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  Romeo and Juliet

  William Shakespeare

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  Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history. It concerns the fate of two very young lovers who would do anything to be together.The Montagues and the Capulets of Verona, Italy, are in the midst of a long-standing feud when Romeo Montague drops in on a masquerade party at the Capulets’. While there he meets and woos the daughter of the house, Juliet. She likewise returns his passion, and their secret meeting later that night on her bedroom balcony begins a series of tragic events that no one could have foretold.

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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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  Where the Sky feels Cold

  Shrutidhora P Mohor

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  A reticent Mehra family, comfortably nested in obscure Kaudiyala on the lower folds of the Himalayas, is rocked by emotional unrest as their daughter Supriya provides refuge to Farooq, a Kashmiri student of temple art, a distantly related family unit of the Mehras, empowered by a new citizenship law arrives and settles down with them, and Sudarshan, forever indifferent towards Supriya’s love for him, comes in search of his love Farooq at a time of raging political crisis in India. 
  Where the Sky Feels Cold is a tale of disappointment and despair, but it is also an acknowledgement of the fact that the most difficult love stories are the ones which are the most appealing. Attractive in its rich symbolism, intangible in its creation of love at multiple levels and in several forms, this short novel portrays four primary characters of drastically dissimilar dispositions who respond to the changing socio-political realities of India from their respective positions. Each one of them is situated beyond binaries of black and white; yet their muted colours bring to the story their pining for all that they hold dear. From Farooq’s never-ending search for a perfectly sculpted romantic statue to Supriya’s experience of unreciprocated love, and from Sudarshan’s sceptical submission to the power of a legend about the neighbourhood mosque to impish Pooja’s yearning for a home which she is prepared to trade for her heart, this is a story of reciprocal pain and tangential empathy, of love that survives lovers, of desire that can be planted afresh on new ground to yield as strong a scent as ever.  
  In this novella four lonely hearts redefine love, rediscover longing and explore the strings that continue to tug at their hearts in difficult times.

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  Adela Cathcart

  George MacDonald

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  Fairy tales told around the fire on Christmas Eve—including “The Light Princess,” “The Shadows,” “The Golden Key,” and “The Giant’s Heart.”   Reminiscent of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, MacDonald’s attempt to package a collection of short stories in the guise of a novel is built around a group of snowbound travelers attempting to pass the time in a country house by sharing stories in hopes of distracting young Adela Cathcart from her illness. Early in his career, MacDonald was trying different genres and storytelling methods, and this is a prime example of his creative experimentation. First published in 1865, the included stories changed with a new edition in 1882. Some of MacDonald’s well-known short stories made their first appearance in one of the two editions. This new publication from Michael Phillips includes the best from both original editions.

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  Country of the Saints The - A...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

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  Gulliver's Travels

  Jonathan Swift

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  Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.

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