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  Parade's End - The Complete...

  Madox Ford

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  There is a hard brightness overlying the emotion and the human suffering and the human passions… Mr. Ford achieves not only what is probably his own best work but what is certainly one of the ablest of recent English novels. — The New York Times, 1924  
  There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them. — W. H. Auden  
  Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, written in the aftermath of World War I, was originally published in four parts in the 1920s: Some Do Not…; No More Parades; A Man Could Stand Up —; and Last Post. Highlighting the tension between traditional values and a rapidly changing social order in a world embroiled in war, the story details Tietjens' turmoils in both his personal life and on the warfront—and what follows when some of those struggles become one and the same.  
  Unique among other war fiction of the time, Parade's End privileges not the conflict of the Great War itself, but the impact the war had on its participants and upon society writ large. With it's publication, Ford hoped to contribute to the obviating of all future wars. 
  Parade's End is often referred to as one of the greatest 20th century novels, and one of the best depictions of war in literature. The 2012 television adaptation, written by Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love), directed by Susanna White (Andor) and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall, was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and seven BAFTA Television Awards.

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  The Woman in the Corner - From...

  Gertrude Colman

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is the Suffragette Gertrude Colman.

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  War and Peace (Book Twelve: 1812)

  Leo Tolstoy

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  War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
  Book 12: 1812: In Petersburg at that time a complicated struggle was being carried on with greater heat than ever in the highest circles, between the parties of Rumyántsev, the French, Márya Fëdorovna, the Tsarévich, and others, drowned as usual by the buzzing of the court drones.

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  Metamorphosis

  Franz Kafka

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  Metamorphosis is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect, subsequently struggling to adjust to this new condition. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, with differing interpretations being offered.

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  Elenora - An oddity of a romance...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan.   
   
  He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted although he now referred to himself as Edgar Allan Poe.  His father alternatively spoiled or chastised him and tension was frequent over gambling debts and monies for his education.  His university years to study ancient and modern languages was cut short by lack of money and he enlisted as a private in the army claiming he was 22, it is more probable he was 18. After 2 years he obtained a discharge in order to take up an appointment at the military academy, West Point, where he failed to become an officer. 
   
  Poe had released his 1st poetry volume in 1827 and after his 3rd turned to prose and placing short stories in several magazines and journals.  At age 26 he obtained a licence to marry his cousin.  She was a mere 13 but they stayed together until her death from tuberculosis 11 years after. 
   
  In January 1845 ‘The Raven’ was published and became an instant classic.  Thereafter followed the prose works for which he is now so rightly famed as a master of the mysterious and the macabre. 
   
  Edgar Allan Poe died at the tragically early age of 40 on 7th October 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. Newspapers at the time reported Poe's death as ‘congestion of the brain’ or ‘cerebral inflammation’, common euphemisms for death from disreputable causes such as alcoholism but the actual cause of death remains a mystery.

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  The Adventures of Jimmie Dale -...

  Edward Richardson

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  Wealthy aristocrat by day. Master safe-cracker and vigilante by night. 
  In the glittering high-society circles of early twentieth-century New York, Jimmie Dale is known as a respectable, Harvard-educated millionaire, frequenting the ultra-exclusive St. James Club. But beneath the immaculate tuxedo lies a perilous secret: he is the elusive "Gray Seal," a phantom thief who leaves a diamond-shaped paper marker at the scene of every brilliantly executed crime. 
  Yet Jimmie Dale is no common crook. Directed by mysterious letters from an unknown woman he calls his accomplice, he uses his unparalleled skills to outwit the corrupt, protect the innocent, and bring down those who prey on the vulnerable. His extraordinary double life has baffled the police, enraged the city's power brokers, and captivated the headlines—spearheaded by his own best friend, a fiery newspaper editor desperate to unmask him. 
  The Adventures of Jimmie Dale catapults listeners into a thrilling, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse. When a dirty police inspector commits a brutal murder and frames the Gray Seal, Jimmie must navigate the dark, treacherous underbelly of the Bowery to clear his alter-ego's name before he is sent to the electric chair. Will his razor-sharp intellect and masterful disguises be enough to survive the tightening noose? 
  A classic tale of pulp action, suspense, and brilliant deductive reasoning, this gripping crime thriller set the gold standard for the gentleman-thief genre.

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