Publisher: Good Press
This is a unique tale of witches, curses, and betrayals. A blonde-haired barbarian residing somewhere in Arabia gets cursed by something strange by someone unidentified. He sets out on a journey to discover who wants to kill him and why. A must-read for anyone delighted by supernatural stories.
The Russian novel has a reputation that is immense, both in narrative and in length. Unquestionably though the ideas, themes and characters make many novels rightly revered as world class, as icons of literature. Perhaps an easier way to enjoy a wider selection of the Russian heritage, with its varied and glorious literary talents, is with the short story. These gems sparkle and beguile the mind with their characters and narrative, exploring facets of society and the human condition that more Western authors somehow find more difficult to navigate, or to explore, explain and relate to. The Russian short story is, in many respects, in a genre of its own. It is at its captivating best whether it’s an exploration of real-life experiences, through fantasy and fables and on to total absurdity. In a land so vast it is unsurprising that it is a world almost unto itself. Cultures and landscapes of differing hues are packed together bound only by the wilful bonds and force of Empire. The stories in this collection traverse the decades where one might be a serf under an absolute monarch, and the reality of that was pretty near to slavery, into an emancipation of sorts in the fields, or towns under the despotic will of landowners and the rich into the upheavals of Empire and then the overthrow of the ruling class and its replacement by the communists, who promised equality for all and delivered a society where the down-trodden remained the lowest yet vital cog of the state machine and its will. Whilst Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Chekhov are a given in any Russian collection we also explore and include Andreyev, Korolenko, Turgenev, Blavatsky and many others to create a world rich and dense across a sprawling landscape of diverse people, riddled with the class and unfairness in perhaps some of the most turbulent times that Russia has ever experienced. 01 - The Russian Short Story - Volume 3 - An Introduction 02 - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 03 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 1 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 04 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 2 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 05 - Bobok by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 06 - How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials by Nikolai Schedrin 07 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy 08 - Aloysha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy 09 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 10 - The Snowstorm - Part 1 by Leo Tolstoy 11 - The Snowstorm - Part 2 by Leo Tolstoy 12 - God Sees The Truth But Waits by Leo TolstoyShow book
The children's story The Tale of Peter Rabbit is written by Beatrix Potter. The naughty bunny Peter goes into the garden of Mr. McGregor even though his mother told him not to. He gets lost and he almost gets caught by Mr. McGregor! A short, funny story for young kids. Great story to listen to before going to bed.Show book
Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story.'Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea' is the tale of two enemies abandoned on a deserted island. Pierre Rochelle, a convict escaped from a French penal colony, has been living alone on a remote Pacific island for the past three years, with no means of escape. Then one day he finds a man asleep on the beach on the far side of the island. The new arrival has just been marooned by his mutineering shipmates.Even as he still sleeps, Rochelle recognizes him as Gaston Charette - his own mortal enemy, the man whose false testimony had sent him, an innocent man, to the penal colony in the first place. But how will Rochelle welcome his new comrade? Will Rochelle avenge himself? Will Charette manage to gain the upper hand? Who will have control of the sole gun on the island? And what will happen if they ever are rescued?Show book
This short story by Kipling of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan is read by David Philo.Show book
A man of conscience, duty, and tradition, an immature, impressionable girl of supreme virtue and perhaps the greatest cad in English Literature are the chief protagonists of this tale. Tragedy falls upon the House of Humblethwaite. Sir Harry Hotspur's son dies at 21 years of age. There is no other male heir save a second cousin, a scapegrace seemingly beyond redemption. Can Sir Harry's daughter, Emily, effect a miracle and hold property and title together by an affectionate and honourable marriage to such a fellow, or is the demise of the ancient Hotspur family and all it stands for inevitable? "A novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love. It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it or expects to feel it." ---The AuthorShow book
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.Show book
