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  In Our Time

  Ernest Hemingway

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  "He was alone, and he was comfortable. He felt he had left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to understand."
  
  In Our Time is a collection of vignettes and short stories that marked the arrival of Ernest Hemmingway as a bold new voice in American literature. The works contained herein explore the themes of war, loss, love, alienation and disillusionment that are prominent in much of the author's work while encapsulating the struggles faced by individuals in the rapidly changing, post-war world. From the trenches of World War I to quiet moments of reflection in nature, Hemingways use of spare, precise prose delivers a sense of moral value and a powerful punch of emotional truth.
  
  The titles included in this collection, in order of appearance, are:
  
  - On the Quai at Smyrna
  - Indian Camp
  - The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife
  - The End of Something
  - The Three-Day Blow
  - The Battler
  - A Very Short Story
  - Soldier's Home
  - The Revolutionist
  - Mr. and Mrs. Elliot
  - Cat in the Rain
  - Out of Season
  - Cross-Country Snow
  - My Old Man
  - Big Two-Hearted River: Part 1
  - Big Two-Hearted River: Part 2
  - L' Envoi
  Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist renowned for his econimical, understated prose, adventurous lifestyle and outspoken public image. He began his career as a reporter and published a number of short stories before gaining fame with novels such as The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), and his experiences during the Spanish Civil War informed the best-selling For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, and some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature.
  This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual sections.

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  Guy de Maupassant - Six of the...

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

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  The House of the Dead - Or...

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  The semiautobiographical prison account of convict Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, from the author of Crime and Punishment.   Originally published in 1862, The House of the Dead is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s own four-year imprisonment in Siberia for his involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This masterpiece of Russian literature begins with a nameless narrator coming upon former convict Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov in a remote Siberian town. Previously a nobleman and landowner, Goryanchikov had been given a ten-year sentence of hard labor for the murder of his wife, a crime of passion sparked by jealousy. After Goryanchikov’s death, the narrator finds a handwritten record of his decade of penal servitude. From his first days in the barracks, friendless and broken in spirit, to the removal of his shackles and freedom, Goryanchikov portrays the experiences of a “lost tribe of men,” and the horrors and degradation they experienced.  “Episodic, rambling, full of keen and deliberately stretched-out character sketches, the book is the drama of a person working out how to reproduce prison life in prose: its longueurs, its diversions, its pleasures, traumas, and inurements  . . . If Dostoyevsky’s captors had found the ribald, cacophonous commonplace book he assembled out of overheard insults and tossed-off sayings during his time in prison, they would have recognized that they were dealing with a spirit not easily suppressed.” —The Paris Review  “I know no better book in all modern literature.” —Leo Tolstoy

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  Fall Asleep to The Hound of the...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Dive into the world of Sherlock Holmes with "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, now available as an audiobook from Slumber Studios. Narrated by Elizabeth Grace, this classic detective story has been thoughtfully edited and produced to provide a relaxing listening experience, perfect for helping you fall asleep. 
  At Slumber Studios, we understand the challenges of falling asleep, whether it's due to insomnia or a busy mind. Our audiobooks are designed for sleep, featuring soothing narration and a pace that promotes relaxation. 
  Close your eyes and let Elizabeth Grace's calming voice guide you through the mysterious moors of Dartmoor, where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound. The suspenseful plot and vivid descriptions will captivate your imagination, allowing you to unwind and drift into a peaceful sleep. 
  Our audiobooks are carefully crafted with gentle background music and a slower narrative pace to ensure a tranquil night's sleep. Whether you're looking to escape into a story after a hectic day or simply seeking a way to ease into a restful slumber, our audiobooks are here to help. 
  So press play, get comfortable, and let the intrigue of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" lull you into a serene and rejuvenating sleep. Wake up feeling refreshed and ready for a great day.

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  Bill-sticking (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

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  Bill-Sticking is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars.

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  Mary E Mann - A Short Story...

  Mary E. Mann

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  Mary Rackham was born in Norwich on 14th August 1848 to a merchant family.  Little is known of her early life and her biography only re-appears in September 1871 with marriage to Fairman Joseph Mann, a farmer with 800 acres.   
   
  Mary moved to Shropham, Norfolk and became involved with the workhouse, visiting the sick and other unfortunates of the parish, her observations and experiences a valuable source for her later stories.  
   
  She took up writing, partly to offset the dreary village life of her surroundings, in the 1880s and published her first novel, ‘The Parish of Hilby’ (1883) at her own expense. It was well received by the critics.  
   
  Thus began a career that spanning three decades provided thirty-three novels, hundreds of short stories, and fourteen plays.? Her work was largely focused on rural life in Norfolk and centered on the fictional town of Dulditch, with grim but authentic accounts of poverty and deprivation.  
   
  Her marriage produced one boy and three girls. With her husband's death in 1913, she moved to Sheringham.  
   
  She is regarded as a major contributor to East Anglian literature with particular praise given to her short stories. 
   
  Mary E Mann died on 19th May 1929.  She was 80.  Her grave-marker is a carved open book with the epitaph ‘We bring our years to an end, as if it were a tale that is told’. 
   
  1 - The Short Stories of Mary E Mann - An Introduction 
  2 - Wolf Charlie by Mary E Mann 
  3 - Ben Pitcher's Elly by Mary E Mann 
  4 - Some of the Shipwrecked by Mary E Mann 
  5 - Rats by Mary E Mann 
  6 - Clomayne's Clerk by Mary E Mann 
  7 - The Country Doctor by Mary E Mann 
  8 - Little Brother by Mary E Mann

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