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  The Sherlock Holmes Collection -...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Sherlock Holmes was created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. 
   
  Holmes first appeared in print in 1887's A Study in Scarlet, the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with "A Scandal in Bohemia" in 1891; additional tales appeared from then until 1927, eventually totaling four novels and 56 short stories. All but one are set in the Victorian or Edwardian eras, between about 1880 and 1914. Most are narrated by the character of Holmes's friend and biographer Dr. John H. Watson, who usually accompanies Holmes during his investigations and often shares quarters with him at the address of 221B Baker Street, London, where many of the stories begin. 
   
  Though not the first fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes is arguably the best known. By the 1990s there were already over 25,000 stage adaptations, films, television productions, and publications featuring the detective, and Guinness World Records lists him as the most portrayed literary human character in film and television history. Holmes's popularity and fame are such that many have believed him to be not a fictional character but a real individual; numerous literary and fan societies have been founded on this pretense. Avid readers of the Holmes stories helped create the modern practice of fandom.  
   
  Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL was a British writer and physician.

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  Russian Short Story The - Volume...

  Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turguenev,...

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  The Russian novel has a reputation that is immense, both in narrative and in length.  Unquestionably though the ideas, themes and characters make many novels rightly revered as world class, as icons of literature. 
   
  Perhaps an easier way to enjoy a wider selection of the Russian heritage, with its varied and glorious literary talents, is with the short story.  These gems sparkle and beguile the mind with their characters and narrative, exploring facets of society and the human condition that more Western authors somehow find more difficult to navigate, or to explore, explain and relate to.   
   
  The Russian short story is, in many respects, in a genre of its own.  It is at its captivating best whether it’s an exploration of real-life experiences, through fantasy and fables and on to total absurdity. 
   
  In a land so vast it is unsurprising that it is a world almost unto itself. Cultures and landscapes of differing hues are packed together bound only by the wilful bonds and force of Empire. 
   
  The stories in this collection traverse the decades where one might be a serf under an absolute monarch, and the reality of that was pretty near to slavery, into an emancipation of sorts in the fields, or towns under the despotic will of landowners and the rich into the upheavals of Empire and then the overthrow of the ruling class and its replacement by the communists, who promised equality for all and delivered a society where the down-trodden remained the lowest yet vital cog of the state machine and its will.  
   
  Whilst Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Chekhov are a given in any Russian collection we also explore and include Andreyev, Korolenko, Turgenev, Blavatsky and many others to create a world rich and dense across a sprawling landscape of diverse people, riddled with the class and unfairness in perhaps some of the most turbulent times that Russia has ever experienced. 
   
  01 - The Russian Short Story - Volume 2 - An Introduction 
  02 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol 
  03 - Taman by Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov 
  04 - The Jew by Ivan Turgenev 
  05 - The Rendezvous by Ivan Turgenev 
  06 - A Strange Story by Ivan Turgenev 
  07 - Mumu by Ivan Turgenev 
  08 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev 
  09 - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  10 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  Lady Susan

  Jane Austen

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  Written in the then fashionable style form of letters between the characters in the book, Jane Austen tells the story of the beautiful widow Lady Susan. Lady Susan has an eye toward re-marrying well, and marrying off her teenage daughter. To achieve her objectives, she spins a tale of Victorian humor and manipulation. In the end, she outsmarts even herself.Jane Austen’s earliest known serious work, Lady Susan is a short, epistolary novel that portrays a woman bent on the exercise of her own powerful mind and personality to the point of social self-destruction.Lady Susan, a clever and ruthless widow, determines that her daughter is going to marry a man whom both detest. She sets her own sights on her sister-in-law’s brother, all the while keeping an old affair simmering on the back burner. But people refuse to play the roles assigned them. In the end, her daughter gets the sister-in-law’s brother, the old affair runs out of steam, and all that is left for Lady Susan is the man intended for her daughter, whom neither can abide.Told through a series of letters between the characters, the work concludes abruptly with the comment: “this correspondence…could not, to the great detriment of the Post Office revenue, be continued any longer.”The Letters:Letter 01: Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. VernonLetter 02: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 03: Lady Susan Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 04: Mr. de Courcy to Mrs. VernonLetter 05: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 06: Mrs. Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 07: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 08: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 09: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 10: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 11: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 12: Sir Reginald de Courcy to His SonLetter 13: Lady de Courcy to Mrs. VernonLetter 14: Mr. de Courcy to Sir ReginaldLetter 15: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 16: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 17: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 18: From the Same to the SameLetter 19: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 20: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 21: Miss Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 22: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 23: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 24: From the Same to the SameLetter 25: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 26: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 27: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 28: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 29: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 30: Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 31: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 32: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 33: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 34: Mr. de Courcy to Lady Susan VernonLetter 35: Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 36: Mr. de Courcy to Lady Susan VernonLetter 37: Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 38: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 39: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 40: Lady de Courcy to Mrs. VernonLetter 41: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyConclusion

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  Visham Samasya

  Munshi Premchand

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  Visham Samasya is a Hindi short story by legendary storyteller Munshi Premchand. 
  Narrated by Nidhi Bisht, this audiobook provides the audience with an immersive experience in Premchand`s world, a must listen for all Hindi literature fans.

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  Elective Affinities

  Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

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  Goethe as a novelist is best known for two earlier novels, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1796). But Elective Affinities, which was published in 1809, is widely regarded as his mature masterpiece, not least because of its unusual provenance, which brings together Goethe the scientist as well as Goethe the writer. Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his friend the Captain and she invites her niece Ottilie to stay with them, their lives are turned inside out as both hosts begin to feel attracted to their guests. Using one of the chemistry theories of the time (the term ‘elective affinities' was used by Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton) as a metaphor throughout the novel, Goethe juxtaposes social interactions with scientific principles, while illustrating the typically Romantic concern of the individual coming to terms with society. Controversial when first published and still much critically debated today, Goethe s Elective Affinities is an early model for the modern novel.

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  Statement of Randolph Carter The...

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  "The Statement of Randolph Carter" is the first person testimony of the titular character, who has been found wandering through swampland in an amnesiac shock. In his statement, Carter attempts to explain the disappearance of his companion, the occultist Harley Warren. Warren has come into the possession of a book, written in an unknown language, the exact contents of which he never revealed to Carter. Carter mentions that Warren has other "strange, rare books on forbidden subjects", several of which are in Arabic. From his mysterious book, Warren apparently deduces that doors or stairways exist between the surface world, and the underworld. He encourages Carter to travel with him to the location of one such portal, an ancient graveyard near Big Cypress Swamp. Upon arriving, Warren locates a particular tomb, and opens it to reveal a staircase that descends into the earth. Taking a lantern, he leaves Carter on the surface, and follows the stairs into the darkness, communicating with his companion by a telephone wire. After several minutes of silence, Warren suddenly begins to make vague, panicked outbursts that culminate in a desperate plea for Carter to flee. Finally, after Warren is silent for several minutes, Carter calls to him down the line, only to hear an alien voice telling him that Warren is dead.

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