Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
Amidst the harsh environment of Sector 7G, two pigs, Ruth and Sunflower, find each other and brave the cruel treatment as friends. As Sunflower shares her dreams of the magical outside, Ruth's hope of a life beyond her cage is reignited. Finding strength in each other, they begin to formulate plans for an improbable escape.
David Herbert Lawrence was born on the 11th September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, a coal mining town where the reality of a harsh life was only useful as experiences for future literary works. He was educated at Beauvale Board School and became the first local boy to receive a scholarship to attend Nottingham High School. After 3 years he became a junior clerk in Haywood’s surgical appliances factory. He was also attempting a literary career which, in the short term, led to a teacher training position in Eastwood and later a teaching qualification from University College, Nottingham. Lawrence’s first efforts were poems, short stories and a draft of ‘The White Peacock’. Moving to London and a teaching position in Croydon his writing attracted the attention of Ford Madox Ford, editor of The English Review, and he commissioned him to write ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’. Wanting to write full-time he now began work on what would become ‘Sons and Lovers. In 1912 he met the older and married mother-of-three Frieda Weekley. They eloped to Germany and here Lawrence could see for himself the growing tensions with France. So keen was his interest that he was arrested and accused of being a British spy. In early 1914 Frieda obtained her divorce and they returned to Britain to be married just days before the outbreak of war. Owing to her German parentage, and his own public dislike of militarism and violence, the couple were treated with contempt and suspicion throughout the war years. Despite this he continued to write but his reputation in England was so tarnished and, mirrored by his own disdain for the country, he and Frieda left England in November 1919, first for Europe and then America via Ceylon and Australia. They bought a ranch in Taos, New Mexico and visited Mexico several times. The third visit in March 1925 caused a near fatal attack of malaria. To convalesce they moved to Florence. Here he continued work on ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ which for many years would cause controversy. A renewed interest in oil painting resulted in an exhibition in 1929 which was raided by the police and several works were confiscated. D H Lawrence died of complications arising from a bout of tuberculosis on the 2nd of March 1930 in Vence, France. He was 44.Show book
John Griffith Chaney was born on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco. His father, William Chaney, was living with Flora Wellman when she became pregnant. Chaney insisted she have an abortion. Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself. Although her wounds were not severe the trauma made her temporarily deranged. In late 1876 his mother married John London and the young child was brought to live with them as they moved around the Bay area, eventually settling in Oakland where now, calling himself Jack, he completed grade school. Jack worked hard at several jobs, sometimes 12-18 hours a day, but his dream was university. He studied hard and borrowed the money to enrol in the summer of 1896 at the University of California in Berkeley. In 1897, at 21, Jack searched out newspaper accounts of his mother's suicide attempt and for the name of his biological father. He wrote to Chaney, then living in Chicago, who claimed he could not be Jack’s father because he was impotent and casually asserted that London's mother had relations with other men. Jack, devastated by the response, quit Berkeley and went to the Klondike. Other accounts suggest that his dire finances presented Jack with the excuse he needed to leave. In the Klondike Jack began to gather material for his writing but also accumulated many health problems, including scurvy, which together with hip and leg problems he would carry for the rest of his life. During the late 1890's Jack was regularly publishing short stories and by the turn of the century full blown novels. By 1904 Jack had married, fathered two children and was now in the process of divorcing. A stint as a reporter on the Russo-Japanese war of 1904 was equal amounts trouble and experience. But that experience was always put to good use in a continuing and remarkable output of work. In 1905 he married Charmian Kittredge who at last was a soul and companion who brought him some semblance of peace despite his advancing alcoholism and his incurable wanderlust. Twelve years later Jack had amassed both wealth and a literary reputation through such classics as ‘The Call of the Wild’, ‘White Fang’ and many others. He had a reputation as a social activist and was a tireless friend of the workers. Jack London died suffering from dysentery, late-stage alcoholism and uremia, aged only 40, on November 22nd 1916 at his property in Glen Elen in California.Show book
Some day an enterprising editor may find time to glean from the whole field of Canadian literature a representative collection of wit and humour. . . . The present little collection obviously makes no such ambitious claim. It embraces, however, what are believed to be representative examples of the work of some of our better-known writers, many of which will no doubt be quite familiar to Canadian readers, but perhaps none the less welcome on that account. (Summary from the Introduction)Show book
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the heart of the untamed wilderness, a group of men gathers for a harrowing inquest. As the chilling cries of night creatures fill the air, a mysterious, invisible force stalks its prey. One witness, armed only with his pen, recounts a terrifying encounter that defies all reason. Is this the work of nature or something far more sinister? Dive into this spine-tingling tale of unseen horrors, where the boundaries between reality and the unimaginable blur. The Damned Thing will leave you questioning what lurks just beyond the edge of perception.Show book
This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature. The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century. The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose. It features classics of American, British, Irish, French, German, and Russian literature. Some of the outstanding authors included in this collection: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Conan Doyle, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, and many more. This book is intended for teachers and true literature enthusiasts. Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Prosper Mérimée. Mateo Falcone Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Ambitious Guest Edgar Allan Poe. The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold-Bug Ivan Turgenev. The District Doctor Charles Dicken. A Christmas Carol Herman Melville. The Lightning-Rod Man Mark Twain. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain. Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp Robert Louis Stevenson. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Leo Tolstoy. Kholstomer, The Story Of A Horse Leo Tolstoy. Alyosha The Pot Guy de Maupassant. The Necklace Oscar Wilde. The Selfish Giant Ambrose Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Thomas Hardy. The Three Strangers Ambrose Bierce. The Magic Shop Anton Chekhov. The Darling Arthur Conan Doyle. The Case of Lady Sannox Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Jack London. The Law of Life Rainer Maria Rilke. How Old Timofei Died Singing H. H. Munro, or Saki. The Music On The Hill O. Henry. The Gift of the Magi O. Henry. The Ransom of Red Chief Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper Katherine Mansfield. The Fly Willa Cather. A Wagner Matinée James Joyce. Araby James Joyce. Eveline D. H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer Franz Kafka. The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka. Jackals and Arabs Fiodor Dostoievski. The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man Sherwood Anderson. The Egg Virginia Woolf. The Mark On The Wall Ring Lardner. The Golden Honeymoon John Galsworthy. The Broken Boot Joseph Conrad. Heart Of Darkness F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises Ray Bradbury. Asleep In Armageddon Isaac Asimov. Youth E.M. Forster. The Machine Stops H. P. Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu Agatha Christie. The Adventure of "The Western Star" Agatha Christie. The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor Agatha Christie. The Adventure of the Cheap FlatShow book
Caught in their last moment of decadent obliviousness, the characters in At Danceteria are so blinded by the strobe lights they can’t see what’s waiting in the shadows. While fictional, each of the collection’s seven stories, set at the dawn of the AIDS crisis, takes as their inspiration a real event: Halston and Liza reliving the Studio 54 glory days; Freddie Mercury Roman Holiday-ing Princess Di to a drag show; the Reagan White House rolling out the red carpet for Rock Hudson; a man-on-the-street with main character energy; Jackie Kennedy at a leather bar; a serenading Sylvester; and Keith Haring’s 26th birthday party… hosted by Madonna. Deftly balancing incisive wit and nostalgic melancholy, Walker paints a neon picture of the past, turning queer legends – both lore and people – into vivid reality.Show book
