Audiobooks by Henry W. Nevinson

London - The East End Stories

"London’s East End has over the centuries been a magnet for immigration, innovation, culture, crime and a vast spectrum of other things.It is often seen as both part of and yet very distinct from the vast metropolis of London. Today it has been transformed from the often grimy, derelict and overcrowded area, that many of these stories describe, into a landscape of gentrification, sleek and shiny buildings and a booming economy.But here such noted talents as Arthur Morrison, Henry W. Nevinson, William Pett Ridge and Thomas Burke show The East End as it really was."

Arthur Morrison, Henry W. Nevinson, William Pett Ridge (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Jake Urry, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook

Play Sample Listen For Free

Classic Short Stories - Volume 20

"Stories are one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements. Whether written down or spoken they have an ability to capture our imagination and thoughts, and take us on incredible journeys in the space of a phrase and the turn of a page.Within a few words of text or speech, new worlds and characters form, propelling a narrative to a conclusion with intricate ease. Finely crafted, perfectly formed these Miniature Masterpieces, at first thought, seem remarkably easy to conjure up. But ask any writer and they will tell you that distilling the essence of narrative and characters into a short story is one of the hardest acts of their literary craft. Many attempt, but few achieve."

Baroness Orczy, Henry W. Nevinson (Author), Jake Urry (Narrator)

Audiobook

Play Sample Listen For Free

The Short Stories Of Henry W. Nevison

"Henry Woodd Nevinson was born on October 11th, 1856.Nevinson was schooled at Shrewsbury School and at Christ Church, Oxford. John Ruskin influenced his time at Oxford. Fascinated by German Culture he spent some time at Jena before publishing, in 1884, Herder & His times, a study on Johnann Gottfried Herder.In 1897 he became the Daily Chronicle's reporter for the Greco-Turkish War. He was also noted for his reporting on the Second Boer War.During the 1880s Nevinson had attached his politics to Socialism and by 1889 had joined the Social Democratic Federation.In 1904, he was hired by Harper's Monthly Magazine to report on a supposed trade in slaves from Angola to the cocoa plantations of São Tomé. He produced evidence of people being trafficked to settle debts or seized by Portuguese agents and taken in shackles to the coastal towns. Once there he wrote that Portuguese officials "freed" them and continued the charade by declaring they were now voluntary workers who agreed to go to São Tomé for five years. Despite severe ill health he continued to follow the slaves to São Tomé. He found plantation conditions so appalling that one in five workers died each year. His account was serialised from August 1905 and then published as 'A Modern Slavery' in 1906.He was also a suffragist, being one of the founders in 1907 of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage.In 1914 he co-founded the Friends' Ambulance Unit and later in World War I, as a war correspondent, was wounded during the infamous Gallipoli campaign.E. M. Forster described Nevinson's book, 'More Changes, More Chances' in 1925 as "exciting", and that "He has brought to the soil of his adoption something that transcends party-generosity, recklessness, a belief in conscience joined to a mistrust of principles".A committed Socialist Nevinson could see, during the 20s and 30s, the foundations of a titanic struggle began to gather its forces. He would later state "I detest the cruel systems of persecution and suppression now existing under Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy and Stalin in Russia".Nevinson married Margaret Wynne Jones and, after her death in 1933, he married his long-time lover, and fellow suffragist, Evelyn Sharp.Henry W. Nevinson died on November 9th, 1941."

Henry W. Nevinson (Author), Jake Urry, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

Audiobook

Play Sample Listen For Free