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  The Case Of The Registered Letter

  Augusta Groner

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  A man is found shot dead and the man to whom all evidence points insists he is innocent. (Summary by David Wales)

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  The Schoolmistress - and Other...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Experience life and hardships in turn-of-the-century Russia with this collection of provocative stories by one of the greatest writers of all time. Anton Chekhov captures life in late-nineteenth-century Russia with these evocative tales. For example, in “The Schoolmistress,” a hard-working, underpaid schoolteacher contemplates dating a man she knows is terrible for her. In “A Nervous Breakdown,” an idealistic young law student cannot handle what he witnesses after a night in Moscow’s red light district.  The author of such plays as The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov was also a prolific writer of short stories. His style, as present in this collection, will remind readers of other great nineteenth-century authors such as Guy de Maupassant.

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  You Only Get Letters From Jail

  Jodi Angel

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  Jodi Angel' s second story collection, You Only Get Letters from Jail, chronicles the lives of young men trapped in the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. From picking up women at a bar hours after mom' s overdose to coveting a drowned girl to catching rattlesnakes with gasoline, Angel's characters are motivated by muscle cars, manipulative women, and the hope of escape from circumstances that force them either to grow up or give up. Haunted by unfulfilled dreams and disappointments, and often acting out of mixed intentions and questionable motives, these boys turned young men are nevertheless portrayed with depth, tenderness, and humanity. Angel' s gritty and heartbreaking prose leaves readers empathizing with people they wouldn't ordinarily trust or believe in.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Born...

  Anthony Trollope, GK Chesterton,...

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  The Top 10 – Born in London – An Introduction 
   
  The teeming metropolis of London has a long history of innovation. Amongst its most gilded are the literary talents of its world-famous authors.  From Anthony Trollope and Daniel Defoe to Mary Shelley and Virginia Woolf and many others, have come iconic works that still to this day underpin our culture. 
   
  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - Born in London - An Introdction 
  2 - The Resurrection of Father Brown by G K Chesterton 
  3 - Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 1 by John Galsworthy 
  4 - Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 2 by John Galsworthy 
  5 - An Unwritten Novel by Virginia Woolf 
  6 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope 
  7 - The Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe 
  8 - The Death Room by Edgar Wallace 
  9 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood 
  10 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley 
  11 - The Sexton's Hero by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  12 - Where Was Wych Street by Stacy Aumonier

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  Fear and Was It a Dream? -...

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Skeletons and corpses rise from their fitful sleep and share a haunting message from beyond the grave.

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  The Dungeon Date

  Martin Lundqvist

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  As the rumours about his alleged vaccine damages have spread, Geoffrey goes home with the only woman at the gala dinner that knows that the rumours are false. Unfortunately, his planned hook-up, Sandra Barnes, turns out to be a madwoman who chains Geoffrey to a bed and claims that his refereeing calls caused the death of her boyfriend. Will anyone save Geoffrey, or will his days end in the clutches of a madwoman? There is only one way to find out, listen to this audiobook.

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