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  The Happy Prince

  Oscar Wilde

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  This story is from the book "The Happy Prince and other Stories". In these tales, most of them being sad and even very sad, Oscar Wilde looks for a way to save one's soul in front of the misery of the world. In these tales the character will manage to obtain their salvation from their upper class blindness, by opening their eyes to misery and suffering and by doing what they can to repair these pains and evils.

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  In The Coach House

  Anton Chekhov

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  Three men, Mihailo the porter, Nikandr the fish merchant, and Stepan the coachman, sit around a table in the coach-house playing a game of "kings" with Stepan's eight-year old grandson, Alyoshka. While each card player competitively tries to win the coveted position of "king" in the game, a more serious atmosphere casts a sad shadow over the estate in which the coach-house is situated. The man of the house, for whom the porter and coachman work, has attempted suicide, and he lies in the estate house struggling somewhere between life and death. Although the card game had been light-hearted, the exit of the doctors, for whom the porter must open the door, turns the card players' conversation to the religious implications of suicide, which Nikandr relates in a similar experience he had. The ghostly ramifications in Nikandr's story frighten young Alyoshka, whose fright becomes worse when the men learn the fate of their boss.

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  Reply All - Stories

  Robin Hemley

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  A “touching and funny” story collection full of “sympathetic characters who are deeply flawed but just as deeply human”(Booklist).  Reply All, the third volume of award-winning and widely anthologized short stories by Robin Hemley, takes a humorous, edgy, and frank look at the human art of deception and self-deception.   A father accepts, without question, the many duplicate saint relics that appear in front of his cave every day; a translator tricks Magellan by falsely translating a local chief’s words of welcome; an apple salesman a long way from home thinks he’s fallen in love; a search committee believes in its own righteous nobility when it hires a minority writer; a cheating couple broadcasts a not-so-secret affair to an entire listserv; a talk show host interviews the dead and hopes to learn their secrets.   Humans fool themselves in infinite ways, and these stories illustrate this sad fact in excruciating detail, knowing commiseration, and blushing recognition.   “Laugh-out-loud funny and achingly sad and deeply in touch with the profound humanity underneath the increasingly bizarre surface of our culture.” —Robert Olen Butler, author of Good Scent from a Strange Mountai

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  10 Bedtime Stories for Children

  Beatrix Potter, Hans Christian...

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  A great collection of short stories for children.

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  20 Random Stories

  Martin Lundqvist

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  This illustrated anthology contains 20 flash fiction stories. Some are funny, some are scary, and some are plain weird. The Anthology contains the following stories. 
  100 Tinder Dates. 
  Murder on The Ghan. 
  A Fairy-Tale Wedding. 
  A High-Level Tennis Match! 
  Curiosity Saved the Cat. 
  Money Laundering in the Laundromat. 
  The Quest to Find Pachamama's Veil. 
  The First Human Clone. 
  The Mayor of Mayonnaise Manor. 
  Library Shenanigans. 
  The Masked Menace 
  Martin Puther's mission in China. 
  Eternity Can Wait. 
  Serendipity Saved the Arsonist. 
  Christmas Mayhem 
  The Rise and Fall of Melchriess. 
  Theocracy with a silver-lining. 
  Letting the Cat out of the Bag 
  From a Funeral to a Wedding.

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  Small Fry

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Chekhov’s books are the real classic of humor. His stories are full of jokes and charismatic characters. All of his short works imbued with irony and truth. Chekhov's stories were translated into more than 125 languages and his plays sound in many theaters around the world for more than 100 years. In the story “Small Fry”, there is a bright theme of flattery and servility. And the name of the story sets the tone of the narrative. Paltry small man – Nevyrazimov - humiliates himself even more with servility and subservience. "HONORED Sir, Father and Benefactor!", But he thinks "What else can I write to him, the rascal?" The world where Nevyrazimov lives is full of hate and fear of life.A SmartTouch Media production.

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