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  Cleopatra

  Georg Ebers

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  "Cleopatra" is a historical novel by the German Egyptologist and writer Georg Ebers, published in the late 19th century. Ebers, renowned for his knowledge of ancient Egyptian culture and history, paints a vivid portrait of the legendary Queen Cleopatra. The novel delves into her relationships, particularly with the Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and showcases the political and personal struggles she faced as one of history's most iconic rulers. Ebers intertwines accurate historical facts with fictional details, providing readers with an immersive glimpse into ancient Egypt and Rome.

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  Three Gothic Tales

  Mary Shelley

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  Transformation 
  Fernando Eboli 
  The Evil Eye 
  These three tales were written for the popular literary gift annual The Keepsake in 1828, 1829 and 1831. Their ‘sensational’ themes include exotic locations, dire misfortune, long-lost kin, stolen identity, evil redeemed, plots resolved by strange coincidences, and in one case at least, an encounter with a supernatural being. Gothic fare. 
  The cover image is taken from an illustration to The Evil Eye in The Keepsake for 1830.

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  The Return of Sherlock Holmes

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The World's Greatest Detective Returns! 
  After his apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes returns to London to solve a series of puzzling cases, including:The Adventure of the Dancing Men: Holmes must decipher a series of coded messages that have been left for a young woman.The Adventure of the Priory School: Holmes must rescue a young boy from a dangerous boarding school.The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton: Holmes must stop a blackmailer from ruining the lives of several innocent women.The Adventure of the Six Napoleons: Holmes must find the culprit who is smashing busts of Napoleon all over London.And much, much more! 
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  The Count of Monte Cristo

  Alexandre Dumas

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  Edmond Dantès, an innocent young sailor, falls into despair when he is arrested on a false charge of treason and thrown into prison without a trial. He learns of his friends' betrayal from the Abbé Faria, an equally innocent prisoner, and plots his revenge following a daring, if nightmarish escape from the Chateau d'If. After becoming a wealthy man, he assumes the guise of the urbane Count of Monte-Cristo and begins to entrap his enemies one by one. However, a chilling realization finally dawns - that he is also harming those he loves.

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  Female Short Story The - A...

  Baroness Orczy, Netta Syrett,...

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  A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’.  This is a perfect place to start our anthology of female short stories. 
   
  Some of our earliest memories are of our mothers telling us bedtime stories. This is not to demote the value of fathers but more to promote the often-overshadowed talents of the gentler sex. 
   
  Perhaps ‘gentler’ is a word that we should re-evaluate. In the course of literary history it is men who dominated by opportunity and with their stranglehold on the resources, both financial and technological, who brought their words to a wider audience.  Men often placed women on a pedestal from where their talented words would not threaten their own.   
   
  In these stories we begin with the original disrupter and renegade author Aphra Behn.  A peek at her c.v. shows an astounding capacity and leaves us wondering at just how she did all that. 
   
  In those less modern days to be a woman, even ennobled, was to be seen as second class.  You literally were chattel and had almost no rights in marriage.  As Charlotte Smith famously said your role as wife was little more than ‘legal prostitute’.  From such a despicable place these authors have used their talents and ideas and helped redress that situation.   
   
  Slowly at first.  Privately printed, often anonymously or under the cloak of a male pseudonym their words spread.  Their stories admired and, usually, their role still obscured from rightful acknowledgement. 
   
  Aided by more advanced technology, the 1700’s began to see a steady stream of female writers until by the 1900’s mass market publishing saw short stories by female authors from all the strata of society being avidly read by everyone.  Their names are a rollcall of talent and ‘can do’ spirit and society is richer for their works.   
   
  In literature at least women are now acknowledged as equals, true behind the scenes little has changed but if (and to mis-quote Jane Austen) there is one universal truth, it is that ideas change society.  These women’s most certainly did and will continue to do so as they easily write across genres, from horror and ghost stories to tender tales of love and making your way in society’s often grueling rut.  They will not be silenced, their ideas and passion move emotions, thoughts and perhaps more importantly our ingrained view of what every individual human being is capable of.    
   
  It is because of their desire to speak out, their desire to add their talents to the bias around them that we perhaps live in more enlightened, almost equal, times.   
   
  Within these stories you will also find very occasional examples of historical prejudice.  A few words here and there which in today’s world some may find inappropriate or even offensive.  It is not our intention to make anyone uncomfortable but to show that the world in order to change must reconcile itself to the actual truth rather than put it out of sight.  Context is everything, both to understand and to illuminate the path forward.  The author’s words are set, our reaction to them encourages our change. 
   
  01 - The Female Short Story. A Chronological History - An Introduction - Volume 7 
  02 - The Coach by Violet Hunt 
  03 - Suggestion by Mrs Ernest Leverson 
  04 - Another Freak by Mary Angela Dickens 
  08 - Red Tape by Mary Sinclair 
  06 - An Idyl of London by Beatrice Harraden 
  07 - The Love Germ by Constance Cotterell 
  08 - The Black Crusader by Alicia Ramsay 
  09 - The Lame Priest by Susan Morrow writing as S Carleton 
  10 - A Pen and Ink Effect by Frances E Huntley 
  11 - Far Above Rubies by Netta Syrett 
  12 - My Honoured Master by Catherine Anne Dawson Scott 
  13 - A Knot of Ribbon by Laurence Alma-Tadema 
  14 - The Mysterious Death on

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  The Picture Of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde

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  The Picture of Dorian Gray" is Oscar Wilde's classic tale of the moral decline of its title character, Dorian Gray. When Dorian has his portrait painted by Basil Hallward and wishes that he would stay young while his picture changes, his wish comes true. In exchange for this Dorian gives up his soul and as he ages the bad deeds that he commits are reflected in his painting and not him. "The Picture of Dorian Gray", arguably Wilde's most popular work, was considered quite scandalous when it was first published in the late 1800s in Victorian England

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