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  Dracula's Guest - From their...

  Bram Stoker

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  Abraham Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland on the 8th of November 1847, the third of seven children.  
  His early years were plagued with such ill-health that he was unable to start school until the age of seven.  He turned the long periods of recovery into an opportunity for thinking and said “I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years”.  
  Strikingly at Trinity College, Dublin his health had returned with such vigour that he was named their University Athlete whilst also achieving a BA in Mathematics with honours.  
  At this time his interest in theatre became a job offer to be the Dublin Evening Mail’s theatre critic, co-owned by Sheridan Le Fanu.  He now began to also write short stories and in 1872 ‘The Crystal Cup’ was published.  An interest in art developed and he co-founded the Dublin Sketching Club.  
  In 1878 came marriage to Florence Balcombe.  She had formerly been courted by Stoker’s acquaintance, Oscar Wilde.  The marriage produced one child.   
  Stoker had some years before reviewed Henry Irving’s Hamlet and had dined with him.  That friendship now resulted in a proposal from Irving to move to London and to manage his Lyceum Theatre.  His numerous commercial innovations ensured both he and the theatre thrived.  Irving would also often take Stoker with him when he toured abroad. 
  Despite this busy life Stoker continued to write and these works paved the way for his most famous creation, published in 1897, ‘Dracula’.  It is rightly recognised as one of the greatest horror novels of all time and although not the first with a theme of Vampires, it is undoubtedly the most well-known. 
  Stoker also wrote poetry and many excellent short stories and continued to write novels and other works throughout his career. 
  Politically Stoker supported Home Rule, though only by peaceful means.  He was also keen on following scientific trends particularly in medicine. 
  In 1902 his tenure at the Lyceum Theatre ended and although he continued to write his health was deteriorating, mainly due to a series of debilitating strokes. 
  Bram Stoker died on the 20th April 1912, in Pimlico, London.  He was 64.

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  The Innocents - A Story for Lovers

  Sinclair Lewis

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  The Innocents: A Story for Lovers is a 1917 novel by Sinclair Lewis.
  This distinctive pulp novel follows a longtime married couple as they vacation away from their home in New York City and contemplate starting a business.

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  Shinobi Hiro - You can never...

  Fritz Angelo

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  "A story about a young shinobi student who thought cheating his way through everything will make everything easy, but little does he know...something is about to change his life forever."

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  Carmilla

  Sheridan Le Fanu

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  A Gothic Horror of the Vampire, predating Dracula by some 26 years. Carmilla is a tale of creeping horror, narrated by a young girl, who finds herself beset by a mysterious illness, that her newfound and mysterious friend, Carmilla surely can't have anything to do with... Considered one of the founding works within the Vampire genre, its influence can be found throughout popular horror fiction and other media. 
  Written by Sheridan Le Fanu and narrated by Michael Ward.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Alphonse...

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  The Top 10 – The French – An Introduction 
   
  Among the glories of French culture are the abundance of its literary talents.  Within its rich historical legacy are authors who take the landscape of life and create very telling stories.  This conflict between history and life summons ideas of strength, beauty, brutality, elegance and all manner of feelings and emotions in these miniature gems. 
   
  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.

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  50 Great Russian Short Stories -...

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy,...

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  The collection includes the best works of famous Russian writers:
  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
  THE DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN
  THE BEGGAR BOY AT CHRIST'S CHRISTMAS TREE
   
  Leo Tolstoy
  THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH
  A LETTER TO A HINDU
  A CONFESSION
  GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS
  A RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS PARTY
   
  Anton Chekhov
  THE LADY WITH THE DOG
  A SLANDER
  THE HORSE-STEALERS
  THE PETCHENYEG
  A DEAD BODY
  A HAPPY ENDING
  THE LOOKING-GLASS
  OLD AGE
  DARKNESS
  THE BEGGAR
  IN TROUBLE
  FROST
  MINDS IN FERMENT
  GONE ASTRAY
  AN AVENGER
  THE JEUNE PREMIER
  A DEFENCELESS CREATURE
  AN ENIGMATIC NATURE
  A HAPPY MAN
  A TROUBLESOME VISITOR
  AN ACTOR'S END
  A STORY WITHOUT A TITLE
  VANKA
   
  Ivan Turgenev
  FIRST LOVE
  THE DISTRICT DOCTOR
  MUMU
   
  Nikolay Gogol
  THE MANTLE
  MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN
  THE NOSE
  A MAY NIGHT
  THE CLOAK
  THE VIY
  CHRISTMAS EVE
  THE VIY
   
  Alexsandr Pushkin
  THE QUEEN OF SPADES
   
  Maxim Gorky
  ONE AUTUMN NIGHT
  HER LOVER
   
  Leonid Andreyev
  LAZARUS
  THE LITTLE ANGEL
   
  Aleksandr Kuprin
  THE OUTRAGE
   
  Mikhail Bulgakov
  THE EMBROIDERED TOWEL
   
  Ivan Bunin
  THE GENTLEMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO
   
  Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
  HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS

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