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  Cohen of Trinity - From their...

  Amy Levy

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  Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life. 
  Her education was at Brighton High School, Brighton, before studies at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms. 
  Amy’s writing career began early; her poem ‘Ida Grey’ appeared when she was only fourteen. Her acclaimed short stories ‘Cohen of Trinity’ and ‘Wise in Their Generation,’ were published by Oscar Wilde in his magazine ‘Women's World’. 
  Her poetic writings reveal feminist concerns; ‘Xantippe and Other Verses’, from 1881 includes a poem in the voice of Socrates's wife. ‘A Minor Poet and Other Verse’ from 1884 comprises of dramatic monologues and lyric poems. 
  In 1886, Amy began a series of essays on Jewish culture and literature for the Jewish Chronicle, including ‘The Ghetto at Florence’, ‘The Jew in Fiction’, ‘Jewish Humour’ and ‘Jewish Children’. 
  That same year while travelling in Florence she met the writer Vernon Lee. It is generally assumed they fell in love and this inspired the poem ‘To Vernon Lee’. 
  Her first novel ‘Romance of a Shop’, written in 1888 is based on four sisters who experience the pleasures and hardships of running a London business during the 1880s. This was followed by Reuben Sachs (also 1888) and concerned with Jewish identity and mores in the England of her time and was somewhat controversial. 
  Her final book of poems, ‘A London Plane-Tree’ from 1889, shows the beginnings of the influence of French symbolism. 
  Despite many friendships and an active life, Amy suffered for many years with serious depressions and this, together with her growing deafness, led her to commit suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide on September 10th, 1889. She was 27.

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  Children Listen! - How the Camel...

  Percy J. Billinghurst, Carolyn...

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  Children, Listen! 
  How the Camel Got His Hump & Other Curiosities Collected & Read by Dennis Edward DelaneyCover Design by David Earl DeWitt | ZacaPublishingPublic Domain Material was used in the Publishing of this Audiobook 
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  Our Stories: 
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  A Few Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling  
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  1. Just So Stories 
  2. How the Camel Got His Hump 
  3. The Elephant's Child 
  4. How the Leopard Got His Spots 
  5. How the Wale Got His Throat 
  6. The Beginning of The Armadillos 
  7. The Crab that Played with the Sea 
  8. The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo 
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  Five Short Tales from Once Upon A Time Animal Stories by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 
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  9. How the Eagle Went Hungry 
  10. Brother Wolf and the Rock 
  11. Mr. Elephant and Mr. Frog 
  12. The Robin's Christmas Song 
  13. Why the Bear has a Stumpy Tail 
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  Animal Anecdotes by Percy J. Billinghurst 
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  14. Anecdotes of Animals - Animal Concerts 
  15. A Newfoundland Dog 
  16. The Bear and the Child 
  17. A Child Saved 
  18. A Comedy of Elephants 
  19. Crab Fishing 
  20. The Dog and the Goose 
  21. The Dolphin 
  22. An Elephant's Revenge 
  23. Escape of Genghis Khan 
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  Other Curiosities 
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  24. Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter 
  25. The Three Little Pigs by Joseph Jacobs 
  26. The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids by the Brother's Grimm 
  27. The Frog Prince by the Brothers Grimm 
  28. Goldilocks by Robert Southey 
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  Run Time: 
  03:48:43.55 
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  Emma

  Jane Austen

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  Experience the charming world of Highbury with Jane Austen's "Emma." Meet Emma Woodhouse, a lively and headstrong young woman who revels in matchmaking, despite her own romantic disinterest. Her well-intentioned meddling leads to misadventures and heartache, especially involving her friend Harriet. Through a series of social intrigues and personal revelations, guided by the perceptive Mr. Knightley, Emma matures and discovers the true nature of love and humility. This beloved classic explores friendship and self-discovery with Austen's signature wit and insight.

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  Werewolves - A Short Story...

  Arthur Conan Doyle, E T A...

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  Many of us are cautious around dogs.  However friendly they seem their energy and open panting jaws seem to summon some primitive instinct within us to be aware. 
   
  Once we advance to wolves those fears become rather more persuasive. Their wild and seemingly vicious, determined natures can induce panic in even the most foolhardy of us.  Nature admires winners. 
   
  From there it is but a short step to the supernatural evil of Werewolves.  Now fear is definitely the thing we feel pulsing through our veins summoning a flight response.  But no matter what our hopes are werewolves, whether real or in the imaginations of this cast of chilling unrepentant authors, stroke knowing chords of terror into every sentence, as the pages turn our uneasiness begins to escalate.  Terror begins to track our every step.   
   
  With such literary craftsmen as Saki, Hugh Walpole, Ambrose Bierce, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle and others, that feeling happens time and time again. 
   
  1 - Werewolves - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling 
  3 - A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  4 - Gabriel-Ernest by Saki 
  5 - The Eyes of the Panther by Ambrose Bierce 
  6 - Tarnhelm or The Death of My Uncle Robert by Hugh Walpole 
  7 - The She-Wolf by Saki 
  8 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman 
  9 - TheThing in the Forest by Bernard Capes 
  10 - A Story of a Weir-Wolf by Catherine Crowe 
  11 - The Lame Priest by Susan Morrow writing as S Carleton 
  12 - Alymer Vance & The Vampire by Alice and Claude Askew

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  A Little Joke - From their pens...

  Anthony Hope

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  Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9th February 1863 in Clapton, London.  
  He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford.  Hope trained as a lawyer and barrister and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1887. Despite what was thought to be a promising legal career he had literary ambitions and wrote in his spare time. 
  His early works appeared in various periodicals of the day but for his first book ‘A Man of Mark’ (1890), with no publisher interested, he published with his own resources.  
  More novels and short stories followed, including the mildly successful ‘Mr Witt's Widow’ in 1892. Hope even found time to run as the Liberal candidate for Wycombe in the election that same year but was unsuccessful. 
  His first major literary success came with ‘The Dolly Dialogues’, a collection of previously published magazine pieces followed very quickly by his instant classic, ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’. He now gave up the vestiges of his legal career to pursue writing full-time. 
  Despite never again reaching the same pinnacle of success he was popular and wrote prolifically across novels, plays and of course, short stories though his writing output rapidly diminished after the war. 
  In 1918 he was knighted for his contribution to propaganda efforts during World War I.  
  His short stories are delicate, mannered and often surprising with their wit, humour and interplay of characters who say one thing and usually mean another.  He was very definitely a writer of escapist rather than serious fare but they are no less enjoyable for that. 
  Anthony Hope died of throat cancer on 8th July 1933 at his country home, Heath Farm at Walton-on-the-Hill in Surrey. He was 70.

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  The Great Gatsby

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  When F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby in 1925, the novel was not an instant hit – but you wouldn’t know it now, given its standing in school curricula and pop culture alike. The novel is a classic, following the exploits of its narrator, Nick Carroway, as he enters the glittering world of New York’s elite. A world filled with boozy parties, romantic obsessions, and a mysterious millionaire named Jay. Now, the classic novel is an immersive audiobook. Enjoy this production of The Great Gatsby, produced by Scott Sherratt and narrated by Scott Shepherd. 
  Cover illustrated by: James Jeffers 
  James Jeffers is a queer illustrator whose work explores the delightful world of the fantastique through colors, shapes, and whimsy.

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