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  Anathema - From their pens to...

  Alexander Kuprin

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  Alexander Kuprin was born in Narovchat, Penza in Russia on 7th September 1870. 
  At 3 his Father died and he and mother moved to Moscow. By 10 he was enrolled at the Second Moscow Military High School and there his interest in literature began. The Alexander Military Academy followed and two years later he was a sub-lieutenant and posted to an Infantry Regiment for a further four years. 
  Despite his duties he was a now a keen writer and published his first short story at this time. His military duties also garnered him experiences for his breakthrough work ‘The Duel’.  Leaving the military he left for Kiev to work for local newspapers.  He continued to publish both stories and novels and by 1901 he was in St Petersburg becoming part of a group that included Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, Maxim Gorky and Leonid Andreyev.  
  In the years that followed further controversial works and acclaim followed.  His comments on the regime meant he was also put under secret police surveillance.   
  As World War I erupted, Kuprin opened a military hospital but was then given command of an infantry company in Finland. He was soon discharged on grounds of ill health.  
  The October Revolution saw him praise Lenin, but he warned that the Bolsheviks threatened Russian culture and might cause further widespread suffering to the peasants.  As Civil War raged he took his family to Helsinki and then on to Paris. 
  Exile saw his talents decline further and his succumbing to alcoholism. He became lonely and withdrawn. The family's poverty increased his malaise.   
  In May 1937, the Kuprin’s returned to Moscow.  He now saw his work published but wrote almost nothing new.  In 1938 his health rapidly deteriorated.  Already suffering from a kidney problems and sclerosis, he had now developed cancer of the oesophagus.  
  Alexander Kuprin died on 25th August 1938.

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  The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

  SAMPI Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, is a detective narrative that explores Dupin's investigation into the mysterious disappearance and subsequent death of a young woman in Paris, based on a real case in New York, highlighting analysis and logical deduction.

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  The Haunted Man and the Ghost's...

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens’s The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848) was the last of his five Christmas books, following A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, and The Battle of Life. Like its predecessors, it is not a simple tale of the festive season but a moral study that uses the supernatural to explore human sympathy, memory, and redemption.

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  Half a Sheet of Foolscap - From...

  August Strindberg

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  The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Giovanni Verga.

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  Study in Scarlet A (a Sherlock...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "A Study in Scarlet" was written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, and he marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would go on to become one of the most well-known mystery-solving duos in literature.  
  When a gruesome murder is discovered with the word "RACHE" scrawled in blood, Sherlock Holmes uses his unique powers of deduction to uncover a hidden story of passion, betrayal, vengeance and retribution.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Sherwood Anderson

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  The Top 10 – Sherwood Anderson – An Introduction 
   
  The lives of the everyday person are beautifully observed in Anderson’s beguiling prose.  These miniature gems draw us in to streets, towns and situations that, in his words, reveal perhaps a truer and more realistic document of America than reality ever can.  
   
  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 - Sherwood Anderson - An Introduction 
  2 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 
  3 - An Awakening by Sherwood Anderson 
  4 - Adventure by Sherwood Anderson 
  5 - The Strength of God by Sherwood Anderson 
  6 - Death by Sherwood Anderson 
  7 - Seeds by Sherwood Anderson 
  8 - The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson 
  9 - Brothers by Sherwood Anderson 
  10 - War by Sherwood Anderson 
  11 - Discovery of a Father by Sherwood Anderson

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