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  The Machine Stops - Classic...

  E. M. Forster

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  The earth's surface is no longer habitable. All humanity is sequestered beneath the ground, couched in isolation and contentment. The Machine provides the needs of humanity. Mankind becomes subservient drones to the life-supporting Machine. But what happens when the Machine stops?

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  Notes From the Underground - The...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  Notes from Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound psychological and philosophical novel that explores the depths of human consciousness and self-destruction. Written in the form of a confessional monologue, the novel follows an unnamed narrator, a bitter and isolated former civil servant, as he reflects on his own contradictions, resentments, and the absurdities of existence. 
  Divided into two parts, the book first presents the narrator’s philosophical musings, filled with self-loathing, defiance, and reflections on free will, rationality, and human nature. The second part recounts episodes from his past, including humiliating encounters with former acquaintances and a tragic interaction with a young woman, exposing his inability to connect with others and his deep existential anguish. 
  Considered one of the first existentialist novels, Notes from Underground challenges notions of logic, morality, and individual freedom, offering a raw and unsettling insight into the complexities of the human mind.

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  Lady Audley's Secret - An...

  James Harvey

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  A golden-haired angel. A grieving husband. A mansion full of dark secrets. 
  When the youthful and penniless governess Lucy Graham captures the heart of the wealthy Sir Michael Audley, she seems to be the very picture of innocence and devotion. Blessed with enchanting beauty and a sunshiny disposition, Lady Audley quickly becomes the beloved darling of Essex county. But behind her delicate, fairy-like façade lies a cold, calculating mind and a past completely shrouded in mystery. 
  Meanwhile, half a world away, a desperate young husband strikes gold in the Australian outback. George Talboys returns to England with a fortune, desperate to reunite with the beloved wife he abandoned years prior to seek a better life. Instead, his arrival is met with a devastating newspaper notice and a freshly dug grave in Ventnor. 
  As George's loyal friend, the apathetic but sharp-minded barrister Robert Audley, is reluctantly drawn into the grieving man's tragic affairs, an eerie convergence of events begins to unfold. What ties a wealthy baronet's new bride to a dead woman's empty past? And what is hidden in the secret drawer of my lady's jewel-box? 
  In this classic tale of sensation and suspense, James Harvey crafts a masterclass in psychological tension. Lady Audley's Secret peels back the opulent velvet curtains of Victorian high society to reveal a chilling labyrinth of bigamy, betrayal, and buried sins. Will the truth come to light, or will the darkness of Audley Court consume them all?

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  So Big

  Edna Ferber

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  Author Edna Ferber described the story of SO BIG as being about a "material man, son of his earth-grubbing, idealistic mother." Left an orphan at 19 years old in the late 1880s, Selina Peake needs to support herself. She leaves the city life she has known to become a teacher in the farming community of High Prairie, IL. Her father had told her that life is an adventure, and one should make the most of it. 
  Selina sees beauty everywhere, including in the fields of cabbages. She has a natural curiosity about farming and oversteps the woman's traditional role by having the audacity to ask the men questions. She soon marries Pervus DeJong, a farmer. Selina eagerly offers suggestions for operational improvements, but Pervus ignores her, preferring to use the unprofitable farming methods employed by his father. 
  Though she suffers many hardships, Selina always remembers the importance of beauty, and she admires those who exercise their creative talents. She tries to instill these views in her son Dirk and fights with her husband over the need for their child to get a full education. Once Dirk finishes college and starts work, will he retain Selina's values? 
  SO BIG was the first book to have the rare distinction of being the best-selling book of the year and win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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  The System of Doctor Tarr and...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  🎬 Experience the atmospheric visual edition of this tale by searching "Jonathan Dunne Horror" on YouTube. 
  Title: The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether 
  Series Name: Timeless Terrors 
  Series Entry: 137 
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1845 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Description: 
  A curious visitor arrives at a secluded French asylum renowned for its humane treatment of patients. Welcomed by the staff, he is introduced to the peculiar “system” devised by Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether—a method said to replace harsh restraints with kindness and freedom. Yet as the evening unfolds, strange behavior and unsettling inconsistencies begin to surface. In this darkly satirical tale, Poe masterfully blurs the boundary between sanity and madness, building toward a shocking revelation that turns order into chaos and reason into absurdity.

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  Blackmail - From their pens to...

  John Galsworthy

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  John Galsworthy was born on the 14th August 1867 on the family estate, Parkfield, in Kingston-upon-Thames.  His family’s wealth came from the shipping industry 
  At age nine he began his education at Saugeen, a Bournemouth preparatory school, before moving to Harrow school in 1881, distinguishing himself as an athlete.  
  Galsworthy attended New College, Oxford to read law and left with a second-class degree with honours in 1889. The bar called him in 1890 but Galsworthy decided he would rather run the family’s shipping business. This also meant travelling to destinations such as Vancouver, South Africa and Australia. 
  In 1895 Galsworthy began a decade long affair with Ada Nemesis Pearson Cooper, the wife of his first cousin. It was only when, in 1905, she divorced and married Galsworthy that their affair became known. 
  His literary career began in 1897 with a short story volume, ‘From the Four Winds’, with the pseudonym John Sinjohn as were three further works. Under his own name, in 1904, came ‘The Island Pharisees’, a novel of social observation, seasoned with flashes of satire and propaganda. He also switched from small, independent publishers to the larger Heinemann and to whom he remained for the duration of his career. 
  1906 saw first major play, ‘The Silver Box’, and the novel ‘The Man of Property’. Each to considerable acclaim. The latter was the first in ‘The Forsyte Saga’ trilogy written between 1906 and 1921. It dealt with the questions of status, class and materialism through Soames Forsyte, who is acutely aware of his ‘new money’ status. Jealous of his wife, his machinations drive her into the arms of another. Soames engages in a terrible revenge with terrible consequences.  
  His social agenda was enlightened particularly in his condemnation over the use of solitary confinement in prisons, his attacks on theatrical censorship and campaigning for animal rights. 
  Galsworthy, having been passed over for active service, spent much of the First World War working as an orderly in a field hospital in France. 
  Despite his it was only in 1920 that he had his first blockbuster play ‘The Skin Game’, a melodrama dealing with ethics, property and class.  
  In 1920 ‘In Chancery’ also arrived with further discourse on the marital disharmony between Soames Forsyte and his wife.  
  The appreciation of his work gradually shifted from plays to novels, particularly through his detailing English social difference, tension and pretension with the Forsytes.  A second trilogy, ‘A Modern Comedy’, followed, examining his love for his daughter Fleur and the English commercial upper-middle class, its ideologies and Soames’ poisonous materialism.  
  Having rejected a knighthood in 1918 he was appointed, in 1929, to the Order of Merit. Galsworthy spent his last years writing a third Forsythe trilogy, ‘End of the Chapter’.   
  In 1932 he was awarded the Nobel Prize, but by now failing health meant he was too ill to attend the ceremony. 
  John Galsworthy died at his Hampstead home of a brain tumour on 31st January, 1933. He was cremated and his ashes scattered from an aeroplane over the South Downs.

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