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  The Horse-Stealers

  Anton Chekhov

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  The Horse-Stealers - a story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Written in 1890, first published in the magazine "New Time" No. 5061, April 1, 1890, signed Anton Chekhov.

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  A Pair of Blue Eyes

  Thomas Hardy

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  Immerse yourself in the evocative world of "A Pair of Blue Eyes" by Thomas Hardy, a tale of love, social class, and inner conflict. Follow the beautiful and naive Elfride Swancourt as she becomes entangled in a romantic triangle with the ambitious architect Stephen Smith and the intellectual but troubled Henry Knight. Set against the rugged Cornish landscape, this poignant novel explores the pressures of societal expectations and the complexities of human emotions. Hardy's rich narrative and vivid characters create an enduring story of passion, heartbreak, and self-discovery.

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  The Just So Stories

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Rudyard Kipling's classic fables, from the story of how the whale got his throat, to the tale of the butterfly that stamped. 
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

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  The Marne

  Edith Wharton

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  The book was first published in 19181. The main character of “The Marne” is a teenage American boy named Troy Belknap who is living in Paris. Too young to enlist for the First Battle of the Marne, he and his family return to America. However, four years later, when he is eighteen years old, he becomes a Red Cross ambulance driver and participates in the Second Battle of the Marne. The book takes the reader on a journey between Troy’s rose-colored, heroic ambitions, the grim realities of the war, and the often hollow and ugly attitudes of Americans at home.

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  Agamemnon

  Aeschylus

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  "Agamemnon" is the first of the three linked tragedies which make up "The Oresteia" trilogy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus. Trilogy as a whole, originally performed at the annual Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BCE, where it won first prize, is considered to be Aeschylus' last authenticated, and also his greatest, work.
  "Agamemnon" describes the homecoming of Agamemnon, king of Argos, from the Trojan War, and his return to his wife, Clytemnestra, who had been planning his murder (in concert with her lover, Aegisthus) as revenge for Agamemnon's earlier sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia.

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  Lot No 249

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Lot No. 249 is a Gothic horror short story by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in Harper's Magazine in 1892. The story tells of a University of Oxford athlete named Abercrombie Smith who notices a strange series of events surrounding Edward Bellingham, an Egyptology student who owns many ancient Egyptian artefacts, including a mummy. After seeing his mummy disappear and reappear, and two instances of Bellingham's enemies getting attacked, Smith concludes that Bellingham is reanimating his mummy. Smith confronts Bellingham, who denies this is the case; the next day, Smith is attacked by the mummy and escapes. Smith then forces Bellingham to destroy his mummy and the associated artefacts at gunpoint.Written during a period of great European interest in Egyptian culture known as Egyptomania, "Lot No. 249" was inspired by Doyle's interests in the supernatural, crime and Egyptology. Though reanimated mummies had previously appeared in English literature, Doyle's story was the first to portray one as dangerous. The story has been widely anthologised and received positive reviews from critics, including praise from authors H. P. Lovecraft and Anne Rice. Critics have compared the story to the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and H. Rider Haggard and interpreted it as containing themes of imperialism and masculinity. "Lot No. 249" has been adapted for film and television, and has significantly influenced subsequent media that depicts mummies, as well as other works of horror fiction.

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