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  50 Great Russian Short Stories -...

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy,...

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  The collection includes the best works of famous Russian writers:
  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
  THE DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN
  THE BEGGAR BOY AT CHRIST'S CHRISTMAS TREE
   
  Leo Tolstoy
  THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH
  A LETTER TO A HINDU
  A CONFESSION
  GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS
  A RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS PARTY
   
  Anton Chekhov
  THE LADY WITH THE DOG
  A SLANDER
  THE HORSE-STEALERS
  THE PETCHENYEG
  A DEAD BODY
  A HAPPY ENDING
  THE LOOKING-GLASS
  OLD AGE
  DARKNESS
  THE BEGGAR
  IN TROUBLE
  FROST
  MINDS IN FERMENT
  GONE ASTRAY
  AN AVENGER
  THE JEUNE PREMIER
  A DEFENCELESS CREATURE
  AN ENIGMATIC NATURE
  A HAPPY MAN
  A TROUBLESOME VISITOR
  AN ACTOR'S END
  A STORY WITHOUT A TITLE
  VANKA
   
  Ivan Turgenev
  FIRST LOVE
  THE DISTRICT DOCTOR
  MUMU
   
  Nikolay Gogol
  THE MANTLE
  MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN
  THE NOSE
  A MAY NIGHT
  THE CLOAK
  THE VIY
  CHRISTMAS EVE
  THE VIY
   
  Alexsandr Pushkin
  THE QUEEN OF SPADES
   
  Maxim Gorky
  ONE AUTUMN NIGHT
  HER LOVER
   
  Leonid Andreyev
  LAZARUS
  THE LITTLE ANGEL
   
  Aleksandr Kuprin
  THE OUTRAGE
   
  Mikhail Bulgakov
  THE EMBROIDERED TOWEL
   
  Ivan Bunin
  THE GENTLEMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO
   
  Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
  HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS

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  The Last Laugh

  D H Lawrence

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  ‘The Last Laugh’ is another of Lawrence's supernatural stories, set in a dreamlike snowy London. The question left open is who the three people in the story saw on the snowy evening. Perhaps Pan, returned to destroy the Christian God, as the church is destroyed in the story and to bring love to the frigid young woman in the form of a policeman who is prevented from leaving the house. But why the other quite harmless, and Platonic lover, had to die is a mystery. Perhaps  because he had made love to a Jewess?

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  Les Misérables: Volume 4: The...

  Victor Hugo

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  Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.
  BOOK 1: A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY: 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them.

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  Dr Duthoit's Vision - From their...

  Arthur Machen

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  Arthur Llewelyn Jones was born in Caerleon, Monmouthshire on the 3rd March 1863. 
  Machen came from a long line of clergymen, and when he was two, his father became vicar of a small parish about five miles north of Caerleon, and Machen was brought up at the rectory there. 
  In his early years he received an excellent classical education, but family poverty ruled out university, and he was sent to London to sit exams to attend medical school but failed the exams.  He did show literary promise with the publication of the poem ‘Eleusinia’ in 1821.  But life in London was difficult and it was only in 1884 that he published again and was taken on to translate several French works which thereafter became the standard editions for many years. 
  In 1887, his father died.  That same year he married Amelia Hogg, a maverick music teacher with a passion for the theatre.  He also began to receive legacies from Scottish relatives which allowed him to devote more time to writing. 
  After publishing in literary magazines in 1894 he published his first book ‘The Great God Pan’.  Its sexual and horrific content very much helped sales. 
  Over the next decade or so he wrote some of his best work but was unable to find a publisher mainly due to the collapse of the decadent market over Oscar Wilde’s scandalous trial. 
  In 1899, his wife died and during his long recovery he took up acting and travelled around the country as part of a travelling company.  Three years later he was publishing again and had remarried. 
  Re-publishing of earlier works helped anchor both his reputation and his income.  By the time the Great War opened Europe’s wounds he returned to the public eye with ‘The Bowmen’ helped by the publicity around the ‘Angel of Mons’ episode. 
  However, by the late 20’s new works had dried up and his back catalogue was no longer a source of regular income. 
  In 1932 he received a Civil List pension of ₤100 per annum but other work was not forthcoming.  His finances finally stabilised with a literary appeal in 1943 for his eightieth birthday and allowed him to live his remaining years in relative comfort. 
  Arthur Machen died on 15th December 1947 in Beaconsfield. He was 84.

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  Kate Chopin - A Short Story...

  Kate Chopin

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  Katherine O'Flaherty was born on the 8th February 1850 in St Louis, Missouri to parents of French and Irish descent. 
  At age 5, she was sent to the Sacred Heart Academy and, apart from a 2 year period at home when her father died, remained there until graduating in 1868.  Whilst there she began writing and became an avid reader of almost anything that crossed her path.   
  Kate married Oscar Chopin in 1870 and the couple moved to New Orleans, and later to the rural setting of Cloutierville, Louisiana to raise their 6 children.  
  In 1882 her husband died leaving her in a deep trench of debt.  Despite her best efforts to turn the businesses around they were sold, and she moved the family back to St Louis and the financial help of her mother.  Sadly, her mother died within the year.  Kate, now struggling with depression, pushed herself to write and gained a local reputation as a writer of short stories that captured the local color and vibrancy of her surroundings.   
  By the early 1890’s her short stories were published nationally.  With this widespread audience also came negative reviews, controversy, and cries of immorality as themes such as interracial relationships, the rights of women and other burning issues of the day were written about. 
  Despite the criticism, which unnerved her, she continued to write though in the main her works, around 100 short stories and two novels, were not attributed with any literary worth. 
  Kate Chopin died from a brain haemorrhage in St Louis Missouri on the 22nd of August 1904.  She was 54. 
  For much of the 20th Century her work was forgotten and out of print.  It was only in early 1970’s, with the rise of feminism and the call for a more just society that she was given the status her works had long described and shone a literary light at.  She is now safely revered as one of America’s great authors.

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  The Adventures of Miss Anne de...

  Summer Hanford

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  Please Note: This is a short novella. 
  Miss Anne de Bourgh might be a girl, but that doesn't stop her from hunting, shooting, riding, and fencing as well as her cousins, and when her cousin Richard is about to make a life-ruining mistake, Anne hatches a plot to put things right. But in order to do so, she'll need to team up with her personal nemesis. 
  That's right, this time Anne must collude not against, but with, her least favorite cousin . . . Henry, heir to the Earl of Matlock. 
  The Adventures of Miss Anne de Bourgh of Rosings v. II is a short novella prequel to Mr. Darcy's Bookshop and takes place about a year after The Adventures of Miss Anne de Bourgh of Rosings v. I. Enjoy!

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