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  Under the Greenwood Tree - or...

  Thomas Hardy

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  The Mellstock choir — fiddles, bass viol, and men who have played in the gallery for generations — are being replaced by an organ and a pretty young schoolmistress, and one of the choir is in love with her. Hardy subtitled it a rural painting of the Dutch school and meant it: this is his warmest book, written before he decided the universe was against everyone.

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  The Door in the Wall and Other...

  H. G. Wells

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  A politician remembers a green door in a white wall that led into a garden he has never found again, and the other stories of things glimpsed and lost. It is among the finest of his short stories and the least like the rest of him. This edition is bound with a gallery of 60 plates of military painting from 1821 to 1899, among them works by Ernest Crofts, John Gilbert and Robert Ker Porter.

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  Edgar Allan Poe's: The Masque of...

  Jason Markiewitz

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  Markiewitz Audioworks is proud to present "The Masque of the Red Death," a full-cast audio drama inspired by the 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Originally titled "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy" this story has terrified readers, and now listeners, for nearly 200 years.  Having just survived the global pandemic in 2020, this story takes on a new life for those of us who managed to cheat death.    
   
  The Masque of the Red Death follows Prince Prospero and his trusted Viceroy who do everything they can to create a fortress capable of withstanding the great malady sweeping through the land.  After six months, Prince Prospero decides to hold a grand celebration to tout his victory over the plague.  But, just as Prospero's confidence rises, a mysterious mummer brings his worst fear inside his solitude. 
   
  With some new dialogue, sound effects, original music and a theatrical cast, this story is sure to be a modern classic for fans of scary stories, Poe stories, and great audio theatre! 
   
  Cast: 
  Brennan Villados as Prince Prospero 
  Jason Markiewitz as Viceroy 
  Jarod Wiggins as the Magistrate 
  Arie Knyazev as the Palace Guard / Party Guest 
  Lia Rose as the Dancing Party Girl / Party Guest 
  Tana Aivaz Colburn as Party Ensemble 
  Chad Eldridge as Party Ensemble 
  Deanne Farinha Eldridge as Party Ensemble 
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  Marc Biagi as Death 
   
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  Cover Artist: Jon Markiewitz - http://jonmarkiewitz.com 
  Composer: Ross Bernhardt 
  Additional Music by: Hayden Folker 
  Director/Producer/Sound Design/Script: Jason Markiewitz 
   
  The Masque of the Red Death is a Markiewitz Audioworks production.  (C) 2026.

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  The Kiss - From their pens to...

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5th, 1850 near Dieppe in France.  
  Maupassant’s early life was badly torn when at age 11 (his younger brother Hervé was then five) his mother, Laure, a headstrong and independent-minded woman, risked social disgrace in order to obtain a legal separation from her husband. 
  After the separation, Laure kept custody of her two boys. With the father now forcibly absent, Laure became the most influential and important figure in the young boy's life.   
  Maupassant’s education was such that he rebelled against religion and other societal norms but a developing friendship with Gustave Flaubert began to turn his mind towards creativity and writing. 
  After graduation he volunteered for the Franco-Prussian war. With its end he moved to Paris to work as a clerk in the Navy Department.  Gustave Flaubert now took him under his wing.  Acting as a literary guardian to him, he guided the eager Maupassant to debuts in journalism and literature.  For Maupassant these were exciting times and the awakening of his creative talents and ambitions. 
  In 1880 he published what is considered his first great work, ‘Boule de Suif’, (translated as as ‘Dumpling’, ‘Butterball’, ‘Ball of Fat’, or ‘Ball of Lard’) which met with a success that was both instant and overwhelming.  Flaubert at once acknowledged that it was ‘a masterpiece that will endure.’ Maupassant had used his talents and experiences in the war to create something unique.  
  This decade from 1880 to 1891 was to be the most pivotal of his career.  With an audience now made available by the success of ‘Boule de Suif’ Maupassant organised himself to work methodically and relentlessly to produce between two and four volumes of work a year.  The melding of his talents and business sense and the continual hunger of sources for his works made him wealthy. 
  In his later years he developed a desire for solitude, an obsession for self-preservation, and a fear of death as well as a paranoia of persecution caused by the syphilis he had contracted in his youth.  
  On January 2nd, 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat.  Unsuccessful he was committed to the private asylum of Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris.  It was here on July 6th, 1893 that Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant died at the age of only 42.

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  A Mother - From their pens to...

  James Joyce

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  James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on the 2nd February 1882 in Dublin into a middle-class family, and the eldest of ten surviving siblings 
  Admired as a brilliant student he briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School before excelling at the Jesuit schools of Clongowes and Belvedere.  From there he went on to attend University College Dublin from 1898, studying English, French and Italian 
  In 1902, Joyce was now in his early twenties, and went to Paris to study Medicine but soon abandoned his teachings.  Back in Dublin to attend to his dying Mother he met Nora Barnacle. They bonded immediately into a life-long match. Together they decided to emigrate to Europe.  The couple lived in Trieste, Rome, Paris, and finally Zürich where Joyce pursued a variety of jobs and ventures to supplement his literary pursuits but none of these paid off.  
  After publishing a poetry volume, ‘Chamber Music’, in 1907, his short story collection ‘The Dubliners’, in 1914, helped establish his talent in the rapidly changing world.  
  Although far from home Joyce’s literary heart and works were set in his recollections of Dublin.  Characters are close resemblances of family and friends and indeed enemies.  His landmark work ‘Ulysses’, published in 1922, is set in the streets and alleyways of the city as it parallels Homer’s Odyssey in a variety of styles including its famed stream of consciousness. 
  His pen continued to produce classics of the order of ‘A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man’ and ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ together with several volumes of poetry and a play ‘The Exiles, in 1918.   
  On the 11th January 1941, Joyce underwent surgery in Zürich for a perforated duodenal ulcer. The next day he fell into a coma. On the 13th after a brief period of lucidity in which he called for his wife and son he passed.  He was 58.

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  Pythagoras and the Delphic...

  Edouard Schuré

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  Pythagoras and the Delphic Mysteries, was written by French philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, and music critic Édouard Schuré as translated by Fred Rothwell, and was first published in English in 1906. This work is a short biography of Pythagoras and Delphian Mysteries, written from the Theosophical and esoteric perspective of Édouard Schuré. The work serves as a brief, readable introduction to the philosopher, mathematician and initiatic mysteries, but also to his thought and times, through which a distinct lens of modern esoteric interpretation illuminates his place within the history of ideas.

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