Learn from the oldest form of communication and education - storytelling

Read by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, David Shaw-Parker(Unabridged: 08:08mins)

Featuring stories by Mary E Mann, Jack London, Arthur Morrison, Leo Tolstoy, Ryunosuke Akutagawa & many more

In this volume we gather stories about those unfortunate people for whom life is a daily toil of less than they need and with no resources to change that. These souls live several steps down from an occasional hardship in circumstances that blight and damage lives and futures with every passing day.

01 - Lessons From Literature - Stories That Deal with Life in Poverty - An Introduction

02 - Little Brother by Mary E Mann

03 - A Piece of Steak by Jack London

10 - Tales of Mean Streets. Lizerunt by Arthur Morrison

05 - Aloysha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy

06 - Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

07 - An Arch Rascal by Knut Hamsun

08 - One Autumn Night by Maxim Gorky

10 - The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare

11 - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyveskey

12 - The Bucket Rider by Franz Kafka

13 - Twenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky

14 - Ben Pitcher's Elly by Mary E Mann

15 - The Hired Baby, A Romance of the London Streets by Mary Mackay writing as Marie Corelli

11 - The Gospel of Content by Frederick Greenwood

17 - Wolf Charlie by Mary E Mann

18 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov