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  Parmenides

  Plato

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  Parmenides recounts a meeting between Socrates, Zeno and Parmenides. Topics discussed include universals, plurality and the One. - Summary by Geoffrey Edwards

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  Nostromo

  Joseph Conrad

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  "Nostromo" is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1904. It is considered one of Conrad's most significant works and a masterpiece of modernist literature. The novel is set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, where political turmoil and the quest for wealth intersect. The story revolves around the enigmatic figure of Nostromo, an Italian expatriate and trusted longshoreman in the port of Sulaco. Conrad explores themes of greed, imperialism, and the corrupting influence of power while offering a complex narrative that weaves together the lives of various characters.

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  Where Eagles Dare: The classic...

  Alistair MacLean

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  The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. 
  Winter 1943, and US General Carnaby has been captured by the Nazis. He is being held in a fortress high in the Bavarian Alps. headquarters of the German Secret Service, and in his head are plans for the invasion of Normandy. 
    
  A special team of British commandos, a US Army ranger and a female secret agent is hurriedly assembled. Their mission: parachute into the area, break in to the alpine Castle, and rescue General Carnaby before the Germans can interrogate him. 
    
  But unknown to all, there is another mission, and someone in the group is a traitor… 
  The historical and military aspects of the book are vividly portrayed, making it a top pick for fans of adventure thrillers. The technological prowess of the era is subtly woven into the narrative, adding an extra layer of intrigue to the plot. 
  For fans of Frederick Forsyth (The Deceiver), Rory Clements (A Cold Wind From Moscow), Nevil Shute (A Town Like Alice), Ken Follett (Circle of Days), and Edward Marston (The Railway Detective's Christmas Case).

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  Israel Zangwill - A Short Story...

  Israel Zangwill

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  Israel Zangwill was born in London on 21st January 1864, to a family of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire.  
   
  Zangwill was initially educated in Plymouth and Bristol.  At age 9 he was enrolled in the Jews' Free School in Spitalfields in east London. Zangwill excelled here.  He began to teach part-time at the school and eventually full time.  Whilst teaching he also studied with the University of London and by 1884 had earned his BA with triple honours in philosophy, history, and the sciences. 
   
  His writing earned him the sobriquet "the Dickens of the Ghetto" primarily based on his much lauded novel ‘Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People’ in 1892 and its glimpse of the poverty-stricken life in London's Jewish quarter. 
   
  As a writer he was keen to reflect on his political and social outlooks.  His simulation of Yiddish sentence structure in English aroused great interest. His mystery work, ‘The Big Bow Mystery’ (1892) was the first locked room mystery novel.   
   
  Zangwill was also involved with narrowly focused Jewish issues as an assimilationist, an early Zionist, and later a territorialist. In the early 1890s he had joined the Lovers of Zion movement in England. In 1897 he joined Theodor Herzl (considered the father of modern political Zionism) in founding the World Zionist Organization.   
   
  Zangwill quit the established philosophy of Zionism when his plan for a homeland in Uganda was rejected and founded his own organisation; the Jewish Territorialist Organization. Its stated goal was to create a Jewish homeland in whatever territory in the world could be found for them.  
   
  Amongst the challenges in his life he found time to write poetry.  He had translated a medieval Jewish poet in 1903 and his volume ‘Blind Children’ in 1908 shows his promise in this new endeavour. 
    
  ‘The Melting Pot’ in 1909 made Zangwill’s name as an admired playwright.  When the play opened in Washington D.C., former President Theodore Roosevelt leaned over the edge of his box and shouted, "That's a great play, Mr. Zangwill, that's a great play."   
   
  Israel Zangwill died on 1st August 1926 in Midhurst, West Sussex. 
   
  1 - Israel Zangwill - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - A Rose of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill 
  3 - Cheating The Gallows by Israel Zangwill 
  4 - The Converts by Israel Zangwill 
  5 - The Red Mark by Israel Zangwill 
  6 - The Silent Sisters by Israel Zangwill 
  7 - The Tug of Love by Israel Zangwill

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  The Diamond Lens - Hard Sci Fi...

  Fitz James O'Brien

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  "They say now that I am mad; but they are mistaken... Young men's associations invite me, pay me, and laugh at me while I lecture. 'Linley, the mad microscopist,' is the name I go by." 
   
  In 1858, microscopy is the cutting-edge science of the day. The cell nucleus had been seen, and soon chromatic aberrations were abolished as multi lens microscopes came into being. One young man becomes obsessed with creating the perfect microscope, failing over and over again until in desperation he communes with the spirit of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, inventor of the microscope, who tells him the key to a perfect lens. Using electromagnetic currents, he finally succeeds.  
  There follows a tale of murder, revelation, tragically doomed love, and being laughed at by students. 
   
  This is the first major microcosmic story, written over a century before before greats like Theodore Sturgeon's Microcosmic God, Asimov's Fantastic Voyage, Ant-Man, Rick and Morty, or Horton Hears a Who!

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Virginia Woolf, D H Lawrence, A...

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  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. 
   
  In this volume the decade reveals some who are doing very well and the many who are not; underfoot, underpaid and under-represented.   
   
  Our writers of many hues and telling talents bring both their stories and their characters to bear on the decade between the two world wars with searing clarity. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - The English - An Introduction 
  02 - The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf 
  03 - The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D H Lawrence 
  04 - Rats by M R James 
  05 - The Resurrection of Father Brown by G K Chesterton 
  06 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall 
  07 - Running Wolf by Algernon Blackwood 
  08 - Mrs Amworth by E F Benson 
  09 - Smee by A M Burrage 
  10 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson 
  11 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen

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