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  By the Rule of Contrary

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.
  By the Rule of Contrary: "Look here, Burton," said old John Ellis in an ominous tone of voice, "I want to know if what that old busybody of a Mary Keane came here today gossiping about is true. If it is well, I've something to say about the matter!

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  Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the ninth of the 12 stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in Strand Magazine in March 1892. 
  An engineer, Victor Hatherly, attends Dr. Watson's Surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. Hatherly had been hired for 50 guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks. 
  Hatherly was told to keep the job confidential, and was transported to the job in a carriage with frosted glass, to keep the location secret. He was shown the press, but on closer inspection discovered a "rust of metallic deposit" on the press, and he suspected it was not being used for compressing earth. He confronted his employer, who attacked him, and during his escape his thumb is chopped off. Holmes deduces that the press is being used to produce counterfeit coins, and works out its location. However, when they arrive, the house is on fire, and the criminals have escaped. 
  ©2016 Rick Sheridan (P)2016 Rick Sheridan

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  A Society - From their pens to...

  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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  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde

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  A beautiful face. A terrible secret. One man's soul trapped inside a portrait that never forgets.
  When the charming and breathtakingly handsome Dorian Gray wishes for eternal youth, his desire is mysteriously granted—but every sin he commits stains his hidden portrait instead of him. As he plunges deeper into pleasure, temptation, and moral decay, the truth he fears most slowly takes shape on the canvas he dares not look at.
  
  This timeless masterpiece by Oscar Wilde blends beauty and darkness with unmatched elegance. Readers around the world praise it as *"haunting, seductive, and shockingly modern"—*a novel that lingers in the mind long after the final page.
  
  If you crave a story that is philosophical yet thrilling, poetic yet unsettling, this edition will pull you into Dorian's glittering world and keep you turning pages late into the night.
  
  Start reading now and experience the classic that changed gothic fiction forever.

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  Oval Portrait The - The...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Experience Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious tale of a life-like oval portrait hidden in an abandoned house through the power of a soundscape audiobook. 
  Root & Twig Sound's fourth production takes you into the mountains of the Italian Apennines with immersive sound design, riveting voiceover by Phil Dragash and haunting original music by Alexander Amadeo. 
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  A Root & Twig Sounds Production 
  Written by Edgar Allan Poe 
  Original text published in April of 1842 
  Produced as a Soundscape Audiobook in October of 2024 
  Read and Performed by Phil Dragash 
  Produced and Directed by Phil Dragash and A.Y. Barker 
  Original Music Composed by Alexander Amadeo 
  Cover Art by Phil Dragash 
  © Root & Twig Sounds, 2024 
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  The mission of Root & Twig Sounds is to be a beacon of classic stories spectacularly done for the modern ear, helping the world remember its great storytelling heritage. Find Root & Twig Soundscape audiobooks on our website at www.rootandtwigsound.com and wherever audiobooks are sold.

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  Berenice

  Sampi Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  "Berenice" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, centered on obsession and horror. The story follows Egaeus, a man tormented by obsessive thoughts, and his cousin Berenice, who suffers from a mysterious illness. The narrative unfolds around Egaeus' morbid fixation on Berenice's teeth, culminating in a macabre and disturbing outcome that reveals the depth of his obsession.

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