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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  George Eliot

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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 Century England assembles more of the world’s territories, people and materials for her own Empire.  The arts also flourish with names in this volume that are bywords for talent beyond the reach of almost all other writers.  An ever hungry audience demands yet more and more. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 19th Century - The English - An Introduction 
  2 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot 
  3 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot 
  4 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  5 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling 
  6 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling 
  7 - The Magic Shop by H G Wells 
  8 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy 
  9 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  10 - A Little Dinner At Timmin's by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  11 - Father Giles of Ballymoy by Anthony Trollope 
  12 - Lost Hearts by M R James 
  13 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins

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  Under a Pelican's Wing - A...

  Giovanni B. Sciurba

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  Luca Rizzo travels on a surfing adventure with his friends to Playa Sueños, a coastal town known for its beaches, stunning waves, and nightlife. In Playa Sueños, Luca’s life changes forever when he meets Eva, a strikingly beautiful woman with a mysterious air. Drawn to her by both her allure and an inexplicable connection, Luca finds himself falling in love. But beneath Eva’s captivating exterior lies a haunting past—one that has bound her to a shadowy, dangerous world. As Luca uncovers the shocking truth about Eva’s life, he is thrust into a dark underworld ruled by the sinister Armando, a ruthless sex trafficker who holds women captive for profit. Torn between his desire to protect Eva and his fear of the dangerous world she’s trapped in, Luca must face his own moral dilemmas. How far will he go to rescue the woman he loves, and can he survive the dangerous forces that threaten to destroy them both? Under a Pelican’s Wing is an emotional, high-stakes romance that explores themes of morality, love, sacrifice, and the lengths one man will go to save the woman who stored her gem in his heart.

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  Holding a Mirror Up to Nature

  James Gilligan, David A.J. Richards

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  At a time when violence in America and Europe dominates the daily news, a groundbreaking new book co-authored by James Gilligan, an eminent psychiatrist who has worked with criminals, and David A.J. Richards, a legal scholar of toxic patriarchy, illuminates the ways in which Shakespeare offers unique insights into the causes of violence as well as its prevention.Now a riveting new audio production, Holding a Mirror Up to Nature: Shame, Guilt, and Violence in Shakespeare takes advantage of scenes performed by acclaimed actors to dramatize how much Shakespeare’s tragic heroes exhibit the psychology of those who commit violence in the contemporary world.The voice of British-American actor John Douglas Thompson called “perhaps the greatest Shakespeare interpreter in contemporary theater,” together with women’s parts spoken by Shakespeare & Company’s distinguished Tod Randolph, and narration by award-winning theater star Nigel Gore, orchestrate this tour de force audiobook that belongs in the listening library of everyone who loves Shakespeare and is curious about what causes and what prevents violence.

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  Daddy-Long-Legs

  Jean Webster

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  Jerusha Abbott, who much prefers to be called Judy, has received the offer of a lifetime: an anonymous benefactor has chosen to pay for her college education, in return for monthly letters. As a poor orphan with nothing of her own - even her name was chosen at random by the matron of the orphanage - this is the chance to choose her own future. Through heartfelt, witty, and honest correspondence, Judy discusses her friendships, classes, triumphs, and failures. Along the way, Judy also encounters a relationship that was entirely unexpected.This series, published by ONE Audiobooks, seeks to produce Classic titles read by handpicked audiobook narrators. ONE takes great care to cast these titles with readers who will provide an unmatched listening experience for these important works.

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  Better Dead - From their pens to...

  J M Barrie

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  Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM, was born in Kirriemuir, Angus on 9th May, 1860.  
  Barrie knew from an early age that he wished to be an author. His family wished otherwise. The compromise was that he would attend university to study literature at the University of Edinburgh. He graduated with an M.A. in April, 1882. 
  His first job was as a staff journalist for the Nottingham Journal. The London editor of the St. James's Gazette "liked that Scotch thing" in Barrie’s work and he wrote several stories for them and later several novels based on his mother’s early life.  
  Barrie though was increasingly drawn to working in the theatre.  His first plays achieved little attention but in 1901 and 1902, Barrie had back-to-back theatre successes with Quality Street and The Admirable Crichton. 
  The character of ‘Peter Pan’ first appeared in The Little White Bird in 1902. This most famous and enduring of his works; Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up had its first stage performance on December 27th, 1904.  
  Peter Pan would overshadow all his other works.  But his short stories cannot be overlooked.  Indeed, from today’s vantage point they are excellent gems of social manners, of class and the way characters, sometimes in the most mundane of circumstances, react in the most surprising of ways.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Men...

  O Henry, Maxim Gorky, Algernon...

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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 new century expansion and turbulence are competing forces. Society is ripe for change, the elite are not.  In this fertile ground these very talented authors grabbed literature by the scruff of the neck and dragged it into new directions and new forms. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The  1900's - The Men - An Introduction 
  2 - Gift of the Magi by O Henry 
  3 - Her Lover by Maxim Gorky 
  4 - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M R James 
  5 - To Build a Fire by Jack London 
  6 - The Fly In The Ointment by D H Lawrence 
  7 - The Scapegoat by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  8 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood 
  9 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson 
  10 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev 
  11 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain

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