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  Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The...

  Simon Foster

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  Simon Foster’s short & sweet edition cuts out the fluff from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and gets straight to the good stuff. Savor the best literature of all time without spending years of your life treading through long traditional books. 
  Simon Foster books are a suitable length for the human attention span, helping you to remember the key details of every book. By the end, you’ll be able to impress your friends, family, or even a professor with your knowledge of The Scarlet Letter without spending hours reading the original edition. 
  Stop wasting hours trying to dissect complex english from old classic books. English has changed over time, and books from hundreds of years ago feel like a different language than modern English.  
  Enjoy classics the modern way. Once you discover the joy of listening to classics with Simon Foster, you will never want to go back to old stuffy paperback classics. Welcome to the future of literature!

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  The Call of The Wild

  Jack London

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  Buck, a pampered California pup, lived a life of naps and treats. But fate took a nasty turn when he was snatched and sold as a sled dog in Alaska. The cushy life vanished, replaced by bone-chilling nights and the sting of the whip 
  Buck, though, was tougher than he looked. The wilderness awakened something primal within him. He learned the howl of the pack, the bite of the cold, and the fight for survival.

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  Mesmeric Revelation

  SAMPI Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  "Mesmeric Revelation" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores a dialogue between a hypnotist and his dying patient. Through hypnosis, they discuss profound themes about the nature of the soul, the existence of God and the universe, revealing transcendent perspectives on life and death.

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  The Job

  Sinclair Lewis

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  The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis.
  It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, and her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage. The story takes place in the early 1900-1920s and takes Una from a small Pennsylvania town to New York. Forced to work due to family illness, Una shows a talent for the traditional male bastion of commercial real estate and, while valued by her company, she struggles to achieve the same status of her male coworkers. On a parallel track, her quest for traditional romance and love is important but her unique role as a working woman, doing a man's job, makes it tough to find an appropriate suitor.

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  The Theogony

  Hesiod

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  The Theogony "the genealogy or birth of the gods" is a poem by Hesiod (8th – 7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. 730–700 BC. It is written in the Epic dialect of Ancient Greek and contains 1022 lines. 
  Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells how they came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos. It is the first known Greek mythical cosmogony. The initial state of the universe is chaos, a dark indefinite void considered a divine primordial condition from which everything else appeared. Theogonies are a part of Greek mythology which embodies the desire to articulate reality as a whole; this universalizing impulse was fundamental for the first later projects of speculative theorizing.
  Hesiod appropriates to himself the authority usually reserved to sacred kingship. The poet declares that it is he, where we might have expected some king instead, upon whom the Muses have bestowed the two gifts of a scepter and an authoritative voice (Hesiod, Theogony 30–3), which are the visible signs of kingship. It is not that this gesture is meant to make Hesiod a king. Rather, the point is that the authority of kingship now belongs to the poetic voice, the voice that is declaiming the Theogony.

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  John Davys Beresford - A Short...

  John Davys Beresford

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  John Davys Beresford was born on 17th March 1873.  His life was blighted by infantile paralysis which left him partially disabled. 
   
  After an education at Oundle school he trained to be an architect.  However, he quickly decided that his life was to be centred on a literary career.  His first offerings were in drama and as a journalist. 
   
  As well as being a book reviewer for the Manchester Guardian he contributed to New Statesman, The Spectator, Westminster Gazette, and the Theosophist magazine The Aryan Path.   
   
  His spiritual journey in early adulthood had claimed him as an agnostic, in defiance of his clergyman father.  This view he later abandoned in preference to describing himself as a Theosophist and a pacifist. 
   
  As well as many novels, many themed with spiritual and philosophical elements.  Beresford was also a gifted short story writer particularly across the science-fiction, horror and ghost genres. 
   
  All of these elements helped him to obtain a prominent place in Edwardian Literary London. 
   
  John Davys Beresford died on the 2nd February 1947. He was 73. 
   
  1 - John Davys Beresford - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - The Introvert by John Davys Beresford 
  3 - The Miracle by John Davys Beresford 
  4 - Enlargement by John Davys Beresford 
  5 - As the Crow Flies by John Davys Beresford 
  6 - The Barrage by John Davys Beresford 
  7 - Signs & Wonders by John Davys Beresford 
  8 - The Looking Glass by John Davys Beresford 
  9 - The Cage by John Davys Beresford

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