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  Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving An

  Louisa May Alcott

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  Mother and Father are called away suddenly, because Grandma is “failin’ fast”. This leaves the oldest Bassett girls, Tillie and Prue, to oversee the cooking of the Thanksgiving feast. Soon all eight children pitch in, though the subtleties of plum pudding and stuffed turkey are completely unknown to them. The result is a whole bunch of old-fashioned fun in the comfortably familiar Louisa May Alcott tradition. 

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  The Toys of Peace - and Other...

  Saki Saki

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  THE TOYS OF PEACE AND OTHER PAPERS by "Saki" (H. H. Munro) is a collection of 33 "papers" or short stories, which were originally published separately in various journals and later issued in one volume in 1919, three years after the writer's death in the Great War. They are some of the most delightful of literary miniatures.They are: The Toys of PeaceLouiseTeaThe Disappearance of Chrispina UmberleighThe Wolves of CernogratzLouisThe GuestsThe PenanceThe Phantom LuncheonA Bread and Butter MissBertie's Christmas EveForewarnedThe InterlopersQuail SeedCanossaThe ThreatExcepting Mrs. PentherbyMarkThe HedgehogThe Mappined LifeFateThe BullMorlveraShock TacticsThe Seven Cream JugsThe Occasional GardenThe SheepThe OversightHyacinthThe Image of the Lost SoulThe Purple of the Balkan KingsThe Cupboard of the YesterdaysFor the Duration of the WarNote: A number of these stories are contained in "The Best of Saki" (3 volumes) narrated by Roy Macready.

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  Cumberland Sheep Shearers...

  Elizabeth Gaskell

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  Three or four years ago we spent part of a summer in one of the dales in the neighbourhood of Keswick. We lodged at the house of a small Statesman, who added to his occupation of a sheep-farmer that of a woollen manufacturer. His own flock was not large, but he bought up other people's fleeces, either on commission, or for his own purposes; and his life seemed to unite many pleasant and various modes of employment, and the great jolly burly man throve upon all, both in body and mind.

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  Visham Samasya

  Munshi Premchand

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  Visham Samasya is a Hindi short story by legendary storyteller Munshi Premchand. 
  Narrated by Nidhi Bisht, this audiobook provides the audience with an immersive experience in Premchand`s world, a must listen for all Hindi literature fans.

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  The Cask of Amontillado

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  A sinister tale of grotesque vengeance. At carnival, the tipsy wine buff Fortunato is lured into a deadly snare by the man he considers to be his friend. The listener is at the same time horrified and yet fascinated. The audio equivalent of watching a train wreck.

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  Enigmatic Nature An

  Anton Chekhov

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  In a train compartment, Voldemar, a provincial secretary of Special Commissions, who is also a budding young author, talks to an agitated young lady, reclining on a seat opposite to him. He is fascinated with the great enigma of her apparently wonderful inner world, eager to unravel its mysteries, and she, a self-proclaimed 'sufferer in Dostoyevsky's taste' implores him to reveal her soul to the world in one of his novellas.
  So she tells him how she, a young girl, looking for brighter horizons, married an old army general, so as to become an heiress one day and, with all the wealth thus gained, go back to the man whom she really adored. Now, according to the plan, the general dies, but no happiness comes her way, for there is now a serious hurdle that stands between her and the man she loves. And that is… another army general, who is both rich and old.
  As the train leaves the station, Voldemar the writer sits pondering on how indeed enigmatic this wonderful creature's soul must be.

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