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  Dream Of The Red Chamber

  Cao Xueqin, Eden Garret

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  A great house at the height of its splendor, yet already beginning to fade. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin draws the listener into the inner world of the Jia family, where wealth, beauty, and refinement exist alongside fragility and decline. At the center is Jia Baoyu, a sensitive and unconventional young man, and his bond with the delicate Lin Daiyu and the graceful Xue Baochai, relationships shaped as much by emotion as by duty. 
   
  Life unfolds through gatherings, poetry, rivalries, and quiet moments within the household, but beneath it all runs a deeper current: the impermanence of status, the weight of expectation, and the inevitability of change. What appears stable slowly reveals its cracks. 
   
  The work is layered and immersive, rich with atmosphere and detail. Voices, moods, and shifting fortunes come together to create something.

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  Paste - From their pens to your...

  Henry James

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  Henry James was born 15th April 1843 in New York City. 
  His youth was spent travelling with his family receiving what was an "extraordinarily haphazard and promiscuous" education as they journeyed through London, Paris, Geneva, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Newport, Rhode Island, according to the father's current interests and publishing ventures. James studied primarily with tutors and only briefly attended schools.    
  Undoubtedly the quality of his writing has ensured his name is enshrined in the American literary tradition.  
  James was a committed Anglophile and spent most of his adult life as an expatriate in Europe.  Many of his novels juxtapose the Old World with the New World. Classics such as ‘The Portrait of a Lady’, ‘Daisy Miller’ and ‘The Ambassadors’, display the entanglement between American and European cultures and mentalities. They highlight the differences between the two worlds through following the experiences of American expatriates in Europe.  
  A prolific author he was able to easily move across genres to create vivid and totally real worlds and situations and to offer sophisticated observations of human relations as well as realistic, social criticism.  
  As a critic James was unafraid to venture into reviews and essays of those other literary giants around him.  These together with his short stories and, of course, classic novels, make Henry James an author to be not only admired but read, and read often.  
  In 1915 Henry James became a British citizen. 
  On 28th February 1916, at the age of 72, Henry James died in Chelsea, London. 
  He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912 and 1916. He never won.

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  X-Ing a Paragrab

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  As it is well known that the “wise men” came “from the East,” and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East, it follows that Mr. Bullet-head was a wise man; and if collateral proof of the matter be needed, here we have it — Mr. B. was an editor. Irascibility was his sole foible; for in fact the obstinacy of which men accused him was anything but his foible, since he justly considered it his forte. It was his strong point — his virtue; and it would have required all the logic of a Brownson to convince him that it was “anything else.”

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  Bashan and I

  Thomas Mann

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  In Bashan and I (sometime referred to as Man and Dog), Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice, writes in the most remarkable way of the unique relation that links a dog with his master. These memoirs read as a novel, and describe in fierce detail the behavior, feelings and psychology of Mann's dog Bashan, and of Mann himself. Mann tells how he acquired Bashan, details traits of his character, and describes how they go on harmless and bucolic hunts.
  Written in 1918 at the end of the First World War, Bashan and I is an ode to life, to nature, to simple joys, and to a dog.

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  Quartet

  Jean Rhys

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  'She spent the foggy day in endless, aimless walking, for it seemed to her that if she moved quickly enough she would escape the fear that hunted her. It was a vague and shadowy fear of something cruel and stupid that had caught her and would never let her go.'
  
  First published in 1928, Jean Rhys's debut novel Quartet remains a masterful work of autobiographical fiction.
  
  Set during interwar Paris, Quartet follows the young Marya Zelli, who is left stranded and alone once her husband, Stephan, is arrested for selling stolen artwork. Before long, Marya is taken in by an older, sophisticated couple: the eccentric but friendly Heidler and his wife, Lois. But what appears as an innocent offer of support, soon curdles into emotional manipulation, forced dependency and tragic attempts at keeping up appearances… Based on Rhys's own tumultuous affair with her literary mentor, Ford Madox Ford, Quartet is a profoundly intimate portrait of vulnerability, forbidden desire and quiet betrayal.
  Jean Rhys (1890 – 1979) was a novelist. Raised in the Caribbean Island of Dominica, she resided mainly in England from the age of sixteen. Her work is famed for its modernist techniques, fragmented narratives and focus on the emotional lives of her – often marginalised – characters. In 1978 Rhys was appointed a CBE for her writing.

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  Villette

  Charlotte Brontë

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  Charlotte Brontë's last novel, Villette , is thought to be most closely modelled on her own experiences teaching in a pensionnat in Brussels, the place on which the fictional town of Villette is based. In the novel, first published in 1853, we follow the protagonist Lucy Snowe from the time she is fourteen and lives with her godmother in rural England, through her family tragedies and departure for the town of Villette where she finds work at a French boarding school. People from her past reappear in dramatic ways, she makes new connections, and she learns the stories and secrets of the people around her. Through it all, the reader is made privy to Lucy's thoughts, feelings, and journey of self-discovery. Charlotte Brontë (died 1855) was one of the most distinguished authors of the Victorian age. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, Villette exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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