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  Heptameron of the Tales of...

  Marguerite of Navarre

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  THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 3 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and infidelity, resulted in "accusations of looseness" by critics of the day. The author, Margaret of Navarre (also known as Margaret of Angoulême) became an influential woman in the intellectual and cultural circles of the French Renaissance.From an 1892 essay by the translator George Saintsbury: "In so large a number of stories with so great a variety of subjects, it naturally cannot but be the case that there is a considerable diversity of tone. But that peculiarity at which we have glanced more than once, the combination of voluptuous passion with passionate regret and a mystical devotion, is seldom absent for long together...The question, What is the special virtue of the Heptameron? I have myself little hesitation in answering. There is no book, in prose and of so early a date, which shows to me the characteristic of the time as it influenced the two great literary nations of Europe so distinctly as this book of Margaret of Angoulême…" - Summary by Summary adapted from Wikipedia and excerpted from the text by lubee930)

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  The Death Factory - A Penn Cage...

  Greg Iles

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  Death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then his deepest secrets go with him. 
  From #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes an e-original novella featuring former prosecutor Penn Cage, a story of family secrets and justice denied, plus an excerpt from his new novel,Natchez Burning. 
  When a heart attack sends Penn's father, Tom Cage, to the ER, Tom begs that his son be brought to his side to hear a dying declaration. But when Penn arrives, Tom denies ever making the request—keeping his secrets for another day. 
  The emergency hurls Penn back to a chilling case in Houston, where he worked in a DA's office known as the "death factory," which sent more killers to death row than any other in America. While Penn cares for his ailing wife, a tormented forensic technician brings him evidence of a crime lab in chaos, throwing past convictions into doubt and begging Penn to prevent an imminent travesty of justice. With the desperation of a man fighting death in his own home, Penn must find a way to bring the machinery of the death factory to a halt. 
  Included here is an extended sneak preview of Natchez Burning, the first installment in an epic trilogy featuring Penn Cage.

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  Dictation - A Quartet

  Cynthia Ozick

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  “Four expertly turned stories” of comedy, deception, and revenge from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World (TheNew York Times Book Review). A New York Times Notable Book  Dictation brings together four long stories by this Pulitzer and Man Booker Prize finalist, forming a quartet of sly humor and piercing insight into the human heart.   The title story imagines a fateful meeting between the secretaries to Henry James and Joseph Conrad at the peak of their fame. Timid Miss Hallowes, who types for Conrad, comes under the influence of James’s Miss Bosanquet, high-spirited, flirtatious, and scheming. In a masterstroke of genius, Ozick hatches a plot between them to insert themselves into literary posterity.   Each story in the collection starts in the comic mode, with heroes who suffer willful self-deceit. From self-deception, these not-so-innocents proceed to deceive others, who don’t take it lightly. Revenge is the consequence—and for the reader, a delicious if dark recognition of emotional truth.   In Dictation, an author whose stories have won four O. Henry first prizes “reveals herself a master” (The New York Times Book Review).   “A testament to the seductions of language and the smoldering aspirations of art.” —O, The Oprah Magazine   “A brilliant book, a necessary book, a book that radiates the true intelligence of literature from every page.” —The New York Observer

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  Short Stories by Rudyard Kipling

  Rudyard Kipling

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  An Anthology of Kipling's best loved short stories including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, The Man Who Would Be King and Georgie Porgie

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  Mazzoo Mazzoo

  Sandhya Rao

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  "Naznein carefully cooks some fragrant marzwangan kurma
  for a special family dinner, but just when it is all ready,
  guests arrive - unwanted guests who sniff out a free meal."

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  Psalm

  Mikhail Bulgakov

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  "Psalm" is  a short touching story, written in 1923. Part of the "Travel Notes" series. Published: On the Eve, Berlin - M., 1923.
  I will buy a dog on Saturday
  I will sing a psalm at night
  I will order shoes for tailcoat…
  But it's okay. Somehow… we will live.

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