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  The Episode in Room 222 - Short...

  Arnold Bennett

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  Enoch Arnold Bennett was born on the 27th May 1867 in Hanley, one of the six towns that formed the Potteries and that later joined together to become Stoke-On-Trent.  
  After passing entrance examinations for Cambridge University his solicitor father instead decided that he should work for him, unpaid, in his thriving office.  In the evenings the young Bennett wrote or studied and one skill he developed was Pitman’s shorthand which gave him entrance to a position as a clerk at a solicitor’s office in London.  From there followed various jobs but none seemed to be able to ignite his career as a full-time author. 
  By 1903 he had moved to live in Paris; he was 35, unmarried and keen to settle into his new life.  In 1908 he published his first remarkable novel; ‘Clayhanger’, that drew on his earlier life in the Potteries.   
  A prolific writer he was able to deliver very fine works but also write many that were described as ‘potboilers’.  Despite this disclaimer many were lapped up by an audience eager for his prose and helped turn him into the most financially successful author of the times.    
  As the First World War drew to a close, he was appointed to run the Ministry of Information.  During the 1920s he was reputedly the highest paid literary journalist in the land and continued to write novels, plays and short stories.   
  Arnold Bennett died in his flat at Chiltern Court on the 27th March 1931, from typhoid after drinking water in France on his last holiday.  He was 63.

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  The Quadroons - From their pens...

  Lydia Maria Child

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  The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Lydia Maria Child.

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  Horrid Henry: Perfect Pets

  Lucinda Whiteley

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  All pets are Perfect Pets, but some are more perfect than others, as you’ll discover with this perfect collection of 11 Horrid Henry super stories performed by the show's full cast. Hamsters rule of course, even man eating ones, and there’s a catalogue (geddit?!) of near misses and triumphs to enjoy here. So let’s turn up the Horrid and enjoy these classic stories with "Name Game", "Petsitting Service", "Tickly Treat Thief", "Dinosaur", "Man Eating Hamster", "Glory Of All Hamsters", "So Not A Hamster", "Sock Sorter", "Mr Tiddler", "Pet Show" and "The Mole". Horridly Brilliant or Brilliantly Horrid? You decide!!

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  Short Poetry Collection 065

  Various

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  LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 065: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers.

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  The Bride - From their pens to...

  M P Shiel

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  Matthew Phipps Shiell was born in Montserrat in the West Indies on the 21st July 1865 and was believed to be illegitimate. 
  He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados before moving to England in 1885 to work as a teacher and translator.  He soon began to write and published a series of short stories in The Strand magazine and other periodicals.  Some of his works were as a writer for hire and it seems probable that even his first novel ‘The Rajah's Sapphire’ (1896) was one of these. 
  Perhaps his best-known work was ‘The Purple Cloud’ (1901) and it is still considered an important early work of British science fiction. 
  His first marriage to the Parisian-Spaniard, Carolina Garcia Gomez in 1898 provided him a muse for a character in ‘Cold Steel’ (1900) and several short stories.  They separated around 1903 and his daughter was taken to Spain after Lina died the following year.  Money seemed to be at the heart of the marriage’s problems.   
  Shiel, like many writers wanted to write literature but his finances needed more commercial fare. With his more artistic efforts failing to provide he collaborated with Louis Tracy on a series of romantic mystery novels.  
  In 1902, Shiel published in book form ‘The Weird o'It’ which he described as a "true Bible or Holy Book" for modern times and its attempt to present "Christianity in a radical way."  
  Soon after Shiel turned his pen to contemporary themes with an historical novel about the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905.  But he faced declining sales and tried to boost them by returning to a previous success ‘The Yellow Danger’.  These efforts failed to capture any meaningful sales.  
  By 1914 Shiel was in prison for "indecently assaulting and carnally knowing" his 12-year-old de facto stepdaughter.  He served sixteen months of hard labour. 
  Over the next decade Shiel wrote five plays, dabbled in radical politics and translated pamphlets for the Workers Socialist Federation.  In 1919, he married Esther Lydia Jewson.  The marriage lasted a decade but fell apart over his sexual interest in and possible abuse of his wife’s young female relatives.  
  Financially life was difficult, but he was helped in 1931 to obtain a Civil List pension despite his criminal record.  
  Shiel published 25 novels, several collections of short stories, essays poems and plays.  
  M P Sheil died on the 17th February 1947.  He was 81.

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  The Bohemian Girl - Stories

  Willa Cather

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  Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. She developed a love for the beauty of the open grassland and an abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors, the dreamers and builders who inhabit her fiction. This collection includes work from the early part of Cather’s career and clearly marks themes and landscapes that she would detail and explore for the remainder of her life.

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