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  Megh Ase Rodh Hanshe :...

  SANJIB CHATTOPADHYAY

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  Suku was very good in academics and had a curious mind that prompted him to explore unknowns with enthusiasm. Once, he got attracted to his fathers' beaming Parker pen that he found in his father's desk drawer and became tempted to take it to his school to impress his friends. That very day, he also carried a live beetle to school, encased in a box to try studying its behavior through the day and perhaps to catch few bits of advice about the insect from his biology teacher - Father Dyson. But things went out of control as his classmate – Mary Alva, became curious to know about both these curious collections. 
  The insect broke loose and created panic among the kids before jetting out of the window. The resultant commotion also threw the valuable pen somewhere under the desks, and Suku was bitter and anxious about losing both his valuables. That evening, Sukus' father came to enquire about his writing-pen, but a scared Suku could not admit the truth, and to the contrary, he tried pushing the blame onto his brother Ruku. Ruku, who was innocent and upright, became very upset. Suku became crestfallen after realizing his timidity, while Dr. Mukherjee felt sad since he expected one of his sons to admit his mistake as such accidents might have happened with anyone.  
  Did Suku manage to overcome his fear psychosis in admitting the truth, and what lessons did the two kids learn in the bargain?? 
  Tune in to this all-time classic children's literature from the legendary Sanjib Chattopadhyay in yet another classic collection from the "MyStoryGenie" Bengali Audiobooks series.

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  Murder in the Mews - Four Cases...

  Agatha Christie

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  Agatha Christie’s classic Murder in the Mews presents four mystifying criminal conundrums that will seriously test the superior detecting skills of the unflappable Hercule Poirot. 
  How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secret military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And should the beautiful Valentine Chantry flee for her life from the holiday island of Rhodes? 
  Hercule Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases—each a miniature classic of characterization, incident, and suspense. 
   

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  Marcel Schwob - A Short Story...

  Marcel Schwob

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  Mayer André Marcel Schwob was born in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France on 23rd August 1867 into a cultivated Jewish family.  
   
  As a child he devoured the works of Poe and Stevenson in French and then again in English.  His attachment to the bizarre and dark was already forming. 
   
  His education at the Lycée of Nantes earned him the 1st Prize for Excellence.  In 1881, he was in Paris with his maternal uncle to study at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.  Schwob quickly developed his multilingual abilities and then studied philology and Sanscrit at the École pratique des hautes études before completing his military service in Vannes with the artillery. 
   
  After completing a Bachelor of Arts in 1888 he became a professional journalist and worked for the Phare de la Loire, the Événement and L'Écho de Paris. 
   
  The 1890’s marked his establishment as a brilliant writer with the publication of six short story collections.   
   
  He fell ill in 1896 with a chronic, incurable intestinal disorder.  He also suffered recurring bouts of influenza and pneumonia.  Intestinal surgery was given several times, at first with success but, by 1900, after two more surgeries, he was told that nothing more could be done for him.  Schwob now existed on kefir and fermented milk. 
   
  By the turn of the century, despite failing health, and often too ill to write, he embarked on several long travels, including to Vailima in the South Pacific where his literary hero Stevenson had died.  
   
  Schwob was regarded as a symbolist writer and a ‘precursor of Surrealism’.  He wrote over a hundred short stories, journalistic articles, essays, biographies, literary reviews and analysis, translations and plays.  
   
  Marcel Schwob died on 26th February 1905 of Pneumonia.  He was 37. 
   
  01 - Marcel Schwob - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - Arachne by Marcel Schwob 
  03 - Spiritualism by Marcel Schwob 
  04 - The Mouthless by Marcel Schwob 
  05 - The Opium Gates by Marcel Schwob 
  06 - The Strong by Marcel Schwob

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  Great Australian Short Stories

  Henry Lawson, Guy Boothby, Banjo...

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  A fascinating collection of short stories by some of Australia's best classic writers:    "A Visit to Droughtland", by Banjo Paterson    "The Drover’s Wife", by Henry Lawson    "Hughey’s Dog", by Banjo Paterson    "A Professor of Egyptology", by Guy Boothby    "In the Cattle Country", by Banjo Paterson    "The Restless Dead", by Lord Halifax    "An Error of Judgement", by John Barry    "A Strange Goldfield", by Guy Boothby    "The Dog", by Banjo Paterson    "The Downfall of Mulligans", by Banjo Paterson

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  In a North Country Village

  M. E. Francis

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  M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell family, who remain squires of Little Crosby, the last Catholic recusant village in England, which lies a few miles north of Liverpool. Blundell died young and Mary went on to write more than 50 books, using her husband's Christian name as pen name, including this collection of 12 stories set in Little Crosby (‘Thornleigh’).  A romantic portrait of mid-19th century village life written from an aristocratic point of view, In a North Country Village (1896) is built around striking portraits of strong Lancashire women surviving in the face of Hardyesque tragedy and the weaknesses of their men folk. M. E. Francis set many of her books in Ireland and Dorset, but several were set in Lancashire, including A Daughter of the Soil (1895), Yeoman Fleetwood (1900) and Marjory o'th' Mill (1907). (Summary by Phil Benson)

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  A Registry of My Passage upon...

  Daniel Mason

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  "Nine tales of human endurance, accomplishment, and epiphany told with style and brio" (Kirkus) from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner. 
  On a fateful flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son. 
  At times funny and irreverent, always moving and deeply urgent, these stories—among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner —cap a fifteen-year project. From the Nile's depths to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, from volcano-racked islands to an asylum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, these are tales of ecstasy, epiphany, and what the New York Times Magazine called the "struggle for survival . . . hand to hand, word to word," by "one of the finest prose stylists in American fiction."

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