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  Sun

  D H Lawrence

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  'Sun' is a sensual story of a woman rediscovering her sexuality through the power of the sun. But for the unexpected arrival of her businessman husband she was ready to give herself to a local peasant but is finally pulled back to respectability by her husband. But she is free to remain apart from him in the sun.

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  3 Christmas Stories - Set on...

  O Henry, Willa Cather, Louisa...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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  The Storyteller

  Saki Saki

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  In "The Storyteller" by Saki, the narrative unfolds in a railway carriage where a woman travels with her three young charges—two girls and a boy. Bored and restless, the children incessantly question their aunt, whose attempts to entertain them with a conventional moral tale fall flat. Frustrated by her inability to engage them, she challenges a nearby bachelor to tell a better story.

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  A Haunted House - From their...

  Virginia Woolf

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  Adeline Virginia Woolf was born on the 25th January 1882 in South Kensington in London. 
  Although lauded as a founder of modernist writing with such classics as ‘Orlando’, ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ‘To the Lighthouse’ and, of course, many classic short stories, her background is filled with elements of tragedy that she somehow overcame to become such a revered writer.   Her mother died when she was 13, her half-sister Stella two years later and with it her first of several nervous breakdowns.  Appallingly it was later found that three of her half-brothers had sexually abused her so darkness must have seemed ever present.   
  She began writing professionally at age 20 but her father’s death two years later brought a complete mental collapse and she was briefly institutionalised.  Somehow she found within herself a literary career and with it great innovations in writing; she was a pioneer of “stream of consciousness”.    
  Her tight circle of friends were the founders of the Bloomsbury Group, a movement whose legacy still influences across the arts and society in many way to this day.   
  Whilst the dark periods continued to interrupt her emotional state her rate of work never ceased.  Until, on 28th March 1941, Woolf put on her overcoat, filled up its pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse, in Lewes, East Sussex and drowned herself.  Her body was not recovered until the 18th April.  She was 59. 
  She left behind a note which read in part “Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again.  I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times.  And I shan't recover this time.  I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate.  So I am doing what seems the best thing to do”.

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  Dracula – Chapter 1: Jonathan...

  Bram Stoker

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  Jonathan Harker, a young English solicitor, journeys to the remote mountains of Transylvania to assist a mysterious nobleman named Count Dracula. At first, the Count is courteous and charming — but as the days pass, Harker begins to realize that he is not a guest, but a prisoner in a castle filled with shadows, secrets, and unspeakable horrors. 
  This is Chapter 1 of Bram Stoker’s Dracula — narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne — part of a complete, chapter-by-chapter audiobook series that brings the classic Gothic nightmare to life in chilling detail. 
  Whether you’re revisiting Stoker’s masterpiece or discovering it for the first time, this immersive narration captures the dread, mystery, and slow-building terror that shaped the vampire legend for more than a century. 
  📖 Public domain text. Original publication: 1897.

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  A Princess's Vengeance - From...

  Catherine Louisa Pirkis

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Catherine Louisa Pirkis.

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