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  A Dark Winter Night

  Munshi Premchand

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  Halku, the poor farmer somehow manages to save three rupees to buy a new blanket which he needs while guarding his field in the dark winter nights. But Sahna, his landlord comes to his doorstep and asks for the money that Halku owes him. The winter nights were so cold that without a blanket there was no way he could sleep out in the open. Munni, his wife, was reluctant to give that money. But what would Halku choose? Dying in the dark winter night without a blanket or listening to the landlord's abuses?
  
  This has been translated from the famous original Hindi story called "Poos Ki Raat" written by Munshi Premchand. He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindustani writers of the early twentieth century.

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  War and Peace (Book Seven: 1810-11)

  Leo Tolstoy

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  War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
  Book 7: 1810-11: The Bible legend tells us that the absence of labor idleness was a condition of the first man’s blessedness before the Fall. Fallen man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our bread in the sweat of our brows, but because our moral nature is such that we cannot be both idle and at ease.

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  A Room with a View - A Timeless...

  E. M. Forster

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  In A Room with a View, E. M. Forster tells a richly charming story of love, self-discovery, and the quiet struggle between social convention and personal freedom. 
  When young Lucy Honeychurch travels to Florence with her chaperone, she encounters a world far removed from the rigid expectations of Edwardian England. Amid Italy’s beauty and passion, Lucy begins to awaken to deeper emotions and new possibilities—feelings that challenge the life carefully planned for her back home. 
  As Lucy returns to England, she must choose between propriety and honesty, comfort and courage. With wit, warmth, and gentle satire, Forster explores class, romance, and the transformative power of travel, crafting a novel that is both romantic and quietly revolutionary. 
  First published in 1908, A Room with a View remains one of the most beloved works of English literature—a timeless celebration of love, authenticity, and the courage to follow one’s heart. 
  Perfect for listeners who enjoy classic romance, thoughtful literary fiction, and beautifully observed characters.

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  Jude the Obscure

  Thomas Hardy

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  Jude Fawley is a stone mason with a passion for scholarship who longs to study at the nearby university town of Christminster. Then Arabella Donn comes into his life. His longing for her eclipses all else for a time, and they marry but unhappily. Meeting his spirited and intelligent cousin, Sue Bridehead, Jude dares to dream again. But in acknowledging their feelings for one another, Jude and Sue risk becoming social outcasts. In defying conventional morality, their lives become plagued by uncertainty and torment.

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  Owd Blossom - From their pens to...

  Mary Webb

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  Mary Gladys Meredith was born on 25th March 1881 at Leighton Lodge in the village of Leighton, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire.  
  Mary was home-schooled by her father before being sent to a finishing school in Southport in 1895. Her longs walks in the countryside helped her develop a heightened sense of observation and description, of both people and places, which later infused both her poetry and prose. 
  When she was 20 she developed symptoms of Graves' disease, a thyroid disorder that caused bulging protuberant eyes and throat goitre. This caused life-long ill health and was a possible contributor to her early death.  
  Mary was first published as a teenager when her brother sent to a local newspaper her poem on a recent rail accident.  Mary, who was in the habit of destroying her work was appalled though placated when she discovered that it had received some positive appreciation in readers letters. 
  1912 brought marriage to Henry Bertram Law Webb, a teacher. He supported her literary work which, in 1917, resulted in the publication of her novel ‘The Golden Arrow.’ 
  A few years later they acquired a property in London where, it was hoped, recognition of her literary talents would be more easily recognised.   
  Her 1924 novel, ‘Precious Bane’, won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse, the prestigious French literary prize awarded by an all-female jury. 
  Most of her poetry and various other works were only published after her death. 
  By 1927 her health was deteriorating and her marriage failing.   
  Mary Webb died on 8th October 1927 at St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.  She was 46.

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  Silence - A Fable

  Sampi Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  "Silence - A Fable" by Edgar Allan Poe tells the story of a man who encounters a demon in a desert land. The demon shows how frightening silence and solitude can be, using the calm but tense nature to teach a lesson about fear and isolation.

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