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  Black Beauty - Audio Book...

  Anna Sewell

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  Animal lovers of all ages will cherish this memorable story.Perhaps the most celebrated animal story of the nineteenth century, Black Beauty is the suspenseful and deeply moving account of a horse's experiences at the hands of many owners — some, sensitive riders who treated him gently; others, cruel drivers who thoughtlessly inflicted lasting damage.An Author's Republic audio production.

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  The One About The Sheep And...

  Catherine Evans

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  The sheep that's a good listener. The woman and the ice cream salesman. The young man who falls in love with a washing machine. That age old tale.
  
  Funny, macabre, heart-breaking, eerie, disturbing, provocative...the 21 stories in this collection of originals are all winners of the Chipping Norton Literary Festival Short Story Competition Winners from its inception in 2016 to 2022. The stories are hugely varied in style and genre, and will appeal to any lover of fiction and the much-loved short story form. They have impressed the likes of Tessa Hadley, Nicholas Royle, Rachel Sieffert, Sarah Franklin, Martyn Waites, Isobel Dixon and Yasmin Kane.

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  Nine O'Clock

  Wilkie Collins

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  On the night before their execution during the French Revolution, 21 condemned prisoners and their friends are permitted a last banquet before their trip to the guillotine on the morrow. While they feast and jest on their last night alive, they begin to speculate about the hour of the execution the next day. Only one prisoner, Duprat, is quiet on the subject.His friend Marginy questions him on the subject, and Duprat asserts than he knows the exact time at which he will die on the next day. He relates a strange story about a series of dreadful and supernatual prophecies about his family, of which his death at the exact moment of nine o'clock will be the culmination.

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  A Fragment of Stained Glass

  D H Lawrence

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  'A Fragment of Stained Glass' was written by D H Lawrence in 1911. Lawrence relates a story, supposedly from the Middle Ages, which tells of the possible triumph of love and the human spirit over the forces of religion, superstition and social injustice.

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  Gold - The Final Science Fiction...

  Isaac Asimov

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  Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large.The first section contains stories that range from the humorous to the profound, at the heart of which is the title story, "Gold," a moving and revealing drama about a writer who gambles everything on a chance at immortality: a gamble Asimov himself made -- and won. The second section contains the grand master's ruminations on the SF genre itself. And the final section is comprised of Asimov's thoughts on the craft and writing of science fiction.

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  The Warfare of Divided...

  Mark Twain, Stephen Crane,...

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  This Madison & Adams edition presents the greatest novels and stories written in the aftermath of the Civil War, trying to show the truth in disguise of fiction, the trauma, the turmoil, the massacre and the heroism of all people involved:
  Stephen Crane:
  The Red Badge of Courage
  The Little Regiment
  The Veteran
  The Private History of a Campaign That Failed & A Curious Experience (Mark Twain)
  Ambrose Bierce:
  An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  A Horseman in the Sky
  Chickamauga
  Joseph A. Altsheler: 
  The Guns of Bull Run
  The Guns of Shiloh
  The Scouts of Stonewall
  The Sword of Antietam
  The Star of Gettysburg
  The Rock of Chickamauga
  The Shades of the Wilderness
  The Tree of Appomattox
  The Crisis (Winston Churchill)
  Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (John William De Forest)
  With Lee in Virginia (G. A. Henty)
  Who Would Have Thought It? (María Ruiz de Burton)
  The Long Roll (Mary Johnston)
  Cease Firing (Mary Johnston)
  The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis (Thomas Dixon Jr.)
  Kincaid's Battery (George Washington Cable)
  The Border Spy (Harry Hazelton)
  The Battle Ground (Ellen Glasgow)
  Who Goes There? (B. K. Benson)
  Ailsa Paige (Robert W. Chambers)
  Special Messenger (Robert W. Chambers)
  How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion (George W. Peck)
  Raiding with Morgan (Byron A. Dunn)
  Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins (John Esten Cooke)
  Brother Against Brother (John R. Musick)
  The Last Three Soldiers (W. H. Shelton)
  A War-Time Wooing (Charles King)
  The Iron Game (Henry F. Keenan)
  The Blockade Runners (Jules Verne)
  The Lost Despatch (Natalie Sumner Lincoln)
  My Lady of the North (Randall Parrish)
  Uncle Daniel's Story of "Tom" Anderson (John McElroy)
  The Red Acorn (John McElroy)
  Winning His Way (Charles Carleton Coffin)
  A Daughter of the Union (Lucy Foster Madison)
  Chasing an Iron Horse (Edward Robins)
  The Man Without a Country (Edward Everett Hale)
  History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (James Ford Rhodes)

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