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  2 B R 0 2 B (version 2) & The...

  Kurt Vonnegut

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  These two stories by Kurt Vonnegut were written over a decade apart but they are definitely connected. The Big Trip Up Yonder, published in Galaxy Science Fiction January 1954 is a comical yet scary description of what over population was going to do to society after aging was conquered and a simple daily dose of "anti-gerosone" would keep you forever the same age. Would Gramps EVER take 'That Big Trip Up Yonder', or would his hordes of descendants be stuck with him forever in a tiny apartment!? 2 B R 0 2 B, published in Worlds of If, January 1962 takes this basic situation many years into the future and a solution has been found. The population of the US has dropped from 80 billion to 40 million. Not what everyone would call a pretty solution, or the best solution, but nevertheless a solution to the population problem. I believe this is the type of story it is best to listen to, not describe, so enjoy. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)

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  Arid Dreams - Stories

  Duanwad Pimwana

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  “One of Thailand’s preeminent female writers . . . Each of her stories poses its own moral challenge, pleasurable and unsettling at once . . . phenomenal.” —NPR.org 
   
  In thirteen stories that investigate ordinary and working-class Thailand, characters aspire for more but remain suspended in routine. They bide their time, waiting for an extraordinary event to end their stasis. A politician’s wife imagines her life had her husband’s accident been fatal, a man on death row requests that a friend clear up a misunderstanding with a sex worker, and an elevator attendant feels himself wasting away while trapped, immobile, at his station all day. 
   
  With curious wit, this collection offers revelatory insight and subtle critique, exploring class, gender, and disenchantment in a changing country. 
   
  “Arid Dreams is stark, sly, and unsparingly brilliant. Here is a writer unafraid to pick up the scalpel of her prose and use it to cut to the bone. Each story is more compelling than the last, each combines dark humor with deeper truths about human desire and depravity. I couldn’t look away.” —Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young 
   
  “Pimwana’s characters, whether they are truck drivers or farmers, doctors or prisoners, are realized with depth, affection, and a good degree of humor. The petty concerns of their daily lives—frustrated careers, infidelity, reconnecting with distant family—are hypnotically rendered in Pimwana’s telling. This is an exciting debut.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “A deep and thoughtful exploration of human psyches and the dreams of ordinary Thais in an ever-changing socio-economic environment.” —Bangkok Post 
   
  “An exacting look at the moments of joy and tragedy, of hope and desire.” —Independent Book Review

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  The Horse Dealer's Daughter

  D. H. Lawrence

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  David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885-1930) is recognized as one of the greatest English novelists, poets, playwrights and short story writers. His works address themes such as emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct, wrapped up in gripping plots which range from the poignant to the downright creepy. "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" is widely thought of as one of Lawrence's finest works.The descendents of the deceased horse dealer have fallen on hard times and are being evicted from the family stud farm. The three brothers and one sister are sitting around the breakfast table, discussing what each of them will do in the face of their sudden destitution. Only the horse dealer's daughter, Mabel, remains silent. She has made up her mind what to do...but will not communicate with the others.A visit from Jack Ferguson, the local doctor, shifts the focus to this character. When he returns to his surgery and then sets off for his visiting round, he becomes aware of a lonely, black-clad woman's figure walking resolutely across the fields in the direction of the pond....

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  Father Brown

  G.K. Chesterton

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  FATHER BROWN. This wonderful creation by GK Chesterton is a familiar favourite to many as a TV series in the 70s with Kenneth More.   Chesterton’s other works include ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much.  These four stories test Father Brown in many ways creating headaches a plenty.  However Father Brown is nothing if not redoubtable and whilst Chesterton’s stories are, in his own words, “very slight and improbable” his method is all his own.   Bill Wallis captures perfectly the mood and tone of Father Brown in this collection.

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  Christmas - In Stories and Poetry

  William Wordsworth, Fyodor...

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  Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters are with us every day.   
   
  Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas, seem amplified, we seem more tender to their touch, their words. 
   
  In this volume we take the verse and poems of our classic poets and put them alongside our short story masters to reveal a Christmas that everyone remembers and that everyone wants to be part of.-  
  1 - Christmas. In Stories and in Poetry - An Introduction 
  2 - What the Bells Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott 
  3 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  4 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  5 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson 
  6 - Minstrels.  A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth 
  7 - Carol by Ben Jonson 
  8 - A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  9 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton 
  10 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere 
  11 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott 
  12 - No Mercy Here by Daniel Sheehan 
  13 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale 
  14 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry 
  15 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  16 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick 
  17 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton 
  18 - Nativity by John Donne 
  19 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart 
  20 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan 
  21 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling 
  22 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan 
  23 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling 
  24 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  25 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi 
  26 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell 
  27 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell 
  28 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan 
  29 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats 
  30 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson 
  31 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick 
  32 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan 
  33 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy 
  34 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton 
  35 - Christmas Eve in War Times by Edward Payson Roe 
  36 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
  37 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 
  38 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti 
  39 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson 
  40 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  41 - Christmas At Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  42 - In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti

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  The House with the Mezzanine And...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." 
   
  Chekhov renounced the theatre after the reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text". The plays that Chekhov wrote were not complex, but easy to follow, and created a somewhat haunting atmosphere for the audience. 
   
  Chekhov at first wrote stories to earn money, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations that influenced the evolution of the modern short story. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them. 
   
  Here is perhaps his finest collection. A true audiobook treasure!

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