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  FOUR TALES - The Monkey's Paw by...

  W.W. Jacobs, H. H. Munro,...

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  FOUR TALES About this Audiobook 
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  Four classic Tales of Terror, Humor, Horror, and Suspense. 
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  The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs is a classic horror story where a magical, mummified paw grants three wishes to its owners, but with horrific consequences due to tampering with fate. The White family loses their son after wishing for money, leading to a desperate second wish to bring him back. 
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  In H.H. Munro's The Open Window, Framton Nuttel visits the countryside seeking a cure for his neves, only to be met by Vera, a charming but clever teenager. She innocently tells him a tragic tale about her aunt’s husband and brothers, died hunting, leaving the living room's tall windowed doors open hoping for their ghostly return. 
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  Prosper Mérimée's 1829 short story Mateo Falcone is a Corsican tragedy about absolute honor. A ten-year-old boy, Fortunato, betrays a wounded fugitive for a soldier's watch. Upon returning, his father, Mateo, faces the decision to punish this treachery by marching his son into the mountains, and shooting him to restore family honor. 
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  The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (1843) is a gothic, first-person narrative where an unreliable narrator attempts to convince listeners of his sanity while describing how he murdered an old man. Driven by an obsession with the man's "vulture-eye," he meticulously plans the killing, dismembers the body, and hides it under the floorboards. When the police arrive to question him he is certain he can avoid any consequences simply by telling them what he wants despite a strange sound in the room they do not seem to hear. 
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  Crime and Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  One of the most influential works of Russian literature and a classic of world literature, Crime and Punishment follows the great moral dilemmas of one St. Petersburg man who makes a case to justify murder.Rodion Raskolnikov is impoverished and desperate, and he thinks himself to be above the laws of society. He decides it’s just for him to kill an old woman because, with the money he’ll steal from her, he can go on to perform great deeds. But, of course, his logic falls apart quickly, and guilt comes to swallow him whole. Sharp and suspenseful, this story of Raskolnikov’s dance with a police investigator and redemption by a sex worker is a philosophical novel for the ages. The Encyclopedia Britannica calls it “​​one of the finest studies of the psychopathology of guilt written in any language.” Crime and Punishment remains as relevant to discussions of power and responsibility in the 21st century as it was in the 19th.

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  War and Peace (First Epilogue:...

  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.
  First Epilogue: 1813-20: Seven years had passed. The storm-tossed sea of European history had subsided within its shores and seemed to have become calm. But the mysterious forces that move humanity (mysterious because the laws of their motion are unknown to us) continued to operate.

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  The Island of Doctor Moreau

  H. G. Wells

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  A visionary and disturbing masterpiece, The Island of Doctor Moreau explores the awful potential of biological experimentation. 
   
  In one of H. G. Wells' most celebrated works, the shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself alone on an island with the mad scientist Doctor Moreau. When he hears strange cries echoing through the forest, he discovers that the island is inhabited by bizarre human-hybrid creatures. Prendick must escape the island before he becomes the scientist's next victim. 
   
  Raising questions about morality, the hubris of science, and what it means to be human, The Island of Doctor Moreau has fascinated readers for generations.

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  The Scarlet Letter

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts, The Scarlet Letter tells the haunting story of Hester Prynne, a woman condemned to wear a scarlet "A" for committing adultery. As Hester endures shame and isolation, she raises her daughter Pearl and protects the identity of the child’s father, the respected Reverend Dimmesdale. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s powerful exploration of guilt, sin, and redemption probes the heart of moral hypocrisy and human frailty. A foundational work of American literature, The Scarlet Letter remains a timeless meditation on the complexities of judgment, punishment, and forgiveness.

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  Ivy Day in the Committee Room -...

  James Joyce

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  James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on the 2nd February 1882 in Dublin into a middle-class family, and the eldest of ten surviving siblings 
  Admired as a brilliant student he briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School before excelling at the Jesuit schools of Clongowes and Belvedere.  From there he went on to attend University College Dublin from 1898, studying English, French and Italian 
  In 1902, Joyce was now in his early twenties, and went to Paris to study Medicine but soon abandoned his teachings.  Back in Dublin to attend to his dying Mother he met Nora Barnacle. They bonded immediately into a life-long match. Together they decided to emigrate to Europe.  The couple lived in Trieste, Rome, Paris, and finally Zürich where Joyce pursued a variety of jobs and ventures to supplement his literary pursuits but none of these paid off.  
  After publishing a poetry volume, ‘Chamber Music’, in 1907, his short story collection ‘The Dubliners’, in 1914, helped establish his talent in the rapidly changing world.  
  Although far from home Joyce’s literary heart and works were set in his recollections of Dublin.  Characters are close resemblances of family and friends and indeed enemies.  His landmark work ‘Ulysses’, published in 1922, is set in the streets and alleyways of the city as it parallels Homer’s Odyssey in a variety of styles including its famed stream of consciousness. 
  His pen continued to produce classics of the order of ‘A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man’ and ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ together with several volumes of poetry and a play ‘The Exiles, in 1918.   
  On the 11th January 1941, Joyce underwent surgery in Zürich for a perforated duodenal ulcer. The next day he fell into a coma. On the 13th after a brief period of lucidity in which he called for his wife and son he passed.  He was 58.

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