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  The Red Badge of Courage

  Stephen Crane

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  The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane. It is considered one of the most influential works in American literature. The novel, a depiction on the cruelty of the American Civil War, features a young recruit who overcomes initial fears to become a hero on the battlefield. The book made Crane an international success. Although he was born after the war and had not at the time experienced battle firsthand, the novel is considered an example of Realism.An Author's Republic audio production.

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  A Bullet for Cinderella -...

  John D. MacDonald

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  Listen to A Bullet for Cinderella with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. 
  HER VENEER WAS BIG CITY ...  
  But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. 
  I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders bare. Eyes deep-set, a girl with a gypsy look. 
  So this was the girl I had risked my life to find. This was the girl who was going to lead me to a buried fortune in stolen loot.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Katherine Mansfield

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  The Top Ten - Katherine Mansfield - An Introduction 
   
  Katherine Mansfield was a mistress of the short story form.  Her stories often start with what seems like an abrupt interruption into peoples lives yet, within a sentence or two, we are wholly at home in these new settings.  Her tragic early death deprived us of untold glories but those she left behind sparkle and radiate with an energy that few others have matched. 
   
  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. 
   
  1 - The Top Ten - Katherine Mansfield - An Introduction 
  2 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 
  3 - The Voyage by Katherine Mansfield 
  4 - Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield 
  5 - Bliss by Katherine Mansfield 
  6 - The Lady's Maid by Katherine Mansfield 
  7 - Mr and Mrs Dove by Katherine Mansfield 
  8 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield 
  9 - A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield 
  10 - Psychology by Katherine Manfield 
  11 - Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield

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  Masque of the Red Death

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  A deadly plague ravages the land whilst the nobles lock themselves away from the world, safe from harm. Or are they…

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  She - A History of Adventure

  H. Rider Haggard

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  Legends tell of an ancient sorceress who has learned the secrets of immortality. She rules over a lost people deep in unexplored Africa. She can slay at a glance, and her beauty is so legendary that no man can look upon her and keep his own will. Leo Vincey learns of a quest that has haunted his family for generations. He is to go to find this all powerful woman, and discover the secret of eternal life

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  Dracula

  Bram Stoker

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  Dracula is a Gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, considered to be one of the most enduring and skillful examples of the modern vampire genre. It tells the story of Count Dracula, and of Professor Abraham Van Helsing, who attempts to thwart the vampire in his attempt to move from Transylvania to London, in order to find new blood and spread the undead curse. This Essential Classics edition includes a new introduction by Professor Vivian Heller, Ph.D. in literature and modern studies from Yale University.Bram Stoker was a 19th-century Irish writer best known for Dracula. During his lifetime, Stoker was also the business manager of the Lyceum Theater in London. In order to write Dracula, Stoker spent years researching European folklore and vampire mythology, and the product was the book that would become a classic of horror fiction.Vivian Heller received her Ph.D. in English Literature and Modern Studies from Yale University. She is author of Joyce, Decadence, and Emancipation(University of Illinois Press) and of The City Beneath Us   (W.W. Norton & Company), a history of the building of the New York City subway system.  She is an associate at Columbia’s School of Professional Studies and is the writing tutor for the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. She is also a long-standing member of the non-fiction committee of the PEN Prison-Writing Committee, which awards prizes to inmates from across the country.Essential Classics publishes the most crucial literary works throughout history, with a unique introduction to each, making them the perfect treasure for any reader’s shelf.

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