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The Bensons – A Short Story Collection

de E F Benson, A C Benson, R H Benson ...

Sibling rivalry can be a means of support but can also erupt into competitive traits of winners and losers.In this literary instance dear listener, YOU are undoubtedly the recipient of this rivalry. Having said that these are not the usual stories to be told in polite company, no, extinguish that idea immediately. These three brothers (their sister seems far too nice to be in a volume such as this ... Leer más

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Sibling rivalry can be a means of support but can also erupt into competitive traits of winners and losers.In this literary instance dear listener, YOU are undoubtedly the recipient of this rivalry. Having said that these are not the usual stories to be told in polite company, no, extinguish that idea immediately. These three brothers (their sister seems far too nice to be in a volume such as this
... Leer más
3 Ghost Stories About the Mind Playing Tricks

de Algernon Blackwood, Amelia Edwards, A C Benson ...

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
... Leer más
Ghosts in the House

Tales of Terror by A. C. Benson and R. H. Benson

de A. C. Benson, R. H. Benson ...

Series series Collins Chillers
A collection of rare ghosts and horror stories by the brothers of one of the finest writers of the genre, E. F. Benson.The Benson brothers – Arthur Christopher, Edward Frederic and Robert Hugh – were one of the most extraordinary and prolific literary families, between them writing more than 150 books. Arthur alone left four million words of diary, although his most lasting legacy is the words to ... Leer más

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A collection of rare ghosts and horror stories by the brothers of one of the finest writers of the genre, E. F. Benson.The Benson brothers – Arthur Christopher, Edward Frederic and Robert Hugh – were one of the most extraordinary and prolific literary families, between them writing more than 150 books. Arthur alone left four million words of diary, although his most lasting legacy is the words to
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Stories From the Shadows - Psychological Thriller

Embrace the darkness

de Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Nikolai Gogol, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Mikhail Bulgakov, Violet Mary Firth, Violet Hunt, A C Benson ...

Narrado por Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Laurel Lefkow ...

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6 hora 11 minutos

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Leer más

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Leer más
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - Cambridge Graduates

The top ten short stories of all time written by authors that went to Cambridge

de William Makepeace Thackeray, E F Benson, A C Benson, Amy Levy, Barry Pain, F Marion Crawford, Hugh Walpole, M R James, Netta Syrett, Sabine Baring-Gould ...

Narrado por Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Ghizela Rowe ...

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6 hora 28 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

$14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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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Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 1

J Y Ackerman to Regina Miriam Bloch

de J Y Ackerman, Juhani Aho, Grant Allen, Edmondo de Amicus, F Anstey, Richard Harris Barham, Sabine Baring-Gould, Max Beerbohm, Aphra Behn, A C Benson, R H Benson, Stella Benson, Samuel Blas ...

Narrado por David Shaw-Parker, Robert Maskell, Michael Lyons ...

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12 hora 25 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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Forgotten Authors, The - Men - Volume 1

J Y Ackerman to Edward Bulwer-Lytton

de Juhani Aho, A J Alan, Grant Allen, Edmondo de Amicus, F Anstey, Richard Harris Barham, Sabine Baring-Gould, Max Beerbohm, A C Benson, R H Benson, Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsoe, Samuel Blas, Fredric Brown, Edward Bulwer-Lytton ...

Narrado por Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker, Robert Maskell ...

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13 hora 35 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

$19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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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Stories From The Shadows – The 1900’s

Embrace the darkness

de Leonid Andreyev, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Barbara Baynton, Harold Begbie, A C Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Valery Bryusov, Ion Luca Caragiale, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, F Marion Crawford, Rebecca Harding Davies, L T Meade and Robert Eustace, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Maude K Griffin, W W Jacobs, M R James, Perceval Landon, R H Malden, Hume Nisbet, Barry Pain, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Allen Upward ...

Narrado por Laurel Lefkow, David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe ...

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11 hora 59 minutos

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Leer más

$29.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Leer más
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Dark Masters, The - Volume 1

Achmed Abdullah to John Buchan

de A C Benson, Achmed Abdullah, Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, Arnold Bennett, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Blayre, E F Benson, F Anstey, Fredric Brown, Harold Begbie, Honore de Balzac, J Y Ackerman, John Buchan, Leonid Andreyev, R H Benson, Richard Harris Barham, Robert Barr, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Sabine Baring-Gould, Samuel Blas, Valery Bryusov ...

Narrado por David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Completo

11 hora 39 minutos

Life is to be lived. Experiences gained, pleasures sampled. But, troublingly, when you are a classic author your thoughts sometimes lean towards darker thoughts. Within the space of a few paragraphs these literary masters shape a new world; more difficult experiences, darker pleasures. Life becomes uneasy, a queasy feeling, perhaps a repulsion here, a disgust there and very soon what was cosy, ... Leer más

$24.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Life is to be lived. Experiences gained, pleasures sampled. But, troublingly, when you are a classic author your thoughts sometimes lean towards darker thoughts. Within the space of a few paragraphs these literary masters shape a new world; more difficult experiences, darker pleasures. Life becomes uneasy, a queasy feeling, perhaps a repulsion here, a disgust there and very soon what was cosy,
... Leer más
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Closed Window, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

de A C Benson ...

Narrado por Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Completo

29 minutos

The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is A C Benson, brother of the more widely known E F Benson. ... Leer más

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The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is A C Benson, brother of the more widely known E F Benson.
... Leer más
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English Ghost Stories NOT by M R James

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

de M R James, Rudyard Kipling, D H Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Edith Nesbit, H Rider Haggard, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elinor Mordaunt, Hesba Stretton, Frederick Cowles, Reverend R S Hawker, Richard Le Gallienne, Perceval Landon, Mrs Craik, A C Benson, May Sinclair, H D Everett, E F Benson, W F Harvey, Hugh Walpole, Mary Elizabeth Braddon ...

Narrado por David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Lisa Bowerman ...

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17 hora 54 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 over-looked 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 over-looked 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 - Haunted House

The stories that created one of the most popular genres in fiction

de Oscar Wilde, H P Lovecraft, H P Lovecraft, Rudyard Kipling, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H D Everett, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Walter Scott, Bram Stoker, Margaret Oliphant, Algernon Blackwood0, E T A Hoffman1, Edith Nesbit2, Edith Nesbit3, E F Benson4, D K Broster5, A C Benson6, W F Harvey7, W F Harvey8, Hesba Stretton9, Rosa Mulholland0, Sheridan Le Fanu1, Sheridan Le Fanu2, Edward Bulwer Lytton3, Eric Purves4, William Hope Hodgson5, A M Burrage6, Elizabeth Gaskell7, M R James8, Marjorie Bowen9, Catherine Crowe0, B M Croker1, Rhoda Broughton2, Elinor Mordaunt3, Allen Upward4, Richard Harris Barham5, Charlotte Riddell6, Edgar Allan Poe7 ...

Narrado por Richard Mitchley8, David Shaw-Parker9, Mark Rice-Oxley0 ...

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9 hora 6 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

$49.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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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