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  Theocracy with a Silver Lining

  Martin Lundqvist

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  A flash fiction story about the 17-year-old girl, Sandra, who is at the headmaster's office for breaking against the law against contraceptives introduced by the fanatic Grand Cleric Mitchell Cent.

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  Tales of the White Hills and...

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Tales of the White Hills, and Sketches is a captivating collection of short fiction and reflective sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne, inspired by the rugged landscapes and quiet communities of New England. Drawing upon Hawthorne's time in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, this volume blends atmospheric storytelling with keen observation, revealing how nature, history, and human character are deeply intertwined.
  
  The tales in this collection are marked by Hawthorne's signature style—rich in mood, symbolism, and moral insight. Set amid mountain scenery, remote villages, and reflective interiors, the stories explore themes of solitude, memory, conscience, and the subtle influence of place on the human spirit. Hawthorne transforms the stark beauty of the White Hills into more than a backdrop; the natural world becomes an active presence, shaping emotions and moral awareness.
  
  Alongside the fictional tales, the sketches offer vivid impressions of travel, landscape, and everyday life. Written with quiet elegance and thoughtful detail, these pieces reflect Hawthorne's gift for turning ordinary experiences into moments of contemplation and meaning. His prose captures both the grandeur of nature and the intimate realities of human life, balancing realism with gentle romanticism.
  
  Tales of the White Hills, and Sketches provides readers with a lesser-known yet deeply rewarding entry into Hawthorne's body of work. It appeals to lovers of classic American literature, short fiction, and nature-inspired writing, as well as to readers interested in the cultural and literary heritage of New England.
  
  Timeless in tone and reflective in spirit, this collection stands as a testament to Nathaniel Hawthorne's ability to find profound significance in both the natural landscape and the quiet moments of human experience.

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  The Embroidered Towel

  Mikhail Bulgakov

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  "The Embroidered Towel" is one of the most famous story from a short story collection A Young Doctor's Notebook, also known as A Country Doctor's Notebook. Translated by S.E. Torrens. 
  In "The Embroidered Towel" by Mikhail Bulgakov the young doctor arrives at his new post after a bone-jarring 24-hour wagon ride. He frets about how young he looks, and feels intimidated by the well-stocked pharmacy and medical library his predecessor has left behind. He also worries that he'll have to treat a hernia and won't know what to do - this neurosis is a running joke in the book's initial stories.

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  Virginia Woolf

  Virginia Woolf

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  A celebration of an author regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Celia Johnson reads from To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway and Virginia Woolf is featured talking about modern literature.

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  The Goth House Experiment - And...

  SJ Sindu

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  An uncanny and electric story collection from SJ Sindu, Lambda Literary finalist and Publishing Triangle Edmund White Debut Fiction Award–winning author of Blue-Skinned Gods 
   
  In “Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc,” a millennial English professor finds viral fame on TikTok, but her newfound notoriety could wreck her already unstable life. In “Patriots’ Day,” a man having an affair finds himself caught up in larger currents of anti-Asian violence.  
  Throughout the collection, an array of loners and artists—a young poet haunted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde, a home brewer and wife during lockdown, a boy with wings—struggle for connection and fulfillment in a world battered by the pandemic and reactionary politics. A daring  
  writer with limitless range, SJ Sindu can depict shocking cruelty as readily as small moments of queer joy. The Goth House Experiment isa startling and very funny collection by one of America’s most exciting young voices.

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  Cohen of Trinity - From their...

  Amy Levy

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  Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life. 
  Her education was at Brighton High School, Brighton, before studies at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms. 
  Amy’s writing career began early; her poem ‘Ida Grey’ appeared when she was only fourteen. Her acclaimed short stories ‘Cohen of Trinity’ and ‘Wise in Their Generation,’ were published by Oscar Wilde in his magazine ‘Women's World’. 
  Her poetic writings reveal feminist concerns; ‘Xantippe and Other Verses’, from 1881 includes a poem in the voice of Socrates's wife. ‘A Minor Poet and Other Verse’ from 1884 comprises of dramatic monologues and lyric poems. 
  In 1886, Amy began a series of essays on Jewish culture and literature for the Jewish Chronicle, including ‘The Ghetto at Florence’, ‘The Jew in Fiction’, ‘Jewish Humour’ and ‘Jewish Children’. 
  That same year while travelling in Florence she met the writer Vernon Lee. It is generally assumed they fell in love and this inspired the poem ‘To Vernon Lee’. 
  Her first novel ‘Romance of a Shop’, written in 1888 is based on four sisters who experience the pleasures and hardships of running a London business during the 1880s. This was followed by Reuben Sachs (also 1888) and concerned with Jewish identity and mores in the England of her time and was somewhat controversial. 
  Her final book of poems, ‘A London Plane-Tree’ from 1889, shows the beginnings of the influence of French symbolism. 
  Despite many friendships and an active life, Amy suffered for many years with serious depressions and this, together with her growing deafness, led her to commit suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide on September 10th, 1889. She was 27.

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