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  The Great Slave

  Zane Grey

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  Pearl Zane Grey was born on 31st January 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. From an early age, he was intrigued by history, fishing, baseball, and writing. Grey was an avid reader of adventure stories, consuming dime store novels by the dozen.  By age fifteen he had written his first story; ‘Jim of the Cave’.  His father, a difficult man, tore it to shreds and then beat him. 
   
  A keen fisherman and with dreams of playing in the major leagues Grey was spotted by a baseball scout and received offers from colleges. 
   
  He enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania to study dentistry. Naturally arriving on a scholarship really meant you had to be able to play.  And he could, though in the end as a practical career move he resolved that dentistry was the way forward.  
   
  Grey set up his dental practice in New York as Dr. Zane Grey in 1896. But with ambitions to be a writer in a city with so many publishers evenings were set aside for writing. 
   
  His first magazine article, about one of his fishing expeditions was published in 1902. It was not until 1910 that he wrote his first Western, ‘The Heritage of the Desert’. It was a breakthrough title and quickly became a bestseller. His themes of Manifest Destiny, the conquest of the Old West, and men wrestling with elemental conditions were the hallmarks of his career.  
   
  Two years later Grey produced his all-time best-seller ‘The Riders of the Purple Sage’, with its publication he became a household name.   
   
  During the crash and subsequent depression of the 1930s, the publishing industry was hard. Sales fell.  But Grey was astute. He had avoided the Stock Market, he was still writing and popular and continued to earn royalty income.  In all he wrote over 90 books including some on fishing and baseball. He was also selling stories to film companies as Hollywood was eager to exploit popular culture. 
   
  On 23rd October 1939 Zane Grey died of heart failure at his home in Altadena, California. He was 67.

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  International Women's Literature...

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of works -- short stories or poetry -- by women writers in English from around the world and first published before 1923. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

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  The Student Lodger

  Neil Munro

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  Neil Munro (1863-1930) was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author, and literary critic who is now mainly known for his humorous short stories.The Student Lodger is the humorous tale of a Scottish couple who take on an English divinity student as a lodger. The trainee minister turns out rather livelier than his landlords had hoped....

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  Cowboy Fever - Three Wild West...

  Delilah Devlin

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  "These cowboys like the horses fast, and know exactly how to spur a woman toward her greatest pleasure..." Includes the following stories:"Saddled": After rescuing a beautiful woman when her car slides into an icy creek during a snowstorm, Bobby Blackhawk and Cale Yancey do the only thing two lonesome cowboys can — they take her to their isolated cabin and get naked."Unbridled": Justin Cruz has waited a long time for this moment. He knows his bad-boy reputation, but since he seduced Rowe Ayers, he’s been a one-man cowboy — waiting for pretty Dani Standifer to return and become the delicious fulfillment of his and Rowe’s needs. If she’s up to the challenge."Unforgiven": For Cutter Standifer, the pretty little redhead who opened a café in Two Mule, Texas was “the one”. Until he caught her in a compromising position with the town’s worst womanizer. A year later, he still can’t forgive Katie Grissom. And forget? Forget, hell. He’s ready to kick his code into the nearest manure pile and take what he never had from her — full satisfaction.

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  Little by Little

  John R Little

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  The Collected Short Fiction of John R Little, full-color illustrations by Luke Spooner, with new story introductions by John R Little. This volume contains 10 stories plus the never before collected short story, Shrodinger's Clock. Little by Little is Volume 1 of a four-part series. 
  Introduction by John R Little 
  Dreams in Black and White 
  Burying Reena 
  Tails 
  Ursa Major 
  Sarah's Story 
  The Gray Zone 
  Language Barrier 
  The Halloween Phantoms 
  Loyd and Caitlin and the Ghosts 
  Miranda 
  Schrodinger's Clock

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  The Red Flower - This deep...

  Vsevelod Garshin

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  Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin was born on 14th February 1855 in what is now Dnipro in the Ukraine, but then part of the Russian Empire. 
   
  After attending secondary school he studied at the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute.  
   
  Wars between and on behalf of Empires were a regular feature of the decades then.  Garshin volunteered to serve in the Russian army at the beginning of the Russo-Turkish War in 1877.  
   
  He began as a private in the Balkans campaign and was wounded in action.  By the end of the war, in 1878, he had been promoted to officer rank.  
   
  By now Garshin, having previously published some articles and reviews in newspapers, wished to devote himself to a literary career.  The decision made he resigned his army commission. 
   
  His time as a soldier provided rich experiences for his early stories. His first ‘Four Days’ was related as the interior monologue of a wounded soldier left for dead on the battlefield for four days, face to face with the corpse of a Turkish soldier he had killed, gained him early admiration as an author of note.  
   
  He wrote perhaps only 20 stories, but their influence was immense, although in these more modern times he is barely remembered and lives in the more prolific shadows of others.  His characters are superbly worked into stories that come alive in the intensity and reality of his prose.   
   
  Garshin’s most well-known story is ‘The Red Flower’, also known as ‘Scarlet Blossom’ and is easily amongst the first rank of stories dealing with mental health issues. 
    
  Despite early literary success, he himself experienced periodical bouts of mental illness.   
   
  In one such bout Garshin attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself down the stone stairs leading into his apartment building.  Although not immediately fatal, Vsevolod Garshin died as a result of his injuries in a St Petersburg hospital on 5th April 1888.  He was 33. 
   
  In this captivating story a man is placed into an insane asylum.  Life may be grim within its walls but he has a plan to remove evil from the world.  All it takes is further sacrifice from himself.

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