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  The Story of An Hour

  Kate Chopin

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  American author Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" was written in April of 1894 and originally published in Vogue in December of that year. The title refers to the time elapsed between the moments at which the protagonist, Louise Mallard, hears that her husband is dead, then discovers that he is alive after all. The short story is a mainstay of feminist literary study.

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  Cap'n Jollyfax's Gun

  Arthur Morrison

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  Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. Cap'n Jollyfax, a retired sea captain, has a brass cannon which he likes to fire on special occasions. New Year, Waterloo day, the anniversary of Nelson's funeral, Trafalgar day, everyone's birthdays, weddings, christenings and every other occasion. His neighbour, the widow Mrs Billing, has a great dislike for the gun. So when Cap'n Jollyfax and Mrs Billing become engaged to be married it is perhaps not suprising that there is a dispute about the future of the gun.... a dispute with hilarious consequences.

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  Here the Dark

  David Bergen

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  From the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to fishermen lost offthe islands of Honduras, to the Canadian prairies, where a teenage boy’s infatuation reveals his naiveté and an agingrancher finds himself smitten, the short stories in Here the Dark explore the spaces between doubt and belief, evil andgood, obscurity and light. Following men and boys bewildered by their circumstances and swayed by desire, surprisedby love and by their capacity for both tenderness and violence, and featuring a novella about a young woman whorejects the laws of her cloistered Mennonite community, Scotiabank Giller Prize–winner David Bergen’s latest deftlyrenders complex moral ambiguities and asks what it means to be lost—and how we might be found.

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  Boule de Suif

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Maupassant's early story "Boule de Suif," ("Ball-of-Tallow") from 1880, remains a hallmark and a natural starting point. It's about a prostitute whose refrain, like Bartleby's, is that she would prefer not to—in this case, a Prussian officer asks repeatedly for the pleasure of her intimate company, and she invariably denies him. Unlike Bartleby, though, Boule de Suif must eventually give in, not by any defect of will but because of peer pressure.

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  From Time to Time: Further Tales...

  Edward Forde Hickey

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  A series of Tipperary tales within a fictitious hillside community during the early twentieth century.'From Time to Time' includes:*a tale of a brutal wartime revenge contrasting with the gentleness of a young English girl in the face of local hostilities,*a tale of a young school rebel rescuing a priest from death,*a young man's irreparable grief when his mother drowns while saving her turf in the bog,*a youth's entry to manhood on a sunny fair-day in the company of a thieving young temptress from town*a memorable clown's farewell and a last faction fight*the joyful dance of the entire community when their illicit whiskey-brewer finally makes his return to them from jail.'an endearing collection of rustic tales by a natural storyteller'.Addison & Cole

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  Little Dorrit

  Charles Dickens

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  When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.

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