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  Five Tales

  John Galsworthy

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  Five Tales by John Galsworthy opens with “The First and Last,” where barrister Keith Darrant faces a moral crisis after his brother confesses to murder. Torn between duty and justice, he must decide how far loyalty extends. Across the collection, Galsworthy explores guilt, family ties, and the weight of choices within a rigid society.

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  An Outback Marriage

  Banjo Paterson

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  The posh, English daughter of an Australian pastoralist is sent to Kuryong station to learn the ropes. At the same time, a search is underway across the desolate innards of regional New South Wales for the lost son of a wealthy uncle. These stories collide to give a humorous take on the values of family, marriage and hard work, set in the beautiful backdrop of the Australian Outback. This was Banjo Paterson's first novel after a string of widely celebrated poems written in the late 1800s. Banjo Paterson (died 1941) was an influential writer of the modernist period. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, An Outback Marriage exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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  The Masque of the Red Death

  SAMPI Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death", Prince Prospero isolates himself and his wealthy guests to avoid a deadly plague. Despite his efforts to escape death, it invades his masked ball, proving that no one can escape fate.

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  The Choephori

  Aeschylus

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  Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. The bloodshed begun in the first play with the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra is here continued when Agamemnon's son Orestes avenges his father's death by killing Clytemnestra. It is not until the third and final play, Eumenides, that peace is restored to the family of the Atreidae. The introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean 'Orestes' tradition in literature and art, as well as the place of Choephori within the Oresteia, its imagery and dramatic structure, the questions of staging the play, and the manuscript tradition.

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  Tamerlane

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Tamerlane: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories.
  
  Kind solace in a dying hour!
  Such, father, is not (now) my theme—
  I will not madly deem that power
  Of Earth may shrive me of the sin
  Unearthly pride hath revell’d in—
  I have no time to dote or dream:
  You call it hope—that fire of fire!

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  A Study in Scarlet - Sherlock...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduces one of literature’s most famous detectives: Sherlock Holmes. 
   
  When Dr. John Watson arrives in London and begins sharing rooms with the mysterious and highly observant Sherlock Holmes, he soon discovers that his new companion possesses an extraordinary talent for solving crimes. Their first case together begins with a shocking murder, a cryptic message, and a trail of clues that seems impossible to piece together. As Holmes carefully examines the evidence, Watson watches his remarkable methods unfold for the first time. What follows is a gripping mystery filled with deduction, deception, revenge, and unexpected connections reaching far beyond the crime itself.  First published in 1887, A Study in Scarlet is the novel that introduced Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to the world—and the beginning of one of the most enduring partnerships in detective fiction.

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