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  White Snake The - Story Time...

  Brothers Grimm

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  A wise King receives a covered dish every evening. A young servant is intrigued one night when he retrieves the King's dish and discovers a coiled white snake under the cover. The servant takes a small bite and discovers that he can now understand and communicate with animals.

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  War and Peace (Book Ten: 1812)

  Leo Tolstoy

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  War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
  Book 10: 1812: Napoleon began the war with Russia because he could not resist going to Dresden, could not help having his head turned by the homage he received, could not help donning a Polish uniform and yielding to the stimulating influence of a June morning, and could not refrain from bursts of anger in the presence of Kurákin and then of Balashëv.

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  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  Mark Twain

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  He runs from civilization—and discovers what it truly means to be human.
  Drifting down the Mississippi River on a raft, young Huck Finn escapes a world of cruelty and hypocrisy alongside Jim, a man seeking freedom of his own. As they travel through danger, humor, and quiet moments of reflection, Huck is forced to question the values he has been taught—and to choose between society's rules and his own conscience.
  
  Widely regarded as "the great American novel," this timeless classic blends sharp satire with deep compassion. Mark Twain's vivid storytelling captures the voice of youth, the struggle for moral truth, and the enduring power of friendship against injustice.
  
  If you love adventurous storytelling with heart, humor, and lasting meaning, this novel remains as powerful and relevant as ever.
  
  Open the book—and follow the river toward freedom, courage, and truth.

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  Benediction - From their pens to...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died.  Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained. 
  His intelligence and talent was recognised from an early age, with his first story, about a detective being published in the school magazine when he was just 13.   
  In 1913 he enrolled at Princeton but his devotion to his own literary pursuits resulted in him leaving and, rather bizarrely, joining the Army.  In 1918, stationed at Fort Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama he met and became infatuated and then inseparable from Zelda Sayre.  Initially though she refused to marry him but with the success of ‘This Side of Paradise’, the fame and the flow of money enabled them both to begin a gilded life.  For them this was The Jazz Age.  For Fitzgerald he was already an alcoholic. 
  He continued to write with great mastery and the titles of his novels and many of his 164 short stories are household names.  The Great Gatsby, often cited as The Great American Novel was published to mixed reviews.  As America moved from the Great Depression to the slaughter of the Second World War his works and himself were seen as far too entwined with the decadent twenties. The world had moved on and he hadn’t.   
  Further tragedy was never far from his life. Zelda after years of erratic and now intolerable behaviour was committed to an institution in 1936.  His own sales began to decline and he became a hack for hire in Hollywood, dependent on increasing amounts of booze and the weekly pay check.  His drunken state had often resulted in arrest or hospitalisation, further imperiling his talents.   Despite his contribution to many MGM films he received only one credit. 
  The end came all too soon for one of America’s greatest ever writers.  On 21st December 1940, at only 44 years of age in Hollywood, F Scott Fitzgerald succumbed to a heart attack.

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  A Journey from This World to the...

  Henry Fielding

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  "A Journey from This World to the Next" by Henry Fielding is a satirical and philosophical work presenting a fictional journey of the protagonist, Mr. Everyman, through the afterlife. Written as a dialogue between characters in the underworld, the narrative explores moral and ethical themes while providing a humorous critique of 18th-century society. Fielding cleverly uses the allegorical journey to comment on human behavior, societal norms, and the consequences of one's actions, offering readers a thought-provoking and entertaining exploration of life's complexities and moral choices.

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  Frankenstein - Or the Modern...

  Mary Shelley

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  Frankenstein - or, The Modern Prometheus - is considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. Written by Mary Shelley, it tells the story of scientist Victor Frankenstein and the catastrophic consequences of his attempts to create a perfect new being by activating a group of body parts with an electrical charge. The hideous monster that is born of Frankenstein's experiment wreaks havoc when it realises that it will never know the happiness that mere mortals can enjoy. Today, Frankenstein continues to captivate readers worldwide through its enduring themes of ambition, alienation and human nature.

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