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  Tales of the Jazz Age

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. All of the stories had been published earlier, independently, in either Metropolitan Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Smart Set, Collier's, the Chicago Sunday Tribune, or Vanity Fair.
  Included in this collection:
  1. The Jelly-Bean
  2. The Camel's Back
  3. May Day
  4. Porcelain and Pink
  5. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
  6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  7. Tarquin of Cheapside
  8. "O Russet Witch!"
  9. The Lees of Happiness
  10. Mr. Icky
  11. Jemina

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  Unwritten Novel An - From their...

  Virginia Woolf

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  Adeline Virginia Woolf was born on the 25th January 1882 in South Kensington in London. 
  Although lauded as a founder of modernist writing with such classics as ‘Orlando’, ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ‘To the Lighthouse’ and, of course, many classic short stories, her background is filled with elements of tragedy that she somehow overcame to become such a revered writer.   Her mother died when she was 13, her half-sister Stella two years later and with it her first of several nervous breakdowns.  Appallingly it was later found that three of her half-brothers had sexually abused her so darkness must have seemed ever present.   
  She began writing professionally at age 20 but her father’s death two years later brought a complete mental collapse and she was briefly institutionalised.  Somehow she found within herself a literary career and with it great innovations in writing; she was a pioneer of “stream of consciousness”.    
  Her tight circle of friends were the founders of the Bloomsbury Group, a movement whose legacy still influences across the arts and society in many way to this day.   
  Whilst the dark periods continued to interrupt her emotional state her rate of work never ceased.  Until, on 28th March 1941, Woolf put on her overcoat, filled up its pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse, in Lewes, East Sussex and drowned herself.  Her body was not recovered until the 18th April.  She was 59. 
  She left behind a note which read in part “Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again.  I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times.  And I shan't recover this time.  I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate.  So I am doing what seems the best thing to do”.

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  Count of Monte Cristo The -...

  Alexandre Dumas

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  Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas' epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.
  VOLUME 1: On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.

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  The Abbot's Ghost Or Maurice...

  Louisa May Alcott

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  "A haunted estate, a family curse, and a secret that refuses to stay buried."
  
  In this chilling gothic tale, a group of houseguests gathers at the grand, gloomy estate of Christie's Abbey for Christmas. Among them is Maurice Treherne, a man seeking to reclaim his reputation and his rightful inheritance. However, the festivities are overshadowed by the legend of the Abbot's Ghost—a spectral figure said to haunt the Abbey's ruins as an omen of doom. As Maurice navigates a web of romantic rivalry and blackmail, he must face a harrowing temptation that could secure his fortune but cost him his soul.
  
  A Hidden Gem of Suspense: Long before she became famous for wholesome family stories, Alcott mastered the art of the sensational thriller. This story features all the hallmarks of the genre: secret identities, ghostly sightings in moonlit cloisters, and intense psychological drama.
  
  Themes of Honor and Temptation: At its heart, the story is a battle of will. Maurice Treherne stands as a complex hero, struggling against the bitterness of his past and the manipulative schemes of those around him. Alcott expertly balances the supernatural elements with a very human story of greed and redemption.
  
  Step into the shadows of the Abbey. Purchase "The Abbot's Ghost" today.

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  F Scott Fitzgerald - Six of the...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

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  The Poison Belt

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  A follow up to Arthur Conan Doyles well known novel, The Lost World, the Poison Belt is a short story set over a single 24 hour span of time. On the Anniversary of their momentous trip to the Plateau, as depicted in The Lost World, the irascible Professor Challenger calls his companions to his home in Rochester with a curious directive: "Bring Oxygen". What can it mean? Does it have anything to do with his dire warnings printed in the Times that morning? Can it truly be, as he says... The End of the World?  
  Written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1913 and Narrated here by Michael Ward.

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