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  The Story of Peter Pan

  J.M. Barrie

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  THE STORY OF PETER PAN RETOLD FROM THE FAIRY PLAY BY SIR J.M. BARRIE BY DANIEL O'CONNOR. Basically, Daniel O'Connor took the story from the original play, with the approval of Barrie, and shortened it into a book with music and beautiful illustrations. This shorter book was published before Barrie wrote the longer novel Peter and Wendy using the same plot and characters.

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  Adventure Of Shoscombe Old Place...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. 
  A horse trainer fears his master, Sir Robert Nortberton, has gone mad, and comes to Sherlock Holmes for help. Holmes and Watson swiftly discover that a horrible secret lurks in the shadows of Shoscombe. 
  The last of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories is brought vividly to life by Robert Hardy, known to many for playing Cornelius Fudge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. 
  This traditional mystery, one of the best in the genre, takes the reader on a thrilling journey into the private world of a detective and his investigators. The urban setting adds a unique twist to the narrative, making it a top choice for fans of Sherlock Holmes. 
  For fans of Jules Verne (Around the World in Eighty Days), Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights), Cgp Books (GCSE English Shakespeare Text Guide), Jane Austen (Mansfield Park), and Mary Shelley (Frankenstein).

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  Tree The (Unabridged)

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Tree" is a macabre short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920, and published in October 1921 in The Tryout. Set in ancient Greece, the story concerns two sculptors who accept a commission with ironic consequences. Lovecraft wrote "The Tree" early in his career. He was dismissive of the story in a 1936 letter. Such stories, he said, "if typed on good stock make excellent shelf-paper, but little else." The assessment of Lovecraft authority S. T. Joshi was that although the story "may be a trifle obvious... it is an effective display of Lovecraft's skill in handling a historical setting."On a slope of Mount Maenalus in Arcadia is an olive grove that grows around a marble tomb and the ruin of an old villa. There, one gigantic tree resembles a frighteningly distorted man, and the roots of the tree have shifted the blocks of the tomb.

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  50 Classic Thriller Short...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Wallace,...

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  This Audiobook contains the following works:The Builder [Frank L. Packard],The Man Who Didn't Count [Frank L. Packard],Red Petals [Frederick Merrick White],The Other Man's Story [Frederick Merrick White],The Shebeeners [Frederick Merrick White],The Waterwitch [Frederick Merrick White],The Brand of the Wild [G.B Lancaster],A Fair Smuggler [George Newnes],A Castaway of the South [Gilbert Parker],As Deep As the Sea [Gilbert Parker],The Gift of the Simple King [Gilbert Parker],The Treasure of Sacramento [Nick Guy Boothby],A Personal Problem [H. Bedford-Jones],Gallegher of Beaver [H. Bedford-Jones],Sun, Sand and Soap [H. Bedford-Jones],The Image of Earth [H. Bedford-Jones],Said Afzel's Elephant [H. A. Lamb],Sir Albert's Fall [H. C. Bailey],The Devil of Marston [H. C. Bailey],The Lone Hand [H. C. Bailey],The Treasure in the Forest [H. G. Wells],Through a Window [H. G. Wells],The Jungle's Accolade [Charles Haven Liebe],An Unofficial Affair [Harold Edward Bindloss],Gillatly's March [Harold Edward Bindloss],The Man Who Wouldn't Stay Put [Harold Titus],Confession [Algernon Blackwood],S. O. S. [Algernon Blackwood],B. 24 [Arthur Conan Doyle],The Spider Arthur [O. Friel],The Vulture Arthur [O. Friel],Statement of Gabriel Foot, [Highwayman Arthur Quiller-Couch],The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands [Arthur Quiller-Couch],The Countess of Bellarmine [Arthur Quiller-Couch],The Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven [Arthur Stringer],The Wire-Tappers [Arthur Stringer],The Nth Power [Arthur Cheney Train],The Mysterious Card [Cleveland Moffett],The Mysterious Card Unveiled [Cleveland Moffett],Carnage [Compton Mackenzie],A Locomotive as a War Chariot [Cy Warman],A Wild Night at Wood River [Cy Warman],Wakalona [Cy Warman],John Charrington's Wedding [Edith Nesbit],The Man at the Wheel [Edith Nesbit],The Man Who Died Twice [Edgar Wallace],Allan Poe],,The Man Who Died Twice [Edgar Wallace]The Man Who Hated Earthworms [Edgar Wallace],The Man Who Lived at Clapham [Edgar Wallace],The Man Who Was Acquitted [Edgar Wallace].

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Born...

  Anthony Trollope, G K...

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  The Top 10 – Born in London – An Introduction 
   
  The teeming metropolis of London has a long history of innovation. Amongst its most gilded are the literary talents of its world-famous authors.  From Anthony Trollope and Daniel Defoe to Mary Shelley and Virginia Woolf and many others, have come iconic works that still to this day underpin our culture. 
   
  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - Born in London - An Introdction 
  2 - The Resurrection of Father Brown by G K Chesterton 
  3 - Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 1 by John Galsworthy 
  4 - Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 2 by John Galsworthy 
  5 - An Unwritten Novel by Virginia Woolf 
  6 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope 
  7 - The Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe 
  8 - The Death Room by Edgar Wallace 
  9 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood 
  10 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley 
  11 - The Sexton's Hero by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  12 - Where Was Wych Street by Stacy Aumonier

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  Passing of a God

  Henry S. Whitehead

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  Henry St. Clair Whitehead (1882-1932) was an American clergyman, teacher and a writer of horror fiction and fantasy, best known for his creepy tales of magic and voodoo.'Passing of a God' is a voodoo story set in the West Indies which tells of an American who presents himself at the hospital in Port au Prince with a huge tumour in his abdomen.The surgeon there agrees to operate...but discovers there is something very peculiar and sinister about the tumour...and about the story his patient tells him about how he came to visit the hospital.

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