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  Angèle au Couvent - A young...

  Mary Butts

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  Mary Frances Butts was born on 13th December 1890 in Poole, Dorset. 
   
  Her early years were spent at Salterns, an 18th-century house overlooking Poole Harbour.  Sadly in 1905 her father died, and she was sent for boarding at St Leonard's school for girls in St Andrews. 
   
  Her mother remarried and, from 1909, Mary studied at Westfield College in London, and here, first became aware of her bisexual feelings.  She was sent down for organising a trip to Epsom races and only completed her degree in 1914 when she graduated from the London School of Economics.  By then Mary had become an admirer of the occultist Aleister Crowley and she was given a co-authorship credit on his ‘Magick (Book 4)’. 
   
  In 1916, she began the diary which would now detail her future life and be a constant reference point for her observations and her absorbing experiences. 
   
  During World War I, she was doing social work for the London County Council in Hackney Wick, and involved in a lesbian relationship.  Life changed after meeting the modernist poet, John Rodker and they married in 1918. 
   
  In 1921 she spent 3 months at Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema in Sicily; she found the practices dreadful and also acquired a drug habit.  Mary now spent time writing in Dorset, including her celebrated book of short stories ‘Speed the Plough’ which saw fully develop her unique Modernist prose style. 
   
  Europe now beckoned and several years were spent in Paris befriending many artists and writing further extraordinary stories.   
   
  She was continually sought after by literary magazines and also published several short story collections as books. Although a Modernist writer she worked in other genres but is essentially only known for her short stories.  Mary was deeply committed to nature conservation and wrote several pamphlets attacking the growing pollution of the countryside. 
   
  In 1927, she divorced and the following year her novel ‘Armed with Madness’ was published.  A further marriage followed in 1930 and time was spent attempting to settle in London and Newcastle before setting up home on the western tip of Cornwall.  By 1934 the marriage had failed. 
   
  Mary Butts died on 5th March 1937, at the West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance, after an operation for a perforated gastric ulcer. She was 46. 
   
  In ‘Angèle Au Couvent’ Butts takes up the story of a young school girl desperate for friendships but wrestling with her fluid interpretation of religion.

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  Dispatches From The Ruhr

  Ernest Hemingway

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  Before finding celebrity as an author, including his 1954 Nobel Prize, Ernest M. Hemingway honed his craft as a journeyman reporter. In the spring of 1923, as a special correspondent for the Toronto Star, he travelled to the occupied Ruhr Valley where he produced a series of 10 articles, collected here as Dispatches from the Ruhr. In them, he explores the French political system and its role in the decision to occupy the Ruhr Valley militarily, in an effort to collect on unsustainable war reparations. In addition, he examines the suffering of its ordinary citizens, as conditions there led to a progressive loss of confidence in the Wiemar Republic; its economic collapse under the weight of hyper-inflation; and, ultimately, to the rise of Nazism. It is worth reading as both a case study on the unintended consequences of military occupation and a master class in the development of Hemingway’s characteristic prose style.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Mens...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain,...

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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. 
   
  As the new nation gathered its strength it pushed into new territories, underwent a tumultuous civil war and tried to reconcile itself into a whole.  Its authors wrote stories of intense beauty and detailed witness.  Literature was engaging and persuasive and now a mass-market industry open to a far wider audience. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 -  The 19th Century - The American Men - An Introduction 
  2 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  3 - The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain 
  4 - The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James 
  5 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving 
  6 - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane 
  7 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce 
  8 - The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte 
  9 - The Repairer of Reputations Part 1 by Robert W Chambers 
  10 - The Repairer of Reputations Part 2 by Robert W Chambers 
  11 - The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank Stockton 
  12 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Through a Window (Unabridged)

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback.
  THROUGH A WINDOW: After his legs were set, they carried Bailey into the study and put him on a couch before the open window. There he lay, a live-even a feverish man down to the loins, and below that a double-barrelled mummy swathed in white wrappings.

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  Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Immerse yourself in the world of Sherlock Holmes with this captivating audiobook of A Scandal in Bohemia, narrated by Jake Urry. This first part of a timeless collection of Sherlock Holmes Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduces the iconic detective as he faces one of his most formidable opponents, Irene Adler. Tasked with recovering a compromising photograph for the King of Bohemia, Holmes's legendary skills are put to the test in a tale of love, deception, and intellectual rivalry. 
  Whether you're a long-time fan or new to the world of Sherlock Holmes, this audiobook promises to transport you to the atmospheric streets of Victorian London and keep you enthralled from start to finish. Rediscover the genius of Sherlock Holmes in this new recording of A Scandal in Bohemia.

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  The Black Cat - A Dark Haunting...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  EVIL HAS EYES—AND IT’S WATCHING YOU! Welcome to the world of "The Black Cat" — a heart-pounding journey into the depths of madness and guilt. Step into the mind of a man whose twisted descent into darkness will leave you breathless. FEEL your nerves SHATTER as an innocent pet becomes a SYMBOL OF DOOM, its gaze burning with the weight of a terrifying curse. HEAR the cracks of a fragile psyche as love turns to RAGE, and loyalty transforms into a NIGHTMARE. With every word, Poe’s masterful storytelling will grip your senses and drag you into the ABYSS. The vivid narration brings every shadowy corner and every horrifying revelation to life, pulling you deeper into Poe’s MACABRE world. This isn’t just a story—it’s a relentless assault on your imagination, where every shadow hides a secret. The ending will leave you questioning what is real and what lurks in the darkness of your own mind. LISTEN NOW and let "The Black Cat" sink its Claws into your very soul! THIS IS FEAR YOU WON’T ESCAPE!

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