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  A Happy Man

  Anton Chekhov

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  "A Happy Man" is a very funny and satiric story that tells us that happiness is easy and everything is in our hands.
  The action happens in the passenger train. One man tries to find his carriage, opening doors and saying "No, wrong again!" every time he misses. But suddenly he hears his name "Ivan Alexyevitch! What brings you here? Is it you?" It was his good mate Pyotr Petrovitch. They start chatting and Pyotr Petrovitch finds out that Ivan Alexyevitch has been married that day and he is coming straight away after the wedding. He describes how happy he is, while his listeners are laughing because Ivan is drunk for a bit and acts really funny. Suddenly he recognizes that he missed not only a carriage, but the train itself! And he moves to Moscow, while his young wife moves to Saint-Petersburg. His happiness disappears and he needs to decide what to do next.

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  Anne of Green Gables - Anne...

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L.M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. Set in the late 19th century, the novel recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, who is mistakenly sent to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way through life with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town.

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  Twas The Night Before Christmas...

  Clement Clarke Moore

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  Twas the Night Before Christmas has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American" and is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. It has had a massive effect on the history of Christmas gift-giving. Before the poem gained wide popularity, American ideas had varied considerably about Saint Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors. A Visit from St. Nicholas eventually was set to music and has been recorded by many artists.

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  Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind

  Hans Christian Andersen

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  In Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, Hans Christian Andersen offers one of his most mature and quietly devastating tales—a reflective allegory about love, art, and the cost of mistaking appearance for substance. 
  Alfred, a gifted young sculptor, becomes captivated by Kaela, a woman of flawless beauty whose presence seems to embody everything his art strives to achieve. Enchanted by her outward perfection, he fails to ask what lies beneath. Their union, admired by society and celebrated as ideal, slowly reveals a profound imbalance—one that beauty alone cannot sustain. 
  As time passes, illness, loss, and reflection strip away illusion, forcing Alfred to confront a truth he had long ignored: that form, however exquisite, is transient, while the life of the mind and spirit endures. In the thoughtful, unassuming Sophy, he discovers a deeper companionship—one grounded not in admiration, but in understanding. 
  Written with restraint and moral clarity, this story stands apart from Andersen’s lighter fairy tales. It is a philosophical meditation on art, marriage, and human fulfillment, asking a timeless question: what kind of beauty truly elevates us—and what happens when we learn the answer too late? 
  Narrated with grace and emotional subtlety by Michele Wagner, this audiobook invites listeners into a world where elegance conceals emptiness, and quiet wisdom carries the greater weight.

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  Not Good Enough - A Simon Iff...

  Aleister Crowley

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  Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. 
   
  He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes. 
   
  Life for Crowley was to abandon his parents’ Christian faith and instead to inject himself into Western esotericism.  In 1898, he joined the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and was trained in ceremonial magic before studying both Hindu and Buddhist practices in India. 
   
  On his Egyptian honeymoon in 1904 he claimed contact with an entity―Aiwass―who gave him the sacred Book of the Law which served as the basis for the Thelema religion where he identified as its prophet.  During the Great War, which he spent in the United States, he claimed to be working for British Intelligence but by the 1920s he had decamped to pursue a libertine lifestyle in Sicily, and in the ensuing scandals was evicted by the Italian Government. 
   
  He divided the following two decades between France, Germany, and England, and the continuing promotion of Thelema. 
   
  During his life he gained widespread notoriety for his drug use, his bisexuality, and his alarming views on society.  In short, polite society frowned on his ways, his thoughts and his influence but to many others his stance had much of value.  Even after death he was a darling for the 60’s counterculture but his influence has since waned.   
   
  His literary works were both prolific and covered many topics.  In the early part of his career he published many poetry books, even plays, before his darker and more forceful works came to dominate his output. 
   
  Aleister Crowley died on 1st December 1947 at Hastings in England. He was 72.

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  Silence

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Silence: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories.
  
  There are some qualities—some incorporate things,
  That have a double life, which thus is made
  A type of that twin entity which springs
  From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.

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