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  The Reward of Enterprise - From...

  Ward Muir

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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 Ward Muir.

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  The Wisdom of Uncle Podger -...

  Jerome K. Jerome

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  Jerome Klapka Jerome was born on the 2nd May 1859 at Belsize House in Caldmore, Walsall, England. 
  His family were reduced to poverty whilst he was a toddler owning to failed investments in the local mining industry. 
  After several moves in declining circumstances Jerome became a pupil at St Marylebone Grammar School.  His aim then was to go into politics, or even become a man of letters, but with the death of his father, when he was thirteen, and his mother two years later, now meant that he had to support himself and leave all thoughts of education behind. 
  He spent four years working for the London and North Western Railway, initially collecting coal that fell along the railway lines.  Thereafter, using the name Harold Crichton, he tried his hand at acting but the repertory company he joined was stretched in its resources and, at times, relied on the actors to purchase their own props and costumes.  After three years he tried journalism, teaching and work as a solicitor’s clerk.  All came to nothing.  Finally, in 1885, he had some success with ‘On the Stage―and Off’, a comic memoir collection of his stage experiences and his early attempts at acting.  
  Shortly thereafter he married and his honeymoon on the Thames became the inspiration for ‘Three Men in a Boat’.  This of course was a wild success, both critically and commercially, but also his creative high point.  
  Although he was now able to write full time, he was never able to attain all the heights of that classic humorous novel.  He remained a prolific writer of novels, plays and short stories and its from those classic works that these stories have been mined. 
  Jerome K Jerome died in Northampton General Hospital on the 14th June 1927 two weeks after suffering a paralytic stroke and a cerebral haemorrhage on a motoring tour.  He was 68.

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  Burning Secret - A New Translation

  Stefan Zweig

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  He thought he had found a friend. He was only a means to an end. 
  At a fashionable Austrian spa resort, twelve-year-old Edgar is thrilled when a sophisticated Baron befriends him. For the first time, an adult treats him as an equal, promises adventures, fills the void left by his distant father. Edgar has never felt so valued, so important. 
  But the Baron's charm is calculated. His real interest is Edgar's mother—beautiful, refined, her husband conveniently absent in Vienna. The boy is merely the key for proximity, the cover for increasingly intimate encounters with a married woman. 
  As Edgar watches them together—their coded conversations, their elaborate charade of accidental meetings—he senses something he cannot name. Jealousy transforms into confusion, confusion into terrible understanding: he has been used, manipulated, discarded. The friendship never existed. The Baron never cared at all. 
  Stefan Zweig's devastating novella captures the precise moment when childhood ends—not through gentle education but through betrayal. Set in pre-World War I Austria, where beautiful surfaces conceal sordid calculations, Burning Secret is a masterpiece of psychological intensity: innocence confronting adult duplicity, a child forced into knowledge that scars rather than enlightens. 
  Some secrets burn so deeply that innocence can never be recovered.

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  Mark Twain’s Library of Humor

  Mark Twain, Thomas Bailey...

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  Master wit Mark Twain selected these twenty-seven stories himself by fifteen of his favorite nineteenth century authors. The order follows that which Twain placed them in in the original anthology, published in 1888. He indulged his comic fancy rather than making a textbook in which all themes or authors are placed together, saying that "This way, you will have to peruse the whole thing before discovering that one of your favorites is not included." However, it is no joke that these are the authors represented: Charles Dudley Warner, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Eugene Field, William D. Howells, James M. Bailey, Joel Chandler Harris, Katherine Kent Child Walker, Robert J. Burdette, Sam Davis, Artemus Ward, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis Lee Pratt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Frederick W. Cozzens, and Twain himself.

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  A Responsibility - From their...

  Henry Harland

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  The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Henry Harland.

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  The Dorothy Parker Audio Collection

  Dorothy Parker

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  A variety of work from one of the most quotable of all twentieth-century authors—the inimitable Dorothy Parker 
  Author, poet, screenwriter and outstanding member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was known for her quick wit, keen observations, and remarkable insight into the human condition. Regarded as brilliant, but known to be an alcoholic and often depressed, Parker’s work pushes all buttons at once: humor, anger, love, pity and everything in bewteen…she pulled no punches, writing with pure, unadulterated passion; her work is timeless and as pertinent to today’s society as it was to that of the time she wrote. 
  Among the gems included in this collection are her first published short story, Such a Pretty Little Picture and her O. Henry Award winner Big Blonde, several other short stories, and, unlike other audio collections, some of her work, including her 1918 New Yorker piece on Tolstoy’s play Redemption and a 1927 Vanity Fair review of Emily Post’s Ettiquette.

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