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  When Captain Flint Was Still a...

  Nick Dybek

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  Every fall, the men of Loyalty Island sail from the Olympic Peninsula up to the Bering Sea, to spend the winter catching king crab. To Cal, Alaska remains as mythical and mysterious as Treasure Island. But while Cal is too young to accompany his father, he is old enough to know that everything depends on the fate of those boats thousands of miles north. He is also old enough to wonder about his mother's relationship with John Gaunt, owner of the fleet. Then Gaunt dies suddenly, leaving the business in the hands of his son. Soon Cal stumbles on evidence that his father may have taken measures to salvage their way of life. As winter comes on, he is forced to make a terrible choice.

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  The Eye - العين

  عادل زعيتر, Afaf Tobala

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  يشعر بطل القصة أن هناك من يراقبه في كل حركاته وسكناته، فينتابه القلق، ويلحظ عليه جده أنه متوتر وقلق، فيضطر البطل إلى أن يبوح لجده بكل شيء. وعندها فقط يجد الحل الذي يبعد تلك العين عنه.

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  The Vampyre

  John Polidori

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  Young, impressionable Aubrey is fascinated by the enigmatic Lord Ruthven, and accompanies him on a tour to Europe. But Aubrey develops a growing distaste for Lord Ruthven’s sinister and grotesque conduct - especially as it concerns human blood.
  
  This novella, penned during that tempestuous night in Switzerland amongst such notables as Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley, served as the great inspiration for Bram Stoker to create Dracula. Discover the roots of vampirism in literature with award-winning narrator B. J. Harrison.

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  To Build a Fire - The Soundscape...

  Jack London

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  “It certainly was cold.” A man ventures alone deep into the heart of the Yukon in the dead of winter during a bitter cold snap. Arrogant, he is heedless of the warnings given to him by others of the dangers of traveling without a trail mate. What follows is a classic cautionary tale of hubris. 
  Jack London’s masterful short story of one man’s fight to survive has chilled generations of readers. Now, Root & Twig Sounds presents this story of man facing nature’s power through the immersive experience of a soundscape audiobook. Read and performed by Phil Dragash and featuring original music by Alexander Amadeo. 
  Original text published in August of 1908 by Jack London 
  Produced as a Soundscape Audiobook by Root & Twig Sounds in August of 2024 
  Read and Performed by Phil Dragash 
  Directed and Produced by A.Y. Barker and Phil Dragash 
  Original Music Composed by Alexander Amadeo 
  Root and Twig's mission is to be a beacon of classic stories spectacularly done, helping the modern day listeners remember our great storytelling heritage. 
  Other titles now available by Root & Twig Sounds 
  "The Jungle Book - The Soundscape Audiobook" by Rudyard Kipling 
  "The Cask of Amontillado - The Soundscape Audiobook" - by Edgar Allan Poe 
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  Top 10 Short Stories The - 1900s...

  Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, G K...

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  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. 
   
  This decade also heralds the debut of a new century but humanity has not lost its thirst for power, for glory either individually or collectively as nations.  Our wordsmiths also write this new century into history with stories of great beauty and narrative thrust, carving out characters to play roles in a rapidly evolving world that brings change to everyone. 
  1 - The Top 10 - The 1900's - An Introduction 
  2 - Pauls Case  by Willa Cather 
  3 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 
  4 - A Somewhat Improbable Story by G K Chesterton 
  5 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane 
  6 - The Salvation of a Forsyte by John Galsworthy 
  7 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry 
  8 - Monkeys Paw by W W Jacobs 
  9 - Mezzotint by M R James 
  10 - To Build a Fire by Jack London 
  11 - Eves Diary by Mark Twain

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Alexander Puschkin, Nikolai...

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  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. 
   
  In the vast Empire of the Russians literature was a way to exchange ideas, values and cultures.  Yet each author, each story, each character is an individual example of a journey that, story by story, has transformed the glimmering arc of its literature.   
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 19th Century - The Russians - An Introduction 
  2 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 
  3 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Overcoat' 
  4 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 1 by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  5 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 2 by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  6 - Twenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky 
  7 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov 
  8 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev 
  9 - The Shot by Alexander Pushkin 
  10 - Hide And Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub 
  11 - Taman by Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov 
  12 - The Signal by Vsevolod Garshin

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