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  The Star

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. "The Star" is the story of a shooting star which is discovered hurtling towards our solar system. It is on a collision course with Neptune. When the celestial crash occurs, the two planets combine into a gigantic burning star which is being drawn rapidly and irresistably towards our sun. But on what trajectory? Will it hit any other planets on its way? What about the earth?

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  The Man Who Loved Islands

  D H Lawrence

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  'The Man Who Loved Islands' is a haunting story of a man who tries to control his life by making his world ever smaller by moving to increasingly smaller islands. Each one proves to be beyond his ability to control either other people or his sexual desire and finally the last island conquers him. The story can even be seen as a metaphor of man's inexorable march to death when we are all finally alone.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Charles Dickens, Louisa May...

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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. 
   
  These novelists burst with a literary energy that is hard to contain.  They cover a myriad of styles and themes, narratives packed full of fully-formed characters in powerful tales that have become an essential and integral part of our literary heritage.  
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The Classic Novelists - An Introduction 
  02 - Transcendental Wild Oats by Louisa May Alcott 
  03 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  04 - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostovesky  
  05 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald 
  06 - The Sexton's Hero by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  07 - The Dead by James Joyce 
  08 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 
  09 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope 
  10 - Eve's Diary by Mark Twain 
  11 - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

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  The Tragedy of Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

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  Murder and madness, witches and war: My Ebook Publishing House presents a recording of Macbeth, perhaps Shakespeare's best known tragedy. Macbeth, a general in King Duncan's army, is given a prophecy by a trio of witches: he himself will become king. Fired by ambition and goaded by his ruthless wife, he murders Duncan and assumes the throne. More killings follow as Macbeth attempts to retain his crown, until he discovers that prophecies are not always what they seem.

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  Adventure of the Three Students...

  Sr. Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Three Students", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in a university town when a tutor and lecturer of St Luke's College, Mr. Hilton Soames, brings him an interesting problem. Soames had been reviewing the galley proofs of an exam he was going to give when he left his office for an hour.

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  Uncle Silas

  J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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  Mystery surrounds Maud Ruthyn in this quintessential Gothic Novel. Her melancholy father forbids her to ask or inquire anything concerning his misfortunate brother - Silas. From what she can gather, Silas was once a handsome, ambitious young man, but in his later years, he shrank into obscurity. Why? And why is Maud's governess, Madame de la Rougerre, so curious about her father's will? Why is she so cruel? And how will Maude ever find answers from the enigmatic characters that surround her in the spectral castle of Bartram-Hough?

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