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  Heart of Darkness

  Joseph Conrad

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  Joseph Conrad’s searing tale of one of the strangest and most memorable journeys ever takenQuite simply the scariest book ever written, this is a searing tale of one of the strangest and most memorable journeys ever undertaken – to the heart of a geographical and psychological wilderness from which no-one returns unscarred.  For this isn’t simply a journey up an uncharted river into a geographical wilderness; rather, it’s a trip deep into our collective subconscious. This story – about what happens when so-called “civilized” human beings go off the rails - was the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola’s movie “Apocalypse Now”.Conrad himself had undertaken such a river journey as a ship’s captain back in 1889 when he was in his early 30’s and before he took to writing full time. Back then, the Congo Free State, as this area of Africa was known, was a Belgian colony under the personal control of King Leopold II.   Atrocities were commonplace, to the point where the international community finally had to sit up and take notice; in a report published in 1904, over 3 million people were said to have died as a direct result of European intervention in the area.It has long been argued whether “Heart of Darkness”, which first appeared in 1902, was in any way influential in bringing Leopold’s violent regime to the public’s attention; but whether or not, it remains a searing indictment of human rapacity – and depravity.

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  Yes You Can! - 10 Classic...

  James Allen, P. T. Barnum,...

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  This Audiobook contains the following works :Dollars Want Me: The New Road To Opulence [Henry Harrison Brown]The Way to Wealth [Benjamin Franklin]Think and Grow Rich [Napoleon Hill ]The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money [P.T. Barnum]As a Man Thinketh [James Allen]The Science of Getting Rich [Wallace D. Wattles]Morning and Evening Thoughts [James Allen]The prophet [Khalil Gibran]An Iron Will [Orison Swett Marden]The Victorious Attitude  [Orison Swett Marden]

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  Some Lessons of the Hour...

  Booker T. Washington

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  Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.SOME LESSONS OF THE HOUR: This evening I am going to remind you of a few things which you should get out of the school year, but it will be of very little use for me to do this unless you make up your minds to do two things.

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  Oedipus the King

  Sophocles

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  In Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus discovers that he has been caught in his terrible destiny, unknowingly murdering his father and marrying his mother.
  
  This perfomance features a new translation from the original Greek by director Nicholas Rudall.
  
  Starring (in alphabetical order):
  
  Spencer Garrett as Shepard, Chorus
  Francis Guinan as Messenger, Chorus
  Gregory Itzin as Creon
  Charles Kimbrough as Priest of Zeus, Chorus
  Harry J. Lennis as Oedipus
  Rod McLachlan as Second Messenger, Chorus
  Carolyn Seymour as Jocasta
  W. Morgan Sheppard as Teiresias, Chorus
  (P)2003 L.A. Theatre Works

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  The Son of Tarzan

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  This is the fourth story in the TARZAN adventure novels. This time it is the son of Tarzan, the young Lord Greystoke, who leads us away from the sheltered shores of 19th century England, back to the primitive jungle. Young Lord Greystoke quickly asserts his natural authority in the jungle the way an heir-apparent might ascend a throne but not without a few painful learnings. Accepted by his fellow primates, they rename him, Korak “the killer.” He is as powerful as he is clever. Though his transformation is successful, it is not without bloodshed.

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  Poet and the Emporium The...

  H. G. Wells

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  "The Poet and the Emporium" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic."I am beginning life," he said, with a sigh. "Great Heavens! I have spent a day-a day!-in a shop. Three bedroom suites and a sideboard are among the unanticipated pledges of our affection. Have you lithia? For a man of twelve limited editions this has been a terrible day."

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