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  Oscar Wilde - Chapter & Verse -...

  Oscar Wilde

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - Oscar Wilde 
  2 - The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde 
  3 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde 
  4 - Sonnet to Liberty by Oscar Wilde 
  5 - Sonnet on Approaching Italy by Oscar Wilde 
  6 - Easter Day by Oscar Wilde 
  7 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde 
  8 - Serenade by Oscar Wilde 
  9 - Endymon by Oscar Wilde 
  10 - Her Voice by Oscar Wilde 
  11 - Impression du Matin by Oscar Wilde 
  12 - Requescat by Oscar Wilde 
  13 - A Vision by Oscar Wilde 
  14 - The Grave of Shelley by Oscar Wilde 
  15 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 
  16 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde

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  The Reincarnations

  Nathan Elias

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  These loosely connected stories are laced with the familiar and the uncanny, the real and the surreal, the ordinary and the fabulistic. A documentary filmmaker refuses to give up on finding his daughter who mysteriously disappears by the river. A small-time real estate agent recovers from a brief psychotic episode upon discovering his fiancée's affair. An actress struggles to grasp reality when the recordings of lucid dreams are used in movies instead of live performances. An eccentric teenager recounts his first romance from beyond the grave. 
   
   
   
  Spanning the boundaries of literary and speculative fiction, The Reincarnations revolves around multiple forms of Zenlike rebirth. Equal parts raw emotion and wild imagination, Nathan Elias's debut story collection ushers in an electrifying yet tender new voice in fiction.

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  Bamm Bahadar

  Gurbakhsh Singh Preetlari

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  “Bamm Bahadar” by Gurbakhsh Singh Preetlari is a heartfelt collection of six stories that explore love, honesty, compassion, and human values. The title story, Bamm Bahadar, tells the touching bond between an elephant and its owner. Other stories highlight the struggles of honest individuals, the harmony between communities, selfless help offered by strangers, and the warmth of family, especially the love and kindness of the author’s grandmother. Each story reflects deep emotions and life lessons, making it a meaningful read for all ages.

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  The Meeting - Seventeen Series...

  A.D. Starrling

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  Discover the origins of the incredible friendship that defines Hunted…  
     
  On a hot summer’s day in Boston, US Marine turned Homicide Detective Reid Halsey finds himself in the middle of a deadly shootout with a murder suspect.  
     
  When Lucas Soul, a seemingly innocent victim, rises from the dead moments after a fatal gunshot wound to the head, Reid comes to the shocking realization that the world he believes in may very well be a carefully fabricated lie masking an unearthly reality.The Meeting is a short story set in AD Starrling's bestselling supernatural thriller series Seventeen. If you like high-octane adventures that combine science and fantasy, then you'll love the world of Seventeen. Get this thrilling short story and continue the epic series today!  
     
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  The Crocodile - Legendary author...

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow on 11th November, 1821 to distinguished multi-ethnic parents from a Lithuanian background.   
   
  His childhood years were at the family home in hospital grounds which also contained an orphanage, an insane asylum and a cemetery for criminals.  The young Fyodor often disobeyed his father by talking to the ill in the hospital gardens.   
   
  His health was compromised at age 9 when he experienced his first epileptic fit. By the time he was a teenager both parents had died and he was now enrolled in a military academy where he graduated and eventually became a Lieutenant in 1842.  He left military service the next year. 
   
  In 1846 he published his first novel ‘Poor Cow’ to great literary acclaim.  His next was unable to emulate that success but his short stories helped provide an income.  Life as an author was definitely difficult. As he began his next work he was arrested and incarcerated for treason and participation in the political and literary Petrashevsky Circle. Although the case was weak and unjustified he was sentenced to 4 years of hard labour followed by 5 years of military service in a Siberian regiment.  
   
  Despite the undoubted hardships and setbacks in his life, and whether they helped or hindered his writing, his talents produced many exceptional works of literature including ‘Crime and Punishment’, ‘The Idiot’ and ‘The Brothers Karamazov’.   
   
  Dostoevsky’s ability to get under the skin of his characters and show the inner workings of their mind was hugely influential and ahead of its time.  Interwoven with this was the influence of the broader social, spiritual and political forces at work in a person's psyche.   
   
  Fyodor Dostoevsky struggled financially and remained in poor health for much of his adult life.  He died from a lung haemorrhage on 9th February, 1881. 
   
  In the Crocodile a man is swallowed whole and through this Gogol explores themes and ideas that no other author would attempt. Absurdist genius.

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  Two Tales From HP Lovecraft -...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Two Tales From H.P. Lovecraft includes the American horror writer's short stories, "The Cats of Ulthar," of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar, and "The Terrible Old Man," notable as the first story to make use of Lovecraft's fictional New England town of Kingsport. Both were written in 1920.

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