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  Christmas - Stories from the...

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton...

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  Christmas may come but once a year but evil, intrigue and malevolence are everyday events. 
   
  Within this volume Christmas is a time when these dark forces form and coalesce to take life and liberty from people who may and who may not deserve the spin of its wheel. 
   
  Some are merely evil, others have the beginnings of a conscience that displays itself in a dialogue with the devil, or perhaps only themselves. 
   
  But, in this volume Christmas takes a ringside seat to the horrors of the human heart. 
  1 - Christmas. Stories from the Dark Side - An Introduction 
  2 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  3 - The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather 
  4 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  5 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov

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  Edgar Allan Poe - Chapter &...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - Edgar Allan Poe - An Introduction 
  2 - The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe 
  3 - Alone by Edgar Allan Poe 
  4 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe 
  5 - The Bridal Ballad by Edgar Allan Poe 
  6 - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe 
  7 - A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe 
  8 - El Dorado by Edgar Allan Poe 
  9 - To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe 
  10 - In Youth I Have Known One by Edgar Allan Poe 
  11 - Evening Star by Edgar Allan Poe 
  12 - Israfel by Edgar Allan Poe 
  13 - Sonnet - Silence by Edgar Allan Poe 
  14 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 
  15 - The Fall of the House of Usher Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  16 - The Fall of the House of Usher Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

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  First Words - Earliest Writing...

  Paul Mandelbaum, Amiri Baraka,...

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  Many kids write stories, but only a few of them grow up to be successful authors. Before there was Carrie, there was “             Johnathan and the Witchs.”              And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, Toyota dealer, there was Manuel Cirarro, famous detective. Could we have seen the seeds of success in Stephen King's and John Updike's juvenilia? These young writers are the same people who dominated the best seller lists and occupy the most celebrated spots on bookshelves in our stores, libraries, and homes. Here is a funny and surprisingly informative gathering of childhood creations by celebrated writers—             authors who were amused by and happy to share their own early efforts.  •              Kevin McCarthy reads Allan Gurganus •              Judith Ivey reads Margaret Atwood •              Andre Braugher reads Amiri Baraka •              Alfre Woodward reads Gloria Naylor •              Elliott Gould reads Pat Conroy •              Susan Anspach reads Joyce Carol Oates •              Roger Rees reads Gore Vidal •              Daphne Zuniga reads Susan Minot •              Nana Visitor reads Ursula K. Le Guin •              Kevin McCarthy reads John Hersey •              Melissa Manchester reads Rita Dove •              Elliott Gould reads Stephen King •              Amy Tan reads Amy Tan •              David Ackroyd reads Norman Mailer •              Joel Grey reads Paul Bowles •              Maxine Hong Kingston reads Maxine Hong Kingston •              Arte Johnson reads Roy Blount Jr. •              Andre Braugher reads Charles Johnson •              Roger Rees reads William Styron •              Harvey Fierstein reads Stanley Elkin •              Samantha Eggar reads Madeleine L'             Engle •              David Ackroyd reads Louis Auchincloss •              Jeff Fahey reads Fred Chappell •              Harvey Fierstein reads Tobias Wolff •              Tim Matheson reads W.P. Kinsella •              Jean Smart reads Gail Godwin •              Jeff Fahey reads Stephen Dixon •              Andre Braugher reads Vance Bourjaily •              Elliott Gould reads John Updike  Kevin McCarthy reads Allan GurganusJudith Ivey reads Margaret AtwoodAndre Braugher reads Amiri BarakaAlfre Woodward reads Gloria NaylorElliott Gould reads Pat ConroySusan Anspach reads Joyce Carol OatesRoger Rees reads Gore VidalDaphne Zuniga reads Susan MinotNana Visitor reads Ursula K. Le GuinKevin McCarthy reads John HerseyMelissa Manchester reads Rita DoveElliott Gould reads Stephen KingAmy Tan reads Amy TanDavid Ackroyd reads Norman MailerJoel Grey reads Paul BowlesMaxine Hong Kingston reads Maxine Hong KingstonArte Johnson reads Roy Blount Jr.Andre Braugher reads Charles JohnsonRoger Rees reads William StyronHarvey Fierstein reads Stanley ElkinSamantha Eggar reads Madeleine L'             EngleDavid Ackroyd reads Louis AuchinclossJeff Fahey reads Fred ChappellHarvey Fierstein reads Tobias WolffTim Matheson reads W.P. KinsellaJean Smart reads Gail GodwinJeff Fahey reads Stephen DixonAndre Braugher reads Vance BourjailyElliott Gould reads John Updike

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  Boleslaw Prus - A Short Story...

  Boleslaw Prus

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  Aleksander G?owacki who wrote under the nom de plume Boleslaw Prus was born on 20th August 1847 at Hrubieszów in the Kingdom of Poland, at that time, controlled by the Russian Empire. 
   
  At three his mother died and then at nine his father.  Female relatives helped raise him but at 15 he joined the Polish uprising against the might of Imperial Russia.  Wounded on the battlefield, arrested and imprisoned, he was later released into the care of a relative and resumed secondary school and then Warsaw University but poverty forced him to leave after two years.  At some point he developed agoraphobia which often caused problems. 
   
  In 1869, he enrolled in the Forestry Department at Pu?awy but was soon sacked and so he began a system of self-education that led to work as a newspaper columnist on a wide-ranging series of topics that eventually became the ‘Weekly Chronicles’ and spanned 40 years. 
   
  With his finances now stabilized he married and then adopted his late brother-in-law’s son.  
   
  It seems he had doubts as to the scale of his talents and early on adopted the name ‘Boleslaw Prus’ for both his journalistic and literary offerings. 
   
  His work as a short-story writer met with much acclaim. He wrote several dozen of them, originally published in newspapers and ranging in length from micro-story to novella. His keen observation of everyday life and sense of humor are evident in them.  
   
  During his career he also wrote novels. After ‘Pharoah’, in 1895, he embarked on a four-month journey taking in Berlin, Dresden, Nuremberg, Rapperswil in Switzerland, where he stayed for two months, and his final destination, Paris.  Here his agoraphobia was so bad he couldn’t cross the Seine.  
   
  However, his writing continued and in 1911 his novel ‘Changes’, though uncompleted, began to be serialised.  It was never finished. 
   
  Boleslaw Prus died on 19th May 1912, at his Warsaw apartment.  He was 64.  A National Hero, thousands attended both his funeral service and interment. 
  1 - Boleslaw Prus - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - Shades by Boleslaw Prus 
  3 - Fading Voices by Bolslaw Prus 
  4 - The Living Telegraph by Boleslaw Prus 
  5 - Mold of the Earth by Boleslaw Prus 
  6 - A Legend of Old Egypt by Boleslaw Prus

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  The Moving Finger - An detective...

  Rose Champion de Crespigny

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  Annie Rose Charlotte Key was born on 9th November 1859 in Kensington, London. 
   
  With a privileged background—her father was an admiral, her mother a Lady, Rose began her creative life as a painter before a stab at writing local history settled her into popular fiction. 
   
  Her works were solidly written and often described as having a ‘certain graceful facility’. 
   
  Her marriage to Philip Augustus Champion de Crespigny in 1878 resulted in a family of 4 children and a name of status. 
   
  Rose was a leading member of the Ridley Art Club, the Lyceum Club in Piccadilly, and of the British College of Psychic Science.  Victorian society had a particular fascination with spiritualism and in ‘The Moving Finger’ Rose uses the theme as a background to introduce her popular occult detective Norton Vyse into her series of short stories.  
   
  Rose Champion de Crespigny died on 10th February 1935.  She was 75.

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  About Smells

  Mark Twain

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  Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was a great American writer and journalist. He was born in 1835 in Missouri. Twain started working at the age of 12. He helped his brother, who published a newspaper. That's how his first articles appeared. In 1864 he moved to San Francisco where cooperated with publishing houses . The most famous novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Hemingway said that the hole American literature starts from this books. His works are full of humor and adventures, but they also tell us about America of that time with it's cruelty, violence, injustice and racism.  In the short story "About smells" Mark Twain talks about some Rev. T. De Witt Talmage who complains of an unpleasant smell coming from the working man in a church. In sarcastic manner, Twain criticize these words and modern Christians who forgot what underlies their religion.A SmartTouch Media production.

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