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  A Disgraceful Affair - Stories

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works and offer keys to understanding the themes in his longer works. Contained in this volume are the short stories ""White Nights,"" ""A Disgraceful Affair,"" and ""The Dream of the Ridiculous Man,"" three of Dostoevsky's most troubling, moving, and poignant works.

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  The Wedding Planner

  Stephanie Laurens

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  A master wedding planner meets her ultimate challenge in the #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s Regency romance novella. 
   
  Beautiful Lady Margaret Dawlish, the daughter of a duke, is proud to plan the ton’s most important weddings—including that of a prince! But now it’s Lady Margaret who falls in love, with dashing Gaston Devilliers, the Duke of Perigord. This breathtaking man always ends up where he wants to be—and, in this case, that means in Margaret’s arms! And, suddenly, her best-laid plans to guard her heart come completely undone. 
   
  Originally appeared in the e-book anthology Royal Weddings and in The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae. 
   
  This eBook includes an excerpt from The Lady Risks All.

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  Dead Man's Folly - B1 Collins...

  Agatha Christie

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  Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. 
  Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English. 
  Poirot receives a phone call from famous crime writer Ariadne Oliver – she is staying with friends in Devon and she believes a murder is going to take place. When Poirot arrives to investigate, he can’t understand her concerns – everyone is busy working together to prepare for a village fete. Why would anyone be planning a murder? 
  Soon Poirot realizes that everything is not as it seems – but can he act quickly enough to stop the murder being committed?

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  Ghostly Short Stories - Volume 2

  M. R. James, Ambrose Bierce,...

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  Tales of the Supernatural by M.R. James, Ambrose Bierce, Hume Nisbet, Vincent O'Sullivan and Charles Dickens

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  Short Stories

  Ambrose Bierce

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  A scintillating collection of Ambrose Bierce's humorous and macabre short stories:    Oil of Dog    A Shipwreckollection    A Cargo of Cat    Curried Cow    The Eyes of the Panther    A Bottomless Grave    The Boarded Window

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  The Twins

  Bessie Kyffin-Taylor

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  Lady Bessie Kyffin-Taylor was an English writer famous for her outstanding supernatural stories, which were published in a single volume in 1920, just two years before her death.The Twins is one of Kyffin-Taylor's most famous novelettes. It tells the bizarre tale of identical twin brothers. One brother is hell-bent on evil and constantly contrives to ensure his twin is blamed for his ill-doing. The evil twin's deeds become worse and worse until he contrives to force his brother into an engagement to a woman he does not love...and when this woman is later found murdered, her fiancé is convicted of the murder and sentenced to death.But from this point, the story takes a strange twist. One twin is hanged for murder and returns to haunt his brother in the most terrifying manner....

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