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  Bedtime Stories For Kids: - A...

  Alexa Wood

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  Are you looking for a fun, soothing way to bond with your kids? Does your child have difficulty falling asleep? Do you want to calm your child down, improve their vocabulary, and listening skills? 
    
   If yes, then this little collection of spellbinding stories for kids can help you. 
  These stories put you into the perspective of the main character, placing you directly into the landscape and action of the story, for a first-hand, invigorating experience.  
   You can see and experience everything for yourself, in order to learn more about yourself and your abilities by the time you return to your daily life.  
   Sleep stories are relaxing classic tales and works of literature that are engineered to help you fall asleep faster and stay sleeping through the night.  
   You'll deeply relax your body and mind. 
   In this audiobook you’ll discover stories like: 
  ·        Poor Little Kyle 
  ·        The Tortoise that never gave up 
  ·        The brave Little Panda 
  ·        A happy Zoo Day 
  ·        The Brave 
  ·        The Three Pigs 
  ·        The Lone Wolf 
  ·        Anna and the wicked wood lady 
  And many other stories… 
  Your children will be delighted to hear these stories written especially for them.So, what are you waiting for? You will thank yourself later for choosing to listen to this audiobook.Download this audiobook and improve your life.

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  Female Short Story The - A...

  Georgia F Stewart, Willa Cather,...

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  A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’.  This is a perfect place to start our anthology of female short stories. 
   
  Some of our earliest memories are of our mothers telling us bedtime stories. This is not to demote the value of fathers but more to promote the often-overshadowed talents of the gentler sex. 
   
  Perhaps ‘gentler’ is a word that we should re-evaluate. In the course of literary history it is men who dominated by opportunity and with their stranglehold on the resources, both financial and technological, who brought their words to a wider audience.  Men often placed women on a pedestal from where their talented words would not threaten their own.   
   
  In these stories we begin with the original disrupter and renegade author Aphra Behn.  A peek at her c.v. shows an astounding capacity and leaves us wondering at just how she did all that. 
   
  In those less modern days to be a woman, even ennobled, was to be seen as second class.  You literally were chattel and had almost no rights in marriage.  As Charlotte Smith famously said your role as wife was little more than ‘legal prostitute’.  From such a despicable place these authors have used their talents and ideas and helped redress that situation.   
   
  Slowly at first.  Privately printed, often anonymously or under the cloak of a male pseudonym their words spread.  Their stories admired and, usually, their role still obscured from rightful acknowledgement. 
   
  Aided by more advanced technology, the 1700’s began to see a steady stream of female writers until by the 1900’s mass market publishing saw short stories by female authors from all the strata of society being avidly read by everyone.  Their names are a rollcall of talent and ‘can do’ spirit and society is richer for their works.   
   
  In literature at least women are now acknowledged as equals, true behind the scenes little has changed but if (and to mis-quote Jane Austen) there is one universal truth, it is that ideas change society.  These women’s most certainly did and will continue to do so as they easily write across genres, from horror and ghost stories to tender tales of love and making your way in society’s often grueling rut.  They will not be silenced, their ideas and passion move emotions, thoughts and perhaps more importantly our ingrained view of what every individual human being is capable of.    
   
  It is because of their desire to speak out, their desire to add their talents to the bias around them that we perhaps live in more enlightened, almost equal, times.   
   
  Within these stories you will also find very occasional examples of historical prejudice.  A few words here and there which in today’s world some may find inappropriate or even offensive.  It is not our intention to make anyone uncomfortable but to show that the world in order to change must reconcile itself to the actual truth rather than put it out of sight.  Context is everything, both to understand and to illuminate the path forward.  The author’s words are set, our reaction to them encourages our change. 
   
  01 - The Female Short Story. A Chronological History - An Introduction - Volume 8 
  02 - When Spirits Steal by Philippa Forest 
  03 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson 
  04 - The Readjustment by Mary Austin 
  05 - Passed by Charlotte Mew 
  06 - The Woman Who Sat Still by Parry Truscott 
  07 - Sylvia by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor.wav 
  08 - The Preacher at Hill Station by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman 
  09 - The Spirit of the Range by B M Bower 
  10 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart 
  11 - Hodge by Elinor Mordaunt 
  12 - Fear by Catherine Wells 
  13 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow 
  14 - Paul's Case by Willa Cathe

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  Short Stories of the Great War -...

  Rudyard Kipling, C.E. Montague,...

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  The short stories written during and about World War I are often over shadowed by the excellent verse of the War Poets. 
  Yet the short story is perhaps their equal in other ways.  Within these succinct little time capsules of words are captured ideas, attitudes, feelings and life that are expressed in a few pages just as movingly, imaginatively and tellingly as in any other form. 
  Some of these stories will be familiar but some may not.  From Virginia Woolf to Katharine Mansfield and John Buchan to C. E. Montague various writing styles try to make sense of this world at war. 
  Some may do so directly and some obliquely.  Some speak of class others of the masses but all reveal their author’s intent and their mastery of war and its effects and consequences upon the human condition as told through their words.

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  Listening to Poetry 1

  Various Various

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  "Listening to Poetry not only introduces the finest work from some of the greatest poets
  who ever lived, it also resurrects the power of spoken poetry, bringing back to life
  the sheer pleasure of listening to verse. Textured with music by 3 Brothers & A Violin,
  this collection of 28 poems in two volumes, performed with panache by international
  stage actors Naseeruddin Shah, Gareth Armstrong, Shernaz Patel, and Dhritiman Chaterji,
  moves and inspires with its timeless quality."

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  Of Men And Women

  Alexander Kuprin

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  "Of Men And Women" is an anthology of short stories by the great Russian writer Alexander Kuprin focusing on various types of relationships between the two genders. Traditional marriages, friendships, obsessions, submissions, and much more - brought to life through the exquisite writing of a true literary master.

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  Five Short Stories by Vincent...

  Vincent O'Sullivan

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  Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940), born in New York to an Irish American family, moved as a child to London. As a young man, he soon became well recognised as the master of decadent and macabre fiction. This collection presents five of O'Sullivan's creepiest tales:- Will- The Business of Madame Jahn- A Study in Murder- My Enemy and Myself- When I was Dead

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