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  Forgotten Authors The - Men -...

  Anthony Hope

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  Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. 
  In literature the ambition is much narrower.  In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published.  And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.  Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number. 
  In the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution.  Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it.  Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.  
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.   
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  In this volume we offer up a small selection of those talents whose time has now come again.

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  Russian Short Story The - Volume...

  Leonid Andreyev, Mikhail...

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  The Russian novel has a reputation that is immense, both in narrative and in length.  Unquestionably though the ideas, themes and characters make many novels rightly revered as world class, as icons of literature. 
   
  Perhaps an easier way to enjoy a wider selection of the Russian heritage, with its varied and glorious literary talents, is with the short story.  These gems sparkle and beguile the mind with their characters and narrative, exploring facets of society and the human condition that more Western authors somehow find more difficult to navigate, or to explore, explain and relate to.   
   
  The Russian short story is, in many respects, in a genre of its own.  It is at its captivating best whether it’s an exploration of real-life experiences, through fantasy and fables and on to total absurdity. 
   
  In a land so vast it is unsurprising that it is a world almost unto itself. Cultures and landscapes of differing hues are packed together bound only by the wilful bonds and force of Empire. 
   
  The stories in this collection traverse the decades where one might be a serf under an absolute monarch, and the reality of that was pretty near to slavery, into an emancipation of sorts in the fields, or towns under the despotic will of landowners and the rich into the upheavals of Empire and then the overthrow of the ruling class and its replacement by the communists, who promised equality for all and delivered a society where the down-trodden remained the lowest yet vital cog of the state machine and its will.  
   
  Whilst Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Chekhov are a given in any Russian collection we also explore and include Andreyev, Korolenko, Turgenev, Blavatsky and many others to create a world rich and dense across a sprawling landscape of diverse people, riddled with the class and unfairness in perhaps some of the most turbulent times that Russia has ever experienced. 
   
  01 - The Russian Short Story - Volume 6 - An Introduction 
  02 - Cain by Alexander Kuprin 
  03 - Anathema by Alexander Kuprin 
  04 - An Evening Guest by Alexander Kuprin 
  05 - Silence by Leonid Andreyev 
  06 - Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev 
  07 - The Lie by Leonid Andreyev 
  08 - The City by Leonid Andreyev 
  09 - The Republic of the Southern Cross by Valery Bryusov 
  10 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 
  11 - Light by Achmed Abdullah 
  12 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  13 - The Murderer by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  14 - The Blind Ones by Isaac Babel

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  The System of Doctor Tarr and...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  A curious traveler visits a renowned mental asylum in France, famous for its revolutionary "soothing system" of treatment. As he delves deeper into the institution, the line between sanity and madness becomes increasingly blurred. A bizarre dinner party and the peculiar behavior of the asylum's inhabitants lead to a shocking revelation that challenges the narrator's perception of reality.

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  Hyuk-jae: K-pop Runaway

  J.T. Jefferson

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  Born in Flushing, Queens, New York to Korean immigrants, Hyuk-jae was hurried away to South Korea while still a young child. His parents were trying to spare him from the trappings of hip-hop culture. To their dismay, his origins in NYC (the birthplace of hip-hop), and fluency in English made him popular among his South Korean peers. Upon graduating high school, Hyuk-jae's hip-hop hobby catapulted him into international stardom. 
  Now in his late twenties, Hyuk-jae finds himself constantly surrounded by handlers, security personnel, and paparazzi. During his triumphant return to NYC to perform at Madison Square Garden, he decided to escape his fame. After an elaborate caper to exit his hotel room unnoticed, Hyuk-jae collided with a middle-aged African American man who would change his perspective on life. 
  Venture with him from the "Rock the Bells" music festival in Queens to the serenity of the Catskill Mountains. Experience how Hyuk-jae grows from the kindness and indirect mentoring of a stranger. Marvel at the manner in which he sets his new surroundings to music while deciding whether or not to return to the restrictions of celebrity.

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  One Good Story That One - Stories

  Thomas King

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  One Good Story, That One is a collection steeped in native oral tradition and shot through with Thomas King's special brand of wit and comic imagination. These highly acclaimed stories conjure up Native and Judeo-Christian myths, present-day pop culture, and literature while mixing in just the right amount of perception and experience.

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  A Painful case - From their pens...

  James Joyce

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  James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on the 2nd February 1882 in Dublin into a middle-class family, and the eldest of ten surviving siblings 
  Admired as a brilliant student he briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School before excelling at the Jesuit schools of Clongowes and Belvedere.  From there he went on to attend University College Dublin from 1898, studying English, French and Italian 
  In 1902, Joyce was now in his early twenties, and went to Paris to study Medicine but soon abandoned his teachings.  Back in Dublin to attend to his dying Mother he met Nora Barnacle. They bonded immediately into a life-long match. Together they decided to emigrate to Europe.  The couple lived in Trieste, Rome, Paris, and finally Zürich where Joyce pursued a variety of jobs and ventures to supplement his literary pursuits but none of these paid off.  
  After publishing a poetry volume, ‘Chamber Music’, in 1907, his short story collection ‘The Dubliners’, in 1914, helped establish his talent in the rapidly changing world.  
  Although far from home Joyce’s literary heart and works were set in his recollections of Dublin.  Characters are close resemblances of family and friends and indeed enemies.  His landmark work ‘Ulysses’, published in 1922, is set in the streets and alleyways of the city as it parallels Homer’s Odyssey in a variety of styles including its famed stream of consciousness. 
  His pen continued to produce classics of the order of ‘A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man’ and ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ together with several volumes of poetry and a play ‘The Exiles, in 1918.   
  On the 11th January 1941, Joyce underwent surgery in Zürich for a perforated duodenal ulcer. The next day he fell into a coma. On the 13th after a brief period of lucidity in which he called for his wife and son he passed.  He was 58.

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