Publisher: Orpheus Editions
Of Withered Apples is one of the first short stories written by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in 1954. Lori hears a tapping from outside the living room window. She finds a strange leaf, and feels herself attracted to an old abandoned farm. What will she find there, and what will happen to her ?
Some tell of little-known Bible characters, while others concentrate on an incident in the life of one of the more famous Bible characters.Share the experiences of people who met the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel; consider how God’s curse dogged the rebuilding of Jericho; see Jesus as his family saw him; marvel at the faith of a woman who was sure that just touching Jesus’ clothes would heal her.Have you ever wondered how Hosea came to marry a prostitute? Hosea’s Story might offer you an answer, and get you thinking more about the patience of God.Meet Jacob and his children, King Manasseh, Gehazi, Joseph of Arimathea, Elymas and many others as they recount their experiences for you.Each micro-tale will give you something to think about.Interested in more Bible-based micro-tales? Bible Tales Online currently publishes a weekly online newsletter including a new Bible-based micro-tale every two weeks. To sign up for the free newsletter, visit www.BibleTales.online.Show book
One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history. The classic novel of a young girl's exploration of physical pleasures. Young Fanny Hill is tricked into a life of prostitution, but she quickly learns the power of her own body as she learns the ways of physical passion. She soon escapes her fate for the loving arms of a wealthy young man, but misadventure and fate conspire to keep her from domestic bliss. Instead, Fanny discovers that sex need not be just for love; that it can be had for pleasure. She then sets out to explore those pleasures in as wide a variety as she can. With old men and young, and women as well; in positions of power, and situations where she has none; either watching or participating, Fanny's journey through the realms of sexual pleasure is a literary tour-de-force.Show book
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. The Little Girl and Other Stories was first published in 1921 and includes:'The Tiredness of Rosabel' 'How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped' 'The Journey to Bruges' 'A Truthful Adventure' 'New Dresses' 'The Woman at the Store' 'Ole Underwood' 'The Little Girl' 'Millie' 'Pension' 'Séguin' 'Violet' 'Bains Turcs' 'Something Childish but Very Natural' 'An Indiscreet Journey' 'Spring Pictures' 'Late at Night' 'Two Tuppenny Ones, Please' 'The Black Cap' 'A Suburban Fairy Tale' 'Carnation' 'See-Saw' 'This Flower' 'The Wrong House' 'Sixpence' 'Poison'Show book
Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and mystic, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. "A Double Return" is a classic doppelganger tale. A successful artist, Hallswell, is returning by train from a painting trip in the southwest of England. As the down train passes him at a junction, he imagines he catches a glimpse of his own face in the train rushing past his window. When he reaches home, a strange and sinister mystery awaits him....Show book
Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters are with us every day.
Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas, seem amplified, we seem more tender to their touch, their words.
In this volume we take the verse and poems of our classic poets and put them alongside our short story masters to reveal a Christmas that everyone remembers and that everyone wants to be part of.-
1 - Christmas. In Stories and in Poetry - An Introduction
2 - What the Bells Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott
3 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
5 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson
6 - Minstrels. A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth
7 - Carol by Ben Jonson
8 - A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
9 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton
10 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere
11 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott
12 - No Mercy Here by Daniel Sheehan
13 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale
14 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry
15 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
16 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick
17 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton
18 - Nativity by John Donne
19 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart
20 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan
21 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling
22 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan
23 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling
24 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky
25 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi
26 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell
27 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell
28 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan
29 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats
30 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson
31 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick
32 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan
33 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy
34 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton
35 - Christmas Eve in War Times by Edward Payson Roe
36 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore
37 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
38 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti
39 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson
40 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
41 - Christmas At Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson
42 - In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Edgar Allan Poe. We’re pleased to bring you here four tales of terror from the master himself – Edgar Allan Poe. Beautifully written theirs plots, characters and descriptions sometimes suffocate such is the atmosphere they build up. Of course Poe is expert at having you, the audience, involved ratcheting up the tension till the final unmentionable moments.Show book
