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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Nikolai Gogol, James Joyce,...

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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. 
   
  Human beings are, in the main, social animals, they like to gather, to herd together, to share experiences.  But some do not.  Either through choice or exclusion their way forward is difficult.  In this volume our authors and their characters share their stories. 
   
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Loneliness An Introduction 
  2 - The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Cloak' 
  3 - A Painful Case by James Joyce 
  4 - Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield 
  5 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov 
  6 - The Outsider by H P Lovecraft 
  7 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  8 - Witch's Loaves by O Henry 
  9 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 
  10 - Her Lover by Maxim Gorky 
  11 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

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  3 Sad Stories - About Being...

  Leonid Andreyev, O Henry,...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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  A Thimble for Christmas

  Dilly Court

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  Don’t miss the next utterly romantic historical saga from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court! 
  She ran along the snow-covered cobbles, gripping her sewing box – fate in her hands… 
  Living hand to mouth ever since her mother’s tragic death, Amelia sells the last of her treasured possessions to avoid being cast out of her home onto London’s streets. 
  Her estranged grandfather unexpectedly bequeaths a small, struggling factory making mourning dresses and Amelia dares to dream… Drawing sketches by candlelight, she longs to sew elegant gowns from fine silks and beautiful ribbons for the rich. 
  As the cold winter wind begins to bite, Amelia’s future hangs by a thread – can she keep her hopes alive?Readers LOVE A Thimble for Christmas! 
  ‘Love the author loved the book. Family saga at its best’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘I loved it from cover to cover, and I didn't want it to end’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘A wonderful book by my favourite author Dilly Court, I absolutely adore her style of writing and the rich and warm characters that are interwoven into the story’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘I'm a huge Dilly Court fan, and I've yet to read a book of hers that disappoints’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘Really enjoyed it and read it right through on this windy and wet Sunday’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘Heart-warming historical drama, full of ups and downs and full of lively and interesting characters’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘Another great read from Dilly Court, I was unable to put it down’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  Dilly’s novel Sunday’s Child hit #1 in the Sunday Times bestselling charts the w/e 25th June 2022 
  Set in the Victorian era, this bestseller is a saga of friendship, romance, and a young girl's coming of age. Amelia's dream of sewing elegant gowns for the rich is a captivating journey that has made this a Sunday Times bestselling book. 
  For fans of Rosie Goodwin (The Winter Promise), Katie Flynn (First Love, Last Love), Emma Hornby (The Maid’s Disgrace), Margaret Dickinson (Secrets at Bletchley Park), and Sheila Newberry (The Canal Boat Girl). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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  The Maiden of Mayfair (Tales of...

  Lawana Blackwell

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  If the Truth is Revealed, Will She Lose All She's Grown to Love? 
   
  An orphanage in the slums of London is the only home Sarah Matthews has ever known. When she is suddenly whisked away to a wealthy widow's home in the prestigious Mayfair district, Sarah can't fathom what has happened. Why would this elderly woman, a stranger, want her company? But Dorothea Blake has reasons she isn't revealing. 
   
  As Sarah blossoms into a young woman, the secret Mrs. Blake harbors threatens to make them both outcasts among London's elite. When a visitor unknowingly stumbles upon the truth, he puts Sarah at risk of losing everything she holds dear, including the attentions of a new curate. Will the mystery of her birth remain buried forever?

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  The Mariners

  Vivian Stuart

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  The twentieth book in the dramatic and intriguing story about the colonisation of Australia: a country made of blood, passion, and dreams.
   
  Jon Fisher and Harry Ryan return to Australia.
   
  At their return, Jon Fisher learns of the problem that his family are facing with the conflict of the wealthy squatters and the so-called apos;selectorsapos;. The threat of war and internal fighting looms over the family as we near the turn of the century.

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  The Blacksmith's Bequest

  Anónimo

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  Close your eyes. Let Sara Wilson's voice guide you through dusty attics and Australian archives, through grief and discovery, to a place where 160-year-old letters prove that love transcends time itself. 
  When Sara returns to her late mother's family home in the Blue Mountains, drowning in grief after Ellen's death from cancer, she discovers five letters hidden in the attic. Written in 1852 by Thomas Staines—a convict, an ancestor, a man whose voice speaks across centuries directly into her broken heart. 
  Listen as Sara uncovers: 
  A blacksmith from England whose desperate choice cost him everything—seven years in the brutal penal colonies of New South Wales. A man who refused to let shame define his future, who rebuilt character as surely as he forged iron. 
  Catherine Krieg, a German immigrant who crossed oceans alone. Together they built something neither thought possible: a life worth protecting, a love worth preserving. 
  But the letters don't tell the whole story. There are gaps, silences, urgent moments Sara doesn't yet understand. What happened at Three Rivers Inn? Why did her mother preserve these letters with such fierce care? What sacrifice shaped five generations of their family? 
  As you listen to Sara research her ancestor's journey—from convict records to Scottish churchyards—you'll discover alongside her that some inheritances have nothing to do with property and everything to do with wisdom earned through suffering. 
  This intimate audio experience weaves between past and present, between Sara's contemporary struggle and Thomas's 1850s transformation from shame to honor.  
  Perfect for listeners who loved The Nightingale, All the Light We Cannot See, and The Light Between Oceans. 
  THE BLACKSMITH'S BEQUEST is literary fiction for the heart—a family saga about redemption, the women who preserve wisdom, and the courage to honor what they've protected. Based on true family history.

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