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  American Family Shakespeare...

  Stefan Rudnicki, Mary Lamb,...

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  In this second volume of Blackstone’s audio theater production of An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment, a full cast of award-winning narrators present miscellaneous scenes and soliloquies from Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest. Based on Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb and featuring Elizabethan songs and dances in new arrangements for stringed instruments, this original audio recording is a Skyboat Road Company production, conceived, adapted, and produced by Stefan Rudnicki for Blackstone Audio, Inc. 
  MUSIC: Willow Song  by Emily Janice Card OTHELLO  read by Mirron Willis SOLILOQUY: Othello  read by Mirron Willis KING LEAR read by Yuri Rasovsky SCENE: “Blow Winds...” read by Yuri Rasovsky, Lorna Raver SCENE: Lear, Fool, Kent read by Stefan Rudnicki MACBETH  read by Harlan Ellison TIMON OF ATHENS read by Robertson Dean PERICLES read by Stefan Rudnicki SCENE: Pericles, Marina read by Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Janice Card CYMBELINE read by Don Leslie THE WINTER’S TALE read by Gabrielle de Cuir THE TEMPEST read by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. SOLILOQUY: Prospero read by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

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  The American

  Henry James

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  "The American" by Henry James follows Christopher Newman, a wealthy and confident American businessman, as he ventures to Europe seeking adventure and romance. In Paris, he becomes infatuated with the beautiful and enigmatic Claire de Cintré, a young widow from a noble French family. Driven by his passion, Newman pursues Claire despite her family's disapproval. As their relationship develops, cultural disparities, social expectations, and financial considerations complicate their love. Claire's aristocratic relatives, particularly her controlling mother, present formidable obstacles, and Newman's American directness clashes with European subtleties.

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  The Moneylenders of Shahpur

  Helen Forrester

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  Timeless romance from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction continues to move readers. 
  Anasuyabehn was brought up to obey her father in all things. She didn’t question this until she set eyes on Tilak, the brilliant new professor at Shahpur University. 
  Promised to Mahadev, a wealthy moneylender, Anasuyabehn is not free to pursue Tilak — a man from a different culture who shocks her community with his unfamiliar, modern ideas. 
  Torn between a passionate love for Tilak and her deep religious beliefs pushing her towards Mahadev, Anasuyabehn only wants to follow her heart. 
  What she does not realise is that she is not the only one with a stake in this — and neither of the two men will give up easily. 
  Helen Forrester's The Moneylenders of Shahpur is a timeless, top-class historical saga that delves into the complexities of love, duty, and societal expectations. Anasuyabehn's struggle between her heart and her obligations continues to move readers around the world. 
  For fans of Katie Flynn (The Winter Bride), Maureen Lee (The Kelly Sisters), Pam Howes (Dreams on Mersey Square), Anna Jacobs (Lavender Lane), and Rosie Goodwin (Dancing Till Midnight). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  The Adventure of the Priory School

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Priory School, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Priory School" tenth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.Holmes receives a visit from Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable, the founder and principal of a preparatory school called Priory School in Northern England. He beseeches Holmes to come back to Mackleton with him to look into the disappearance of one of his pupils, the ten-year-old Lord Saltire, whose father is the very rich and famous Duke of Holdernesse. Huxtable explains that not only the boy has disappeared, but also the German master, Heidegger, along with his bicycle.Once in the North, the Duke says to Holmes that he does not think that his estranged wife has anything to do with his son's disappearance, nor has there been a ransom demand. Holmes establishes that the boy and his kidnappers could not have used the nearby road without being seen, suggesting that they went cross-country. As if to confirm this, the police find the boy's school cap in some gypsies' possession. They swear that they simply found it on the moor, but the police lock them up...Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.

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  Clotilde Graves - A Short Story...

  Clothilde Graves

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  Clotilde Augusta Inez Mary Graves was born on the 3rd June 1863 at Buttevant Castle, Co. Cork, to parents with military backgrounds. 
   
  At age nine, the family moved to Southsea in England for yet another military posting.  Her father’s postings gave her valuable experiences that would be put to good use in later years in some of her literary works. 
   
  She was educated at a Catholic convent in Lourdes before returning to London in 1884 to study art in Bloomsbury.  She worked part-time at the British Museum and the Royal Female School of Art and generated further income by drawing little pen-and-ink grotesques for the comic papers.  
   
  A few years later a chance meeting found her writing extra lyrics for a pantomime version of Puss in Boots.  She followed up with several financially successful plays, both in London and New York, and gained a measure of notoriety in one with the comparison of marriage and prostitution.   
   
  Despite her dramatic success she published her first novel in 1911 under the pseudonym of Richard Dehan which she continued to use for later works.  As well as novels and plays she published collections of short stories which glow with talent and invention. 
   
  She was an unusual figure in London society, wearing her hair short, taking on a masculine manner and cut of clothing, and smoking cigarettes in public when such traits were considered eccentric at best.  Add to this her admired collection of Chinese and Japanese trophies, her enthusiasm for fly-fishing and her riding of a tricycle and you have a perfect image of this fascinating writer. 
   
  Clotilde Graves died at the convent of Our Lady of Lourdes at Hatch End in Middlesex, on the 3rd December 1932.  She was 69. 
   
  1 - Clotilde Graves - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - Under The Electrics by Clotilde Graves writing as Richard Dehan 
  3 - The Lost Room by Clotilde Graves writing as Richard Dehan 
  4 - A Spirit Elopement by Clotilde Graves 
  5 - In The Fourth Dimension by Clotilde Graves writing as Richard Dehan 
  6 - A Nocturne by Clotilde Graves writing as by Richard Dehan

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  Bashan and I

  Thomas Mann

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  In Bashan and I (sometime referred to as Man and Dog), Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice, writes in the most remarkable way of the unique relation that links a dog with his master. These memoirs read as a novel, and describe in fierce detail the behavior, feelings and psychology of Mann's dog Bashan, and of Mann himself. Mann tells how he acquired Bashan, details traits of his character, and describes how they go on harmless and bucolic hunts.
  Written in 1918 at the end of the First World War, Bashan and I is an ode to life, to nature, to simple joys, and to a dog.

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