"Prue Sarn es una joven a la que todos rechazan por tener labio leporino. Así las cosas, las Parcas pronostican
que nunca conocerá el amor. Sin embargo, es fuerte y poseedora de una gran belleza interior. La superstición
hace que muchos la rechacen y la acusen de ser una bruja, pero la dulzura de su espíritu hace que se enfrente
a todo eso para superarlo. Su hermano, que también se enfrenta al mundo, lo hace por motivos muy distintos;
está harto de ser pobre y lo que quiere es hacer dinero. Su ambición es tan fuerte que casi resulta lujuriosa.
Kester Woodseaves ama la vida y la creación. No acepta la crueldad de las personas, ni para con la naturaleza
ni entre ellas. También es el único que sabe ver la belleza en todas las cosas… y en las personas. ¿Qué futuro
les aguarda a todos ellos?"
"Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed. 1 - Women of Wonder - Suicide - An Introduction2 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf3 - The Voyage by Katherine Mansfield4 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather5 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy6 - The Mourner by Mary Shelley7 - The Quadroons by Lydia Maria Child8 - An Outcast of the People by Bithia Mary Croker9 - Blessed Are the Meek by Mary Webb10 - When Spirits Steal by Philippa Forest11 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon12 - The Oculist by Catherine Wells13 - Sokratics in the Strand by Amy Levy"
"In this volume to be poor and living a life in squalor and destitution is examined by our many literary talents. Their insights help us to reveal and understand the difficulties of their lives and why so many of them are tragically cut short and riven with a never-ending burden of problems. 01 - Lessons From Literature - Stories That Show the Struggles of the Poor - An Introduction2 - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyveskey3 - A Piece of Steak by Jack London4 - Claude Geaux by Victor Hugo5 - Aloysha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy6 - According to Their Lights by O Henry7 - The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Cloak'8 - The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare9 - The Signal by Vsevolod Garshin10 - The Skylight Room by O Henry11 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov12 - Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa13 - In The Steppe by Maxim Gorky14 - The Servant by S T Semyonov15 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry16 - In Affection and Esteem by Mary Webb17 - Ben Pitcher's Elly by Mary E Mann18 - A Strange Story by Ivan Turgenev19 - The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather"
"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 decade the equality of the sexes is now law. In real life it's patchy. Power refuses to ebb or cede. In literary terms though women are again second to none with writing that strides confidently forward addressing the issues, the characters and the stories in unique and individual ways.
1 - The Top 10 - The Women - The 1920's - An Introduction
2 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
3 - The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf
4 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall
5 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow
6 - Rhapsody by Dorothy Edwards
7 - Hodge by Elinor Mordaunt
8 - Blessed Are the Meek by Mary Webb
9 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen
10 - The Night of No Weather by Violet Hunt
11 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson"
"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 volume English women have begun the long haul to be treated as equals, even though some see others as beneath them. Class still has its boundaries and its distinctions. Our authors show that the decade brings much to revel in but also much to worry our hearts. 01 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - The English - The Women - An Introduction02 - The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf03 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall04 - Her Murderer by Mary Cholmondeley05 - Hodge by Elinor Mordaunt06 - Blessed Are the Meek by Mary Webb07 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson08 - Sylvia by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor.wav09 - The Black Crusader by Alicia Ramsay10 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen11 - The Night of No Weather by Violet Hunt"
"Mary Gladys Meredith was born on 25th March 1881 at Leighton Lodge in the village of Leighton, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire. Mary was home-schooled by her father before being sent to a finishing school in Southport in 1895. Her longs walks in the countryside helped her develop a heightened sense of observation and description, of both people and places, which later infused both her poetry and prose.When she was 20 she developed symptoms of Graves' disease, a thyroid disorder that caused bulging protuberant eyes and throat goitre. This caused life-long ill health and was a possible contributor to her early death. Mary was first published as a teenager when her brother sent to a local newspaper her poem on a recent rail accident. Mary, who was in the habit of destroying her work was appalled though placated when she discovered that it had received some positive appreciation in readers letters.1912 brought marriage to Henry Bertram Law Webb, a teacher. He supported her literary work which, in 1917, resulted in the publication of her novel 'The Golden Arrow.'A few years later they acquired a property in London where, it was hoped, recognition of her literary talents would be more easily recognised. Her 1924 novel, 'Precious Bane', won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse, the prestigious French literary prize awarded by an all-female jury.Most of her poetry and various other works were only published after her death.By 1927 her health was deteriorating and her marriage failing. Mary Webb died on 8th October 1927 at St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. She was 46.1 - Mary Webb - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - The Prize by Mary Webb3 - Owd Blossom by Mary Webb4 - In Affection and Esteem by Mary Webb5 - Mr Tallent's Ghost by Mary Webb6 - The Bread House by Mary Webb7 - The NameTree by Mary Webb8 - Blessed Are the Meek by Mary Webb9 - Caer Cariad - A Story of the Marches by Mary Webb"
"A haunting tale of passion set in Shropshire in the 1800s
Born at the time of Waterloo in the wild countryside of Shropshire, England, Prudence Sarn is a passionate girl, cursed with a harelip—her “precious bane.” She is cursed for it, too, by the superstitious people amongst whom she lives. Prue loves two things: the remote countryside of her birthplace and, hopelessly, Kester Woodseaves, the weaver. The tale of how Kester gradually discerns Prue’s true beauty is set against the tragic drama of Prue’s brother, Gideon, a man who is out of harmony with the natural world and whose recklessness may ensnare them all in tragedy.
Winner of the 1926 Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, which was similarly awarded to such books as Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, and Stella Gibbons’s Cold Comfort Farm, Precious Bane is a novel that haunts us with its beauty and its timeless truths about our deepest hopes."
"Mary Webb (1881-1927) was an English Romantic novelist, short story writer and poet whose work is set chiefly in Shropshire.
'Mr. Tallent's Ghost' is an amusing tale about an eccentric writer who likes to read his appalling and tedious novels aloud to his relatives...or indeed anyone who will listen. He persuades a lawyer to draw up a will devoting his entire fortune to funding the publication of his writing. Shortly after this, news of Mr. Tallent's death arrives.
The disinherited relations dispute the will vigorously, and soon after this, the ghost of Mr. Tallent begins to haunt the relatives and the executor. Worse still, the ghost is reading his dreadful novels to them aloud. One by one the relatives are consigned to mental institutions. The lawyer, who is also Mr. Tallent's executor, holds out longest...and then he makes an extraordinary discovery."
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