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  Twelve Stories and a Dream...

  H. G. Wells

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  Twelve Stories and a Dream -- "A Dream of Armageddon": "That book," he repeated, pointing a lean finger, "is about dreams. Dreams tell you nothing." I did not catch his meaning for a second. "They don't know," he added. I looked a little more attentively at his face. "There are dreams," he said, "and dreams." Also includes "Filmer," "The Magic Shop," "The Valley of Spiders," "The Truth about Pyecraft," "Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland," "The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost," "Jimmy Goggles the God," "The New Accelerator," "Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation," "The Stolen Body," "Mr. Brisher's Treasure," and "Miss Winchelsea's Heart."

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  The Yellow Face

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Yellow Face, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine in 1893 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget.One of Doyle's sentimental pieces, the story is remarkable in that Holmes' deduction during the course of it proves incorrect. According to Dr. Watson:"...where he failed it happened too often that no one else succeeded... Now and again, however, it chanced that even when he erred the truth was still discovered."Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.

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  My Confession

  Leo Tolstoy

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  My Confession is a brief autobiographical story of Leo Tolstoy's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. It describes his search for answers to the profound questions "What will come of my life?" and "What is the meaning of life?", without answers to which life, for him, had become "impossible." Tolstoy reflects on the arc of his philosophical life until then: his childhood abandonment of his Russian orthodox faith; his mastery of strength, will, power, and reason; and how, after he had achieved tremendous financial success and social status, life to him seemed meaningless. After despairing of his attempts to find answers in science, philosophy, eastern wisdom, and his fellow men of letters, he describes his turn to the wisdom of the common people and his attempts to reconcile their instinctive faith with the dictates of his reason. The main body of the text ends with the author reaching a compromise: faith, he realizes, is a necessity, but it must be constrained by reason. However, an epilogue that describes a dream he had some time after completing the body of the text suggests that he has undergone a radical personal and spiritual transformation. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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  Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge An

  Ambrose Bierce

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  Captured during the American Civil War, a would be saboteur clings to a chance to escape the hangman's noose and return to his family.

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  Под знаком незаконнорожденных

  Владимир Набоков

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  "Под знаком незаконнорожденных» ("Bend Sinister», 1947) — второй 
  англоязычный роман Владимира Набокова и первый роман, написанный им в 
  Америке.
  Действие романа разворачивается в некоем полицейском государстве, где 
  правит партия "эквилистов» ("уравнителей») во главе с диктатором 
  Падуком. В центре повествования всемирно известный философ Адам Круг, 
  бывший одноклассник Падука, издевавшийся над ним в детстве. Пытаясь 
  добиться от Круга публичной поддержки своей власти, Падук одного за 
  другим арестовывает всех его друзей и знакомых, однако сломить философа 
  удается, лишь разлучив его с маленьким сыном Давидом.
  По словам Набокова, "рассказ... ведется не о жизни и смерти в гротескном
   полицейском государстве.  Главной темой... является... 
  биение любящего сердца Круга, мука напряженной нежности, терзающая его, —
   и именно ради страниц, посвященных Давиду и его отцу, была написана эта
   книга, ради них и стоит ее прочитать».

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  Sanditon (Unabridged)

  Jane Austen

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  Jane Austen's first novel - published posthumously in 1818 - tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature. The satirical novel pokes fun at the gothic novel while earnestly emphasizing caution to the female sex.

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