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  Elenora - An oddity of a romance...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan.   
   
  He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted although he now referred to himself as Edgar Allan Poe.  His father alternatively spoiled or chastised him and tension was frequent over gambling debts and monies for his education.  His university years to study ancient and modern languages was cut short by lack of money and he enlisted as a private in the army claiming he was 22, it is more probable he was 18. After 2 years he obtained a discharge in order to take up an appointment at the military academy, West Point, where he failed to become an officer. 
   
  Poe had released his 1st poetry volume in 1827 and after his 3rd turned to prose and placing short stories in several magazines and journals.  At age 26 he obtained a licence to marry his cousin.  She was a mere 13 but they stayed together until her death from tuberculosis 11 years after. 
   
  In January 1845 ‘The Raven’ was published and became an instant classic.  Thereafter followed the prose works for which he is now so rightly famed as a master of the mysterious and the macabre. 
   
  Edgar Allan Poe died at the tragically early age of 40 on 7th October 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. Newspapers at the time reported Poe's death as ‘congestion of the brain’ or ‘cerebral inflammation’, common euphemisms for death from disreputable causes such as alcoholism but the actual cause of death remains a mystery.

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  The Willows

  Algernon Blackwood

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  The Willows by Algernon Blackwood is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes. On t This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  Plato's Dream - From their pens...

  Voltaire

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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 Voltaire.

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  Jack and Jill

  Louisa May Alcott

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  Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are best friends who live next door to each other. They are always seen together, so Janey gets the nickname of Jill, to mimic the old rhyme. The two do go up a hill one winter day— and then suffer a terrible accident. Seriously injured in a sledding accident, they recover from their physical injuries, while learning life lessons along with their many friends. They are helped along their journey to recovery by various activities created by their mothers.

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  Timeless Terrors Vol 4

  Various

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  🎬 Experience the atmospheric visual edition of this tale by searching “Jonathan Dunne Horror” on YouTube.Timeless Terrors Volume 4A Curated Collection of Classic Horror and Weird Fiction 
  Narrated by Jonathan Dunne 
  Enter the shadows once more with Timeless Terrors Volume 4, a handpicked collection of classic tales that showcase the extraordinary range of horror, weird fiction, and supernatural storytelling. 
  This volume brings together six unforgettable stories from some of the greatest masters of the macabre. From eerie premonitions and spectral mysteries to cosmic wonder, psychological unease, and visions of death and decay, each tale offers a unique glimpse into the strange and unsettling worlds that have captivated readers for generations. 
  Within these stories, you'll encounter a seemingly ordinary summer day that leads to a chilling prophecy, the legendary city of Ulthar where cats are protected by an ancient law, a lonely frontier cabin haunted by tragedy, mysterious music drifting through the darkness of a forgotten city, a dreamer consumed by obsession with the dead, and one of the most celebrated allegories of mortality ever written. 
  Included in this volume are:August HeatThe Cats of UltharThe Boarded WindowThe Music of Erich ZannThe TombThe Masque of the Red Death 
  Whether you're revisiting old favourites or discovering these classics for the first time, Timeless Terrors Volume 4 offers a journey through some of the most enduring and influential works in horror literature. 
  So dim the lights, settle into the darkness, and prepare to experience stories that have haunted imaginations for more than a century. 
  Narrated by horror author Jonathan Dunne. 
  🎬 Experience the atmospheric visual edition of this tale by searching “Jonathan Dunne Horror” on YouTube.

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  The Princess Aline

  Richard Harding Davis

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  A young American painter falls in love with a photograph of a German princess and sets off across Europe to find her — Gibraltar, Cairo, Baden — with a friend who watches him do it. Davis was the most famous reporter of his age and the model Charles Dana Gibson drew for the Gibson Man; this 1895 novella is the joke about romantic pursuit told by a man who could see the ending from the first page.

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