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  The Case of Vincent Pyrwhtt -...

  Barry Pain

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  Barry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children. 
  He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 
  In 1889, Cornhill Magazine published his short story ‘The Hundred Gates’.  This opened the way for Pain to advance his literary career on several fronts. He became a contributor to Punch and The Speaker, as well as joining the staff of both the Daily Chronicle and Black and White.  
  Pain was also a noted and prominent contributor to The Granta and from 1896 to 1928 a regular contributor to the Windsor Magazine. 
  It is often said that Pain was discovered by Robert Louis Stevenson, who compared his work to that of Guy de Maupassant.  It’s an apt comparison. Pain was a master of disturbing prose but was also able to inject parody and light comedy into many of his works.  A simple premise could in his hands suddenly expand into a world very real but somehow emotionally fraught and on the very edge of darkness. 
  Barry Pain died on 5th May 1928 in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

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  White Fang - Audiobook

  Jack London, Classic Audiobooks,...

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  White Fang is a powerful tale of survival, transformation, and the relationship between man and nature. The story follows the journey of a wild wolf-dog hybrid born in the harsh wilderness of the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Through brutal experiences and cruel masters, White Fang learns to survive by fear and violence, until he encounters a kind man who offers him love, patience, and trust.This novel explores the contrast between savagery and civilization, and the possibility of redemption through kindness. Jack London masterfully portrays the inner life of the animal, making White Fang a moving, thought-provoking reflection on instinct, loyalty, and what it means to belong.

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  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  Mark Twain

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  The Adventure of the Speckled Band is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the eighth story of twelve in the collection The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Originally published in Strand Magazine in February 1892, "The Speckled Band" is a classic locked-room mystery that deals with themes of parental greed, inheritance, and freedom. Tinged with Gothic elements, it is considered by many to be one of Doyle's finest works, with the author himself calling it his best story.   Support Us and visit our site at https://manifoldmedia.net/donate

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  Rudyard Kipling - Six of the...

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
  1 - Six of the Best - Rudyard Kipling - An Introduction 
  2 - Rudyard Kipling - An Introduction 
  3 - The Phantom Rickshaw By Rudyard Kipling 
  4 - They by Rudyard Kipling 
  5 - Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling 
  6 - Mark Of The Beast By Rudyard Kipling 
  7 - The Maltese Cat by Rudyard Kipling 
  8 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling 
  9 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling

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  Ted's Afternoon Off (Unabridged)

  L. M. Montgomery

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  Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.
  Ted's Afternoon Off: Ted was up at five that morning, as usual. He always had to rise early to kindle the fire and go for the cows, but on this particular morning there was no "had to" about it. He had awakened at four o'clock and had sprung eagerly to the little garret window facing the east, to see what sort of a day was being born.

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  Some Recollections of Mortality...

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
  SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF MORTALITY: I Had parted from the small bird at somewhere about four o'clock in the morning, when he had got out at Arras, and had been received by two shovel-hats in waiting at the station, who presented an appropriately ornithological and crow-like appearance.

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