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  Little Men

  Louisa May Alcott

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  "Little Men" is a classic novel that continues the story of the March family from "Little Women." The focus shifts to Jo March, who is now married to Professor Bhaer and runs a school for boys called Plumfield. The novel explores the lives, adventures, and moral lessons of the boys at Plumfield, providing a heartwarming and insightful look into childhood and adolescence.

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  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde

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  A gripping tale of vanity, morality, and the price of eternal youth, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde explores the haunting consequences of a hedonistic life. Follow Dorian Gray as his mysterious portrait reveals the hidden truths of his soul.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Men...

  James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Arnold...

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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. 
   
  A decade of catastrophic worldwide war.  Empires in tectonic collision, a society heaving under the yoke, tired of sacrifice, ready for revolution.  In literature ideas were explored and detailed revealing a world and people that seem so long ago but also very near. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 1910's - The Men - An Introduction 
  2 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce 
  3 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce 
  4 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 
  5 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro 
  6 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence 
  7 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 
  8 - Casting the Runes by M R James 
  9 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson 
  10 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 
  11 - The Matador of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett 
  12 - August Heat by W F Harvey

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  A Scene from the Ghetto of...

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born into a troubled marriage on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  His mother, having previously lost a baby girl, would dress the young boy up in girl’s clothing.   
  Later his father dispatched him to a military academy at age 10 but after a miserable 5 years the young Rilke left due to illness and instead entered first Prague and then Munich and finally Berlin university to study art history, philosophy and literature. 
  His initial forays into literature was in poetry.  His intense, mystical and lyrical style was much admired and over time inspired many in succeeding generations.    
  His short prose collection ‘Stories of God’, written in an impassioned burst over several nights was published in 1900 and offers a beguiling view of much of Rilke’s influences and outlook.  
  The following year he married the pioneering sculptor and artist Clara Westhoff.  The union produced one child, a daughter Ruth.   
  He lived in Paris for most of the Century’s first decade where he mixed with many great minds of the time.  Although he continued to write he also worked as a secretary to the sculptor, Rodin.   
  It was only after they settled in Switzerland in 1919 that his writing output was in full flow.  Here he wrote profusely in both German and French, which included much on his previous travels, his left-wing sympathies, his religious and existential thoughts, all part of a unique and consummate style. 
  From 1923 on, Rilke increasingly struggled with his health which was now in constant decline and often spent time rehabilitating at a sanatorium.   
  Rainer Maria Rilke died of leukaemia on the 29th December 1926 in Montreux, Switzerland.  He was 51.

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  Mr Britling Sees It Through -...

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback.
  MATCHING'S EASY AT WAR: On that eventful night of the first shots and the first deaths Mr. Britling did not sleep until daylight had come. He sat writing at this pamphlet of his, which was to hail the last explosion and the ending of war.

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  Mumu

  Ivan Turgenev

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  "Mumu" is the psychological story of Ivan Turgenev about the deaf-mute janitor Gerasim, who, due to the whim of his lady, was forced to part with his beloved and drown his only friend - a dog. The author sympathizes with the simple and kind Gerasim, and his mistress portrays tough, cynical and capricious.
  Other famous works, such as "Asya", "Fathers and Sons", "Noble's Nest", "Biryuk", "Fire at Sea", "Inn", "Clock, belong to the author", "Three portraits", "Strange story", " Date", etc.
  Ivan Turgenev is an outstanding writer of the 19th century, a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the category of the Russian language and literature, and the author of philosophical and psychological poems, short stories, short novels and novels.

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