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  The Short Stories of Henry W...

  Henry W. Nevinson

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  Henry Woodd Nevinson was born on October 11th, 1856. 
  Nevinson was schooled at Shrewsbury School and at Christ Church, Oxford. John Ruskin influenced his time at Oxford. Fascinated by German Culture he spent some time at Jena before publishing, in 1884, Herder & His times, a study on Johnann Gottfried Herder. 
  In 1897 he became the Daily Chronicle's reporter for the Greco-Turkish War. He was also noted for his reporting on the Second Boer War. 
  During the 1880s Nevinson had attached his politics to Socialism and by 1889 had joined the Social Democratic Federation. 
  In 1904, he was hired by Harper's Monthly Magazine to report on a supposed trade in slaves from Angola to the cocoa plantations of São Tomé. He produced evidence of people being trafficked to settle debts or seized by Portuguese agents and taken in shackles to the coastal towns. Once there he wrote that Portuguese officials "freed" them and continued the charade by declaring they were now voluntary workers who agreed to go to São Tomé for five years. Despite severe ill health he continued to follow the slaves to São Tomé. He found plantation conditions so appalling that one in five workers died each year. His account was serialised from August 1905 and then published as ‘A Modern Slavery’ in 1906. 
  He was also a suffragist, being one of the founders in 1907 of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage. 
  In 1914 he co-founded the Friends' Ambulance Unit and later in World War I, as a war correspondent, was wounded during the infamous Gallipoli campaign. 
  E. M. Forster described Nevinson's book, ‘More Changes, More Chances’ in 1925 as "exciting", and that "He has brought to the soil of his adoption something that transcends party-generosity, recklessness, a belief in conscience joined to a mistrust of principles". 
  A committed Socialist Nevinson could see, during the 20s and 30s, the foundations of a titanic struggle began to gather its forces. He would later state "I detest the cruel systems of persecution and suppression now existing under Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy and Stalin in Russia". 
  Nevinson married Margaret Wynne Jones and, after her death in 1933, he married his long-time lover, and fellow suffragist, Evelyn Sharp. 
  Henry W. Nevinson died on November 9th, 1941. 
   
  01 - Henry W. Nevinson. A Short Story Volume - An Introduction 
  02 - St George of Rochester by Henry W. Nevinson 
  03 - The Aristocrat of Labour by Henry W. Nevinson

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  History Plays for the Grammar...

  Mary Ella Lyng

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  A charming collection of 14 short American history plays for the very young - ranging from Christopher Columbus to George Washington to Susan B Anthony. (Summary by Maria Therese)Cast: 
  Narrator; First Maid of Honor; Second Woman: AvailleNarrator; Queen Isabella; Pocohantus: CaprishaPageColumbus; First Merchant; Blount; Squanto; Robert E. Lee: Tom CausbyWise Man; Captain Newport; King; Court; People; Richard Henry Lee; Californians; Auctioneer; Union Soldier: Libby GohnLuis; John Smith; William Penn; Noble; First Woman; First Boy; British General; Men; Secretary to the President; Mr. President; Abraham Lincoln; Soldier: Charlotte DuckettSecond Merchant: Courtier; Officer: Aidan BrackPowhatan; William Penn, Sr; Second Maid of Honor; Samoset; Third Boy; Father Gibault; Senator Benton; Ezekiel Webster; Wise Man of Spain: Maria ThereseWalter Raleigh; Bradford; Young George Washington; Second Man of the House; Mr. Sherman; Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Elizabeth KlettQueen Elizabeth: Verity KendallIndian Chief; Second Man: rookieblueFrancis Drake; Governor Carter; Benjamin Franklin: Nathanial W.C. HigginsMan; First Man; Second Boy; Robert Livingston; Father; Mr. Seward: balaNarrator; Susan B. Anthony: Victoria MartinPeople; Third Man of the House; General Scott; Mr. Haynes: KristingjStandish: Thomas Jefferson; George Rogers Clark; Andrew Jackson; President Van Buren; Henry Clay; John Hanks; Ulysses S. Grant: Amanda FridayBrewster; Mr. Hancock; General Flores; Officer: David OlsonNarrator; One of the Girls: Pamela KrantzMrs. Washington: BrittaniaFourth Boy; Speaker; Member of the House: Frances BrownPatrick Henry: GraceMen of the House; Other Man; Member of Congress: TriciaGJohn Adams; John Fremont; John Calhoun: Arielle LipshawOlder George Washington: Delmar H. DolbierDaniel Webster: nomorejeffsAudio edited by: Maria Therese; Hugh Gillis; Elizabeth Klett and Arielle Lipshaw

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  Moriarty Meets His Match

  Anna Castle

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  Professor James Moriarty has but one desire left in his shattered life: to stop the man who ruined him from harming anyone else. Then he meets Angelina Gould and his world turns upside down. 
  At the International Exhibition, an exploding steam engine kills a man. When Moriarty tries to figure out what happened, he comes up against Sherlock Holmes, sent to investigate by Moriarty’s old enemy. Holmes collects evidence that points at Moriarty, who realizes he must either solve the crime or swing it for it himself. He soon uncovers trouble among the board members of the engine company and its unscrupulous promoter. Moriarty tries to untangle those relationships, but everywhere he turns, he meets the alluring Angelina. She’s playing some game, but what’s her goal? And whose side is she on? 
  Between them, Holmes and Angelina push Moriarty to his limits -- and beyond. He’ll have to lose himself to save his life and win the woman he loves.

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  The Pope's Daughter - A Novel of...

  Dario Fo

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  “Lucrezia Borgia as a living, feeling woman rather than just another bodice waiting to be ripped . . . an evident tribute . . . to its much maligned heroine.” —New York Times 
   
  Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified figures in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married—one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit and another was murdered by Lucrezia’s own brother, Cesare Borgia. She is cast in the role of murderess, temptress, incestuous lover, femme fatale par excellence. 
   
  But there is always more than one version of a story. 
   
  Lucrezia Borgia is the only woman in history to serve as the head of the Catholic Church. She successfully administered several of the Renaissance Italy’s most thriving cities, founded one of the world’s first credit unions, and was a generous patron of the arts. She was mother to a prince and to a cardinal. She was a devoted wife to the Prince of Ferrara, and the lover of the poet Pietro Bembo. She was a child of the renaissance and in many ways the world’s first modern woman. 
   
  From Dario Fo, Nobel Laureate and one of Italy’s most beloved writers. 
   
  “Lucrezia Borgia enthralls Fo, and he signals his enthusiasm with arch, knowing humor directed at the reader . . . Fo’s Lucrezia more femme fatale than incestuous poisoner.” —Kirkus Reviews 
   
  “Dario Fo takes the image that has been sent down to us all the way from John Ford’s Tis a Pity She’s a Whore through Victor Hugo’s play Lucrezia Borgia to a slew of the recent popular biographies and turns it inside out.” —La Repubblica

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  The History of the Life of the...

  Henry Fielding

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  This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph Andrews. It is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang leader and highwayman. He implicitly compares the Whig party in Parliament with a gang of thieves being run by Walpole, whose constant desire to be a "Great Man" (a common epithet for Walpole) should culminate only in the antithesis of greatness: being hanged. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  The Oresteia

  Aeschylus

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  The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies. It tells the tragic tale of the House of Atreus, whose inhabitants have been cursed and are doomed to play out their bloody, vengeful destinies. At the beginning of the first part, the Trojan War has ended and the Greek general, Agamemnon, is returning victorious to his wife Clytemnestra. Yet she finds it difficult to forgive his sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, who was killed to ensure the Greek fleet fair winds in their voyage to Troy. Her desire for vengeance, and its dire consequences, instigates the action of these poetic tragedies. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) Cast:AGAMEMNON, king of Mycenae - StephenCAEGISTHUS, cousin to Agamemnon - mbORESTES, son of Agamemnon - David O’ConnellCLYTEMNESTRA, wife of Agamemnon - Christie NowakCASSANDRA, a Trojan princess - Kristin HughesELECTRA, sister of Orestes - Claire GogetAPOLLO, god of the Delphic oracle - Andrew LebrunATHENA, goddess of wisdom - Catharine EastmanPYTHIA, a priestess of Apollo - Kirsten FerreriA WATCHMAN at Mycenae - Joe EarleyA HERALD from Troy - tipaewNURSE to Orestes and Electra - Elizabeth KlettATTENDANT of Aegisthus - Fr. Richard Zeile of DetroitATTENDANT WOMAN of Athena - Jennifer StearnsNARRATOR  - Justin BarrettCHORUS in Agamemnon - Andy MinterCHORUS in The Libation-Bearers - Jc GuanCHORUS in The Furies - Kara Shallenberg, Rosalind Wills, and Christie NowakPYLADES - Annoying TwitBook Coordinators: Kirsten Ferreri, Sarah Jennings, Elizabeth Klett, and David Lawrence

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