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  My Adventure on Dartmoor

  A. J. Alan

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  A. J. Alan was the pseudonym of Leslie Harrison Lambert (1883-1941), an English magician, intelligence officer, short story writer, and radio broadcaster. He was hugely popular in the '20s and '30s for his radio broadcasts, when he performed his own humorous and often macabre short stories, which he always delivered wearing full evening dress.My Adventure on Dartmoor is typical of A. J. Alan's amusing narratives, describing an eventful night in a remote cottage in the wilds of Dartmoor when he has to wrestle with an unruly cow and a stray actress, whom he inadvertently gets drunk on some very fine old brandy.

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  Valse Mélancolique

  Olga Kobylanska

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  A beautifully detailed, emotionally intense story by a Ukrainian writer Olga Kobylanska describes a relationship between three roommates - three very different young women, whose diverse personalities and life goals causes their union to oscillate wildly between the jarring dissonance and the perfect harmony.

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  The Domain Of Arnhein

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  In “The Domain of Arnheim” Poe combines an explication of his aesthetic theory and a physical description of a landscape-garden, Arnheim. The builder of Arnheim, Ellison, is described by a narrator as a fabulously wealthy man, interested “instinctively . . . . in the creation of novel forms of Beauty” . He is interested in shaping nature, in molding it into a “purely physical loveliness.”

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  Peter Rabbit and Friends

  Beatrix Potter

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  Enter the magical world of four little rabbits: Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. Join their mischief and adventures in the vegetable garden of old Mr. McGregor. Get to know Peter's friends: Twinkleberry, Squirrel Nutkin, Tom Kitten, Benjamin Bunny, and many other wonderful woodland creatures.
  
  Discover how Jeremy Fisher nearly got eaten by the fish he tried to catch and the story of Jemima Puddle-duck, who was annoyed because the farmer's wife would not let her hatch her own eggs.An Interactive Media audio production.

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  The Whistle

  Hugh Walpole

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  Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist and short-story writer.When Charlie Penwin arrives home with a dog, his wife is horrified. Mrs. Penwin agrees to keep the dog only if it is looked after by Blake, the wonderful, talented chauffeur whom she dislikes intensely.Blake and the dog take to each other instantly, but the presence of the dog upsets the equilibrium of the household. Mrs. Blake and Mrs. Penwin hate the dog, as does Mopsa, the family's Sealyham terrier. Charlie and Blake are drawn closer together, almost bonding over the dog, but both of their marriages are developing dangerous rifts.Mrs. Penwin is perpetually on the lookout for any opportunity to get rid of the dog....

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  HP Lovecraft: Collected Short...

  H.P. Lovecraft, Brian Kelly,...

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  This work contains the collected short stories of H.P Lovecraft:
   
  
  
  The Festival,
  He,
  Cool Air,
  In the Vault,
  Pickman's Model,
  The Nameless City,
  The Alchemist,
  The Very Old Folk,
  Rats in the Walls,
  From Beyond,
  The Hound,
  The Strange High House in the Mist,
  The Unnamable - Hypnos,
  The Quest of Iranon,
  The Temple,
  The Moon Bog,
  The Evil Clergyman,
  The Horror at Martin's Beach,
  The Silver Key,
  The Transition of Juan Romero,
  The Other Gods,
  The Outsider.

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