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  Walk in a Workhouse A (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.A WALK IN A WORKHOUSE: On a certain Sunday, I formed one of the congregation assembled in the chapel of a large metropolitan Workhouse. With the exception of the clergyman and clerk, and a very few officials, there were none but paupers present. The children sat in the galleries; the women in the body of the chapel, and in one of the side aisles; the men in the remaining aisle.

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  Reginald

  Saki Saki

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  Reginald - published in 1904 - was the first of Saki's collections of short stories. The eponymous Reginald is an effete, cynical young man-about-town, whose character is a vehicle for Saki's delicicous biting wit satirizing Edwardian high society.Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name “Saki”, was born in Burma in 1870 where his father was a senior official in the Burma Police. From the age of two he lived with two maiden aunts and his grandmother in Devon and was educated in Exmouth and at the Bedford Grammar School. Later he traveled in Europe with his father. He joined the Burma police but resigned after a year because of ill health and returned to England where he began his writing career as a journalist and short story writer for magazines and newspapers such as The Westminster Gazette, in which the Reginald stories first appeared. Saki is regarded as a master of the short story.At the start of the First World War he refused a commission, enlisted as a private, and went to France where, in November 1916, he was killed by a shot to the head, his last words being “Put that bloody cigarette out.”Public Domain (P)2014 Spiders' House Audio

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  White Fang

  Jack London

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  His world was the cruel, savage world of the wild. His introduction to the "man-gods" was brutal and bloody. White Fang was forced to accept a way of life innate to his kind-kill or be killed, destroy or be destroyed and in him developed a hatred so strong that no man or beast could tame him.  Until Weedon Scott.

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  Beware of Dogs

  Koushik Majumder

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  About the Book 
  Have you ever considered the fact that what if your own pet dog or cat starts talking like humans? And not only just talk, they claim for their rights on every sphere of life which we humans thought was only in our control. What if they ask to represent their species in elections of different countries, give suggestions on politics, science and organizational behaviour. "Beware of Dogs" is a story which tries to explore how the world might transform if something like this happens in the near future. 
  About the Author 
  Koushik is a business consultant by profession and a writer by passion. He likes writing stories and poems and making them into audio stories and films. His stories are published in “Ai: Love on the Rocks” by Ukiyoto Publishing and are selected for “The Fallen Leaf” to be published by Half Baked Beans. His short film Cycle Thief is selected among top 30 short films in Bengali nationally for the Short films of the decade festival organised by Clubby. Koushik likes to travel and communicate with different types of people to understand their cultures and their perspectives towards life and this helps him in creating better stories.

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  Love & Freindship

  Jane Austen

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  Love and Freindship tells the story of Laura and Marianne. These two women write to each other about romance and wild coincidences which takes place in their everyday lives.But what adds to the charm of the story is Jane Austen's inimitable wit and her parody of the traditional romantic conventions whose beginnings are visible in this early work of fiction.

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  The Parisian Trilogy

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan.   
   
  He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted although he now referred to himself as Edgar Allan Poe.  His father alternatively spoiled or chastised him and tension was frequent over gambling debts and monies for his education.  His university years to study ancient and modern languages was cut short by lack of money and he enlisted as a private in the army claiming he was 22, it is more probable he was 18. After 2 years he obtained a discharge in order to take up an appointment at the military academy, West Point, where he failed to become an officer. 
   
  Poe had released his 1st poetry volume in 1827 and after his 3rd turned to prose and placing short stories in several magazines and journals.  At age 26 he obtained a licence to marry his cousin.  She was a mere 13 but they stayed together until her death from tuberculosis 11 years after. 
   
  In January 1845 ‘The Raven’ was published and became an instant classic.  Thereafter followed the prose works for which he is now so rightly famed as a master of the mysterious and the macabre. 
   
  Edgar Allan Poe died at the tragically early age of 40 on 7th October 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. Newspapers at the time reported Poe's death as ‘congestion of the brain’ or ‘cerebral inflammation’, common euphemisms for death from disreputable causes such as alcoholism but the actual cause of death remains a mystery. 
   
  Many authors have been cited as inventing the detective genre.  Perhaps the strongest claimant is the American Edgar Allan Poe.  His creation of the Parisian sleuth C. Auguste Dupin with his quite astounding analysis and deductive powers allied to Poe’s great imagination and wit create a literary tour de force. 
   
  Poe’s opening story ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ met with phenomenal success and indeed is a still a favourite to this day.  From this came the sequel ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’ and then ‘The Purloined Letter’.  Together they create a strong and vibrant Parisian trilogy, a credit to Poe, Paris and, of course Dupin and a cast of unforgettable characters.

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