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  The Piazza Tales

  Herman Melville

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  The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno", and "The Encantadas", his sketches of the Galápagos Islands. (Billy Budd, arguably his greatest piece of short fiction, would remain unpublished in his lifetime.)
  Melville had originally intended to entitle the volume Benito Cereno and Other Sketches, but settled on the definitive title after he had written the introductory story. The book received largely favorable reviews, with reviewers especially praising "The Encantadas" but did not sell well enough to get Melville out of his financial straits, probably because short fiction for magazines had little appeal to bookbuyers. From after Melville's rediscovery to the end of the twentieth century, the short works that attracted the most critical attention were "Bartleby," "Benito Cereno" and "The Encantadas," with "The Piazza" a little behind those.

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  The Story of Keesh and other...

  Jack London

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  This powerful collection of six short stories by Jack London explores the stark beauty and brutal realities of life on the frontier, where survival, honor, and identity are constantly tested. In The Sun Dog Trail, unspoken love and self-sacrifice unfold on a treacherous Arctic journey. Brown Wolf examines the tension between domestication and wild instinct as a dog is torn between two lives. The Unexpected delivers a jarring tale of isolation and sudden violence in the frozen North. In The Story of Keesh, a clever boy rises to leadership through ingenuity and courage, defying those who doubt him. The White Man’s Way reveals the betrayal that lies beneath colonial promises, as a Native Alaskan man pays a heavy price for trusting outsiders. Finally, Negore, The Coward is a redemptive tale of bravery and reputation, as one man fights to reclaim his honor. Together, these stories showcase London's unmatched ability to portray the struggle between nature and civilization, and the enduring spirit of those who face the wild with heart and grit. 
  This collection includes:The Sun Dog TrailBrown WolfThe Unexpected The Story of KeeshThe White Man’s WayNegore The Coward 
  Cover Photo by Lars Ley: https://www.pexels.com/photo/sled-pulled-by-dogs-2531014/

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  Frankenstein or the Modern...

  Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin)...

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  Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about the young student of science Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. Shelley had travelled through Europe in 1814, journeying along the river Rhine in Germany with a stop in Gernsheim which is just 17 km (10 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before an alchemist was engaged in experiments. Later, she travelled in the region of Geneva (Switzerland)—where much of the story takes place—and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her lover and future husband, Percy Shelley. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made; her dream later evolved into the story within the novel.

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  Supernatural Horror in Literature

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
  
  Delve into the mind of the master of cosmic horror as he traces the dark lineage of the supernatural tale. In this comprehensive essay, H.P. Lovecraft explores the evolution of fear in fiction—from the primal folklore of the ancients to the sophisticated "Weird Fiction" of the early 20th century. Lovecraft doesn't just list books; he defines the very "atmosphere" required to create true horror, championing works that evoke a "dread of outer unknown forces." For writers, scholars, and fans of the macabre, this is the essential roadmap to the shadows.
  
  The Four Pillars of Terror: Lovecraft identifies the authors he considers the "Modern Masters," providing deep analysis of their techniques:
  
  Arthur Machen: The master of hidden, ancient evils lurking beneath modern England.
  
  Algernon Blackwood: The genius of "Nature Horror" and the expanded human consciousness.
  
  Lord Dunsany: The creator of crystalline, alien dreamworlds.
  
  M.R. James: The architect of the subtle, scholarly ghost story.
  
  A Critical Masterclass: Lovecraft's essay is famous for its glowing tribute to Edgar Allan Poe, whom he credits with reinventing horror as a psychological reality. He also rediscovers "lost" classics like The House on the Borderland and The Yellow Sign, cementing the "Cthulhu Mythos" precursor works into the literary canon.
  
  
  Unlock the secrets of the dark. Purchase "Supernatural Horror in Literature" today and see through the eyes of Lovecraft.

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  The House of the Dead

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  The House of the Dead (Russian: Записки из Мёртвого дома, Zapiski iz Myortvovo doma) is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860-62 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It has also been published in English under the titles Notes from the House of the Dead, Memoirs from the House of the Dead and Notes from a Dead House, which are more literal translations of the Russian title.
  The novel portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. It is generally considered to be a fictionalised memoir; a loosely-knit collection of descriptions, events and philosophical discussion, organised around theme and character rather than plot, based on Dostoevsky's own experiences as a prisoner in such a setting. Dostoevsky spent four years in a forced-labour prison camp in Siberia following his conviction for involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This experience allowed him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of prison life and the characters of the convicts.

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  Selected Short Stories of...

  Rabindranath Tagore, Translator:...

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  This is a collection of translations of six short stories of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.  These six short stories are selected from his book ‘Galpaguchha’.  The stories are, 'Alive and Dead' (Jeebita o Mreeta), 'Suva', 'The First Look' (Shuvadrishti), 'Hoimantee', ‘Letter from Your Wife' (Streer Patra) and 'The Anonymous Lady' (Aparichita). I have selected these stories, because first of all I enjoyed reading these stories and secondly all these six stories are concerned about the position of women in the family and in the society at that time, that is, during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.   
  These stories depict the vulnerability of women, their lack of control over their marriage and life as a whole.  Show a glimpse of life of another time and of another culture. The line of thinking may seem much different from today’s life, but in many parts of the world still there are some people who like to suppress the rights of women in the name of religion or culture. So, these stories are still relevant.  
  Excerpts from Alive and Dead, Kadambinee cannot tolerate any more, she says sharply, ‘Oh, please, I didn’t die, did not die!  How will I make you understand that I didn’t die? Let me show you that I am alive.’ 
  From Hoimantee, ‘My life was so full to the brim on all sides, that I could not notice any gap anywhere.  Suddenly, I witnessed a large void of hopelessness so near me!  I couldn’t understand how and with what I would fill up this void.’ 
  From Letter from Your Wife, Mreenal, ‘I can never understand the logic behind that it’s okay not to please me, but it’s not okay to make you unhappy.’

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