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  In the Vault

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his brilliant and highly influential works of horror fiction.In the Vault tells the tale of a lazy and parsimonious undertaker who tries to skimp on the cost of a coffin by reusing a substandard, cheap box which he had made previously for a very short man. The recipient of the flimsy coffin is the vindictive farmer Asaph Sawyer, a man known in the neighbourhood to be permanently set on vengeance on anyone who slights him....

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  The Yellow Wallpaper

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  First published in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's semi-autobiographical story The Yellow Wallpaper is her best known work. Written from the perspective of a woman suffering post-partum psychosis, it draws the listener into a world which is both terrifying and fascinating, where strange events occur and where even the wallpaper takes on a sinister and creepy significance. 
  The narration and language are masterful, but it is the way the listener is invited to empathise and almost experience the mental illness first hand which make a lasting impression.

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  50 Short Story Masterpieces you...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, O. Henry,...

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  F.Scott Fitzgerald—The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonO.Henry—The Gift of the MagiMark Twain—On The Decay of the Art of LyingSun Tzu—The Art of WarE.A. Poe—The RavenKahlil Gibran—The MadmanW.W. Jacobs—The Monkey's PawAnonymous—AladdinThe Founding Fathers—The Declaration of IndependencePlato—The Apology of Socrates Lord Alfred Tennyson—Charge of the Light BrigadeT.S. Eliot—The Waste LandWilliam Dean Howells—Wild Flowers of the AsphaltKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels—The Communist ManifestoE.A. Poe—The Pit and the PendulumF. Scott Fitzgerald—The Offshore PirateLeo Tolstoy—A Letter to a HinduWashington Irving—The Legend of Sleepy HollowSamuel Taylor Coleridge—Kubla KhanF. Scott Fitzgerald—Camel's BackBram Stoker—The Judge's HouseLao Tzu—Tao Te ChingPlato—The Allegory of the CaveOscar Wilde—The Happy PrinceOscar Wilde—The Nightingale and the RoseWilliam Blake—Songs of InnocencePatrick Henry—Give Me LibertyH.G. Wells—The Magic ShopSaki—The Music on the HillHerman Melville—Bartleby the scrivenerMark Twain—The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyClement Clarke Moore—Twas the Night Before ChristmasBret Harte—The Luck of Roaring CampO.Henry—The Caballero's WayT.S. Eliot—The Love Song of J. Alfred ProfrockImmanuel Kant—Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?Jack London—To Build a FireEdgar Allan Poe—The Fall of the House of UsherHenry Ford—The Terror of the MachineG.K. Chesterton—The Blue CrossCharles Perrault—CinderellaAnton Chekhov—Difficult PeopleD.H. Lawrence—The Prussian OfficerFyodor Dostoevsky—The Dream of A Ridiculous ManFranz Kafka—The JudgementJames Joyce—The DeadSaki—The Unrest CureJohn Muir—Steep TrailsAnton Chekhov—Lady with a DogAnton Chekhov—The Wife

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  The Moonstone

  Wilkie Collins

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  Hailed as a masterpiece on publication, The Moonstone still thrills as a supreme detective story. But it is also a novel of mounting suspense, as the action follows the Moonstone’s trail.  The gem is tracked from the bloody looting of Seringapatam to the peaceful heart of England and on to the grim slums of London’s East End.  By skilfully using separate narrators with their differing viewpoints, Wilkie Collins deepens the mystery.  Even the great Sergeant Cuff makes a false deduction. The fate of the Moonstone remains uncertain until the final revelation.

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  The Death of Justina

  John Cheever

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  Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have.   
  As Cheever writes in his preface, 'These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.' 
  John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death, in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. 
  Benjamin Cheever is the author of The Plagiarist, The Parisian and Famous after Death. 
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  Siddharta

  Hermann Hesse

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  The title of this novel is a combination of two Sanskrit words, “siddha,” which is defined as “achieved,” and “artha” which is defined as “meaning” or “wealth.” The word serves as the name for the principal character, a man on a spiritual journey of self-discovery during the time of the first Buddha. Siddhartha is the son of a wealthy Brahmin family who decides to leave his home in the hopes of gaining spiritual illumination. Siddhartha is joined by his best friend Govinda. The two renounce their earthly possessions, engage in ritual fasting and intense meditation and ultimately seek out and speak with Gautama, the original Buddha. Here the two go their separate ways, Govinda joining the order of the Buddha, Siddhartha traveling on in search of spiritual enlightenment. In order to complete this novel Hesse immersed himself in the sacred teachings of both Hindu and Buddhist scriptures and lived a semi-reclusive life in order to achieve his own spiritual enlightenment. Considered one of Hesse’s most important works, “Siddhartha” remains to this day as one of his most popular. It is a work that deals with the quest that we all undertake in some way or another, to define our lives in an environment of conflicting dualities and ultimately find spiritual awareness.

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