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  100 Tinder Dates!

  Martin Lundqvist

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  A flash fiction story about the successful lawyer Geoffrey's 100th Tinder Date!

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  In Love

  D H Lawrence

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  ‘In Love’ handles a serious subject in a light, almost comic way. A couple are engaged but have no  sexual feelings for each other. The tensions, as they try to do what is expected of them, explode until a compromise is reached. But will the marriage last?

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  The Soul of Man

  Oscar Wilde

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  Published originally as "The Soul of Man Under Socialism," this is not so much a work of sober political analysis; rather it can be summed up as a rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the Individual. Socialism having deployed technology to liberate the whole of humanity from soul-destroying labour, the State obligingly withers away to allow the free development of a joyful, anarchic hedonism..."Is this Utopian? A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing."Far from abandoning the epigram in favour of the slogan, Wilde wittily assails several of his favourite targets: the misguided purveyors of philanthropy; life-denying ascetics of various kinds; the army of the half-educated who constitute themselves the enemies of Art - and those venal popular journalists who cater to them...

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  The Woman in the Red Coat

  Mike DeFrench

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  When Kris visited that psychic, she thought it would be fun. She though the woman would tell her things that she wanted to hear: that there was true love in her future, that there was fortune, fame... but what she got was a dire warning. 
  "The woman you kill will come back to you, asking for forgiveness. You must give it to her." 
  but Kris would never kill anyone...

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  Claude Gueux

  Victor Hugo

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  Victor Marie Hugo was born on 26th February 1802 in Besançon, France.   
   
  There can be no doubt that Hugo is ranked as the greatest of French authors and poets. In addition to this he fought against social injustice throughout his life and from his frequent elections to the French Assembly. 
   
  Hugo published his first novel, Han d’Islande (1823), the year after his marriage and so began an immense canon of fiction and poetry not only for France but to World literature.  
   
  He was elected to the Académie Française in 1841 and the same year came a peerage and entrance to the Higher Chamber as a pair de France, where he spoke against the death penalty, social injustice and in favour of press freedom.  
     
  In the years leading up to the Revolution of 1848 Hugo began to lean towards Republicanism and greater freedoms.  With the formation of the Second Republic, he was again elected to the Assembly. 
   
  When Napoleon III seized power in 1851, and established an anti-parliamentary constitution, Hugo openly declared him a traitor to France. This, of course, meant exile where he remained until 1870.  In exile he published his greatest work ‘Les Misérables’, and further widely honoured collections of poetry. 
   
  Returning home he was again elected to the National Assembly and the Senate.  It was the time of the Franco-Prussian war and with Paris under siege and food ever more scarce, he wrote in his diary that he was now "eating the unknown". 
   
  Later he was instrumental in strengthening the rights of artists and copyright, steps which led to the international protections of the Berne Convention.  
   
  Victor Hugo died on 22nd May 1885, aged 83.    
   
  In ‘Claude Gueux’ one prisoner dares to challenge a system and its cruel Governor who takes away his only friend purely out of spite.  The consequences are appalling.

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  The Jade Earrings

  Andrew Soutar

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  Andrew Soutar (1879–1941) was a British author and journalist best known for his novels and short stories."The Jade Earrings" is the story of an elderly antiques collector with a young and pretty wife, Rosetta. One day he presents her with a pair of jade earrings with a legend attached to them. It is said that any faithful wife who wears them will become unfaithful. Of course the legend is complete nonsense... but then one day Rosetta offers to negotiate the purchase of a rare Queen Anne four-poster bed with a young handsome antiques dealer....

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