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  The Duke's Children - A Widowed...

  Anthony Trollope

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  The Duke of Omnium is left a widower with three grown children; his heir wants to marry an American girl and his daughter a penniless younger son, and he has to decide what a duke's authority is worth. Trollope closed the Palliser series with it in 1880, and let the old politician lose every argument he most wants to win. It is the gentlest book of the six and the saddest. Fifty-one plates of painting from Millais and Munch, among others, run from 1820 to 1929 and dwell on courtship, family, and the passing of generations, the very ground on which Trollope's widowed duke must decide.

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  Love of life and other stories

  Jack London

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  Near the horizon the sun was smouldering dimly, almost obscured by formless mists and vapors, which gave an impression of mass and density without outline or tangibility. The man pulled out his watch, the while resting his weight on one leg. It was four o'clock, and as the season was near the last of July or first of August, — he did not know the precise date within a week or two, — he knew that the sun roughly marked the northwest. He looked to the south and knew that somewhere beyond those bleak hills lay the Great Bear Lake; also, he knew that in that direction the Arctic Circle cut its forbidding way across the Canadian Barrens. This stream in which he stood was a feeder to the Coppermine River, which in turn flowed north and emptied into Coronation Gulf and the Arctic Ocean. He had never been there, but he had seen it, once, on a Hudson Bay Company chart...FROM THE BOOK.

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  Cato a Tragedy

  Joseph Addison

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  Cato, a Tragedy is a play written by Joseph Addison in 1712 and first performed on 14 April 1713. It is based on the events of the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, a Stoic whose deeds, rhetoric and resistance to the tyranny of Julius Caesar made him an icon of republicanism, virtue, and liberty.

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  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and...

  Washington Irving

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  A lanky, superstitious schoolmaster courts the richest girl in a drowsy Dutch valley — until a moonlit ride home brings him face to face with the Headless Horseman. Washington Irving gave American literature its first enduring legends, written in England out of homesickness for the Hudson he had left. The volume closes with Old Christmas, his four sketches of a Yorkshire country-house Christmas from The Sketch Book. Ninety-98 plates, from Bierstadt and Inness to the Hudson Valley and Niagara, give the drowsy countryside of these tales its native ground.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - A J...

  A J lan

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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. 
  In this volume our modern-day recordings explore the stories of the noted English humourist A J Alan who, back in the day, would don his dinner jacket and perform his funny and often eerie adventure stories live on BBC radio.

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  The Adventures of Maya the Bee -...

  Waldemar Bonsels

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  Maya is born into a hive in the middle of a revolution, and on her very first flight she decides never to go back to carrying honey and making wax: she wants to see the world in bloom. Alone among the grasses, the garden and the lake, she meets a beetle who lives in a rose, a fly called Puck who is always in a hurry, and a good many creatures who would gladly eat her, and has to learn to live on her wits. What she wants most of all is to meet a human being. Waldemar Bonsels published the story in Germany in 1912; it sold in millions and was translated everywhere, long before the cartoon. Forty-eight plates of painting, from Carl Spitzweg to Wilhelm Leibl, gather the small world of the meadow and the open air that Maya crosses on her summer out.

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