Publisher: Good Press
The Power of Music is a scientific study of the effects of music on and in various persons, animals and places. There are also some discussions of the works of Handel and Mozart.
The artist Mark Rothko has just hired Ken, an aspiring artist, to be his assistant – and errand boy. Ken discovers that Rothko’s temper can run hot; but as he gets to know his boss better, he finds that Rothko has opened him up to more than just painting.A 2010 Tony Award winner for Best Play.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Alfred Molina as Mark RothkoJonathan Groff as KenDirected by Bart DeLorenzo. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.Show book
Great Animal Stories, featuring 25 beastly tales.Including: 'A Skinful of Trouble' by Arthur Morrison 'A Comedy of Capricorn' by Morley Roberts 'The Goldfish' by Elinor Mordaunt 'Bats in the Belfry' by Harry Graham 'A Deal in Ostriches' by H. G. Wells 'The Young Bull' by Geraint Goodwin 'Dobbs Parrot' by Arthur Morrison 'The Empire of the Ants' by H. G. Wells 'A Tiger's Skin' by W. W. Jacobs 'Kerfol' by Edith Wharton 'The Moth' by H. G. Wells 'The Cats of Ulthar' by H. P. Lovecraft 'The Lizard' by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne 'The Tiger' by Hugh Walpole 'Mrs Scarr' by Elinor Mordaunt 'The Whistle' by Hugh Walpole 'Pigs Is Pigs' by Ellis Parker Butler 'The Valley of Spiders' by H. G. Wells 'The Permanent Tenant' by J. S. Fletcher 'White Stockings' by Edgar Wallace 'Caterpillars' by E. F. Benson 'Rats' by M. R. James 'The Cat' by E. F. Benson 'The Story of a Piebald Horse' by W. H. Hudson 'The Wolf' by Guy de Maupassant.Show book
The Theory of Quotation by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic.The nobler method of quotation is not to quote at all. For why should one repeat good things that are already written? Are not the words in their fittest context in the original? Clearly, then, your new setting cannot be quite so congruous, which is, forthwith, an admission of incongruity.Show book
Listen to Bat Wing with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. Private detective Paul Harley investigates a mysterious case involving voodoo, vampirism, and macabre murder in the heart of London. The first book in the Paul Harley series, written by Sax Rohmer, author of The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu.Show book
The Picture Of Dorian Gray is the novel of the decadent 1890’s. Wilde’s only full length novel, it is a thrilling, melodramatic tale of love, murder, thwarted revenge and final justice. But in its pages Wilde also expressed his own distinctive views on art, life and beauty through Lord Henry Wotton, the immoral aristocrat who corrupts Dorian Gray. In some ways both Dorian and Lord Henry are self-portraits of Wilde – not as he was but as he would have liked to appear. This adds to the novel’s power and poignancy.Show book
A Winter's Tale is set in Sicilia where the King, Leontes, is enjoying a visit by his friend the King of Bohemia. When he wants to leave, he tries to persuade him unsuccessfully to stay. Leontes then decides to ask his wife to try and get him to stay longer which she does. He is then consumed by jealousy imaging that the reason she persuaded him so easily was because they were having an affair. Inevitably no good comes from his irrational jealousy in Shakespeare’s tale. This narrative version was written by Mary & Charles Lamb.Show book
