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  Short Stories Volume 1

  Henry James

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  Encompassing a period of almost fifty years, the stories of Henry James represent the most remarkable feat of sustained literary creation in modern times. For sheer richness, variety and intensity, they have no equal in fiction, enabling us to trace the evolution of a great writer in the finest detail. This collection reprints all the major stories together with many unfamiliar but equally intriguing pieces that illuminate their more celebrated companions. Volume 1 covers the period from 1866 to 1891, the years in which James was evolving and perfecting his art as a storyteller. It includes such well-known masterpieces as "Daisy Miller," 'The Aspern Papers," "The Siege of London," and "The Lesson of the Master," and many other tales in which James established his favorite characters and situations: the American girl in Europe, the solitary observer, the social climber, the literary lion.

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  Howards End - A Novel of Two...

  E. M. Forster

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  Two literary sisters, a family of hard-headed businessmen, a clerk who reads to better himself, and a house in Hertfordshire that will go to whoever the dead woman meant it for. Forster's father died when he was a baby and a great-aunt's legacy paid for the freedom he writes about; only connect, the book says, and then it spends four hundred pages showing exactly how much that costs. Fifty-nine plates by painters from Constable to Orpen trace the English house and garden, the cricket match and the field marshal, the whole settled order Forster's novel puts on trial.

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  Of Time and the River

  Thomas Wolf

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  What does it mean to leave home, discover oneself, and find a place in the world?
  
  In Of Time and the River, Thomas Wolfe follows the continuing journey of Eugene Gant, an aspiring writer searching for identity, experience, and artistic purpose.
  
  Set against the changing landscapes of America and Europe, the novel explores Eugene's development as he encounters new people, places, relationships, and ideas. His journey becomes both a physical and emotional search for meaning as he struggles with ambition, loneliness, memory, love, family, loss, and the passage of time.
  
  Wolfe's richly lyrical prose gives the novel a distinctive emotional intensity. Time itself becomes a central presence, shaping memory and reminding the characters of the fleeting nature of youth, relationships, and human experience.
  
  As Eugene moves beyond his familiar surroundings, he confronts the challenges of becoming an artist and the complicated relationship between personal experience and creative expression. The novel reflects Wolfe's recurring interest in home, identity, memory, mortality, and the desire to understand one's place in the world.
  
  For readers who enjoy American literary fiction, coming-of-age novels, autobiographical fiction, psychological fiction, poetic prose, and stories about artistic ambition, Of Time and the River offers a deeply reflective literary experience.
  
  Follow Eugene Gant on his journey through youth, discovery, loss, and artistic awakening. Read Of Time and the River today and experience Thomas Wolfe's powerful meditation on time, memory, identity, and the search for meaning.

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  At a Summer Villa

  Anton Chekhov

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  AT A SUMMER VILLA (1886) Pavel Ivanitch has been happily married for eight years when he receives an anonymous love-letter fixing a tryst in a secluded spot that evening. Scornful at first at the very thought, then perplexed and then intrigued, he finally decides to see what it is all about, and gets an unexpected surprise, and a good lesson to boot.

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  The Mockingbird - From their...

  Ambrose Bierce

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  Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24th June 1842 at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents were poor but they introduced him to literature at an early age, instilling in him a deep appreciation of books, the written word and the elegance of language.  
  Growing up in Koscuisko County, Indiana poverty and religion were defining features of his childhood, and he would later describe his parents as “unwashed savages” and fanatically religious, showing him little affection but always quick to punish. He came to resent religion, and his introduction to literature appears to be their only positive effect. 
  At age 15 Bierce left home to become a printer’s devil, mixing ink and fetching type at The Northern Indian, a small Ohio paper. Falsely accused of theft he returned to his farm and spent time sending out work in the hopes of being published. 
  His Uncle Lucius advised he be sent to the Kentucky Military Institute. A year later he was commissioned as an Officer.  As the Civil War started Bierce enlisted in the 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment.  
  In April 1862 Bierce fought at the Battle of Shiloh, an experience which, though terrifying, became the source of several short stories. Two years later he sustained a serious head wound and was off duty for several months. He was discharged in early 1865.  
  A later expedition to inspect military outposts across the Great Plains took him all the way to San Francisco. He remained there to become involved with publishing and editing and to marry, Mary Ellen on Christmas Day 1871.  They had a child, Day, the following year.  
  In 1872 the family moved to England for 3 years where he wrote for Fun magazine. His son, Leigh, was born, and first book, ‘The Fiend’s Delight’, was published.  
  They returned to San Francisco and to work for a number of papers where he gained admiration for his crime reporting. In 1887 he began a column at the William Randolph Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner.  
  Bierce’s marriage fell apart when he discovered compromising letters to his wife from a secret admirer. The following year, 1889 his son Day committed suicide, depressed by romantic rejection. 
  In 1891 Bierce wrote and published the collection of 26 short stories which included ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’.  Success and further works including poetry followed.  
  Bierce with Hearst’s resources helped uncover a financial plot by a railroad to turn 130 million dollars of loans into a handout. Confronted by the railroad and asked to name his price Bierce answered “my price is $130 million dollars. If, when you are ready to pay, I happen to be out of town, you may hand it over to my friend, the Treasurer of the United States”.  
  He now began his first foray as a fabulist, publishing ‘Fantastic Fables’ in 1899.  But tragedy again struck two years later when his second son Leigh died of pneumonia relating to his alcoholism.  
  He continued to write short stories and poetry and also published ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’.  
  At the age of 71, in 1913 Bierce departed from Washington, D.C., for a tour of the battlefields where he had fought during the civil war. At the city of Chihuahua he wrote his last known communication, a letter to a friend. It’s closing words were “as to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination,” Ambrose Bierce then vanished without trace.

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  The Jewel of Seven Stars

  Bram Stoker

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  The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: It all seemed so real that I could hardly imagine that it had ever occurred before; and yet each episode came, not as a fresh step in the logic of things, but as something expected. It is in such a wise that memory plays its pranks for good or ill; for pleasure or pain; for weal or woe. It is thus t This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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