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  Hamlet

  William Shakespeare

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  Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively reinvented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years – we have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth-century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity.

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  Dunwich Horror The (Unabridged)

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  "The Dunwich Horror" is a horror novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales (pp. 481-508). It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos.

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  The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde

  Oscar Wilde

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  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland.  The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Trinity College and then at Oxford.  
   
  Wilde then moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles.  With his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the most well-known personalities of his day. 
   
  His only novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ was published in 1890 and he then moved on to writing for the stage with ‘Salome’ in 1891.  His society comedies were enormous hits and turned him into one of the most successful writers of late Victorian London. 
   
  Whilst his masterpiece, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, was on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, prosecuted for libel.  The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency. He was convicted and imprisoned for two years hard labour. It was to break him. 
   
  On release he left for France. There he wrote his last work, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ in 1898.  He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six sipping champagne a friend had brought with the line ‘Alas I am dying beyond my means’.

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  10 Masterpieces you have to read...

  Jane Austen, Charles Dickens,...

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  This Audiobook contains the following works :1. Little women BY  Louisa May Alcott  Start at Chapters 12. Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen  Start at Chapters 483. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Start at Chapters 1094. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Start at Chapters 1525. The Odyssey by Homer  Start at Chapters 1866. A Tales of Two Cities Start at Chapters 2107. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Start at Chapters 2558. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle  Start at Chapters 2689. The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton Start at Chapters 28810. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum Start at Chapters 300

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  Six Short Stories by Arthur...

  Arthur Morrison

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  Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. This collection contains a selection of Morrison's best work, including humorous and horror stories.Featuring:    'Dobbs' Parrot'    'The House of Haddock'    'The Thing in the Upper Room'    'The Disorder of the Bath'    'His Tale of Bricks'    'A Lucifo Match'

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Sheridan Le Fanu, James Joyce,...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  The Irish Short Story tradition is packed with literary leviathans who take the raw ingredients of the land, it’s people and their own talents to create quite dazzling narratives in these perfectly pitched short stories.  Genius has many names. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The Irish - An Introduction 
  02 - The Dead by James Joyce 
  03 - The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare 
  04 - Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  05 - The Last of Squire Ennismore by Charlotte Riddell 
  06 - An Irish Problem by Somerville and Ross 
  07 - All Souls Eve by Dora Sigerson Shorter 
  13 - The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker 
  09 - A Rich Woman by Katharine Tynan 
  10 - The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde 
  11 - Dhoya by W B Yeats

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