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  The Story Of Shakespeare's Pericles

  William Shakespeare

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  Pericles is the Prince of Tyre but is forced to leave the city due to the atrocities that the wicked Emperor of Greece threatens to bestow should he stay.  His courage, wisdom and goodness are recognized wherever he goes so much so that he marries the Queen of Pentapolis who bears him a child at sea, for he is forced to return to Tyre to pacify its citizens who are clamouring for his return as their ruler following the death of the wicked Emperor of Greece.  He believes his Queen to have died in childbirth and has to trust the upbringing of this newly born daughter, Marina, with the good rulers of Tarsus, as on board ship is no place for an infant.  Pericles was grief stricken at the loss of his wife and child and could hardly eat or speak but the twists of fate had a better outcome for him.  Although not one of the best known of Shakespeare’s histories it has all his trademarks and with a strong reading by the warm rousing voice of Tim Graham, means this audio shouldn’t be ignored.

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  The Sorrows of Young Werther

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  Goethe’s classic story of tormented love and destruction  Told through lyrical and impassioned letters to his friend Wilhelm, this novel follows the ardent young Werther to the German countryside, where he delves into artistic pursuits and basks in the simplicity of village life. But Werther’s tranquility is shattered when he meets the captivating Charlotte at a ball in a nearby town. Every bit his equal in temperament and intellectual interests, Charlotte quickly becomes Werther’s singular obsession. He falls inextricably in love despite her engagement to another man. Overtaken by his affection for Charlotte and unable to extricate himself from the unrequited love, Werther must make peace between his artistic temperament and the harsh realities of the world. Among the first—and most notable—examples of Germany’s Sturm und Drang movement, The Sorrows of Young Werther was enormously influential upon its publication in 1774, creating a cult of personality around the tragic figure of Werther and causing a sensation in Europe’s literary community. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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  Pal Joey

  John O'Hara

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  For its 75th anniversary and Frank Sinatra's centennial: the Jazz Age masterpiece that inspired the iconic Sinatra film and the hit Broadway musical.  
  On the seedy side of Chicago nightlife in the 1930s, Joey Evans is a poor man's Bing Crosby - a big-talking small-time nightclub crooner down on his luck but always on the make. In slangy, error-littered letters signed "Pal Joey", he recounts his exploits with brash nightclub managers, shady business partners, and every pretty girl ("mouse") he meets. Charismatic yet conniving, Pal Joey is a smooth operator whose bravado and big ideas disguise a far less self-assured soul caught up in the rags-to-riches dream of the Jazz Age.  
  Originally serialized in The New Yorker and the inspiration for the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical of the same name and the 1957 film starring Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, and Rita Hayworth, Pal Joey is the story of a true "heel", as complex and memorable as any antihero in American literature.

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  Thirty Tiny Tales

  H. G. Wells, O. Henry, M. R. James

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  Thirty little gems by some of the world's great classic short story writers. 1.	The Flying Man by H. G. Wells2.	Between Rounds by O. Henry3.	A School Story by M. R. James4.	A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin5.	A Deal in Ostriches by H. G. Wells6.	The Piano Next Door by Elia W. Peattie7.	Royal Visitors by E. F. Benson8.	The Stolen Bacillus by H. G. Wells9.	The Story of Chugoro by Lafcadio Hearn10.	One Law for the Rich by Stacy Aumonier11.	My Enemy and Myself by Vincent O'Sullivan12.	Philanthropy by John Galsworthy13.	Powers of the Air by J. D. Beresford14.	Escape, Three and Sixpence by Winifred Holtby15.	The Pearl of Love by H. G. Wells16.	The Adventure of the German Student by Nathaniel Hawthorne17.	A Vision of Judgment by H. G. Wells18.	A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf19.	The Black Dog by Stephen Crane20.	Treasure Trove by Neil MunroPlus ten more engaging classic short stories.

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  Dethroned - Ukranian born...

  I N Potapenko

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  Ignaty Nikolayevich Potapenko was born on 30th December 1856 in the village of Fyodorovka in the Kherson Governorate of what was then the Russian Empire. 
   
  After an education that included studying at the Odessa University and the St Petersburg Conservatory Potapenko began his literary career, at first in tales detailing the lives of those Ukrainians all around him. 
   
  His undoubted talent soon took his canon beyond short stories to include both novels and plays.  
   
  I N Potapenko died on 17th May 1929 in Leningrad.  He was 72.

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  Only a Dream

  H. Rider Haggard

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  Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856 – 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure stories, often set in exotic locations, especially Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre."Only a Dream" is a ghost story about the strange experience of a widower about to remarry, who is visited on the eve of his wedding by the ghastly apparition of his dead first wife.

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