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  The Voyage Out - The Lost...

  Virginia Woolf

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  "The Voyage Out" is the debut novel written by Virginia Woolf, a prominent English modernist writer. Published in 1915, the novel follows the journey of Rachel Vinrace, a young woman who embarks on a voyage to South America with her aunt and uncle. The novel explores themes of self-discovery, social conventions, and the constraints placed upon women in early 20th-century society. 
   
  As Rachel sets sail on her voyage, she encounters a diverse group of passengers, each representing different social classes, backgrounds, and personalities. Through her interactions with them, Rachel undergoes a transformative journey of personal growth and awakening. Woolf skillfully captures Rachel's internal thoughts and emotions, delving into her inner world as she navigates her way through the complexities of life and relationships. 
   
  "The Voyage Out" also provides a critical examination of societal norms and gender roles during the Edwardian era. Woolf challenges the traditional expectations placed upon women and explores the limitations and frustrations they face. Rachel's journey serves as a metaphor for breaking free from societal constraints and seeking personal fulfillment and independence. 
   
  Virginia Woolf's writing style in "The Voyage Out" is characterized by its lyrical prose, stream-of-consciousness narrative technique, and keen observations of human psychology. Through vivid descriptions and introspective passages, Woolf explores themes of identity, love, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world 
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  "The Voyage Out" is a significant novel in Woolf's body of work and serves as a precursor to her later, more experimental novels. It provides an early glimpse into Woolf's mastery of character development, psychological insight, and her unique literary style that would go on to shape the landscape of modernist literature.

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  Barry Lyndon

  William Makepeace Thackeray

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  Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy. Thackeray, who based the novel on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rake and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. The novel is narrated by Lyndon himself, who functions as a quintessentially unreliable narrator. The novel was adapted by Stanley Kubrick into his 1975 film Barry Lyndon.

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  A Truthful Adventure

  Katherine Mansfield

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  Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.'A Truthful Adventure' is Mansfield's account of a visit to Bruges, where her well-laid travel plans are thwarted by almost every highly annoying person she encounters.A Red Door Consulting production.

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  Foreword - A Selection from the...

  John Updike

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  The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975. 
  In describing how he wrote these stories in a small, rented, smoke-filled office in Ipswitch, Massachusetts, he says, "I felt that I was packaging something as delicately pervasive as smoke, one box after another, in that room, where my only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me -- to give the mundane its beautiful due."

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  The Last Trump

  Hugh Walpole

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  Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.'The Last Trump' is an engaging and tense story about a man who believes he has calculated the exact date and time of the end of the world. It will occur at 11:45 pm on January 20, 1929. He shares this secret with his wife, Mary, and later with a select circle of their friends.The knowledge of the impending last judgment begins to overshadow their lives and actions. As the date approaches, the different members of the group make their various ecclectic preparations, and on the night itself they gather around the clock to await the Last Trump....

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Alexandre Dumas, James Joyce, D...

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  The Top 10 – Western Europe - An Introduction 
   
  The West has often promoted itself as the crucible of democracy, civil society and the Arts.  The reality is far from that but its literature has, perhaps, more merit as a force for good.  Their authors use their talents wisely as they explore all manner of subjects with characters of literary brilliance. 
   
  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. 
   
  1 - The Top Ten - Western Europe - An Introduction 
  2 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce 
  3 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce 
  4 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 
  5 - Martin Guerre - Celebrated Crimes Part 1 by Alexandre Dumas 
  6 - Martin Guerre - Celebrated Crimes Part 2 by Alexandre Dumas 
  7 - The Force of Blood by Miguel de Cervantes 
  8 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence 
  9 - The New Paris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
  10 - The Criminal from Lost Honour by Friedrich Schiller 
  11 - War by Luigi Pirandello 
  12 - Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee 
  13 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson

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