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  Buff: A Collie and Other...

  Albert Payson Terhune

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  Buff: A Collie and Other Dog-Stories is one of many popular books written by Albert Payson Terhune that have delighted dog lovers for decades. Terhune loved dogs, and he bred and raised collies at his Sunnybank Kennels. Terhune sometimes included difficult passages in his stories, and he did not always conclude with the typical "happy ending"--but his passion for dogs was always clearly evident in his novels. An excerpt from the Foreword to this book in which Terhune describes the nature of a dog: 
  "Service that asks no price; forgiveness free 
  For injury or for injustice hard. 
  Stanch friendship, wanting neither thanks nor fee 
  Save privilege to worship and to guard:--That is their creed." 
  (Summary by lubee930)

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - 1920s...

  Franz Kafka, Ryunosuke...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this one decade the post-war period brings us the Jazz Age and the beginnings of the Great Depression, two ends of a human race in turmoil as the elite are confronted with the masses in a great social surge that will being further problems that stain humanity.  Authors here begin to make a literary sense of what has happened and how their characters and narratives are dealing with questions that need answers.>  
  1 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - An Introduction 
  2 - In A Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 
  3 - The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson 
  4 - The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell 
  5 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald 
  6 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell 
  7 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka 
  8 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence 
  9 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft 
  10 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 
  11 - The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf

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  Short Stories for Older Children

  Dandi Palmer

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  It is easy to think that the reality we know is the only one. 
  But the galaxy is immense and full of other possibilities. 
  There are also dimensions where existence is not tangible for its inhabitants. 
  We would call them ghosts. 
  These stories are free to read at www.dandipal.uk

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  The Furnished Room

  O. Henry

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  O. Henry's poignant ghost story of a young man seeking his lost love in the city. When he rents a furnished room in the lower West Side, he senses from a mysterious and familiar scent that his lost love has recently stayed there. The ghostly essence of his lover exercises a very strange and sinister effect on him.

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  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  The classic story of a man who ages backwards—and inspiration for the film starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett—by the author of The Great Gatsby.   Penned by one of the greatest literary talents of the twentieth century, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button follows the adventures of a man born at the age of seventy, living his life in reverse. After achieving success in the military and in business, and becoming a husband and father, Benjamin goes on to attend college, prep school, and then—as his mind begins to deteriorate—kindergarten.   At once humorous and haunting, “Fitzgerald’s wonderfully simple story is a kind of conjuring trick, an exercise in forcing the impossible into the mundane. You end it both amused and slightly saddened. For the most curious thing about Benjamin Button’s life is how ordinary it seems. All the usual triumphs and miseries are there: it’s just that the start and end aren’t the same” (The Guardian).

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  Strychinne for Dogs - Gask was...

  Arthur Gask

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  Arthur Cecil Gask was born on 10th July 1869 in Marylebone, London. 
   
  He began his career as an author late in life.  It was only in 1920 when he and his second wife and family emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia to set up a dental practice that writing took its hold. 
   
  Gask paid for the publication of his first work, ‘The Secret of the Sandhills’, which was an immediate success, both commercially and critically.  
   
  Over the next 3 decades Gask wrote over thirty books, usually featuring his detective invention Gilbert Larose, as well as short stories.  Many of his works were translated, serialised and even broadcast on the radio.  HG Wells and Bertrand Russell were avid fans. 
   
  In the last years of his life he was still writing, usually two novels a year. 
   
  Arthur Gask died on 25th June 1951, in Adelaide, Australia.  He was 81 
   
  In this story we meet his most popular character, Detective Gilbert Larose, who, whilst on holiday, is drawn into a case of dogs being poisoned.  But why would anyone do that?

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