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  Road to Oz The (Unabridged)

  L. Frank Baum

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  The Emerald City is built all of beautiful marbles in which are set a profusion of emeralds, every one exquisitely cut and of very great size. There are other jewels used in the decorations inside the houses and palaces, such as rubies, diamonds, sapphires, amethysts and turquoises. But in the streets and upon the outside of the buildings only emeralds appear, from which circumstance the place is named the Emerald City of Oz.

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  HP Lovecraft: Collected Short...

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  This work contains the collected short stories of H.P LovecraftThe FestivalHeCool AirIn the VaultPickman's ModelThe Nameless CityThe AlchemistThe Very Old FolkRats in the WallsFrom BeyondThe HoundThe Strange High House in the MistThe UnnamableHypnosThe Quest of IranonThe TempleThe Moon BogThe Evil ClergymanThe Horror at Martin's BeachThe Silver KeyThe Transition of Juan RomeroThe Other GodsThe Outsider

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  Adventure of Charles Augustus...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes and was published in 1904. Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer: Milverton, who causes Holmes more revulsion than any of the 50-odd murderers in his career.

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  Ада или Радости страсти

  Владимир Набоков

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  Создававшийся в течение десяти лет и изданный в США в 1969 году, роман  Владимира Набокова "Ада, или Радости страсти» по выходе в свет снискал  скандальную славу "эротического бестселлера» и удостоился полярных  отзывов со стороны тогдашних литературных критиков; репутация одной из  самых неоднозначных набоковских книг сопутствует ему и по сей день.  Играя с повествовательными канонами сразу нескольких жанров (от семейной  хроники толстовского типа до научно-фантастического романа), Набоков  создал едва ли не самое сложное из своих произведений, ставшее  квинтэссенцией прежних тем и приемов его творчества и рассчитанное на  весьма искушенного в литературе, даже элитарного читателя. История  ослепительной, всепоглощающей, запретной страсти, вспыхнувшей между  главными героями, Адой и Ваном, в отрочестве и пронесенной через  десятилетия тайных встреч, вынужденных разлук, измен и воссоединений,  превращается под пером Набокова в многоплановое исследование  возможностей сознания, свойств памяти и природы Времени, открыто  перекликающееся с философскими идеями Анри Бергсона и прозой Марселя  Пруста. Внимательный к разнородным стилистическим регистрам,  трехъязычным словесным играм и многослойным литературным аллюзиям  читатель "Ады», несомненно, обнаружит скрытый за раскованной эротической  образностью этический подтекст романа, увидит поглощенных взаимной  страстью главных героев сквозь призму авторской идеи нравственной  ответственности человека перед ближними.

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  Female Short Story The - A...

  Vernon Lee, Edith Nesbit,...

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  A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’.  This is a perfect place to start our anthology of female short stories. 
   
  Some of our earliest memories are of our mothers telling us bedtime stories. This is not to demote the value of fathers but more to promote the often-overshadowed talents of the gentler sex. 
   
  Perhaps ‘gentler’ is a word that we should re-evaluate. In the course of literary history it is men who dominated by opportunity and with their stranglehold on the resources, both financial and technological, who brought their words to a wider audience.  Men often placed women on a pedestal from where their talented words would not threaten their own.   
   
  In these stories we begin with the original disrupter and renegade author Aphra Behn.  A peek at her c.v. shows an astounding capacity and leaves us wondering at just how she did all that. 
   
  In those less modern days to be a woman, even ennobled, was to be seen as second class.  You literally were chattel and had almost no rights in marriage.  As Charlotte Smith famously said your role as wife was little more than ‘legal prostitute’.  From such a despicable place these authors have used their talents and ideas and helped redress that situation.   
   
  Slowly at first.  Privately printed, often anonymously or under the cloak of a male pseudonym their words spread.  Their stories admired and, usually, their role still obscured from rightful acknowledgement. 
   
  Aided by more advanced technology, the 1700’s began to see a steady stream of female writers until by the 1900’s mass market publishing saw short stories by female authors from all the strata of society being avidly read by everyone.  Their names are a rollcall of talent and ‘can do’ spirit and society is richer for their works.   
   
  In literature at least women are now acknowledged as equals, true behind the scenes little has changed but if (and to mis-quote Jane Austen) there is one universal truth, it is that ideas change society.  These women’s most certainly did and will continue to do so as they easily write across genres, from horror and ghost stories to tender tales of love and making your way in society’s often grueling rut.  They will not be silenced, their ideas and passion move emotions, thoughts and perhaps more importantly our ingrained view of what every individual human being is capable of.    
   
  It is because of their desire to speak out, their desire to add their talents to the bias around them that we perhaps live in more enlightened, almost equal, times.   
   
  Within these stories you will also find very occasional examples of historical prejudice.  A few words here and there which in today’s world some may find inappropriate or even offensive.  It is not our intention to make anyone uncomfortable but to show that the world in order to change must reconcile itself to the actual truth rather than put it out of sight.  Context is everything, both to understand and to illuminate the path forward.  The author’s words are set, our reaction to them encourages our change. 
   
  01 - The Female Short Story. A Chronological History - An Introduction - Volume 5 
  02 - The Death Mask by H D Everett writing as Theo Parker 
  03 - The Story of 'The Spaniards', Hammersmith by Kate and Hesketh Pritchard 
  04 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman 
  05 - A Dream of Wild Bees by Olive Schreiner 
  06 - The Hired Baby, A Romance of the London Streets by Mary Mackay writing as Marie Corelli 
  07 - The Runaway by Marion Hepworth-Dixon 
  08 - Amour Dure by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee 
  09 - My Flirtations by Ella Hepworth Dixon writing as Margaret Wynham 
  10 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy 
  11 - When the Devil Was Well by Gertrude Ather

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  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

  Washington Irving

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  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820. Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity.

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