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  Christmas - Stories from the...

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton...

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  Christmas may come but once a year but evil, intrigue and malevolence are everyday events. 
   
  Within this volume Christmas is a time when these dark forces form and coalesce to take life and liberty from people who may and who may not deserve the spin of its wheel. 
   
  Some are merely evil, others have the beginnings of a conscience that displays itself in a dialogue with the devil, or perhaps only themselves. 
   
  But, in this volume Christmas takes a ringside seat to the horrors of the human heart. 
  1 - Christmas. Stories from the Dark Side - An Introduction 
  2 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  3 - The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather 
  4 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  5 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov

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  The Three Apples - from The...

  Anonymous

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  "The Three Apples" is a story contained in the One Thousand and One Nights collection (also known as the Arabian Nights). Scheherazade tells the history of a murder — making this the first mystery story put to paper.

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  This is (not about) David Bowie...

  Freya Morris

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  First published in 2018 by Retreat West Books. 
  Narrated by the author and John Teal. 
  A surreal and quirky debut short-story collection inspired by David Bowie, which shows what it really is to be human in a world that’s always expecting you to be something else. 
  Every day we dress up in other people’s expectations. We button on opinions of who we should be, we instagram impossible ideals, tweet to follow, and comment to judge. But what if we could just let it all go? What if we took off our capes and halos, threw away our uniforms, let go of the future. What if we became who we were always supposed to be? This is (not about) David Bowie. It’s about you. 
  From lost souls, to missing sisters, and dying lovers to superheroes, it shows what it really is to be human in a world that’s always expecting you to be something else. 
  This collection has been inspired by the music and art of David Bowie.

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  The Pickwick Papers

  Charles Dickens

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  Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers—a comic masterpiece that catapulted its 24-year-old author to immediate fame.Listeners were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtors prison, characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickens' pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour & literary invention.

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  Christmas Eve At Swamp's End

  Norman Duncan

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  Four selected chapters from The Measure Of A Man; A Tale of the Big Woods, by Norman Duncan. What could be more Christmasy than: Babies, especially a homeless one; a woman who loves; a man who protects; a cold night; glittering stars; poor working-men witnesses; gifts. ( Title page and david wales)

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  Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds - A...

  Agatha Christie

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  Hercule Poirot is about to tuck into a very traditional English supper with his old friend Bonnington when a lone diner sparks his interest. Like clockwork, the man has eaten at the restaurant on Thursdays and Tuesdays for the last ten years, but no one on the staff knows his name. When “Old Father Time,” as they have fondly nicknamed him, suddenly stops coming, Poirot believes that he might have picked up the one essential clue that could shed light on this mysterious man. Could what Old Father Time ordered as his final meal provide the key?

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