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08 - Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling

In The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 5

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Edgar Allan Poe


This, the last of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains a collection of both prose and poetry. (Summary by TriciaG) Cast List for Secti…

The Host of the Air

In The Wind Among the Reeds

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William Butler Yeats


William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He studied poetry in his youth and from a…

A Coward

In The Celtic Twilight

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William Butler Yeats


I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy…

Huntingtower

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John Buchan


Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English p…

The Grand Babylon Hotel

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Arnold Bennett


Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds …

A Silent Witness

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R. Austin Freeman


In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…

Patricia Brent, spinster

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Herbert George Jenkins


A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because s…

Lady Anna

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Anthony Trollope


When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the readi…

Malcolm Sage, Detective

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Herbert George Jenkins


A collection of short stories that chronicles the first year of the Malcolm Sage Detective Bureau.Sequel or companion story of John Dene of …

The Praise of Folly

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Desiderius Erasmus


The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of Folly, Dut…

Anarchy

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Errico Malatesta


Anarchy explained by the anarchist Errico Malatesta. (Summary by Vineshen Pillay)

The Return of Alfred

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Herbert George Jenkins


The hero of the book is at a loose end, weary and bored of his old life after returning from the Great War. After an argument with his uncle…

The Rain-Girl

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Herbert George Jenkins


Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…

Anthony Trent, Master Criminal

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Wyndham Martyn


In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes…

The Hand of Ethelberta

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Thomas Hardy


Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband …

Buried Alive

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Arnold Bennett


The hero is Mr Priam Farll, a painter of considerable ability. He is, however, extremely shy – so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies …

The Secret of the Silver Car

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Wyndham Martyn


Before he went to join the Armed Forces in World War I France, Anthony Trent had a successful secret 'career' as a master criminal in the U…

Castle Richmond

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Anthony Trollope


Set against the background of the Irish famine in the 1840’s, the novel tells of the tangled relationships between Clara Desmond, Herbert Fi…