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  War and Peace Vol 1 - Dole...

  Leo Tolstoy

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  War and Peace (1869) is a classic novel by Leo Tolstoy, which is regarded as a central work of world literature and one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements. The novel chronicles the history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. Volume One begins in 1805 in Saint Petersburg, at a soirée. The plot moves to Moscow, contrasting its provincial, more Russian ways to the more European society of Petersburg. The story continues at a country estate, and then Tolstoy describes the impending Russian-French war preparations. The major event in the book is the Battle of Austerlitz, portrayed as an early test for Russia, which ended badly because the soldiers fought for irrelevant things like glory or renown rather than the higher virtues which would produce, according to Tolstoy, a victory at Borodino during the 1812 invasion.

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  The Prussian Officer

  D. H. Lawrence

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  The first narrative in the collection is "The Prussian Officer", which tells of a Captain and his orderly. Having wasted his youth gambling, the captain has been left with only his military career, and though he has taken on mistresses throughout his life, he remains single. His young orderly is involved in a relationship with a young woman, and the captain, feeling sexual tension towards the young man, prevents the orderly from engaging in the relationship by taking up his evenings. These evenings lead to the captain abusing his orderly and leaving large, painful bruises on his thighs, making it hard for the orderly to walk. Whilst isolated in a forest during manoeuvres, the orderly takes out murderous revenge on the captain, but finds himself in a daze seemingly due both to the pain of the bruises and thirst. The orderly eventually collapses and dies in the hospital shortly thereafter. The corpses of the two men lay side by side...

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  A Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens

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  One of the best-known and well-loved Christmas stories of all time, Charles Dickens' novella "A Christmas Carol" was first published in 1843 as "A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas." Notorious skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge receives a visit from a tormented spirit in the form of his deceased business partner Jacob Marley. Following Marley's warning that a similar fate awaits him if he does not change his ways, Scrooge is visited by the Spirits of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come.

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  The Little Women Trilogy -...

  Louisa May Alcott

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  The Little Women Trilogy includes three novels about the four March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy.Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books over several months at the request of her publisher. Following the lives of the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Scholars classify Little Women as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel. Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, with readers demanding to know more about the characters. Alcott quickly completed a second volume (entitled Good Wives in the United Kingdom, although this name originated from the publisher and not from Alcott). It was also successful. The two volumes were issued in 1880 as a single novel entitled Little Women.Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the second book in an unofficial Little Women trilogy, which is completed with Alcott's 1886 novel Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men". It tells the story of Jo Bhaer and the children at Plumfield Estate School. It was inspired by the death of Alcott's brother-in-law, which reveals itself in one of the last chapters, when a beloved character from Little Women passes away.Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1886. The novel is the final book in the unofficial Little Women series. In it, Jo's children, now grown, are caught up in real world troubles.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Charlotte...

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  As the Century draws to a close it shows no sign of its literary talents diminishing.  Authors stride into stories with a confidence and knowledge that now speak of a gilded age.  We are challenged on many levels but always, always the story delivers a literary triumph. 
   
  1 - The Top Ten - The 1890's 
   
  2 - B24 by Arthur Conan Doyle 
   
  3 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce 
   
  4 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
   
  5 - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane 
   
  6 - Désirée's Baby by Kate Chopin 
   
  7 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman 
   
  8 - The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker 
   
  9 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J M Barrie 
   
  10 - Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov 
   
  11 - The Repairer of Reputations by Robert W Chambers

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  Shoshone Summer (Stonecroft Saga...

  B.N. Rundell

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  BEST-SELLING AUTHOR B.N. RUNDELL KEEPS YOU COMING BACK FOR MORE IN THE FAST-MOVING STONECROFT SAGA. 
  What started as a joyous reunion of friends, soon became one of the most challenging periods of their lives. Chosen as scouts for the Kuccuntikka village of the Shoshone for their trek to the grand encampment of the Shoshone, their encounter with the scouts from the Tukkutikka band would set them on a different course altogether. When Gabe meets the war leader of the other band, he is challenged at every turn by the woman warrior, his equal on every count. But when they are attacked by Blackfoot, a battle rages… 
  When a raiding party of Hidatsa warriors strikes another band of Shoshone, an old friend, the war leader of the Agaideka Shoshone, asks Gabe and Ezra to join in the vengeance party to rescue the five captive girls, one of whom is his niece known as Sacajawea. But raiding Blackfoot and Hidatsa war parties were not the only challenges for the two explorers. When a jealous Shoshone warrior tries to take the place of the woman warrior war leader and seeks vengeance, the fight rages with both the war leader known as Cougar Woman and her new mate, Spirit Bear – also known as Gabe Stonecroft.

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