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  The Village of God - From their...

  Vladimir Korolenko

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  Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire on 27th July 1853. 
  His father died when he was 13 and life was then often struck with bouts of poverty, which resulted in his education being somewhat erratic.   A spell in exile at 23 was followed by another as the politics of the times opposed his volatile but heart-felt passions. 
  Writing was also coming to the fore and in 1879 his debut short story telling of a young Narodnik searching for social and spiritual identity, was published. 
  In 1881, Korolenko refused to swear allegiance to the new Russian Tsar and was again exiled, this time much farther afield.  He spent the next three years doing manual work, but took time to study local customs and history.  These impressions in exile provided rich material for his writings. 
  In 1885 he was allowed to settle in Nizhny, where again he repeatedly questioned the authorities.  That same year ‘Makar's Dream’ established his literary reputation and was part of his first collection ‘Sketches and Stories’, the following year. 
  In the early 1890’s when famine struck Central Russia, he went to work on relief missions, collecting donations, supervising the delivery and distribution of food, opening 45 free canteens, all this while writing the graphic reports that would later be published as ‘In the Year of Famine’ in 1893. 
  By 1896 despite some psychological disorders, he was well regarded amongst Russian writers and was even a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Throughout his writing career Korolenko was a staunch advocate of human rights, putting that sacred activity above what he called his 'part-time-writing'. 
  In the Revolutionary year of 1905, under his editorship, Russkoye Bogatstvo published the Manifest by the Petersburg Soviet of the Workers' deputies. Korolenko was now repeatedly harassed by the authorities, had his flat raided many times and materials confiscated. 
  As a lifetime opponent of Tsarism, he guardedly welcomed the Revolution of 1917.  Once the nature of Bolshevism was established, he soon started to criticize it. During the Russian Civil War that ensued, he condemned both the Red Terror and the White Terror.  
  Despite suffering from a progressive heart disorder, he collected food packages for children in famine-stricken Moscow and Petrograd as well as organised orphanages and shelters for the homeless.  
  Vladimir Korolenko died in Poltava, Ukraine, of the complications of pneumonia on 25th December 1921.  He was 68.

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  Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  This selection includes works by Edgar Allan Poe:
  Tales
  The Gold-Bug
  The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  The Fall of the House of Usher
  The Masque of the Red Death
  The Pit and the Pendulum
  The Tell-Tale Heart
  The Black Cat
  The Cask of Amontillado
  Hop-Frog
  The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
  Poems
  A Dream Within A Dream
  A Valentine
  An Enigma
  Annabel Lee
  Bridal Ballad
  Dream-land
  Eldorado
  Eulalie
  For Annie
  Hymn
  Lenore
  Marie Louise (Shew)
  Silence
  The Bells
  The City In The Sea
  The Coliseum
  The Conqueror Worm
  The Haunted Palace
  To One In Paradise
  The Raven
  The Sleeper
  To F-
  To Frances S. Osgood
  To Helen
  To Marie Louise (Shew)
  To My Mother
  To Zante
  Ulalume

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  The Middle Toe of the Right Foot

  Ambrose Bierce

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  In the long-abandoned and supposedly haunted Manton house, a grisly murder once scarred the land with a lingering evil. Years later, a man is challenged to a deadly duel inside the decaying building, where the past refuses to stay buried. As the supernatural begins to close in, the line between the living and the dead blurs. Will the haunted memories of the house prove more lethal than the duel itself? A chilling tale of revenge, horror, and the echoes of unspeakable acts.

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  3 Stories About - Mothers - A...

  Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears. 
   
  01 - 3 Stories - Mothers 
  02 - Mother Sauvage (La Mere Sauvage) by Guy de Maupassant 
  03 - Hide and Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub 
  04 - A Dreamer by Barbara Baynton

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  Edited Story An - From their...

  Morley Roberts

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Morley Roberts.

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  The Sphinx Without a Secret -...

  Oscar Wilde

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  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland.  The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Trinity College and then at Oxford. 
  Wilde then moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles.  With his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the most well-known personalities of his day. 
  His only novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ was published in 1890 and he then moved on to writing for the stage with ‘Salome’ in 1891.  His society comedies were enormous hits and turned him into one of the most successful writers of late Victorian London. 
  Whilst his masterpiece, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, was on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, prosecuted for libel.  The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency. He was convicted and imprisoned for two years hard labour. It was to break him. 
  On release he left for France. There he wrote his last work, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ in 1898.  He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six sipping champagne a friend had brought with the line ‘Alas I am dying beyond my means’.

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