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  Stories To Make You Cry -...

  Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane,...

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  When we read or listen, words can have a transforming effect.  Our mood can alter in the space of a few sentences from joy to sadness.  And not just our mood.  These words can affect us physically, they can engage our emotions and even in their sadness bring a lump to our throat and tears to our eyes.  Sometimes the relief can be palpable. 
   
  Our authors, from Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Katherine Mansfield and a wealth of others are well aware of what their talents will evoke.   Genius has many names.   
   
  1 - Short Stories To Make You Cry  - An Introduction 
  2 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov 
  3 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane 
  4 - Suicides by Guy de Maupassant 
  5 - The Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield 
  6 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev 
  7 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather 
  8 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 
  9 - Silence by Leonid Andreyev 
  10 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson 
  11 - Hide And Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub

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  Bambi

  Felix Salten

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  Bambi is a roe deer fawn born in a thicket in late spring. Over the course of the summer, his mother teaches him about the various inhabitants of the forest and the ways deer live. When she feels he is old enough, she takes him to the meadow, which he learns is a wonderful but also dangerous place, as it leaves the deer exposed and in the open. After some initial fear over his mother's caution, Bambi enjoys the experience. On a subsequent trip, Bambi meets his Aunt Ena and her twin fawns Faline and Gobo. They quickly become friends and share what they have learned about the forest. While they are playing, they encounter princes, male deer, for the first time. After the stags leave, the fawns learn that those were their fathers, but that the fathers rarely stay with or speak to the females and young.

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  Christmas at Red Butte

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Christmas has a way of finding the lonely, the forgotten, and those who no longer dare to hope. In Christmas at Red Butte, Montgomery gifts us a tale wrapped in longing and tied with the ribbon of unexpected joy. The cold prairies seem empty, the holiday spirit a distant dream—until a single spark of kindness turns the season into something magical. This is a story of simple people whose hearts beat in quiet resilience, of family bonds stretched thin by fate yet mended by love, and of Christmas arriving not in grand gestures, but in the warmth of an open door. Montgomery, with her signature touch of gentle wonder, reminds us that even the bleakest December can hold a miracle.

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  Love the Revolution - An...

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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  Narrated by Ignat Solzhenitsyn, the author’s son. 
  A major literary event: available for the first time in an English language edition, an early autobiographical novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago—“among the greatest Russian writers" (Wall Street Journal)—which chronicles his service and Soviet Russia’s ordeals during World War II. 
  Composed primarily in 1948 while he was imprisoned within the Soviet gulag system’s Marfino sharashka, Love the Revolution is an unfinished autobiographical novel that is a snapshot of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s life during World War II. 
  On a Sunday morning in June 1941, Gleb Nerzhin, a young man with a deep faith in Marxism who is eager to serve the revolution, arrives in Moscow to enroll in a prestigious institute for the study of philosophy, literature, and history. But world events will transform the course of his life, for this is the very day that Hitler launches his attack on the Soviet Union. 
  Solzhenitsyn originally envisioned Love the Revolution to be an account of his entire military career. Though unfinished, it is an incredible story of conflict, deprivation, and turmoil which illuminates how a true believer’s faith in the Soviet system—his love of the revolution—begins to disintegrate in the face of reality. This earliest of the famed dissident’s known prose works stands as an impressive literary achievement and as a harrowing reminder of the chaos and precariousness of wartime Russia.

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  Moon-Face and other stories

  Jack London

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  Moon-Face and other stories is a vivid collection of short fiction showcasing Jack London at his most incisive, imaginative, and darkly playful. Anchored by the unforgettable title story, “Moon-Face,” the collection opens with a sharply ironic tale of obsession and quiet vengeance, revealing London’s gift for psychological tension and moral ambiguity. 
  Across the remaining stories, London explores humanity pushed to its edges—through adventure, cruelty, loyalty, and fate. From encounters with the brutal forces of nature to examinations of pride, fear, and survival, these tales reflect London’s deep understanding of both the natural world and the restless human spirit. By turns thrilling, unsettling, and deeply human, Moon-Face and Other Stories offers listeners a compelling journey through the mind of one of America’s great literary voices, brought to life in rich, immersive audio. 
  This collection includes: 
  Moon-Face 
  The Leopard Man’s Story 
  Local Color 
  Amateur Night 
  The Minions of Midas 
  The Shadow and the Flash 
  All Gold Canyon 
  Planchette 
  Cover Photo by Artem Lupanchuk: https://www.pexels.com/photo/forest-866876/

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  1984

  George Orwell

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  It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
  
  The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features.
  
  Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move.
  
  BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.

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