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  Forgotten Authors The - Volume...

  Josephine Tey, Hesba Stretton,...

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  Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. 
  In literature the ambition is much narrower.  In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published.  And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.  Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number. 
  In the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution.  Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it.  Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.  
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.   
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.    
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  In this volume we offer up a small selection of those talents whose time has now come again.

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  A Soldier's Prerogative and...

  Stephen U'Ren

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  A series of short stories that, in different situations, present characters facing unexpected challenges in unexpected circumstances. The different behaviour of two white men invited to a Navajo peyote church. An elderly man and a youth canoe for many years on Montana's rivers, until the older man is no longer able to continue. A young college student, unfamiliar with Mexico, creates a disaster. A soldier in World War II is faced with a decision that cannot be ordered by his senior officer. A young man is introduced to his girlfriend's father and finds himself searching for a dry place to sleep. A man questioning the value of life on a Grand Canyon hike finds himself in a life-or-death position. An art lover gets a chance for a fictional conversation with Vincent van Gogh.

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  Killer's Law

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  Sheriff Kyle of Deadeye, Nevada, is headed east to the nation's capital. Kyle's about to discover that the law can be even wilder in the big city than in the Wild West. It's a fact that hits home when he's accused... of murder. Welcome to Washington D.C., where corruption and intrigue are all in a day's work. Kyle's got no alibi, no memory, and apparently doesn't have a prayer... unless he can find a way to outwit and outfox the masters of deception and double-crosses. Ominous footsteps, hard-hitting fists, and the flash of gunfire all come at you fast and furious as the audio version of Killer's Law delivers a capital mystery.

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  3 Stories About - Charity - A...

  Zona Gale, May Sinclair, T S Arthur

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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  Tales of Two People - Stories of...

  Anthony Hope

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  Short stories of London and the country houses around it, in the light ironic manner of the Dolly Dialogues rather than the Ruritanian romances. Hope was a barrister and the courtroom timing shows in the dialogue. This edition is bound with a gallery of 58 plates of painting, including portraits by Henry William Pickersgill, John MacLaren Barclay and Margaret Gillies, dated 1840 to 1910.

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  Under the Pyramids - Imprisoned...

  H.P. Lovecraft, Harry Houdini

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The main character of the story is Harry Houdini - the supposed author of the work, a magician, and a specialist in extraordinary escapes. During his trip to Egypt, his abilities are horrifyingly put to the test, and he confronts ancient nightmares in the underground chambers beneath the Sphinx. 
   
  Lovecraft wrote the text on commission for the owner of "Weird Tales." Harry Houdini, the famous escape artist, had a column in the magazine in 1924. Writers who contributed to the magazine created stories with him as the protagonist, and H.P. Lovecraft was chosen as the author for one of them. The writer received an outline of the scenario upon which he was to create the story. The story seemed credible to him, but when he learned that it was entirely fictional, he requested creative freedom regarding the extent of fantastical elements. Houdini was thrilled with the story. He and Lovecraft became friends. The famous magician even helped H.P. Lovecraft look for work in New York. The story was published under Houdini's name, with a changed title: "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs."

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