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  Grimm's Unfiltered Fairy Tales:...

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

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  This is not a children's book.
  
  This is the Brothers Grimm as they were meant to be heard: raw, unflinching, and stripped of all sanitization. Here, the fairy tales return to their origins—oral folklore steeped in the brutality of peasant life, where punishment is grotesque, justice is arbitrary, and magic is a harbinger of dread, not wonder.
  
  Inside the Codex of the Damned:
  
  The Lost Transcripts
  New English translations of tales banned for 200 years:
  — A "Cinderella" where stepsisters carve their feet to fit the slipper
  — "The Juniper Tree" with its cannibalistic lullabies
  — Unpublished drafts where Snow White's "resurrection" is a necromantic ritual
  
  Artifacts of Terror
  200+ unretouched 19th-century engravings — gallows silhouettes, hag-mouths agape, villages choked by wolf-haunted forests. These aren't illustrations; they're psychological maps of pre-industrial dread.
  
  Themes That Flay the Soul:
  ▫️ Scarred Flesh as Pedagogy
  Mothers who salt their children's wounds. Kings demanding a hundred severed fingers.
  
  ▫️ Magic as a Curse, Not a Gift
  Wells that grant wishes in exchange for blindness. Spindles that birth comas, not kisses.
  
  ▫️ Justice Without Witnesses
  Thieves boiled in their own greed. A "happy ending" is merely surviving to see dawn.
  
  Why This Book Exists:
  Academic rigor meets gothic horror. Translated directly from Jakob Grimm's personal notes — including his annotations on how oral storytellers "sang" these tales to audiences half-mad with malnourishment. For collectors of forbidden folklore and lovers of Angela Carter's darkest prose.

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  Gooseberries - From their pens...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29th January 1860 in Taganrog, on the south coast of Russia.  
  His family life was difficult; his father was strict and over-bearing but his mother was a passionate story-teller, a subject Chekhov warmed to. As he later said; ‘our talents we got from our father, but our soul from our mother’.  
  At school Chekhov was distinctly average. At 16 his father mis-managed his finances and was declared bankrupt. His family fled to Moscow. Chekhov remained and eked out a living by various means, including writing and selling short sketches to newspapers, to finish his schooling. That completed and with a scholarship to Moscow University obtained he rejoined his family. 
  He was able to help support them by selling satirical sketches and vignettes of Russian lifestyles and gradually obtained further commissions. In 1884, he qualified as a physician and, although it earned him little, he often treated the poor for free, he was fond of saying ‘Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.’ 
  His own health was now an issue as he began to cough up blood, a symptom of tuberculosis.  Despite this his writing success enabled him to move the family into more comfortable accommodation.  
  Chekhov wrote over 500 short stories which included many, many classics including ‘The Kiss’ and ‘The Lady with a Dog’.  His collection ‘At Dusk’ won him the coveted Pushkin Prize when was only 26.  
  He was also a major playwright beginning with the huge success of ‘Ivanov’ in 1887.   
  In 1892 Chekhov bought a country estate north of Moscow. Here his medical skills and money helped the peasants tackle outbreaks of cholera and bouts of famine. He also built three schools, a fire station and a clinic.  It left him with less time for writing but the interactions with real people gained him detailed knowledge about the peasantry and their living conditions for his stories.  
  His most famous work, ‘The Seagull’ was received disastrously at its premiere in St Petersburg. It was later restaged in Moscow to highlight its psychological aspects and was a huge success. It led to ‘Uncle Vanya’, ‘The Three Sisters’ and ‘The Cherry Orchard’.  
  Chekhov suffered a major lung hemorrhage in 1897 while visiting Moscow. A formal diagnosis confirmed tuberculosis and the doctors ordered changes to his lifestyle.  
  Despite a dread of weddings the elusive literary bachelor quietly married the actress Olga Knipper, whom he had met at rehearsals for ‘The Seagull’, on 25th May 1901. 
  By May 1904 with his tuberculosis worsening and death imminent he set off for the German town of Badenweiler writing cheerful, witty letters to his family and assuring them his health was improving.  
  On 15th July 1904 Anton Chekhov died at Badenweiler.  He was 44.

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  Lord Jim

  Joseph Conrad

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  Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. The novel is counted as one of 100 best books of the 20th century.

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  Naughty Erotic Sex Stories: Hard...

  Valerie Lux

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  Explore your forbidden pleasures and take erotica to the next level with these sensual sex stories! 
  Sometimes, going the soft and sensual route just doesn’t cut it. 
  Sometimes… you need a little something more. 
  These Naughty Erotic Sex Stories are here to deliver what other erotica cannot. 
  Embark on a truly naughty experience with stories filled with dirty forbidden pleasures, domination, ruthless daddies, gangbangs, and much, much more. 
  Leave behind the prim and proper version of yourself that everyone knows and let your inner freak come out to play! 
  The best part is, all of these stories can be enjoyed solo, or with a partner or two. 
  You’ll be able to spice up your sexy times without having to put in extra work. All you have to do is relax, sit back, and listen to this audiobook that will do all the heavy lifting for you. 
  Feel your temperature rise as each story progresses and allow your arousal to completely take over your body as you slowly build up to that sweet, sweet climax you’ve been aching for. 
  From the dirtiest scenarios to the riskiest hookups — this audiobook has got it all! 
  Get ready to explore everything taboo and forbidden and be turned on like never before.Scroll up, get the audiobook, and start listening!

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  Number 90 - A Christmas Ghost Story

  Bithia M. Croker

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  Full of young man's bravado, a gentleman accepts a Christmas wager to spend the night in a notorious haunted house, Number 90, located somewhere in the vicinity of Charleston's Battery in South Carolina. After an eventful night he resolves to endure a second... but could it also be his last?Number 90 is a standalone enhanced audio tale from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Saki...

  Saki Saki

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  The Top Ten -  Saki - An Introduction 
   
  The name H H Munro is obscured beneath the literary mantle of his nom de plume; Saki.  A writer of his times, the stories perfectly portray society’s whims and tastes in a delicate yet at times, barbed humour.  A divine wit who conjured words into quite extraordinary works. 
   
  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. 
   
  1 - The Top Ten - Saki - An Introduction 
  2 - The Lumber Room by Saki 
  3 - Tobermory by Saki 
  4 - The Open Window by Saki 
  5 - The Reticence of Lady Anne by Saki  
  6 - The Hounds of Fate by Saki 
  7 - Mrs Packletide's Tiger by Saki 
  8 - The Unrest Cure by Saki 
  9 - The Music on the Hill by Saki 
  10 - Sredni Vashtar by Saki 
  11 - The Interlopers by Saki

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