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  3 Stories About - Hope & Dreams...

  Anton Chekhov, Guy de...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears. 
   
  01 - 3 Stories About - Hope and Dreams 
  02 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 
  03 - Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov 
  04 - From A to Z by Susan Glaspell

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  Thomas Mann - New Selected Stories

  Thomas Mann

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  Lit Hub: Most Anticipated Books of 2023 
   
   
   
  A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer—"the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann's genius. 
   
   
   
  The headliner of this volume, "Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow" (in its first new translation since 1936)—a subtle masterpiece that reveals the profound emotional significance of everyday life—is Mann's tender but sharp-eyed portrait of the "Bigs" and "Littles" of the bourgeois Cornelius family as they adjust to straitened circumstances in hyperinflationary Weimar Germany. Here, too, is a free-standing excerpt from Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks—a sensation when it was first published. "Death in Venice" (also included in this volume) is Mann's most famous story, but less well known is that he intended it to be a diptych with another, comic story—included here as "Confessions of a Con Artist, by Felix Krull." "Louisey"—a tale of sexual humiliation that gives a first glimpse of Mann's lifelong ambivalence about the power of art—rounds out this revelatory, transformative collection.

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  Eskimo Folk-Tales - Greenland...

  Knud Rasmussen

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  Greenland tales taken down word for word from the hunters who told them: the woman who mated with a dog, the soul that went to the moon, the man who avenged himself on the sea, the shamans and their journeys. Rasmussen was born in Greenland, spoke the language from childhood and collected these on the sledge journeys that made his name. Nothing is softened, and the introduction explains why he refused to soften it. Forty-seven plates, from Tintoretto to Moreau, bring the old European vision of strange beasts, souls and voyages to these Greenland tales of hunters and shamans.

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  Best laid schemes

  Meredith Nicholson

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  Best Laid Schemes by Meredith Nicholson is a captivating novel that weaves together romance, drama, and the unpredictable nature of life. The plot revolves around characters whose seemingly well-laid plans are disrupted by unexpected events, forcing them to reconsider their ambitions and relationships. Nicholson's writing is infused with charm and humor, offering readers a fresh perspective on the ups and downs of love and life. The novel explores themes of fate, resilience, and the impact of chance encounters, highlighting the tension between expectation and reality. Nicholson's keen observations on human nature and his deft storytelling make Best Laid Schemes a memorable and entertaining read for fans of classic literature.

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  Rosenthal the Jew

  Henry C. Rowland

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  Rosenthal the Jew by Henry C. Rowland is presented in a clean English digital edition with active navigation. The book belongs to classics and preserves the character of the source text for sustained ebook reading. The opening pages establish the work's atmosphere with this first movement: HEYDEN and I paused in our conversation and, leaning our backs against the steamer's rail, listened in some amusement to an argument between a group of our fellow-passengers. That is to say, I was thoughtless enough to be amused; Leyden listened with his usual quiet consideration. At Paramaribo there had taken passage. Detected sections include: Rosenthal the Jew. This edition is prepared for a fluent reading experience with clear typography and no extraneous promotional material.

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  The Rose and the Ring

  William Makepeace Thackeray

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  The Rose and the Ring is a satirical fairy tale set in the fictional kingdoms of Paflagonia and Crim Tartary, where magic roses and rings reveal true worth beneath royal pretense. Through whimsical adventures, mistaken identities, and comical court intrigues, Thackeray lampoons vanity, ambition, and social hierarchy. Woven with irony and moral wit, the story champions humility and genuine virtue over birthright and flattery, all delivered in a playful, mock-heroic style originally crafted as a Christmas entertainment for children—but rich with adult satire.

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