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  Fairy Tales stories vol: 1

  Hans-Christian Andersen

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  This is a collection of a few stories by Hans Christian Andersen includedThe Emperor's New Clothes  The Ugly DucklingThumbellinaThe Brave Little Tin SoldierThere is No Doubt About It

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  Two Sides of Life (Unabridged)

  Booker T. Washington

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  Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.TWO SIDES OF LIFE: There are quite a number of divisions into which life can be divided, but for the purposes of this evening I am going to speak of two; the bright side of life and the dark side.

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  Tales of King Arthur and the...

  Andrew Lang

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  The Tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table are of Celtic origin. It is believed that King Arthur lived in the sixth century, just after the Romans withdrew from Britain. Minstrels and storytellers travelled through the land in the centuries after this, telling tales of chivalry and heroism, and the legends of King Arthur grew up across Britain and parts of Europe. 
  
  
  Andrew Lang's collection of Arthurian legends is one of the most complete and comprehensive ever written and is more accessible than most. He has drawn extensively on the "Historia Britonum", which was used by Geoffrey of Monmouth, as well as Thomas Malory's "Morte d'Arthur" and a number of stories of the Holy Grail which are of French origin. 
  
  "The Drawing of the Sword"
  "The Sword Excalibur"
  "How the Round Table Began"
  "The Story of Sir Balin"
  "What Beaumains Asked of the King"
  "How Morgan Le Fay Tried to Kill King Arthur"
  "The Passing of Merlin"
  "How the King Went on a Pilgrimage"
  "The Coming of the Holy Grail"
  "The Adventure of Sir Galahad"
  "How Sir Lancelot Saw a Vision"
  "The Adventure of Sir Percivale"
  "An Adventure of Sir Lancelot"
  "An Adventure of Sir Gawaine"
  "The Adventure of Sir Bors"
  "An Adventure of Sir Galahad"
  "Sir Lancelot Meets Sir Galahad"
  "How Sir Galahad Found the Grail"
  "The Fight for the Queen"
  "The Fair Maid of Astolat"
  "Lancelot and Guinevere"
  "The End of it All"

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  The Time Machine

  H. G. Wells

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  An English scientist, known only as the Time Traveler, constructs a machine that allows him to move back and forth through different periods of time. Testing this machine, the man travels forward to AD 802,701. Here he discovers a lazy, non disciplined group of people who do not seem interested in anything. Thinking he has seen all he needs for his research, he decides to travel back home. Upon returning to where he left his time machine, he discovers an intelligent, violent group of people called the Morlocks, have stolen it. Seeing that this futuristic society has more secrets than he realized, the Time Traveler must find his machine and travel back to his time before an untimely end at the hands of the Morlocks.

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  The Age of Innocence

  Edith Wharton

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  The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, is charming, tactful, enlightened-a thorough product of this society. He accepts its standards and abides by its rules, but he also recognizes its limitations. His engagement to the impeccable May Welland assures him of a safe and conventional future, until the arrival of May's cousin Ellen Olenska. Independent, free-thinking, and scandalously separated from her husband, Ellen forces Archer to question the values and assumptions of his narrow world. As their love for each other grows, Archer has to decide where his ultimate loyalty lies.

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  Far Above Rubies

  Netta Syrett

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  Netta Syrett was born Janet Syrett on 17th March 1865 in Ramsgate, Kent, one of 13 children. 
   
  She was initially educated at home by her mother before those responsibilities passed to a German Governess and then, aged 11, Netta went to the North London Collegiate School. From there she attended Hughes Hall, Cambridge and completed a three-year course for a full teaching certificate in only one year. 
   
  She taught for two years at a Swansea school before moving to teach at the London Polytechnic School for Girls.  
   
  Her friend and colleague, Mabel Beardsley, introduced her to her brother, Aubrey, the famed illustrator and the then art editor for the illustrated quarterly ‘The Yellow Book’, and its literary editor, the American Henry Harland, who then published 3 of her short stories. Her writing is also notable for its use of women characters who were less dependent on others and the society around them and were able to forge new independent paths. 
   
  Her debut novel, ‘Nobody's Fault’ (1896) was the beginning of a long and prolific output. For the next several years her writing and teaching careers ran alongside each other.   
   
  A highly critical review of her controversial, for those times, play ‘The Finding of Nancy’ suggesting it was an autobiography led to calls from overly moral parents for her to resign her teaching position.  Netta now concentrated solely on her writing, only retiring in 1939. 
   
  Netta Syrett died after a long illness in London on 15th December 1943.

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