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  The Prediction - From their pens...

  Mary Diana Dods (wrote as David...

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  Mary Diana Dods was born at some point in 1790.  Much of the details of her life are unknown. 
  Accounts propose that she was one of the illegitimate daughters of George Douglas, the sixteenth Earl of Morton and that she and her older sister were raised in both Scotland and London. At the time a good education for women was a rarity but it seems Mary attended school or was home tutored. 
  As a writer she seems only to have published under the pseudonym of David Lyndsay. Her works appeared in periodicals such as Blackwood's Magazine and in 1822 she was asked by its founder to provide it with ‘Dramas of the Ancient World’.  
  Writing as a male author in Victorian England gave her freedoms which would not be extended to her own gender and, as David Lyndsay, she was able to support herself.  However, by 1822 her letters show that the advent of liver disease was interfering with both work and life. 
  Dods was comfortable with her Scottish background and fluent in French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish as well as being a keen theatre critic.. 
  She also assumed a male persona as the diplomat and scholar Walter Sholto Douglas, ostensibly the spouse of Isabella Robinson. The marriage was, in part, a veil for Robinson's illegitimate pregnancy. They named the child Adeline Douglas. 
  In 1827 her good friend and supporter Mary Shelley helped Dods and Robinson too obtain false passports, and to travel to Paris as Mr and Mrs Douglas.  
  In her last years she suffered further attacks of liver disease together with other unnamed mental and physical illnesses.  
  Her finances had always been a struggle and now her debts consigned her to a debtor’s prison. It was there, after several months within its grim walls, that Mary Diana Dods died of her ailments at some unrecorded date between November 1829 and November 1830.

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  Carmen - A Timeless Masterpiece...

  Prosper Mérimée

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  Some passions burn so fiercely they consume everything in their path. 
  In the sun-scorched landscapes of 19th-century Andalusia, a dutiful soldier named Don José falls entirely under the spell of Carmen, a fiery, fiercely independent Roma woman who answers to no one but her own wild heart. Seduced into a perilous underworld of smugglers, thieves, and outlaws, Don José sacrifices his honor, his career, and his very soul for her fleeting affections. But a wild spirit can never be caged. When Carmen's restless gaze turns toward a celebrated bullfighter, Don José's desperation twists into a dark, all-consuming obsession. Against a vivid backdrop of dusty ravines, vibrant arenas, and clandestine taverns, a tragic and inevitable destiny unfolds. 
  Why you will love this: Fans of Classic Fiction and tragic romances will find themselves deeply entangled in this spellbinding audiobook. Mérimée's masterful prose pioneers the femme fatale archetype, offering a visceral exploration of toxic love, jealousy, and fate. Impeccably paced and rich with historical atmosphere, this iconic narrative remains an essential pillar of European literature. 
  Historical Note on Prosper Mérimée: A prominent French writer, historian, and archaeologist, Mérimée (1803–1870) was renowned for his concise, dramatic storytelling and unsentimental cultural observations. His literary genius gave birth to Carmen, the foundational novella that went on to inspire Georges Bizet's universally beloved opera.

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  A Funny Man's Dream

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  Dostoyevsky was never shy to play with the issues of human mind in his work. A funny man's dream is one of his shorter pieces that, nevertheless, lacks none of the profundity or the mind-bending power of his larger works.

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  Ayala's Angel

  Anthony Trollope

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  "This is Trollope's eightieth tale. Though it is the work of an older man, it is perhaps the brightest and freshest novel he ever wrote. The story of a young woman forced to choose a husband from among three unsavory men, the novel is remarkable for its wealth of minor characters and it  romantic exuberance."

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  Revenge - From their pens to...

  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 Statement of Randolph Carter

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Randolph Carter, a recurring character in many of Lovecraft’s stories, begins the story telling the harrowing tale to those who found him stumbling through the swamp. Carter and his friend, the occultist Harley Warren, went to investigate the location of a supposed portal to the underworld – near Big Cypress Swamp in Florida. Upon discovery of a tomb with stairs going deep into the earth, Warren decides to descend them. Only after waiting for what seems an eternity does Carter call down into the tomb, only to be returned with a voice that does not belong to Warren telling him that his friend was dead.  

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