Short Stories Set in Italy - The English Language in a Foreign Land (A

Set upon even the most beautiful of backgrounds can lie the darkest secrets

Read by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland & Garrick Hagon (Unabridged: 16hrs 12mins)

Featuring stories by Edith Wharton, Frank R Stockton, Edgar Allan Poe, H G Wells, Amelia Edwards & more.

The cliché is of the artist starving in his garret. Be it poet or author it seems romantic but lacks somewhat in the comforts and quality of life.

Somewhat better then to live and write in perhaps the Classical Cultural centre of the world; Italy. A gloried land that sates the appetite yet something increases its ambition and its yearning for further reach. Being an English author in a new and different culture seems to work its magic when these two are placed together in the same spot with a rich vocabulary; ideas seem more fully formed and characters have another edge to their existence. For the outsider looking in, more can be revealed and shared with ourselves.

In this compilation -

01 - Short Stories Set in Italy - The English Language in a Foreign Land - An Introduction

02 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton

03 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells

04 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G Wells

05 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

06 - Amour Dure - Part 1 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee

07 - Amour Dure - Part 2 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee

08 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather

09 - The Story of Salome by Amelia Edwards

10 - The Muse's Tragedy by Edith Wharton

11 - A Tale of Negative Gravity by Frank R Stockton