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  Ben Pitcher's Elly - Mann delves...

  Mary E. Mann

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  Mary Rackham was born in Norwich on 14th August 1848 to a merchant family.  Little is known of her early life and her biography only re-appears in September 1871 with marriage to Fairman Joseph Mann, a farmer with 800 acres.   
   
  Mary moved to Shropham, Norfolk and became involved with the workhouse, visiting the sick and other unfortunates of the parish, her observations and experiences a valuable source for her later stories.  
   
  She took up writing, partly to offset the dreary village life of her surroundings, in the 1880s and published her first novel, ‘The Parish of Hilby’ (1883) at her own expense. It was well received by the critics.  
   
  Thus began a career that spanning three decades provided thirty-three novels, hundreds of short stories, and fourteen plays.  Her work was largely focused on rural life in Norfolk and centered on the fictional town of Dulditch, with grim but authentic accounts of poverty and deprivation.  
   
  Her marriage produced one boy and three girls. With her husband's death in 1913, she moved to Sheringham.  
   
  She is regarded as a major contributor to East Anglian literature with particular praise given to her short stories. 
   
  Mary E Mann died on 19th May 1929.  She was 80.  Her grave-marker is a carved open book with the epitaph ‘We bring our years to an end, as if it were a tale that is told’. 
   
  Life in ‘Ben Pitcher's Elly’ is degrading, awful and unvarnished.  The chances of this young girl having a happy life are remote but her story must be heard.

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  Absolute Zero

  Morgan Robertson

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  Morgan Andrew Robertson (1861-1915) was a popular American author of short stories and novels who claimed to have been the inventor of the periscope.'Absolute Zero' is a strange supernatural story about two marine artists who are friends and who work in adjoining studios. The younger of the two has been working on a strange painting for some time. It shows an odd scene onboard a ship. The deck is littered with dead bodies...and the centre point of the painting is a huge, barefoot black sailor holding a young man aloft and about to dash him to his death on the icy deck. The artist himself does not know how he came up with the idea for the painting.But when he shows his canvas to the older artist, this man rummages in his old chest and pulls out an identical picture which he himself painted 50 years earlier. The faces and actions are all exactly the same. The older artist had been on the ship and had painted the terrible scene from memory. But as they seek to understand the story behind this scene, an even stranger chain of events follows.

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  Scar Tissue - Seven Stories of...

  Marcus Sakey

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  An anthology of seven short stories:* "The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away" (nominated for Thriller and Macavity Awards)* "The Days When You Were Anything Else"* "No One"* "Gravity and Need"* "As Breathing"* "Cobalt"* "The Time Before the Last"These stories of men and women pushed to-and beyond-the ragged edge demonstrate why National Public Radio declared Sakey writes "crime drama for the 21st century.""Author-narrated titles can be hit or miss. This one hits the bull's-eye. Bestselling crime novelist Marcus Sakey delivers the seven stories in this collection, bringing out their powerful images and psychological complexity with an intense yet conversational narration. Listeners are drawn into each unique story and main character. Sakey's skillful approach to pacing and emphasis enhances the listening experience. In a short story, every word matters. Sakey delivers on each one. K.C.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine"

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  Anton Chekhov - A Short Story...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29th January 1860 in Taganrog, on the south coast of Russia.  
   
  His family life was difficult; his father was strict and over-bearing but his mother was a passionate story-teller, a subject Chekhov warmed to. As he later said; ‘our talents we got from our father, but our soul from our mother’.  
   
  At school Chekhov was distinctly average. At 16 his father mis-managed his finances and was declared bankrupt. His family fled to Moscow. Chekhov remained and eked out a living by various means, including writing and selling short sketches to newspapers, to finish his schooling. That completed and with a scholarship to Moscow University obtained he rejoined his family. 
   
  He was able to help support them by selling satirical sketches and vignettes of Russian lifestyles and gradually obtained further commissions. In 1884, he qualified as a physician and, although it earned him little, he often treated the poor for free, he was fond of saying ‘Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.’ 
   
  His own health was now an issue as he began to cough up blood, a symptom of tuberculosis.  Despite this his writing success enabled him to move the family into more comfortable accommodation.  
   
  Chekhov wrote over 500 short stories which included many, many classics including ‘The Kiss’ and ‘The Lady with a Dog’.  His collection ‘At Dusk’ won him the coveted Pushkin Prize when was only 26.  
   
  He was also a major playwright beginning with the huge success of ‘Ivanov’ in 1887.   
   
  In 1892 Chekhov bought a country estate north of Moscow. Here his medical skills and money helped the peasants tackle outbreaks of cholera and bouts of famine. He also built three schools, a fire station and a clinic.  It left him with less time for writing but the interactions with real people gained him detailed knowledge about the peasantry and their living conditions for his stories.  
   
  His most famous work, ‘The Seagull’ was received disastrously at its premiere in St Petersburg. It was later restaged in Moscow to highlight its psychological aspects and was a huge success. It led to ‘Uncle Vanya’, ‘The Three Sisters’ and ‘The Cherry Orchard’.  
   
  Chekhov suffered a major lung hemorrhage in 1897 while visiting Moscow. A formal diagnosis confirmed tuberculosis and the doctors ordered changes to his lifestyle.  
   
  Despite a dread of weddings the elusive literary bachelor quietly married the actress Olga Knipper, whom he had met at rehearsals for ‘The Seagull’, on 25th May 1901. 
   
  By May 1904 with his tuberculosis worsening and death imminent he set off for the German town of Badenweiler writing cheerful, witty letters to his family and assuring them his health was improving.  
   
  On 15th July 1904 Anton Chekhov died at Badenweiler.  He was 44.  
  1 - Anton Chekhov - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 
  3 - Volodya by Anton Chekhov 
  4 - Misery by Anton Chekhov 
  5 - The Death of a Government Clerk by Anton Chekhov 
  6 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov 
  7 - A Chameleon by Anton Chekhov  
  8 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov 
  9 - The Student by Anton Chekhov 
  10 - The Looking Glass by Anton Chekhov 
  11 - Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov 
  12 - About Love by Anton Chekhov 
  13 - The Kiss by Anton Chekhov

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  Conan the Barbarian: The...

  Robert E. Howard

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  This Audiobook contains:01. The Phoenix on the Sword Starts at chapter 102. The Scarlet Citadel Starts at chapter 603. The Tower of the Elephant Starts at chapter 1104. Black Colossus Starts at chapter 1405. The Pool Of The Black One Starts at chapter 1806. Rogues in the House Starts at chapter 2107. Queen of the Black Coast Starts at chapter 2408. The Devil in Iron Starts at chapter 2909. The People of the Black Circle  Starts at chapter 3510. A Witch Shall be Born Starts at chapter 4511. Jewels of Gwahlur Starts at chapter 5112. Beyond the Black River Starts at chapter 5513. Shadows in Zamboula Starts at chapter 6314. The Hour of the Dragon Starts at chapter 6715. Red Nails Starts at chapter 8816. Gods of the North Starts at chapter 9517. The Hyborian Age Starts at chapter 96

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  2 Tales to Tell

  Various Authors

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  From a unique and path-breaking online Fiction contest comes this very exciting and wonderful anthology of Short Stories - 2 tales to tell. 
  The Notion Press Social Short Story Contest 2014 brought together authors and readers in a wonderful amalgam of Creativity and appreciation, of talent and technology. 500 plus Authors had more than four lakh readers rate their stories on 
  Social media. Offering a new twist to the ever-evolving tale of the printed word… 
  So, just breathe in, and let the words run through your veins Amok; let them peel your eyes a bit wider, as you sit back, relax, And enjoy a rollicking ride to places close and distant, in a way you May have never perceived them before. Expect the unexpected as you flip through these pages – and enjoy the ride.

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