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  The Chamomile Drops - From their...

  Jaroslav Hasek

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  The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Jaroslav Hasek.

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  A Rich Woman - From their pens...

  Katharine Tynan

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  Katharine Tynan was born on 23rd January 1859 into a large family in Clondalkin, County Dublin. 
  The family business was cattle rearing and the farmhouse, set with the mountains for a backdrop, was a wonderful world for a young mind to learn and imagine. 
  She was educated at the convent school, St Catherine of Sienna, in Drogheda.  A stubborn streak inhibited her ability to learn as easily as the school wished. However she did learn on her own terms and soon began to take her ‘forbidden literature’, hidden in her clothing, to her loft in a stable hideaway.  
  Until she turned seventeen nothing appeared to point to a literary career.  But some verse printed in a Dublin newspaper changed everything. It led to a sonnet being printed in the Spectator.  Thereafter the Graphic published several others and even paid a half guinea for the privilege.   
  In 1884 Katharine dispatched herself to London and made an abiding friendship in Alice Meynell.  Alice was an established poet and helped, with her husband Wilfred, to publish many poets. The following year it was arranged for the publication of her first poetry volume, ‘Louise de la Vallière’.  
  She formed valuable friendships with the poets Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats and later Francis Ledwidge.  
  As she gathered friends and contacts into her life her literary output began to gather pace. Katharine had begun to write prose for the Speaker and for the Scots and National Observer.  
  In 1892 she married Henry Albert Hinkson, a fellow writer and a barrister.  They moved to England and had five children although two were to tragically die in infancy.   
  By now her output was prolific and ranged from poetry to novels to short stories.  It would later include a biography and further extend to editing and reviewing.   
  In 1912 the family returned to Claremorris, County Mayo, when her husband was appointed magistrate, a post he held until his early death in 1919.     
  Tynan is sometimes grouped amongst the War Poets of the First World War. Her experience was not direct but as a Mother with one son serving in France and another in Palestine, the emotions, fears and doubts are expressed in a beautiful and heart-felt way.  
  Involved in the Irish Literary Revival, Tynan expressed concern for feminist causes, the poor, and the effects of World War I in her work. She also meditated on her Catholic faith. 
  She is said to have written over 100 novels, 12 collections of short stories, plays and many volumes of enduring poetry as well as five volumes of autobiography. 
  Katharine Tynan Hinkson died at age 72 on 2nd April 1931 in London and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

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  Anthology of Classic Short...

  O. Henry, Mark Twain, Saki Saki,...

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  Satire, Humor and Irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study.
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  The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry
  The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry
  What Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark Twain
  The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
  The Toys of Peace by Saki (H. H. Munro)
  The Artful Hussar by Johann Peter Hebel
  From The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe
  The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner
  When I Was a Witch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  Micromegas: A Philosophical History by Voltaire

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  Tales From An Ironic Mind Two

  Paul A. Hernandez

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  TALES FROM AN IRONIC MIND TWO 
  Come take a little journey, maybe just a bit out of your comfort zone, maybe dancing a bit on that line of sanity and madness. Maybe you are one of those people who see things a bit differently, from an angle not often noticed. Do you walk on that road not often traveled? Do you sometimes want to take just a little peak at that great abyss? Do you find life sometimes mystical and magical while others are complaining about the gray? Go ahead, try and guess where the story is going and how it is going to end. Maybe you too, have an ironic mind.  

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Anton...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Chekhov is amongst the most vaunted of authors. His tales can take a small fragment of a person’s life and turn it into a narrative of unrivalled and compelling power.   This volume perfectly illustrates Chekhov and his miniature masterpieces. 
   
  1 - The Top Ten - Anton Chekhov 
   
  2 - The Bet 
   
  3 - Vanka 
   
  4 - Misery 
   
  5 - The Lady with the Dog 
   
  6 - The Kiss 
   
  7 - The Death of a Government Clerk 
   
  8 - Volodya 
   
  9 - The Student 
   
  10 - About Love 
   
  11 - Gooseberries

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  Short Stories Set on Holiday - A...

  John Buchan

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  The expected joy that a few days in a different setting can, and most probably will, make is one of life’s most pleasant pleasures.  Usually.  But in this volume our classic authors including John Buchan, Edith Wharton, E M Delafield, M R James and a host of others really do seem to want to make some of those few days of indolent pleasure into something rather unpleasant. 
   
  1 - Short Stories Set on Holiday  - An Introduction 
  2 - Roman Fever by Edith Wharton 
  3 - The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner 
  4 - An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr 
  5 - No Man's Land by John Buchan 
  6 - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M R James 
  7 - The Blank Cheque by Lewis Carroll 
  8 - A Little Holiday by Oswald Sickert 
  9 - Strychnine for Village Dogs by Arthur Gask 
  10 - The Green Bowl by Sarah Orne Jewett 
  11 - The Vampire by Jan Neruda 
  12 - Holiday Group by E M Delafield 
  13 - Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor House by Clara Venn 
  14 - The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet

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