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Publisher: Sadie Swift
The first three of Miss Alice Lovelady's Inexplicable Adventures! Contains: Mr Tok, The Caspian Star, and Katherine.
Tales of the Supernatural by M.R. James, Ambrose Bierce, Hume Nisbet, Vincent O'Sullivan and Charles DickensShow book
A short Southern story, Fitzgerald takes the listener on a trip to Lily of Tarleton, Georgia. "The Jelly-Bean," published in "The Metropolitan," was written under strange circumstances shortly after his first novel was published, and, moreover, it was the first story in which he had a collaborator. Fitzgerald's wife, who was a Southern girl, acted as his expert on the topic.Show book
A celebration of an author regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Celia Johnson reads from To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway and Virginia Woolf is featured talking about modern literature.Show book
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is widely recognized as Germany's greatest poet and writer. His early works are rooted in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which was also the early phase of German Romanticism.Entitled simply Story, this short novella belongs firmly in this early period and is characteristic of Goethe's early work. His hallmark fascination with nature and the point where it fuses with man-made art to create something more beautiful still is magnificently displayed here in his description of the wonderful overgrown ruined castle. His sense of the dramatic, vividly conjured up in lyrical prose is reflected in the market fire and the escape of the showman's tiger and lion. Story is the narrative of a princess, whose husband has gone out hunting. She is inspired by her uncle showing her paintings of a nearby ruined castle which has become overgrown with trees to ask him to take her there on their afternoon ride. On the way, they pass through the busy market and see that there is a showman exhibiting a range of wild beasts. When they reach the base of the castle, they have a fine view back towards their own castle and the town beneath it, but they quickly spot that something is wrong. A fire has broken out in the marketplace. The uncle sets off with all haste to see if he can help out. Meanwhile, the princess returns more slowly...but suddenly finds herself face to face with a tiger which has escaped from the menagerie in the confusion of the fire. From this follows an extraordinary and astounding set of events.Show book
A selection of stories to entertain 5 Minute Short Stories for Children by Beatrix PotterShow book
The far South-West of England, this limb of land that extends away into the ocean, and some would say away from reality, from comfort and safety. Upon its beautiful rugged landscape of wild nature and pretty tourist laden villages have been seared some of the darkest stories from our author’s pens. For them Cornwall is malevolent, it veers towards evil and the dark arts of supernatural and ghostly hell. But don’t just take our word, take the words of Edgar Allan Poe, F Marion Crawford, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and many others as they take you on a travel guide that is sure to open your eyes in very unpleasant ways. 1 - Cornwall - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 2 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope 3 - Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe 4 - The Screaming Skull by F Marion Crawford 5 - The Haunted Church by Frederick Cowles 6 - The Limping Ghost by Frederick Cowles 7 - In the Mist by Mary E Penn 8 - The Botathen Ghost from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by the Reverend R S Hawker 9 - Room For One by Frederick Cowles 10 - Colonel Benyon's Entanglement by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 11 - Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor House by Clara VennShow book
