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  The Legacy - From their pens to...

  Virginia Woolf

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  Adeline Virginia Woolf was born on the 25th January 1882 in South Kensington in London. 
  Although lauded as a founder of modernist writing with such classics as ‘Orlando’, ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ‘To the Lighthouse’ and, of course, many classic short stories, her background is filled with elements of tragedy that she somehow overcame to become such a revered writer.   Her mother died when she was 13, her half-sister Stella two years later and with it her first of several nervous breakdowns.  Appallingly it was later found that three of her half-brothers had sexually abused her so darkness must have seemed ever present.   
  She began writing professionally at age 20 but her father’s death two years later brought a complete mental collapse and she was briefly institutionalised.  Somehow she found within herself a literary career and with it great innovations in writing; she was a pioneer of “stream of consciousness”.    
  Her tight circle of friends were the founders of the Bloomsbury Group, a movement whose legacy still influences across the arts and society in many way to this day.   
  Whilst the dark periods continued to interrupt her emotional state her rate of work never ceased.  Until, on 28th March 1941, Woolf put on her overcoat, filled up its pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse, in Lewes, East Sussex and drowned herself.  Her body was not recovered until the 18th April.  She was 59. 
  She left behind a note which read in part “Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again.  I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times.  And I shan't recover this time.  I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate.  So I am doing what seems the best thing to do”.

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  The Strange Adventures of a...

  Ingersoll Lockwood

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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 Ingersoll Lockwood.

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  Beryl the Croucher and the Rest...

  Thomas Burke

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  Thomas Burke was born Sydney Thomas Burke on November 29th, 1886 in Eltham, London (at the time it was part of Kent). 
  An author in the early years of the 20th Century Burke brought his skills of pen and eye to parts of London, specifically the Limehouse district of the East End, to write with drive and vigour about the characters he met and the places that he knew.  Whether he turned that material into fiction or non-fiction the words seep quality.  His publications ranged from these wonderful vignettes of down-at-heel London to writings on homosexuality and the English Countryside. 
  Thomas Burke died in the Homeopathic Hospital in Queens Square, Bloomsbury on 22 September 1945.

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  The Game

  Jack London

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  Inside the boxing ring, a young fighter faces a final challenge where love, pride, courage, and personal conviction collide.
  
  Jack London's The Game combines the intensity of boxing with a deeply human story about love, determination, and difficult choices.
  
  The novel follows Joe Fleming, a young boxer preparing for an important fight while balancing his commitment to the sport with his relationship and the expectations surrounding him. London's vivid portrayal of the boxing world creates a powerful atmosphere of physical struggle and emotional tension.
  
  With its themes of courage, sacrifice, love, and personal conviction, The Game offers a compelling example of London's ability to turn a dramatic sporting contest into a broader exploration of human character.
  
  Step into the ring with Jack London and experience a gripping story of love, courage, and the ultimate test of character.

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  Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  This selection includes works by Edgar Allan Poe:
  Tales
  The Gold-Bug
  The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  The Fall of the House of Usher
  The Masque of the Red Death
  The Pit and the Pendulum
  The Tell-Tale Heart
  The Black Cat
  The Cask of Amontillado
  Hop-Frog
  The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
  Poems
  A Dream Within A Dream
  A Valentine
  An Enigma
  Annabel Lee
  Bridal Ballad
  Dream-land
  Eldorado
  Eulalie
  For Annie
  Hymn
  Lenore
  Marie Louise (Shew)
  Silence
  The Bells
  The City In The Sea
  The Coliseum
  The Conqueror Worm
  The Haunted Palace
  To One In Paradise
  The Raven
  The Sleeper
  To F-
  To Frances S. Osgood
  To Helen
  To Marie Louise (Shew)
  To My Mother
  To Zante
  Ulalume

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  In the Vault

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The tale of a negligent and lazy village gravedigger who receives a harsh lesson and realizes that diligent fulfillment of duties pays off. 
   
  The idea for the story was sent to Lovecraft by C. W. Smith, the publisher of the magazine "The Tryout" (in which the text was first published – the last case when Lovecraft's story would appear first in an amateur newspaper). The publisher of "Weird Tales" rejected the story, even though it seemed tailor-made for the magazine's undemanding readership. The likely reason for this reluctance was the macabre nature of the text, which dealt with the deceased, and it was precisely because of such themes in one of Lovecraft's stories that "Weird Tales" had problems with the authorities."

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