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  THE DEAD - with a new...

  James Joyce, Nuala O'Connor

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  Dublin, 6 January: the Feast of the Epiphany, also known in Ireland as Women's Christmas or Nollaig na mBan. Gretta and Gabriel Conroy attend the annual dinner party hosted by his aunts, the Morkan Sisters. As the house on Usher's Island fills with laughter, music and dancing, the worries and secrets of the guests interweave and overlap. The festive evening culminates in a shocking confession by Gretta and a life-changing epiphany for Gabriel.
  The closing story of James Joyce's Dubliners is widely considered the greatest short story ever written in the English language. His tender portrait of the Dublin of his youth has captivated readers for over a century.
  With a new introduction by the award-winning and bestselling Irish author Nuala O'Connor, this special edition of The Dead is a gift for the ages.

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  Jack Keefe Stories

  Ring Lardner

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  The arrogant, proud, and mostly illiterate Jack Keefe of Bedford, Indiana had already established a career pitching for the minor league baseball club in Terre Haute. His strong pitching arm attracted the attention of Chicago White Sox owner Charles Comiskey and before he knew it, Keefe had been signed to play for the team. Through the ups and downs of his life, from his baseball career, to his marriage and family, to his service in World War I and his eventual return to baseball, Jack Keefe documents everything in a series of letters to his old pal back home, Al Blanchard. Behind Keefe's rube-like dialect, these stories offer a glimpse at significant figures and moments in the era's baseball culture. Jack faces off against legends like Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and Babe Ruth. He travels around the world as part of the 1913–1914 Baseball World Tour with the Chicago White Sox and New York Giants. He even fights in the trenches during World War I. The final stories take place during his 1919 season with the White Sox, a team who would become infamous for the game-fixing conspiracy in the 1919 World Series dubbed the "Black Sox Scandal." Ring Lardner wrote the Jack Keefe stories from 1914–1919. The twenty-six stories were originally published in The Saturday Evening Post , and while each can be enjoyed as a standalone story, they also form a larger continuous narrative arc. The first six stories were published in book form in 1916 as You Know Me Al , and they became landmarks of baseball culture. Two additional compilations were published containing the nine stories that span Jack's time as a soldier in World War I under the titles Treat 'em Rough and The Real Dope . Ring Lardner's unique ability to capture the dialect of middle America was cited as an influence by many authors who would eventually become household names, like F. Scott Fitzgerald , Ernest Hemingway , and Virginia Woolf . The Jack Keefe stories are Lardner's earliest and most famous works that brought this dialogue style to the public eye.

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  The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Can death be postponed by the power of the human mind? 
   
  Fascinated by mesmerism and determined to test its limits, an unnamed experimenter proposes a disturbing question: What would happen if a dying person were placed under hypnosis at the precise moment of death? 
   
  His willing subject is M. Ernest Valdemar, a terminally ill man whose physicians believe he has only hours to live. As midnight approaches, the mesmerist begins his work while doctors and witnesses carefully document every change. 
   
  Valdemar’s breathing stops. His pulse disappears. His body takes on the unmistakable appearance of death. 
   
  Yet he remains suspended in the trance. 
   
  For seven months, Valdemar exists in an impossible state—neither fully alive nor permitted to die. When questioned, he responds through a voice so unnatural and horrifying that those present can scarcely endure it. 
   
  Eventually, the experimenter decides to awaken him. 
   
  What follows is one of the most grotesque and unforgettable conclusions in all of Edgar Allan Poe’s fiction. 
   
  Written with chilling clinical detail, *The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar* blurs the boundary between scientific report and supernatural horror. Originally published in 1845, the story was presented so convincingly that some readers believed Poe’s fictional experiment to be a genuine account. 
   
  A disturbing classic of mesmerism, suspended death, and forbidden experimentation. 
   
  Narrated by Gid Newell.

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  A Lesson on a Tortoise - From...

  D H Lawrence

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  David Herbert Lawrence was born on the 11th September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, a coal mining town where the reality of a harsh life was only useful as experiences for future literary works. 
  He was educated at Beauvale Board School and became the first local boy to receive a scholarship to attend Nottingham High School. After 3 years he became a junior clerk in Haywood’s surgical appliances factory. He was also attempting a literary career which, in the short term, led to a teacher training position in Eastwood and later a teaching qualification from University College, Nottingham.  
  Lawrence’s first efforts were poems, short stories and a draft of ‘The White Peacock’. Moving to London and a teaching position in Croydon his writing attracted the attention of Ford Madox Ford, editor of The English Review, and he commissioned him to write ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’.  
  Wanting to write full-time he now began work on what would become ‘Sons and Lovers.   
  In 1912 he met the older and married mother-of-three Frieda Weekley. They eloped to Germany and here Lawrence could see for himself the growing tensions with France.  So keen was his interest that he was arrested and accused of being a British spy.  
  In early 1914 Frieda obtained her divorce and they returned to Britain to be married just days before the outbreak of war. Owing to her German parentage, and his own public dislike of militarism and violence, the couple were treated with contempt and suspicion throughout the war years.  
  Despite this he continued to write but his reputation in England was so tarnished and, mirrored by his own disdain for the country, he and Frieda left England in November 1919, first for Europe and then America via Ceylon and Australia. 
  They bought a ranch in Taos, New Mexico and visited Mexico several times. The third visit in March 1925 caused a near fatal attack of malaria. To convalesce they moved to Florence. Here he continued work on ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ which for many years would cause controversy. A renewed interest in oil painting resulted in an exhibition in 1929 which was raided by the police and several works were confiscated.  
  D H Lawrence died of complications arising from a bout of tuberculosis on the 2nd of March 1930 in Vence, France.  He was 44.

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  In Search of the Castaways -...

  Jules Verne, Classic Audiobooks,...

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  In Search of the Castaways, or The Children of Captain Grant is a sweeping adventure novel by Jules Verne that follows a daring global quest to find the missing Captain Grant. When a message in a bottle is discovered inside a shark, Lord Glenarvan and his companions — including Captain Grant's two determined children — embark on an epic expedition across South America, Australia, and New Zealand. Guided only by partially destroyed coordinates and cryptic fragments of text, they face treacherous landscapes, natural disasters, and encounters with unfamiliar cultures in a race against time.Brimming with suspense, warmth, and vivid geographical detail, Verne's novel celebrates the spirit of discovery and the resilience of the human will. It masterfully blends thrilling adventure with scientific curiosity and emotional richness, making it one of his most ambitious and beloved works.

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  Women Who Shaped the Novel - 15...

  Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen,...

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  Experience fifteen complete classics by Jane Austen, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and Louisa May Alcott. From Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre to Wuthering Heights, North and South and Little Women, this collection celebrates unforgettable heroines and extraordinary literary voices.
  
  The novels flow from wit and social observation to passion, independence and family life. Clear book dividers and a detailed table of contents make this substantial library inviting and simple to explore.

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