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  Legendary Wars of Ancient...

  Travis Hoang

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  This was an era of great powers: the vast territory of Persia, the military power of Sparta, the dominance of trade in Athens, the rising talents of Thebes, the ambitious Macedonia, the two powerful forces of the Western Mediterranean, and the flourishing Rome… 
  This was also an era of shining stars: 
  Agesilaus – the last king of Sparta 
  Epaminondas – the famous general who rose from Thebes 
  Philip – the founder of Macedonian hegemony 
  Dionysius – the tyrant of Syracuse 
  Camillus – the dictator who saved Rome 
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  And this was also an era where hundreds of schools of thought vied for supremacy: the great philosopher Plato, the founder of the Skepticism Antisthenes, the Pythagoreans who considered numbers their sacred objects, the encyclopedic scholar Democritus, the father of Western medicine Hippocrates, the great playwright Aristophanes… 
  The protagonist is reborn through time and arrives in this era as a lowly mercenary. What will he bring to the world? 
  P/S: A historical military masterpiece.

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  The Longest Journey

  E. M. Forster

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  Bookish, sensitive, and given to wild enthusiasms, Rickie Elliot is virtually made for a life at Cambridge, where he can subsist on a regimen of biscuits and philosophical debate. But the love-smitten Rickie leaves his natural habitat to marry the devastatingly practical Agnes Pembroke, who brings with her, as a sort of dowry, a teaching position at the abominable Sawston School. 
  Out of this misalliance comes Forster's most stylistically daring novel. As it follows Rickie from the comforts of Cambridge to the petty intrigues of Sawston to the lush, haunted environs of rural Wiltshire, The Longest Journey gives us a comic yet immensely moving vision of a country split between pragmatism and imagination, sober conformity and redemptive eccentricity, upright Christianity and delirious paganism. 
  This, the author's own favorite of his works, is an introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic.

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  The Escape - A Classic...

  Katherine Mansfield

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  What does it mean to escape when love, obligation, and habit quietly close in? In “The Escape” by Katherine Mansfield, a quiet domestic moment becomes the stage for an unspoken emotional reckoning between a husband and wife. As they prepare for an evening out, small gestures, clipped remarks, and inner reflections reveal the tensions beneath their long-standing marriage. What appears outwardly calm is charged with resentment, fatigue, and the desire - felt by both - for freedom from roles that no longer bring comfort. Mansfield masterfully exposes the psychological strain of intimacy worn thin, where politeness replaces connection and routine conceals longing. The story unfolds through subtle shifts in thought and tone, showing how escape is imagined, resisted, and quietly negotiated within the confines of everyday life. Press play and step into one of her most quietly revealing short stories - where the longing to escape is felt not in action, but in silence.

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  Paul's Case - From their pens to...

  Willa Cather

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  Willa Sibert Cather had Welsh ancestry but like her parents Charles and Mary, was born in Virginia, on 7th December 1873.  Despite strong roots in the community, Willa was 9, when the family moved to Nebraska, to work the rich soil and avoid TB of which there were numerous outbreaks in Virginia.   
  The vastness and drama of the Nebraska prairie and its’ extreme weather conditions as well as the many diverse cultures of the local families proved to be a major influence on her and can be evidenced in much of her later writing.   
  Her first writing was for the local journal when she was at the University of Nebraska and later became the managing editor of the student newspaper.    
  In 1896 she obtained work for a woman’s magazine in Pittsburgh and soon after became a regular contributor to the Pittsburgh Leader and wrote poetry and short stories for the Library, another local publication.   
  Her first collection of short stories, ‘The Troll Garden’, was published in 1905 and contains several of her most famous including ‘A Wagner Matinee’ and ‘Paul's Case.’ As a writer Cather was now taking immense strides forward.   
  Between 1913 and 1918 Cather wrote her Prairie Trilogy: ‘O Pioneers!’, ‘The Song of the Lark’, and ‘My Ántonia’ and in 1922 the Pulitizer Prize was hers for her novel ‘One of Ours’ set during WWI.  
  Acknowledged as one of America's greatest writers’ further honours flowed. In 1943 she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The following year Cather received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.  
  A determinedly private person, Cather destroyed many old drafts, personal papers, and letters. Her will would also restrict the ability of scholars to quote from personal papers that remained. 
  On 24th April 1947, Willa Siebert Cather died of a cerebral haemorrhage at her Manhattan home. She was 73.

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  Christmas at Red Butte - From...

  Lucy Ward Montgomery

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  The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Lucy Ward Montgomery.

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  A Man Could Stand Up —

  Madox Ford

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  There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them. — W. H. Auden  
  A Man Could Stand Up — is the third of four installments in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, which follows Christopher Tietjens, a wealthy British landowner and the last British Tory; his unfaithful wife, Sylvia; and his mistress, Valentine Wannop.   
  Opening on Armistice Day (November 11, 1918), A Man Could Stand Up — serves as the climax of the series. Highlighting the tension between traditional values and a rapidly changing social order, the novel details Christopher and Valentine's trials as the post-war world takes shape around them.  
  Unique among other war fiction of the time, the Parade's End tetralogy privileges not the conflict of World War I itself, but the impact the war had on its participants and upon society writ large. With it's publication, Ford hoped to contribute to the obviating of all future wars. Parade's End is often referred to as one of the greatest 20th century novels, and one of the best depictions of war in literature. The 2012 television adaptation, written by Tom Stoppard and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall, was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and seven BAFTA Television Awards.

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