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Wonder Of Women - Stories About Affairs
"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 - Affairs - An Introduction2 - The Storm by Kate Chopin3 - From the Dead by Edith Nesbit4 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton5 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf6 - The Pleasant Husband by Marjorie Bowen7 - Lucy Wren by Ada Radford8 - Lena Wrace by May Sinclair9 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow10 - Behind the Curtain by Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens11 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin"
Ada Radford, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens, Kate Chopin, Marjorie Bowen, May Sinclair, Virginia Woolf (Author), Janet Maw, Liza Ross, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)
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Stories About Affairs And Infidelity
"Being together is not always the love-strewn path of true happiness rolling off into the sunset. It involves all sorts of other issues that come up to investigate that relationship with questions, pain and trouble. Perhaps infidelity is the most corrosive. The wronged partner seeks justice and answers as well as feeling betrayed and hurt. The other almost certainly knows their behaviour is wrong but seeks to justify it with barely literate utterances. The relationship may not survive, trust and respect will be damaged even broken. Our classic authors including Marjorie Bowen, Gustav Meyrink, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Hardy and many others bring all facets of this genre into needle-sharp focus. 1 - Stories About Affairs and Infidelity - An Introduction 2 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf 3 - An Imaginative Woman by Thomas Hardy 4 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton 5 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin 6 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 7 - The Caballero's Way by O Henry 8 - La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac 9 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 10 - The Cone by H G Wells 11 - The Strength of God by Sherwood Anderson 12 - The Converts by Israel Zangwill 13 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow 14 - The Inquity of Oblivion by Kenneth Grahame 15 - The Man in the Bottle by Gustav Meyrink 16 - Brown of Calaveras by Bret Harte 17 - Lucy Wren by Ada Radford 18 - Behind the Curtain by Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens 19 - Modern Melodrama by Hugo Crackanthorpe 20 - The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson 21 - The Pleasant Husband by Marjorie Bowen 22 - The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce 23 - The Storm by Kate Chopin 24 - From The Dead by Edith Nesbit"
Ada Radford, Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekhov, Bret Harte, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Gertrude Barrows Bennett Writing As Francis Stevens, H.G. Wells, Honore de Balzac, Hugo Crackanthorpe, Israel Zangwill, Kate Chopin, Kenneth Grahame, Marjorie Bowen, O Henry, Rudyard Kipling, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Janet Maw, Kelly Burke (Narrator)
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Unrequited Love - Short Stories
"Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all. In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. Love is perhaps the most difficult rejection of all. They are the one you want to be with. Its so obvious. You exist. But the reality is that for them, you are not the one. Every protestation, every effort, every act of love is rebuffed at worse, or kindly set aside at best. This union was clearly never meant to be.1 - Unrequited Love - Short Stories - An Introduction2 - Araby by James Joyce3 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton4 - The Border Line by D H Lawrence5 - Her Lover by Maxim Gorky6 - Winter Dreams by F Scott Fitzgerald7 - An Imaginative Woman by Thomas Hardy8 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather9 - Psychology by Katherine Mansfield10 - The Daughter of Lilith by Anatole France11 - Apple Blossom in Brittany by Ernest Dowson12 - The Muse's Tragedy by Edith Wharton13 - A Painful Case by James Joyce14 - The Old Adam by D H Lawrence"
Anatole France, F Scott Fitzgerald (Author), Janet Maw, Jim Norton (Narrator)
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The Top Ten - 19th Century American Women
"His name is a byword for unspeakable horror and dread. Across ten stories this dark master holds a fascinating lure for all of us. Word by word, line by line we are drip-fed stomach-churning terror of a mesmerizing kind…1 - The Top Ten - H P Lovecraft2 - Re Animator3 - The Call of Cthulu4 - The Color Out of Space5 - The Lurking Fear6 - The Thing On the Doorstep7 - Pickman's Model8 - The Cats of Ulthar9 - The Picture in the House10 - Polaris11 - The Rats in the Walls"
Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Louisa May Alcott (Author), Janet Maw, Laurel Lefkow, Liza Ross (Narrator)
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The Top Ten - 19th Century Women
"This century unfolds with a fast-changing world riven by immense wars and glutton hungry Empires. Women strive to win the most basic of rights, the right to vote. Their literary testament is now a vital part of our cultural world. They write on all manner of subjects with truth, with imagination and with undeniable talent. We are all the richer for their words.1 - The Top Ten - 20th Century Women2 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather3 - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf4 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield5 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Gaspell6 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker7 - The Face in the Glass by Mary Elizabeth Braddon8 - The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railroad by Baroness Orczy9 - Rooms by Gertrude Stein10 - White Bread by Zona Gale11 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, George Eliot (Author), Janet Maw, Laurel Lefkow, Liza Ross (Narrator)
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The American Short Story - Volume 4
"The American literary tradition has, in a far shorter span of time than others throughout history, achieved a glowing and glittering reputation.From its transatlantic roots it has absorbed the sons and daughters of other cultures, other lands and made them part of her own.America prides itself on liberty, on justice for all and, if you are a wealthy white man, that is essentially true. Sadly, many other segments of society find it difficult to feel or become part of this endeavour.Within this chronological history of the American short story, that prejudice has helped shape the borders of those two endless questions about any anthology. Why that story? Why that Author?We made some hard choices. We start with Uriah Derrick Dárcy, an unlikely American name and, to all intents, it appears to be a pseudonym, about whom little is known or can be verified. He leads our literary parade. From here leviathans appear on a regular basis; Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Twain but also note how many women are here and not just Stowe, Alcott and Chopin. Women’s status as writers is often neglected or undervalued, predominantly due to their second-class social status throughout much of history but their stories, their angles of approach to writing are both expertly crafted and refreshing. Another stain on the social and cultural fabric of American has been that of Race. Black people were harshly and unfairly treated as a matter of course. The Civil War may have opened the door but in reality little changed. The majority of the stories included here written by black authors are disturbing in the wrongs they were accused of, and the burdens they were forced to carry. This eye-opening literature enables us to once more take stock and applaud and bring some glimmers of recognition to their struggles and their art. There are some authors, liberally sprinkled throughout, both male and female who may previously have escaped your attention. Enjoy them. Adore them. Make them part of your everyday reading and listening. These forgotten voices are fine examples both of their craft, their art, and their take on society as it was then.In the period we cover from the late 18th Century, around the time of the American Revolution, up until the catastrophe of World War 2, the printing press was creating a market to share words. With industrialization and a large swathe of people eager to be distracted from hard working lives, a plethora of magazines and periodicals shot up, all clamoring for works to publish, to share those words, to introduce new ideas and explain how some of us view ourselves and each other. Some of these authors were only published that way, one story wonders—hitched to the fading star of a disposable periodical. And, of course, the elephant in the room was the English. In its early days US copyright law was non-existent and didn’t recognise anyone else’s. Publishers were free to take the talents of Dickens or Trollope and freely print it without permission or coin. Competing against that, gave you a decided disadvantage.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.Within this melting pot of styles, genres and wordplay one fact stands out: The American short story Literary tradition has a strong, vibrant and almost inclusive history, if you know where to look. Which is here. 01 - The American Short Story - A Chronological History - An Introduction - Volume 502 - The Repairer of Reputations Part 1 by Robert W Chambers03 - The Repairer of Reputations Part 2 by Robert W Chambers04 - The Readjustment by Mary Austin05 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson06 - Ariel's Triumph by Booth Tarkington07 - The Preacher at Hill Station by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman08 - The Great Slave by Zane Grey09 - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane10 - The Spirit of the Range by B M Bower11 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart12 - The Scapegoat by Paul Laurence Dunbar13 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow"
Charles W. Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, O Henry (Author), Darrell Joe, Janet Maw, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)
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The Somerset Maugham BBC Radio Collection: Eight full-cast dramatisations and readings
"BBC Radio 4 dramatisations and readings of Somerset Maugham's fiction - plus bonus programme Replay: Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham was one of the most successful English writers of the 20th Century, and remains the most adapted for film and TV. This collection includes eight of his novels, plays and short stories, as heard on BBC radio, as well as an illuminating interview with the author himself. The Moon and Sixpence - Respectable stockbroker Charles Strickland abandons his wife and children to live as a painter in Paris and Tahiti. Starring Ronald Pickup and Patrick Allen. The Painted Veil - First published in 1925 to a storm of protest, this is a haunting, poignant tale of one woman's spiritual awakening. Starring Sarah Smart and Nicholas Farrell. The Sacred Flame- Invalided following an air crash, Maurice is determined to remain cheerful. But his condition affects all those who are close to him. Starring Julian Glover, Wendy Hiller, Hannah Gordon and Janet Maw. Ashenden, Gentleman Spy - Ashenden, a writer by profession, returns from the First World War and is offered a position in the Secret Service. Five short stories based on Maugham's own wartime experiences, read byAlex Jennings. For Services Rendered- In this incisive state-of-the nation play, it is 1932, and the progressive Ardsley family seem to be managing their lives very well. But in reality, each of them is fighting for survival. Starring David Calder, Sian Thomas and Louise Brealey. The Narrow Corner - Sailing home from the East Indies, a doctor and his two companions are forced to seek shelter on the island of Kanda - where they encounter the beautiful, sultry Louise... Starring Garard Green, Owen Scott, Douglas Blackwell and Cara Kelly. Christmas Holiday - 1938, and Charley is looking forward to spending Christmas in Paris with his old school friend, Simon. But they are both ignorant of the storm clouds lowering over Europe... Starring Peter Rumney and Anthony Daniels. The Razor's Edge - After the First World War, Larry Darrell returns to Chicago but finds it difficult to fit back into society. To the dismay of his fiancée, Isabel, he heads for Paris and embarks on a spiritual quest. StarringNicholas Le Prevost, John Light and Megan Dodds. Replay: Somerset Maugham - Philip French presents an archive interview with Somerset Maugham, recorded in 1954 on the occasion of his 80th birthday. ©2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd"
W. Somerset Maugham (Author), Alex Jennings, Full Cast, Janet Maw (Narrator)
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"Edith Newbold Jones was born in New York on January 24th, 1862 to wealthy parents. This background of privilege would allow her to concentrate, without distraction, on her literary career which would culminate in her becoming the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 with ‘The Age of Innocence’At age 25 she married Edward Robbins Wharton, who was 12 years her senior and together they travelled extensively. However, by the turn of the century her husband’s acute depression necessitated that their travels cease, and they retired to The Mount, their estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, which had been designed by Edith. By 1908 his state was said to be incurable and, prior to divorcing him in 1913, she began an affair, in 1908, with Morton Fullerton, a Times journalist, who was her intellectual equal and pushed her to create her literary legacy for which she is so well famed. As well as such other classics as ‘Ethan Frome’ and ‘The House of Mirth’, she also wrote many short stories and poetry.Edith Wharton died of a stroke August 11th, 1937 at Le Pavillon Colombe, her 18th-century house on Rue de Montmorency in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt in Northern France."
Edith Wharton (Author), Janet Maw (Narrator)
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Edith Wharton: The Short Stories
"Edith Wharton. Perhaps best known for her classic novel The Age of Innocence Wharton loved the short story form because its brevity allowed her to concentrate on telling the story. In these three powerful stories, Edith Wharton transports the listener to the turn of the century where she depicts (without turning to sensationalism) the shocking topics of the time. Often, she opens just after an incident allowing the listener to be immersed straight into the story. In Souls Belated we meet a couple on a train, digesting and reacting to that morning's event. In The Muse's Tragedy, a young man meets his favourite poet's muse and soon uncovers the truth about their much talked about relationship. Atypically Roman Fever starts with a seemingly normal day in Rome and soon reveals a lot more than expected when two middle aged women start recalling a past trip to the Italian capital. These stories are read by the accomplished actress Janet Maw"
Edith Wharton (Author), Janet Maw (Narrator)
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Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales
"Brought to you by Penguin. Penguin presents The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter, beautifully brought to life by a talented cast of readers, including Gary Bond, Michael Hordern, Rosemary Leach, Janet Maw, Patricia Routledge and Timothy West. The twenty-three tales in this set have never lost their popularity, and sell in their millions all over the world. Meet again the famous characters that children love and adore... PETER RABBIT, SQUIRREL NUTKIN, THE FLOPSY BUNNIES, MRS TIGGY-WINKLE, TOM KITTEN, JEREMY FISHER, JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK and many more."
Beatrix Potter (Author), Gary Bond, Janet Maw, Michael Hordern, Patricia Routledge, Rosemary Leach, Timothy West (Narrator)
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"This selection of Hardy's poetry does full justice to its humanity, integrity, humour and evocative power, ranging from charming anthology pieces such as 'Weathers' to the great love poems he wrote after the death of his first wife and the meditations on war and philosophy. The poems - nearly eighty in total - are set in the context of his life and thought, including personal writings by him and those closest to him."
Thomas Hardy (Author), Bruce Alexander, Janet Maw (Narrator)
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