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  Alice Dunbar Nelson - A Short...

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

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  Alice Ruth Moore was born on 19th July 1875 in New Orleans where she was part of the multi-racial Creole community.  She was the first generation seemingly born free after the Civil War and unusually for the times, obtained a university education which led to her becoming a teacher at a public school in New Orleans.   
  In 1895, when she was 20, she published her first collection of short stories and poems, ‘Violets and Other Tales’, and moved to New York City where she co-founded and taught at the White Rose Mission, a Home for Girls.   
  Alice was always politically active and sought to advance the position of black women.  She began work as a journalist at the Woman’s Era newspaper where her work was seen by the established poet and journalist Paul Laurence Dunbar.  After corresponding for two years she joined him in Washington DC and they married in 1898.   
  It was a difficult relationship, due mainly to Dunbar’s fragile health, alcoholism and depression.  After a severe beating she left him and moved to Delaware to teach for a decade though took time out to enroll at Cornell University. 
  A short-lived marriage to Henry A. Callis, a physician and professor at Howard University ended in divorce and she became co-editor and writer for an influential publication of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.  A third marriage to civil rights activist Robert J. Nelson came about, as did affairs with several women, notably the activist Fay Jackie Robinson.   
  In Wilmington Delaware she and her husband devoted their time and writings to working for equality for African Americans and women’s suffrage.   
  Alice Dunbar Nelson was a natural and gifted writer across many genres, from novels, essays, plays to diaries, criticism, poetry and of course short stories, of which ‘Stones in the Village’ is a fine example.  The protagonist, like herself, is light skinned from New Orleans, which allows for a social mobility and a unique position in American society that Dunbar Nelson captures with an imagination and insight to explores another divisive perspective on race.  It is unsurprising that Alice was a prominent part of the early Harlem Renaissance and influenced many others including Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. 
  Alice and her husband moved to Philadelphia in 1932 and it was here that she died on 18th September 1935, at the age of 60, from a heart ailment.

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  The Necklace

  Guy de Maupassant

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  The Necklace (La Parure) by Guy de Maupassant is a masterful short story of irony, vanity, and societal pressure. First published in 1884, this French literary classic tells the story of Madame Loisel, a woman born into modest means who yearns for wealth and luxury. When she borrows a beautiful necklace to attend a glamorous ball, a single careless decision sets off a chain of events that alters the course of her life. 
  With its sharp social critique and devastating twist ending, The Necklace has become one of the most anthologized and taught short stories in world literature. Maupassant’s clear, concise style and deep understanding of human nature are on full display in this tale of pride, sacrifice, and misplaced values. 
  This full audiobook captures the tension, elegance, and tragic irony of Maupassant’s original French narrative in a voice that blends subtle emotion with literary depth—perfect for fans of classic literature, moral tales, and psychological realism.

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  Sleep Stories for Adults - 83...

  Corie Herolds

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  Does It takes you a long time to fall asleep? 
  Do you wake up many times during the night? 
  Are you afraid of feeling tired the next day? 
    
  If so - you’ve recognized yourself in one or more of these situations - you’re in terrible need of bedtime stories for adults. Specifically designed for stressed-out and anxious adults with sleep problems, these relaxing tales automatically melt away your stress once you start listening to them.  
  It’s easy as it sounds. You don't have to struggle to relax and fall asleep. Whatever your favorite genres are (like fantasy, mystery, adventure...), here, you’ll find bread for your teeth: stories that’ll make you "escape" from reality, forget everyday problems, and finally sleep deeply. 
  In this book, you will:Find useful tips to relieve stress before going to sleep to help you relax and sleep easier.Understand what hypnosis is and how it can help you relaxing and realizing what makes you stressed and anxious, to heal and overcome these issues.Discover how meditation helps you overcome insomnia by improving your sleep quality and minimizing daytime disorder in older adults and chronic insomnia people.Be amazed by relaxing bedtime stories that will help you find time for quiet sleeping, thanks to the serenity climate they give you. That will allow you to relax, abandoning the agitation that too often disturbs the moment of falling asleep, making it difficultAnd lot more! 
    
  Imagine the warm and relaxing narrator’s voice calming you down, over and over again.... As if you were being lulled by the waves. Until you can no longer move - you’re deeply relaxed, you’re in heaven. Sleep like a baby from tonight, and finally feel recharged. 
  Scroll to the top of the page, select the buy now button, and start sleeping like you deserve!

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  Moon Orchard - An audiobook...

  Seetha Nambiar Dodd, Lin Blythe,...

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  A mother’s own childhood experiences of bigotry are triggered when her son is picked on for the colour of his skin. Another mother pre-judges a parent at the school drop-off on the basis of her appearance. A disparate group of travellers on the trans-Siberian railway in the 1930s share memories of Chinese culture, history and politics. And an Australian-Chinese visitor finds herself both fascinated and estranged riding a subway in modern-day China.  
  Moon Orchard presents a range of Asian Australian voices exploring identity and experience in a variety of writing styles from prose to poetry to spoken word. Includes by ‘Fair Enough’ by Seetha Nambiar Dodd, ‘And/Or’ by Lin Blythe, ‘Time and Prejudice’ by Rohini Keegan Alexander, ‘Clockwork’ by Christine Pang, ‘The Quiet Places I Walk’ by Isabelle Quilty, ‘West of Chita’ by B. Fanlin, ‘I Owe You’ by Janet Bi Li Chan and ‘Succumbing to Dystopia’ by Angela Jin. With special guest, Hawaiian-based Vietnamese multi-media artist, azianami, performing ‘Memories Butterflies’. 
  Edited by Sophie Amos and Luzelle Sotelo. 
  The Moon Orchard project is supported by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW.

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  A Man and Some Others

  Stephen Crane

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  Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 - June 5, 1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist. He was born in Newark, NJ. Crane is noted for his early employment of naturalism, a literary style in which characters face realistically portrayed and often bleak circumstances, but Crane added impressionistic imagery and biblical symbolism to the austere realism.

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  Crocker's Hole - From their pens...

  R D Blackmore

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  Richard Doddridge Blackmore was born on 7th June, 1825 at Longworth in Berkshire (now part of Oxfordshire), where his father, John Blackmore, was Curate-in-charge of the parish. His mother died a few months after his birth the victim of an outbreak of typhus. With this loss the family moved to Bushey, Hertfordshire, then on to their native Devon.  His elder brother Richard (by a year), however, was taken by his aunt to live near Oxford. His father married again in 1831, whereupon Richard returned to live with them.  With much of his childhood spent in the lush and pastoral "Doone Country" of Exmoor, and along the Badgworthy Water, Blackmore came to love the very countryside he immortalised in Lorna Doone.  In November 1853 he married his wife Lucy.  And the following year, 1854, his literary career began with a collection of Poems and for the next 15 years he would write in the winters and garden in the summers.  In 1860 with inherited money he built a house in Teddington just outside of London and established a market garden for the cultivation of fruit.  He loved horticulture but having little business experience could never really exploit it.  However with the publication of Lorna Doone in 1869 he was catapulted to fame.  And although he continued to write extensively nothing caught the public imagination quite like Lorna Doone.  RD Blackmore died at Teddington on 20th January, 1900 after a long and painful illness, and was buried next to his wife in Teddington cemetery.

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