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  Popular Tales from the Norse -...

  George Webbe Dasent

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  Norwegian tales as Asbjørnsen and Moe collected them: the three billy goats, the giant with no heart in his body, east of the sun and west of the moon, the boy who became rich by not being frightened. Dasent translated them in 1859 in a Norse-sounding English that has never been bettered. The introduction argues that the tales are older than Christianity in the north; the stories argue it better.

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  You Only Live Twice - A James...

  Ian Fleming

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  Read by Eleanor Matsuura 
  BOND TAKES ON A DEATH-DEFYING NEW MISSION TO SECURE KEY JAPANESE INTELLIGENCE 
  James Bond is shattered by the murder of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and only the prospect of a particularly challenging mission can draw him out of his deep depression. 
  Determined to restore 007 to his former effectiveness, M sends Bond to Japan, where a criminal mastermind is using a poisonous garden inside a rocky island fortress to lure people to their deaths. Bond will have to infiltrate and destroy this mysterious ""Castle of Death"" in exchange for top secret Japanese intelligence. 
  When the mastermind behind the deadly plot proves to be an old and terrifying enemy, 007 will have to use all of his skills in a fight to the death.

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  Tales From Edgar Allan Poe -...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.  Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre.  He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Here is a fourth collection of some of his best stories:  The Tell-Tale Heart, Eleanora, and Silence: A Fable.

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  A Tale of Jerusalem

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Another of the tales submitted in 1831 to the Saturday Courier, this story is a harmless buffoonery upon a very old theme. The attitude of Jews toward swine has frequently seemed amusing to those who do not share it. Poe made the most of a historical incident in which some ancient Romans played a clever trick upon the defenders of Jerusalem. Its cleverness lay in the fact that the legalistic Romans, who preferred to respect all divinities, including those of their enemies, avoided impiety, since for them a boar was a highly acceptable sacrificial victim; a boar, a ram and a bull were offered in the great purification ceremony called Suovetaurilia.

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  Marguerite Verne - Or Scenes...

  Rebecca Agatha Armour

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  Saint John, New Brunswick: shipping money, a merchant's daughters, a fortune-hunter and a courtship conducted under the eyes of a small colonial city that misses nothing. Armour taught school in Fredericton and wrote some of the first novels to take New Brunswick seriously as a place where things happen. Read for a Canadian provincial society that almost no fiction of the period recorded at all.

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  The Story Of The Late Mr...

  H. G. Wells

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  Imagine waking up in a stranger’s decaying body - and realize your own youth has been stolen... Edward Eden, a penniless young medical student in Victorian London, thinks his desperate prayers have been answered when a shadowy, immensely wealthy old philosopher offers to make him sole heir to a vast fortune. The inheritance comes with only one strange condition: a celebratory, late-night toast with a bizarre pink powder. When the nightmare clears, he opens his eyes to a horrific reality. His smooth skin is replaced by withered folds; his young voice by a raspy, senile gasp. The brilliant Egbert Elvesham didn't just pass on his wealth - he executed a diabolical exchange. Now, Edward is trapped in a dying frame, while a monster walks the streets wearing his face, living his life, and enjoying his future. H.G. Wells weaves a haunting, psychological nightmare of body-stealing greed and stolen identity. Press play now and discover if youth can ever be reclaimed!

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