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  General Custer - Folly At Little...

  Elizabeth Bacon Custer

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  Since the Battle of Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) possessed one of the most unique places in American history. Although he was a capable cavalry officer who served honorably during the Civil War, he remains one of the most instantly identifiable and famous military men in American history due to the fact he was killed during one of the country’s most well known and ignominious defeats, the Battle of Little Bighorn. And yet, this one relatively insignificant battle during America’s Indian Wars has become one of the country’s most mythologized events and continues to fascinate Americans nearly 140 years later. Though he’s now best remembered for “Custer’s Last Stand”, Custer mastered the art of public relations, dressing impeccably and having newspaper correspondents accompany him on the campaign, all in an effort to help cultivate and enhance his legacy. For nearly 58 years, Elizabeth Bacon Custer was probably the most famous widow in the world. In this lively, fascinating, loving portrait of life on the plains with her already-famous husband, Libbie tells a civilized audience of the excitement, fun, and perils endured at a remote frontier post. Intelligent and beautiful, Libbie was a partner, confidant, and booster to the general, as well as an important figure in the social life of the posts he commanded. This book has been used as source material on the general's life as well as the frontier army for well over a century. Celebrated among the prominent people of her day, Libbie never remarried after Custer's death at the Little Bighorn in 1876. She spent the rest of her life writing and lecturing about him, burnishing his reputation and keeping his memory alive. Long a jewel of western Americana, this book continues to find and entertain new audiences in the 21st century.

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  Tales From Edgar Allan Poe -...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Here is a fifth collection of some of his best stories: The Pit and The Pendulum, A Descent Into The Maelstrom, and Mesmeric Revelation.

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  Witch's Loaves - From their pens...

  O Henry

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  William Sydney Porter was born on 11th September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At age 3 his mother died from tuberculosis. From an early age it was clear Porter had a large appetite for reading as he absorbed the world around him. 
  He first attended at a school run by his aunt before enrolling at the Lindsey Street High School and then worked at his uncle’s drugstore and gained a pharmacists’ license in 1881.  
  A persistent cough took him to Texas in the hope that a change of climate would help his symptoms. He took on various types of work, initially from ranch hand and cook and then as varied as pharmacist, draftsman, bank teller and journalist. He also began to write, though for now, purely as a hobby. 
  He was a member of several singing and dramatic groups when he met 17 year old Athol Estes, daughter of a wealthy Austin family. Despite her mother’s objection owing to Athol’s tuberculosis, they began courting and in July 1887, they eloped and soon married. 
  Athol, impressed by his writing, encouraged him to get them published. A job as a draftsman at the Texas General Land Office paid a healthy $100 dollars per month and life was good. 
  But then life turned cruel. His son died a few hours after birth although a daughter, Margaret, came the following year.  His job had to be vacated but another was found at the First National Bank of Austin. The bank operated informally and Porter was careless in keeping the books. He lost that job but began writing for the humourous weekly The Rolling Stone and the Houston Post. Some time later the federal Bank auditors went through his former accounts and he was arrested on charges of embezzlement. 
  Porter fled the day before his trial to Honduras. Holed up for several months he began to write.  Athol had become too ill to travel to meet him and learning that her health was deteriorating he surrendered to the court in February 1897.  Bail was obtained so that he could stay with Athol during her final days.  
  Porter was sentenced to five years at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. His pharmacy qualifications got him the job of night druggist.  His sentence also gave him time to write and publish fourteen short stories. In December 1899 in McClure’s Magazine he published a short story as O Henry.  
  He was released two years early in July 1901, and reunited with Margaret, now 11, in Pittsburgh.  He now began his most prolific period of writing; a short story per week for the New York World, while also publishing works in other magazines.  Eventually over 600 of his short stories were published. 
  Porter was a heavy drinker and in 1908 his health, which had deteriorated for several years, took a dramatic turn for the worse, as did his writing.  
  O Henry died of cirrhosis of the liver complicated by diabetes and an enlarged heart on 5th June 1910.

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  Dangerous Liaisons - Audiobook

  Choderlos de Laclos, Classic...

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  Dangerous Liaisons is a masterpiece of intrigue and seduction, unfolding within the glittering salons of 18th-century France. Written entirely in the form of letters, this epistolary novel invites readers into a web of manipulation, where words are weapons and charm conceals cruelty. Through the correspondence of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, Laclos exposes the delicate art of emotional conquest and the moral decay beneath refinement.What begins as a game of vanity and revenge becomes a portrait of obsession, desire, and self-destruction. Each letter reveals not only the cunning of its writers but the depths of their loneliness and pride. It is a duel of minds as sharp as it is seductive.Brilliantly written and psychologically precise, Dangerous Liaisons remains one of the most daring and modern explorations of love, power, and corruption. It is both a scandalous chronicle of its age and a timeless reflection on the cruelty that hides behind elegance.

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  The Snow-Burner

  Henry Oyen

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  This tale by Henry Oyen is as rugged as it gets. Welcome to the world of the "Reivers", also known as "Snow-Burners" to the Native Americans of the North. Our brutal and forceful "hero" gets assigned to run a work camp filled with foreigners. Will he attend to business in his usual alpha male ways, or could he possibly crack? (Published in c. 1916)

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  25+ The World's Greatest Short...

  Washington Irving, Edgar Allan...

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  Contents:
  
  - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug
  - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener
  - Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp
  - Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich  
  - Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
  - Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
  - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper
  - Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog
  - D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer
  - James Joyce. Araby
  - Ivan Turgenev. First Love
  - Nikolay Gogol. The Mantle
  -  Mikhail Bulgakov. The Embroidered Towel
  - Ivan Bunin. The Gentleman from San Francisco
  - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Carmilla
  - O.Henry. The Gift of the Magi
  - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  - Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  - H.G. Wells. The Magic Shop
  - W.W. Jacobs. The Monkey's Paw
  - Arthur Conan Doyle. His Last Bow
  - Henry James. Daisy Miller
  - H.P. Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu
  - Alexsandr Pushkin. The Queen of Spades
  - G.K. Chesterton. The Blue Cross

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