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  The Law of Life

  Jack London

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  "The Law of Life" is a short story by the American naturalist writer Jack London. It was first published in McClure's Magazine, Vol.16, March, 1901. In 1902, it was published in a collection of Jack London's stories, The Children of Frost, by Macmillan Publishers.
  This short story covers the last 5 hours of the old and dying Inuit chief Koskoosh. His tribe needs to travel in search of clothing and shelter so he is left to die because of his age and inability to see properly. Even his son has to leave him because he has a new family to feed and take care of.
  However, the old Koskoosh is not dissatisfied as he knows the law of life and his desires. He accepts his fate peacefully and starts to visualize the events of his past. The images of both great famine and times of plenty vividly comes to his mind. As an experienced person he contemplates nature and ultimately accepts its individualism.

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  Pearl of Great Price

  Jr. Joseph Smith

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  To My Mother

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  To My Mother: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories.
  
  Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
  The angels, whispering to one another,
  Can find, among their burning terms of love,
  None so devotional as that of “Mother,”
  Therefore by that dear name I long have called you—

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  Of a Promise Broken - From their...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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  Sense and Sensibility - Two...

  Yvonne Schaefer

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  When the sudden death of Mr. Dashwood leaves his wife and three daughters with a mere pittance, the Dashwood women are unceremoniously forced from the sprawling, wealthy grounds of Norland Park. Thrust into the modest confines of Barton Cottage in Devonshire, sisters Elinor and Marianne must navigate the turbulent waters of nineteenth-century society, where a woman's future depends entirely on making a suitable, advantageous match. 
  But the two eldest sisters could not be more fundamentally opposed in their worldview. Elinor, possessing a profound coolness of judgment, represents Sense—stoically concealing her own heartache to hold her fractured family together. Meanwhile, Marianne embodies Sensibility—romantic, impulsive, and demanding a life lived with unrestrained, soaring passion. 
  As the dashing, mysterious John Willoughby sweeps Marianne off her feet and the honorable but reserved Colonel Brandon waits quietly in the wings, both sisters are tested in ways they never imagined. Through scandalous betrayals, hidden engagements, and the bittersweet pangs of unrequited love, Sense and Sensibility masterfully explores whether it is better to trust the guarded mind or the impulsive heart. Prepare to be enchanted by a timeless masterpiece that explores the depths of sisterly devotion and the unpredictable nature of love.

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  The Bridges of Madison County

  Robert James Waller

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  Fall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time -- the legendary love story that became a beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.  If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world are so moved by this small, unknown first novel that they became a publishing phenomenon and #1 bestseller. The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, The Bridges of Madison County gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere -- and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.

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