist's escalating paranoia and guilt, culminating in a series of comical misadventures. Chekhov's satire highlights the absurdity of social anxieties and bureaucratic entanglements in this short yet entertaining story. Read in English, unabridged.

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  The Young Lady in Black

  Amyas Northcote

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  Amyas Northcote (1864–1923) was an English writer and a contemporary of M. R. James. He is best known for his ghost stories."The Young Lady in Black" is an eerie tale of a woman who died, leaving one crucial task in her life unfinished. The tale poses at the outset the question of whether the dead can return to earth to bring incomplete tasks to their conclusion... and the weird circumstances of this story appear to confirm the theory.

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  The Tarn - and Other Macabre...

  Hugh Walpole

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  Hugh Walpole is best known for his Herries Chronicle, a saga of four books relating the history of the Herries family and set in the Lake District in the north of England, where Walpole settled in his later life. The Chronicle was extremely popular, as was another series of books for children, the Jeremy trilogy. Many of his novels were in the psychological horror genre.
  
  He also wrote many short stories that were published in several collections. The ones in this recording are: "The Tarn"; "The Silver Mask"; "The Snow"; "The Staircase"; "Tarnhelm"; "The Little Ghost"; "Mrs. Lunt"; "Seashore Macabre"; "The Tiger"; "Field with Five Trees".
  
  Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

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