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  Yet More Strange Tales

  Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan...

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  A third collection of eighteen classic tales of the weird and supernatural by some of the best known writers in these genres.E.Nesbit - “In the Dark” and “No. 17”Edgar Allan Poe - “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”Arthur Conan Doyle - “The New Catacomb”M.R. James - “Wailing Well” and “Rats”Saki - “ The Hounds of  Fate” and “The Peace of Mowsle Barton”Hugh Walpole - “Field with Five Trees” and “The Silver Mask”E.F. Benson - “The Thing in the Hall” and “The Wishing Well”Guy de Maupassant - “The Hand” and “Mother Sauvage”Ambrose Bierce - “Moxon's Master” and “John Bartine's Watch”Wilkie Collins - “A Stolen Letter”Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

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  Difficult People

  Anton Chekhov

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  This short story is about the stressful relationship between a son and his father. The family lives in a small house in the Russian countryside. Poverty has played a toll on how the father reacts to his childs need for money to attend college. An emotional conversation ensues.

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  Green Mansions - A Novel

  W. H. Hudson

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  This novel of a man’s yearning for an ethereal woman of the forest is “an unforgettable depiction of love and suffering, remorse and transcendence” (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post).   This Edwardian-era “masterpiece” (The New York Times), lavishly illustrated with sixty drawings by Keith Henderson, sparked the nature conservation movement and inspired the film of the same name starring Audrey Hepburn. Green Mansions stunningly recreates the untouched forests of South America with amazing detail. After a failed revolution, Abel is forced to seek refuge in the virgin forests of southwestern Venezuela. There, in his “green mansion,” Abel meets the wood-nymph Rima, the last of a reclusive indigenous people. The bird-girl’s ethereal presence captivates him completely, but the love that blossoms is soon darkened by cruelty and sorrow.   Exploring a love somewhere between reality and imagination, Green Mansions is a poignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return to nature, and the relationship between savagery and civilization. A master of natural history writing, W.H. Hudson forms a link between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentieth-century ecological movement in a tale pervaded by mysticism—a novel as powerful today as it was over a century ago.

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  Flatland

  Edwin A. Abbott

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  "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" is a satirical novella by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. The story takes place in a two-dimensional world and follows the experiences of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of Flatland. As A. Square discovers the existence of a third dimension, the book delves into themes of dimensionality, hierarchy, and social constraints. Though it might seem like a straightforward mathematical or geometric allegory, "Flatland" also offers insightful commentary on the social and cultural mores of Victorian England.

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  The Thorn in the Flesh

  D H Lawrence

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  ‘The Thorn in the Flesh’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1914.  The story can be read in tandem with 'The Prussian Officer' which was written in the same year and has a similar setting and theme. In this story, the young soldier fights against his own shortcomings as a soldier and as a man. He flees the scene of his crime into the arms of his lover where he finds solace and comfort but he cannot escape the inevitable military machine that Lawrence hated.

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  Nursery ''Alice'' The (Unabridged)

  Lewis Carroll

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  The Nursery "Alice" (1890) is a shortened version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll adapted by the author himself for children "from nought to five". It includes 20 of John Tenniel's illustrations from the original book coloured, enlarged and, in some cases, revised. It was first published in 1890 by Macmillan, 25 years after the original Alice, and featured a new illustrated cover by E. Gertrude Thomson, who was a good friend of Dodgson. The work is not merely a shortened and simplified version, along the lines of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable. It is written as though the story is being read aloud by someone who is also talking to the child listener, with many interpolations by the author, pointing out details in the pictures and asking questions, such as "Which would you have liked the best, do you think, to be a little tiny Alice, no larger than a kitten, or a great tall Alice, with your head always knocking against the ceiling?" There are also additions, such as an anecdote about a puppy called Dash, and an explanation of the word "foxglove".

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