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  Diplomacy - From their pens to...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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  The Canary

  Katherine Mansfield

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  A lonely woman's cherished canary, her only companion, dies, leaving her isolated once more.

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  A Russian Christmas Party

  Leo Tolstoy

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  A Russian Christmas Party by Leo Tolstoy is about a generous family on the brink of ruin whose mother pins their hopes for restoring their fortune on their son, Nicolas' marriage to a wealthy bride. Nicolas isn't cooperating, for he loves a poor girl named Sonia. Alas! How will they see it through?

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  Jane Eyre

  Charlotte Brontë

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  Jane Eyre is a timeless classic of English literature and one of the most beloved gothic romance novels ever written. This powerful audiobook follows the journey of Jane, an orphaned girl who overcomes a harsh childhood to become a strong, independent woman. When she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall, she meets the enigmatic Mr. Rochester, and a deep, complex love begins to grow.But Thornfield hides a dark secret that threatens to destroy everything. As Jane faces moral dilemmas, emotional trials, and questions of identity, she must choose between passion and principle. Rich in atmosphere, romance, and psychological depth, Jane Eyre is an unforgettable story of resilience, love, and self-respect.

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  Library of the World's Best...

  Various

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  The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds what they considered the best pieces of human writing, and compiled an ambitious collection of 45 volumes (with a 46th being an index-guide). Besides the selection and translation of a huge number of poems, letters, short stories and sections of books, the collection offers, before each chapter, a short essay about the author or subject in question. In many cases, chapters contemplate not one author, but certain groups of works, organized by nationality, subject or period; there is, thus, a chapter on Accadian-Babylonian literature, one on the Holy Grail, and one on Chansons, for example.  
   
  The result is a collection that holds the interest, for the variety of subjects and forms, but also as a means of first contact with such famous and important authors that many people have heard of, but never read, such as Abelard, Dante or Lord Byron. According to the editor Charles Dudley Warner, this collection "is not a library of reference only, but a library to be read."   
   
  This first volume contains chapters from "Abelard" to "Amiel". (Summary by Leni)

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  Night Tales With Cornelius...

  Stefan Shaw

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  Want to scare yourself to sleep?  
  Meet Night Tales With Cornelius Darkly.  
  Feel the wash of ambient music, listen to the tone of his voice as it slowly pulls you into the darkness… 
  Night Tales With Cornelius Darkly is both a love letter to traditional horror and a brand-new audio experience featuring original storytelling and a chilling, dreamy, electronic soundtrack created by artist James Kumo. This short story is broken down into bedtime chapters timed to drift off to. 
  Volume 1. An evil clown, a sea siren, a demon, a cult and…a child. How are they connected? 
  Dive in if you dare. 
  And remember to pull the covers tight. 
  Sweet dreams my friends…

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