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3 Stories About Inventions Causing robberies

de Herbert C Ridout, Ambrose Bierce, J B Harris-Burland ...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Leer más

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
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Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 9

Rina Ramsay to James Stephens

de Rina Ramsay, William Pett Ridge, Herbert C Ridout, Tod Robbins, Morley Roberts, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Sax Rohmer, Benjamin Rosenblatt, George Sand, Bruno Schulz, Matilde Serao, Ömer Seyfettin, Evelyn Sharp, Oswald Sickert, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Hristo Smirenski, Lady Eleanor Smith ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Stephen Hogan ...

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14 hora 36 minutos

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Leer más

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Leer más
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Classic Sci-Fi Stories NOT by Isaac Asimov

The name that first comes to mind isn't always the best

de H G Wells, Jack London, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, H P Lovecraft, H P Lovecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jules Verne, Edward Page Mitchell, Mary Shelley0, Voltaire1, Owen Oliver2, Owen Oliver3, L T Meade4, Robert Duncan Milne5, Washington Irving6, Robert Barr7, Valery Bryusov8, Fred M White9, Herbert C Ridout0, Fitz James O'Brien1 ...

Narrado por Richard Mitchley2, Christopher Ragland3, Robert Maskell4 ...

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20 hora 1 minutos

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured ... Leer más

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In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured
... Leer más
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Foundations of Fiction, The - Mad Scientists

Hear the stories that gave birth to the modern genre craze

de Ambrose Bierce, Constance Cotterell, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Page Mitchell, Emma Vane, H P Lovecraft, Herbert C Ridout, Jack London, L T Meade, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, M R James, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrado por David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Robert Maskell ...

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11 hora 35 minutos

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Leer más

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In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success
... Leer más
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Freezing of London, The

A power hungry mad scientist experiments with weapons of mass destruction

de Herbert C Ridout ...

Narrado por Mark Rice-Oxley ...

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32 minutos

Herbert Currington Ridout was born in 1881. His literary life included being a journalist, editor, and short story writer although he also had various jobs in the music business and was later a radio broadcaster on the BBCHe died in 1948. ... Leer más

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Herbert Currington Ridout was born in 1881. His literary life included being a journalist, editor, and short story writer although he also had various jobs in the music business and was later a radio broadcaster on the BBCHe died in 1948.
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - British Sci-Fi

The top 10 Sci Fi short stories written by British authors

de Winifred Holtby, H G Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Fred M White, Bernard Capes, Owen Oliver, William Hope Hodgson, Herbert C Ridout, Robert Barr ...

Narrado por Richard Mitchley, Robert Maskell, Eve Karpf ...

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6 hora 29 minutos

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 ... Leer más

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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
... Leer más
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Catastrophe - A Short Story Collection

Stories about the end of the world

de Jack London, Herbert C Ridout, C J Cutcliffe Hyne, Robert Duncan Milne, Robert Duncan Milne, Owen Oliver, Fred M White, Simon Newcomb, Robert Barr ...

Narrado por David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland0, Mark Rice-Oxley1 ...

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5 hora 55 minutos

‘The End of the World is Nigh’ has been seen, heard and quoted ad infinitum all of our lives. In the comfort zone of our own arrogance and the resources that we humans have at our disposal it seems we are both inviolable and invincible. All is safe. We are in control.But Nature has a way of sending earthquakes, eruptions, fires and flood, and much else besides, at the most inopportune times and, ... Leer más

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‘The End of the World is Nigh’ has been seen, heard and quoted ad infinitum all of our lives. In the comfort zone of our own arrogance and the resources that we humans have at our disposal it seems we are both inviolable and invincible. All is safe. We are in control.But Nature has a way of sending earthquakes, eruptions, fires and flood, and much else besides, at the most inopportune times and,
... Leer más
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Inventions - A Short Story Collection

Stories about technology and progress, whatever the cost

de Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Ethel Dell, Herbert C Ridout, Winifred Holt, Edward Page Mitchell, Frank R Stockton, Robert Duncan Milne, Bernard Capes ...

Narrado por Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

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5 hora 38 minutos

The human mind has many amazing characteristics. It is logical and creative and able to make great leaps of imagination and turn many of its ideas into physical reality.In this volume our authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Winifred Holtby, Bernard Capes and many others bring forth creations and contraptions that are both amazing and abstract as well as diabolical and ... Leer más

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The human mind has many amazing characteristics. It is logical and creative and able to make great leaps of imagination and turn many of its ideas into physical reality.In this volume our authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Winifred Holtby, Bernard Capes and many others bring forth creations and contraptions that are both amazing and abstract as well as diabolical and
... Leer más

The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories

de H. G. Wells ...

In "The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories," H. G. Wells crafts a collection of narrative tales that delve into the interplay between reality and imagination, existence and desire. The titular story explores themes of escapism and the paradox of choice through the protagonist's bittersweet memories of an elusive, idyllic garden behind a wall. Wells employs a blend of fantastical elements and ... Leer más

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In "The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories," H. G. Wells crafts a collection of narrative tales that delve into the interplay between reality and imagination, existence and desire. The titular story explores themes of escapism and the paradox of choice through the protagonist's bittersweet memories of an elusive, idyllic garden behind a wall. Wells employs a blend of fantastical elements and
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Beauty and the Beast (Illustrated + Audiobook Download Link)

de Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont ...

FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary clazzics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, free audiobook download link at the end of the book, navigable ... Leer más

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FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary clazzics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, free audiobook download link at the end of the book, navigable
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Three Ghost Stories

Short Scary Stories

de Charles Dickens ...

Series Libro 20 - Charles Dickens Collection
Three Ghost Stories is just that a collection of three different stories that are true Gothic classics. The three stories, The Haunted House, The Trial for Murder and The Signal Man,were sensational for their time and continue to hold up well, thanks to Charles Dickens' superb skills at storytelling. The Signal Man is the most well known of the three, chronicling the haunting of a railroad signal ... Leer más

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Three Ghost Stories is just that a collection of three different stories that are true Gothic classics. The three stories, The Haunted House, The Trial for Murder and The Signal Man,were sensational for their time and continue to hold up well, thanks to Charles Dickens' superb skills at storytelling. The Signal Man is the most well known of the three, chronicling the haunting of a railroad signal
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Selected Stories of H. G. Wells

de H. G. Wells ...

Series series Modern Library Classics
Ursula K. Le Guin’s selection of twenty-six stories showcases H. G. Wells’s genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for making the unbelievable seem utterly plausible.He envisioned a sky filled with airplanes before Orville Wright ever left the ground. He described the spectacle of space travel decades before men set foot on the moon. H. G. Wells was a visionary, a man of science ... Leer más

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s selection of twenty-six stories showcases H. G. Wells’s genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for making the unbelievable seem utterly plausible.He envisioned a sky filled with airplanes before Orville Wright ever left the ground. He described the spectacle of space travel decades before men set foot on the moon. H. G. Wells was a visionary, a man of science
... Leer más

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