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  Treasure Island

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  A mysterious map, pirates, and pieces of eight! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map to pirates' gold he starts on an adventure that takes him from his English village to a desert island with the murderous Black Dog, half-mad Ben Gunn, and (of course) Long John Silver. Arr Jim lad! R.L. Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Scotland and travelled extensively in California and the south Pacific.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Sheridan Le Fanu, Amelia...

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  The top 10 Victorian ghost short stories of all time. 
   
  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. 
   
  Across these decades of Imperial pomp another force lurks in the shadows, in the darkness, in the minds of these authors strange concoctions are brewed into deadly attacks upon our nerves.  These very familiar names bring very familiar torments. 
  1 - The Top 10 - The Victorian Ghost Story - An Introduction 
  2 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins 
  3 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  4 - The Phantom Coach  by Amelia Edwards 
  5 - The Old Nurses Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  6 - The Mezzotint by M R James 
  7 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 
  8 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon 
  9 - Strange Event in the Life of Schalken by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  10 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  11 - The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

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  Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and...

  Oscar Wilde

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  Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891.

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  Hansel & Gretel's Big Adventure...

  Joel Thielke

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  The tale of Hansel and Gretel is well known, but Sleep Stories brings it to you in an exciting new light. Welcome to the new Sleep Stories adaptation of the Brothers Grimm's story, Hansel and Gretel. Sleep Stories are the perfect sleep aid for listeners of all ages. Just lay back and relax, and enjoy a new twist on classic tales. And just listen to the soothing voice of narrator Meg Saricks as she guides you gently to sleep.  
  This sleep story has a sleep induction and introduction to help guide you into a deep sleep. Hansel and Gretel's Big Adventure follows a brother and sister who are left in the woods during a famine. The two must fend for themselves and outsmart a wicked witch living in a gingerbread house.

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  Aphorisms

  Oscar Wilde

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  In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated, in the Saturday Review newspaper, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, in the Oxford student magazine The Chameleon. By turns witty, intellectual, counter-intuitive and obtruse, the collections came to be seen by many as emblematic of Wilde's style, and countless collections of Wildean aphorisms have since been published.

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  Our New House

  Bram Stoker

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  When a young couple moves into their new home, they are taken aback by the strange behavior of their new landlord. While at first he bid them to do all of the fixing-up the home needed on their own, he quickly changed his tune and was persistent in his attempts to help them tackle some of the rooms himself. The source of his desire to help lies in the fact that the old tenant may have hidden a fortune within the walls; a fortune that winds up belonging to the young couple after all!

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