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  Barnaby Rudge

  Charles Dickens

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  Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, "Barnaby Rudge" is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets. And, as London erupts into riot, Barnaby Rudge himself struggles to escape the curse of his own past. With its dramatic descriptions of public violence and private horror, its strange secrets and ghostly doublings, Barnaby Rudge is a powerful, disturbing blend of historical realism and Gothic melodrama.

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  Silver Wing

  Z.Z. Claybourne

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  On a desert planet in the far future, an old dragon hunter emabarks on a desperate journey to save her estranged son.   
     
  For centuries, the dragons have been sleeping. But in their rest, they provide a crucial energy source necessary to keep the planet Toon Flats habitable. Amphet Dahl is a diviner, gifted with the ability to sense the dragons' dreams and memories— and to the disappointment of her son, Afton, she uses this ability to assist in harvesting dragon bodies for fuel. It's been years since Amphet last saw him, and she relies on alchohol to keep her regret at bay.  
     
  When Aphet has a vision of Afton being in danger, she sets out on a perilous journey across the desert to save him. But her own life hands in the balance— and when she least expects it, the dragons begin to wake.   
     
  Silver Wing is a Realm production, created and written by Z.Z. Claybourne. Listen Away.

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  The American Experience - A...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton,...

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  Ten superbly narrated stories that help explain America by America's best writers. Irving's incredible and amusing tale of the archetypal "Rip Van Winkle" relates the story of a man who slept through history. Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage" tells of a young soldier who must struggle with his conscience no matter what the consequences. "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is Mark Twain's hilarious story of a contest to end all contests in the rowdy days of the Forty-Niners. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Man of the Crowd" tells of one man's strange fascination with another. "The Ransom of Red Chief" is another of O. Henry's tales of a kidnapping that goes horribly, horribly, wrong. 
   
  Including: 
   
  "Rip Van Winkle" 
  by Washington Irving, 
  narrated by George Vafiadis 
   
  "The Man of the Crowd" 
  by Edgar Allan Poe, 
  narrated by Ralph Cosham 
   
  "The Red Badge of Courage" 
  by Stephen Crane, 
  narrated by Sean Pratt 
   
  "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" 
  by Mark Twain, 
  narrated by Thomas Becker 
   
  "The Ransom of Red Chief" 
  by O'Henry, 
  narrated by Michael Hanson 
   
  "The Call of the Wild" 
  by Jack London, 
  narrated by Michael Kramer 
   
  "Desiree's Baby" 
  by Kate Chopin, 
  narrated by Jacquilin Kinlow 
   
  "Miss Tempy's Watchers" 
  by Sarah Orne Jewett, 
  narrated by Tana Hickens 
   
  "The Eyes" 
  by Edith Wharton, 
  narrated by Ralph Cosham 
   
  "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" 
  by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 
  narrated by Kimberly Schraf

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  Torture

  Arthur Machen

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  Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and mystic, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. 
  "Torture" is a horror story about a schoolboy with a dangerous secret fantasy.

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  The Story of the Amulet

  E. Nesbit

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  The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by E. Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes Five Children and It (1902) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904). In it the children re-encounter the Psammead—the "it" in Five Children and It. As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly advisory in relation to the children's other discovery, the Amulet, thus following a formula successfully established in The Phoenix and the Carpet.

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  Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  EDGAR ALLAN POE, is considered the greatest of all writers of macabre stories, was born in Boston, Massachesetts, in 1809. His father, an Irish-American actor, died the following year, and his mother, an English actress, the year after, in Richmond, Virginia. John Allan, a wealthy Richmond merchant, adopted him. When he was 7, the Allans moved to England, sending him to school at Stoke Newington, at age 12 they moved back to Richmond. He wanted to become a writer, but John Allan wanted him to become a lawyer. He failed to finish courses at the University of Virginia and at West Point Military Academy, and John Allan disowned him. Struggling to live by his writing, he became an ill-paid magazine writer, and at 26 married Virginia, the daughter of his aunt, Mrs Clemm, aged 14. They were happy together, and while married he wrote much of his best work. But Virginia contracted tuberculosis, and worry over her illness and their poverty led him to drink heavily. After six years of marriage, she died. Suffering a complete breakdown, he was nursed back to health by Mrs Clemm. Returning to Richmond, he made a determined attempt to give up drinking. In 1849 he got engaged to a Richmond woman he had loved in his youth. Travelling north to collect Mrs Clemm to the wedding, he stopped off in Baltimore, Ohio. Found there lying drunk on a pavement, he was taken to hospital, but died a few hours later. His poems and short stories have influenced scores of writers. He invented the modern detective story, and his tales of terror are as chilling and powerful today as they have ever been.  The stories in this volume are The Tell Tale Heart, Hop Frog and The Premature Burial .  BILL WALLIS plays the title role in the BBC Radio comedy series WINSTON, and performed in the satirical series WEEK ENDING. On stage he appeared in the satirical West End show, MRS WILSON’s DIARY.

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