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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  William Makepeace Thackeray, E F...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume we explore and enjoy the stories of authors who attended one of the great seats of learning.  Amongst their storied number are M R James, Hugh Walpole, William Makepeace Thackeray and a host of others. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - Cambridge - An Introduction 
  02 - A Little Dinner At Timmin's by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  03 - Caterpillars by E F Benson 
  04 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy 
  05 - The Ash Tree by M R James.wav 
  05 - Major Wilbraham by Hugh Walpole 
  07 - Far Above Rubies by Netta Syrett 
  08 - The Closed Window by A C Benson 
  09 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain 
  10 - The 9.30 Up-Train by Sabine Baring-Gould 
  11 - The Screaming Skull by F Marion Crawford

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  Return to Eden

  Tucker Smallwood

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  RETURN TO EDEN IS AN EXPLORATION OF ONE MAN'S AND ONE COUNTRY'S JOURNEY FROM THE DEVASTATION OF WAR THROUGH RECOVERY AND HEALING, THEN TO CREATIVITY.  SMALLWOOD'S REFLECTIONS ON HIS MILITARY AND FILM EXPERIENCES HAVE APPEARED IN MAGAZINES, BUT THIS IS THE FIRST RECORDED COLLECTION OF ESSAYS.  Tucker Smallwood served in the U.S. Army Infantry, Airborne from 1967-1970.  He commanded a Mobile Advisory Team during the Vietnam War and was severely wounded in action.  After recovering from his injuries, Smallwood resigned his commission and moved to New York to study acting.  He established a career as a performer on Broadway (Mahalia), in film (Contact, The Cotton Club) and on television (The X-Files, Space; Above & Beyond)  His film and television work is listed on IMDb.com

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  Short Poems of John Milton

  John Milton

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  Short Poems of John MiltonWith a preface by Samuel ThurberNarrated by Denis DalyWhile the issues of the day that consumed the attention of scholar, accomplished linguist, politician and severe Puritan, John Milton (1608 - 1674) are now largely of historical interest, the verse which they inspired remains a staple of English literature.   Although he is best known today for his poetic epics, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained,  Milton was also a master of shorter verse forms, particularly the sonnet, in which many consider him second only to Shakespeare. This collection includes twenty-one of Milton's best-known short works. On the Morning of Christ’s NativityOn ShakespeareL’AllegroIl PenserosoAt a Solemn MusicLycidasFifteen Sonnets Production copyright 2024 Voices of Today

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  Lady Pamela Berry

  Harriet Cullen

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  This is a biography lightened with the intimate tone of a social memoir, about a woman who was both a bystander and protagonist through some fifty years of twentieth-century British history. Pamela Berry was the daughter of the buccaneering and brilliant politician and lawyer, FE Smith, the first Earl of Birkenhead, and married the son of another self-made man, William Berry from South Wales, who became Viscount Camrose and the owner of a group of national newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph. She had an unusually glamorous and precocious childhood, spoiled by her adoring father, and much photographed by Cecil Beaton. In her prime she used her position as a newspaper proprietor's wife to become the most famous political and press hostess of her generation, harnessing her beauty and wit to influence successive governments, and was accused of wielding 'petticoat power' during the Suez crisis. She had a decade-long affair with Malcolm Muggeridge, became a vigorous promoter of British fashion, dragging it out of the dowdy fifties, and in later life was active in the museum world.
  
  
  Harriet Cullen has opened a window back into the remarkable story of her mother's life from a rich cache of family diaries and letters, interweaving them with many other unpublished sources. It is revealing, in turns scathing and admiring, but always entertaining.

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  Thomas Edison - His Inventions...

  Kelly Mass

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  Thomas Alva Edison, called "America's biggest developer," was an American inventor and businessperson. In disciplines consisting of electrical power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and movie, he developed many devices. 
  The phonograph, movie electronic camera, and early variations of the electrical light bulb are amongst the developments that have had a substantial influence on the modern-day developed world. Dealing with a great deal of scientists and staff, he was just one of the first developers to use the ideas of organized science and cooperation to the process of development. He was the first to establish a commercial lab. 
  Edison was born in the American Midwest and worked as a telegraph operator early in his profession, which motivated numerous of his earlier developments. 
  In the year 1876, he opened his first lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he worked on numerous of his early developments. In collaboration with capitalists Henry Ford and Harvey S. Firestone, he later built a botanical lab in Fort Myers, Florida, and a lab in West Orange, New Jersey, which housed the world's first movie studio, the Black Maria. He was a respected innovator, with 1,093 U.S. patents and patents in other nations to his name. Edison had 6 kids from 2 marital relationships. In the year 1931, he passed away of diabetes issues. 
  In this book, you will learn more about his inventions, his personal life, and the society in which he lived.

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  Some Sort of Epic Grandeur - The...

  Matthew J. Bruccoli

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  “Epic indeed, this is the definitive biography of Fitzgerald, plain and simple. There’s no reason to own another.” —Library Journal  The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” These works and more elevated F. Scott Fitzgerald to his place as one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century. After struggling to become a screenwriter in Hollywood, Fitzgerald was working on The Last Tycoon when he died of a heart attack in 1940. He was only forty-four years old.   Fitzgerald left behind his own mythology. He was a prince charming, a drunken author, a spoiled genius, the personification of the Jazz Age, and a sacrificial victim of the Depression. Here, Matthew J. Bruccoli strips away the façade of this flawed literary hero. He focuses on Fitzgerald as a writer by tracing the development of his major works and his professional career. Beginning with his Midwest upbringing and first published works as a teenager, this biography follows Fitzgerald’s life through the successful debut of This Side of Paradise, his turbulent marriage to Zelda Sayre, his time in Europe among The Lost Generation, the disappointing release of The Great Gatsby, and his ignominious fall. As former US poet laureate James Dickey said, “the spirit of the man is in the facts, and these, as gathered and marshalled by Bruccoli over thirty years, are all we will ever need. But more important, they are what we need.”

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