{"product_id":"the-neglected-authors-volume-6-audiobook","title":"The Neglected Authors - Volume 6 (Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCelebrated in their time, forgotten in ours\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick(Unabridged: 13:35mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing stories by Charlotte Riddell, William Pett Ridge, Tod Robbins, Nikolai Schedrin, Friedrich Schiller, Olive Schreiner \u0026amp; many more\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThroughout 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eIn 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. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eIn the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution. Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it. Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eWhilst male authors were the overwhelming majority of beneficiaries in having their work printed time was their constant enemy. Your work could be immensely talented but if it was not to lure money into the coffers by gaining an audience of readers then your career would be one of pleasing yourself and was soon forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eBut the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eIn this volume we offer up a small selection of talents whose time has now come again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e01 - The Neglected Authors - Volume 6 - An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e02 - The Last of Squire Ennismore by Charlotte Riddell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e03 - Freckles by William Pett Ridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e04 - Spurs by Tod Robbins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e05 - Young Alf by Clarence Rook. Being a Chapter from the book Hooligan Nights\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e06 - How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials by Nikolai Schedrin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e07 - The Criminal from Lost Honour by Friedrich Schiller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e08 - A Dream of Wild Bees by Olive Schreiner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e09 - The Opium Gates by Marcel Schwob\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e10 - The Servant by S T Semyonov\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e11 - The Bride by M P Shiel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e12 - All Souls Eve by Dora Sigerson Shorter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e13 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e14 - Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched by May Sinclair\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e15 - Hide and Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e16 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e17 - His Wife's Deceased Sister by Frank R Stockton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e18 - Far Above Rubies by Netta Syrett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e19 - Ariel's Triumph by Booth Tarkington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e20 - The Grist in the Mill by Wallace Thurman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e21 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e22 - Cavalleria Rusticana by Giovanni Verga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e23 - Blessed Are the Meek by Mary Webb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e24 - The Oculist by Catherine Wells\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e25 - Why I Live at the PO by Eudora Welty\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e26 - Inquest by Leonara Wodehouse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e27 - The Red Mark by Israel Zangwill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e28 - Twilight Alley by Stefan Zweig\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deadtree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43438851784782,"sku":"AB-26781","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/4786\/files\/9781836826781.jpg?v=1771417937","url":"https:\/\/www.deadtreepublishing.com\/products\/the-neglected-authors-volume-6-audiobook","provider":"Deadtree Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}