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  Them Others - From their pens to...

  Stacy Aumonier

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  Stacy Aumonier was born at Hampstead Road near Regent’s Park, London on 31st March 1877. 
  He came from a family with a strong and sustained tradition in the visual arts; sculptors and painters. 
  In 1890 the teenage Aumonier attended Cranleigh School in Surrey. Although he would later write critically about English public schools (with articles for the London Evening Standard and New York Times) in how they tried to impose conformity on students, records indicate that he integrated well into Cranleigh. Aumonier was a passionate cricket player, belonged to the Literary and Debating Society, and, in his final year, became a prefect. 
  On leaving school it seemed the family tradition of the visual arts would be his career path. In particular his early talents were that of a landscape painter. He exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in 1902 and 1903, and 1908. An exhibition of his work would later be held at the Goupil Gallery in London in 1911. 
  In 1907 he married the international concert pianist, Gertrude Peppercorn, at West Horsley in Surrey. She herself was the daughter of a landscape painter (Arthur Douglas Peppercorn, occasionally cited as ‘the English Corot’.) A son, Timothy, was born in 1921. 
  A year after his marriage, Aumonier began a brief career in a second branch of the arts at which he enjoyed outstanding success—as a stage performer writing and performing his own sketches.  
  The Observer newspaper commented that "...the stage lost in him a real and rare genius, he could walk out alone before any audience, from the simplest to the most sophisticated, and make it laugh or cry at will." 
  In 1915, Aumonier published a short story ‘The Friends’ which was well received (and voted one of the best short stories of 1915 by the Boston Magazine, Transcript).  
  Despite his age being 40 in 1917 he was called up for service in World War I. He began as a private in the Army Pay Corps, and then transferred as a draughtsman in the Ministry of National Service. 
  By now he had four books published—two novels and two books of short stories—and his occupation is recorded with the Army Medical Board as ‘author.’ 
  In the mid-1920s, Aumonier received the shattering diagnosis that he had contracted tuberculosis. In the last few years of his life, he would spend long spells in various sanatoria, some better than others. In a letter to his friend, Rebecca West, written shortly before his death, he described the debilitating conditions in a sanatorium in Norfolk during the winter of 1927, where the dampness was so severe that a newspaper left beside the bed would feel "sodden to the touch in the morning." 
  Shortly before his death, Stacy Aumonier sought treatment in Switzerland, but died of the disease in Clinique La Prairie at Clarens beside Lake Geneva on 21st December 1928. He was 55.

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  Captain David Grief

  Jack London

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  Captain David Grief, South Pacific tycoon, owns plantations and trading stations from New Guinea to Samoa, pearling fisheries in the Paumotus, and rubber acreages in the Louisiades. His own vessels recruit contract labor, and he operates three steamers on ocean runs. He came to the South Seas at the age of twenty and, blessed with a blond skin impervious to tropical rays, browned over two decades into a true “son of the sun.” At forty years of age, he looks no more than thirty. His manifold enterprises flourish. His is the golden touch. Yet he plays the South Seas game not for the gold but for the game’s sake and for the daring life of the island rover. 
  Told in Jack London’s graphic and colorful style, David Grief’s adventures are related through these eight long tales of danger and daring: 
  “The Son of the Sun”  “The Proud Goat of Aloysius Pankburn” “The Devils of Fuatino” “The Jokers of New Gibbon” “A Little Account with Swithin Hall” “A Goboto Night”  “The Feathers of the Sun”  “The Pearls of Parlay”

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  Two Offers - From their pens to...

  Frances E W Harper

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  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born free on 24th September 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland which, at that time, was still a slave state. 
  By age 3 Frances had been orphaned and thereafter raised by her maternal aunt and uncle who also gave her her surname; Watkins. 
  At 13 she was working as a seamstress and then as a nursemaid for a white family that owned a bookshop.  Here any spare time was used to read books in the shop and work on her own writing which from 1839 included pieces in anti-slavery journals. 
  By the age of 20 Frances had published her first poetry book ‘Forest Leaves, or Autumn Leaves’, marking her out as an abolitionist voice of note.  Her second book, ‘Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects’ followed and was reprinted many times.  It was the beginning of a remarkable career both for her literary pursuits and also her social activism. 
  In 1850, at age 26, she moved to teach domestic science at Union Seminary, a school for Black students near Columbus, Ohio.  She was its first female teacher.  
  After joining the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1853, Frances began her career as a public speaker and political activist. 
  In 1858, Frances refused to vacate her seat or ride in the ‘colored’ section of a segregated trolley car in Philadelphia.  That same year her poem ‘Bury Me in a Free Land’ was published in The Anti-Slavery Bugle.  She created literary history in 1859 when her short story ‘Two Offers’ was the first short story published by a Black woman.  
  In 1860 she married a widower named Fenton Harper. They had one daughter together in addition to his three children from a previous marriage. When her husband died four years later she kept custody of their daughter and moved to the East Coast. 
  Frances founded, supported, and held high office in several national progressive organizations.  In 1886 she became superintendent of the Colored Section of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Women's Christian Temperance Union.  A decade later she helped found the National Association of Colored Women and served as its vice president. 
  Throughout her activist activities she continued to write, weaving politics into her fictional narratives.  Although her canon is small it contains work that advanced thinking on the roles of black women in society.  
  Frances E W Harper, abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer, died of heart failure on 22nd February 1911 in Philadelphia.  She was 85.  Women were still not permitted to vote,

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  Notes from Underground

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era. (The New Yorker) 
   
  Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th-century fiction and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. 
   
  In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature. 
   
  Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original. This audio edition of Notes from Underground is the only recording of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation of Dostoevsky’s classic work. 
   
  Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of Notes from Underground is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English. 
   
  This audiobook is skillfully read by Alan Turton, with audio engineering by Raconteurs Audio. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. 
   
  Copyright (c) 1993 Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Recorded by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. (P) 2025 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

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  The Hanging Stranger - From...

  Philip K. Dick

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  Philip Kindred Dick was born in 1928.  Widely considered one of the greatest of science fiction writers, his talents were immense but he lived almost his whole life on the edge of poverty. Born prematurely on December 16, 1928 his twin sister died which caused a shadow over the rest of his life.  Many of his works would refer to the ‘phantom twin’.  Bizarrely her tiny body was buried in Colorado where her parents also had Philips name inscribed on the tombstone. Eventually upon his death in 1982 he too was interred in the same plot. Philip sold his first short story in 1951 and then became a full-time writer selling his first novel in 1955.  He wrote continually and whilst considered a genius of the science fiction genre he was ignored by the mainstream.  Now of course much of his work is turned into films and he is rightly lauded.  All his work is at times visionary, and haunting dealing with many themes. Dick wrote of his work. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real."

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  Romeo and Juliet

  William Shakespeare

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  The Marlowe Society perform an unabridged version of Shakespeare's tradegy featuring Romeo and Juliet, whose untimely deaths unite their feuding families.

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