Publisher: Charles River Editors
Max Brand was an American author best known for writing Western fiction. This edition of Wild Freedom includes a table of contents.
Destiny brings three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside. The desire for money and romance drives these Victorians beyond the natural boundaries of their middle-class lives. As the web of lust and deceit draws these accidental neighbors ever closer, a financial scandal befalls one of them. An outside "rank pirate" is linked somehow to one of the neighbors. Who could it be? In this work, Arthur Conan Doyle exhibits the practiced subtlety and complexity for which he has become so well known.Show book
Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.IN THE FRENCH-FLEMISH COUNTRY: What part in my decision was borne by Monsieur P. Salcy, is of no moment, though I own to encountering that gentleman's name on a red bill on the wall, before I made up my mind. Monsieur P. Salcy, 'par permission de M. le Maire,' had established his theatre in the whitewashed Hôtel de Ville, on the steps of which illustrious edifice I stood.Show book
Glimmer Globe Theatre is thrilled to present Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol': A Full-Cast Audiobook" to mark our eighth annual production of this classic tale! This new audiobook production features the voices of 30 regional and local performers (including many Glimmer Globe veterans and newcomers) bringing to life every one of Dickens' characters as they appear in the original text. The production also features music by Rob Montecalvo and B.J. Baker, as well as sound effects, and perhaps some surprises along the way! This performance was recorded, edited, and mastered on the grounds of Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, NY. More information, as well as detailed credits can be found at FenimoreArt.org. FEATURING: Annalia Anderson, Shauna Cheatham, Carolyn Chryst, Brandon Clarke, Rose Crowson, Tessa Davis, Brendan Didio, Peter Exton, Elizabeth Garza, Anders F. Green, Kara Greene, Kevin Gray, Carl Loewenguth, Danielle Henrici, Dashiell Henrici, Michael Henrici, Frederica Introne, Noelani Introne, Abbey Koutnik, Gary Koutnik, Cassidy Percoco, Sharon Rankins-Burd, Caley Sharratt, Mackinaw Shutt, Robert Shutt, Richard K. Stoodley, Michael Tamburrino, Helen Truszkowski, Jake Wansor, John Willis, and Marcus Zappia.Show book
The top 10 short stories of all time written by European authors. Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. The short story in Europe has a long and illustrious career yet is often unjustly neglected after a quick scan of de Maupassant and one or two others. Across its seemingly endless cultures that enrich themselves across the canvas of time many other gems are apparent. In this volume we bring some of their bountiful harvest to your ears. 1 - The Top 10 - The European Short Story - An Introduction 2 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev 3 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 4 - Youth by Joseph Conrad 5 - The Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac 6 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 7 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol 8 - The Dead by James Joyce 9 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 10 - The Return of Martin Guerre by Alexander Dumas 11 - Markheim by Robert Louis StevensonShow book
Mrs. Peerybingle is bright and sharp as a tack. Her husband John is a carrier, a profession as lumbering and sturdy as he is himself. When the crafty Tackleton seeks to cause mischief to forward his own nefarious plans, John’s steady heart is sorely wounded. Luckily there is a cricket on the hearth to act as a guardian angel for all of them. A huge commercial success when it was first published in 1845, this Christmas fantasy is a lovely portrait of Victorian life, “crammed with extra bonbons, French plums and sweetness.” (-William Makepeace Thackeray)Show book
