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  Troilus and Cressida

  Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom...

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  Lust poses as love and ambition as patriotism in this dark and brilliant play depicting the heroic action of the Trojan War. 
  Troy is besieged by the invading Greeks, but the young Trojan prince Troilus can think only of his love for Cressida. Her uncle Pandarus brings the two together, but after only one night news comes that Cressida must be sent to the enemy camp. There, as Troilus looks on, she yields to the wooing of the Greek Diomedes. The tragic story is undercut by the commentary of Thersites, who provides a cynical chorus.

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  Case Pending

  Dell Shannon

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  Another murder, another unanswered question. And Detective Mendoza hates to leave things undone. 
  Hers was the kind of casual homicide that occurred every week in a city like Los Angeles in the sixties. Beaten, robbed, and left in an abandoned lot, Elena Ramirez's death was like many others . . . in fact, nearly identical to a murder that happened six months earlier—a case that Detective Luis Mendoza was never able to solve. 
  The detective isn't a fan of puzzles but knows one when he sees it. He puts two and two together—these vicious murders must have been committed by the same deranged individual—and leads the charge into a case that is astounding in its complexity. Along with the begrudging help of Detective-Sergeant Hackett, Mendoza must separate the many twisted threads of this crime—from murder to black-market adoption and extortion. 
  Considered the "queen of the police procedural," Dell Shannon offers a glimpse into the world of police-work before the aid of forensics or technology. An Edgar Award finalist in 1961, Case Pending introduces the Mexican American Detective Mendoza, a dynamic character who will stop at nothing to find answers, working in a Los Angeles that had not forgotten the 1943 "zoot suit" riots targeting young Chicanos.

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  The Cactus - From their pens to...

  O Henry

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  William Sydney Porter was born on 11th September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At age 3 his mother died from tuberculosis. From an early age it was clear Porter had a large appetite for reading as he absorbed the world around him. 
  He first attended at a school run by his aunt before enrolling at the Lindsey Street High School and then worked at his uncle’s drugstore and gained a pharmacists’ license in 1881.  
  A persistent cough took him to Texas in the hope that a change of climate would help his symptoms. He took on various types of work, initially from ranch hand and cook and then as varied as pharmacist, draftsman, bank teller and journalist. He also began to write, though for now, purely as a hobby. 
  He was a member of several singing and dramatic groups when he met 17 year old Athol Estes, daughter of a wealthy Austin family. Despite her mother’s objection owing to Athol’s tuberculosis, they began courting and in July 1887, they eloped and soon married. 
  Athol, impressed by his writing, encouraged him to get them published. A job as a draftsman at the Texas General Land Office paid a healthy $100 dollars per month and life was good. 
  But then life turned cruel. His son died a few hours after birth although a daughter, Margaret, came the following year.  His job had to be vacated but another was found at the First National Bank of Austin. The bank operated informally and Porter was careless in keeping the books. He lost that job but began writing for the humorous weekly The Rolling Stone and the Houston Post. Some time later the federal Bank auditors went through his former accounts and he was arrested on charges of embezzlement. 
  Porter fled the day before his trial to Honduras. Holed up for several months he began to write.  Athol had become too ill to travel to meet him and learning that her health was deteriorating he surrendered to the court in February 1897.  Bail was obtained so that he could stay with Athol during her final days.  
  Porter was sentenced to five years at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. His pharmacy qualifications got him the job of night druggist.  His sentence also gave him time to write and publish fourteen short stories. In December 1899 in McClure’s Magazine he published a short story as O Henry.  
  He was released two years early in July 1901, and reunited with Margaret, now 11, in Pittsburgh.  He now began his most prolific period of writing; a short story per week for the New York World, while also publishing works in other magazines.  Eventually over 600 of his short stories were published. 
  Porter was a heavy drinker and in 1908 his health, which had deteriorated for several years, took a dramatic turn for the worse, as did his writing.  
  O Henry died of cirrhosis of the liver complicated by diabetes and an enlarged heart on 5th June 1910.

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  A Farewell to Arms

  Ernest Hemingway

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  Step into the gripping world of A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway's poignant tale of love and war. Set against the backdrop of World War I, this classic novel follows Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver in the Italian army, as he navigates the horrors of battle and the solace of love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. 
  Hemingway's spare, evocative prose captures the intensity of human emotion in a time of profound chaos, creating a narrative both heart-wrenching and timeless. 
  This audiobook brings Hemingway's masterpiece to life, immersing listeners in a story of courage, sacrifice, and the enduring power of love. Perfect for fans of classic literature and compelling storytelling, this is a journey you won’t want to miss.

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  Bolognese Tears - From their...

  Gustav Meyrink

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  Gustav Meyrink was born in Vienna on the 19th January, 1868. 
  As a young man he co-founded a bank in Prague, but a personal crisis and a suicide attempt turned his life away from commerce to a study of the occult and a career in literature. 
  His early short stories, supernatural, occult and weird, are full of promise, menace and the unusual. 
  In 1915 he published his landmark novel ‘Der Golem’ and followed these with others which, whilst noted, failed to achieve the extraordinary heights of the first.  Meyrink was also a prolific and gifted translator of the works of Dickens and others into German. 
  After studying Theosophy, Kabbala and other religions he made, in 1927, a late conversion to Buddhism. 
  Gustav Meyrink died in Starnberg, Germany on the 4th December 1932.  He was 64.

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  The Death of Ivan Ilych

  Leo Tolstoy

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  Leo Tolstoy's late masterpiece on dying and the unravelling of the values of his middle class protagonist.

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