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  His Dead Wife’s Photograph -...

  S. Mukerji

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  The bookshelves of World literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From their countries and continents their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is S Mukerji.

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  Message from Mars

  Clifford D. Simak

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  What secrets lie hidden on the Red Planet? In Message from Mars, Clifford D. Simak delivers a gripping tale of mystery and discovery. When Earth receives a cryptic signal from Mars, a team of scientists embarks on a daring mission to uncover its source. As they traverse the barren Martian landscape, they encounter an enigma that could change humanity's understanding of the universe. Blending hard science fiction with profound philosophical questions, Simak's masterful storytelling explores themes of isolation, communication, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A thought-provoking and timeless sci-fi classic.

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  The Saint and the Spool

  Mike DeFrench

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  One winter night, as the snows fall outside their home, and a boy cannot sleep, his father tells him the story of a Saint. 
  A martyr. 
  She is well known to all Christians in the land. Her, and her infant child. 
  She is credited with stopping the reign of the pagan king. 
  Here is her story...

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  The Old Men of the Twilight -...

  WB Yeats

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  William Butler Yeats was born on 13th June 1865 in Sandymount, Ireland to a family that historically had a passion for the arts.  
  At two his family moved to London to enable his elder siblings to pursue their artistic careers. Yeats went to the Godolphin School as well as receiving further instruction from his mother and his brother. 
  Back in Dublin in the early 1880s the teenager attended Erasmus Smith High School and then the National College of Art and Design. It was now that Yeats began his adventure with poetry and literature culminating in the 1889 publication of ‘The Wanderings of Oisin & Other Poems’.  
  In 1890, back in London Yeats was a founder member of The Rhymers Club, a group of bohemians based at the Cheshire Cheese Pub in Fleet St, and helped it receive a formidable reputation both in Decadent and Modernist poetry. 
  In the last years of the 19th Century his passion for theatre found him with other playwrights founding the Abbey Theatre, giving him a platform to perform his own experimental plays as well as by others to establish an Irish theatrical tradition.  
  By now his poetry was both refined and widely admired with verse such as ‘Easter, 1916’, ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ and ‘The Second Coming.’  In other genres his plays and his stories, many based on Irish folklore, found a growing audience and his works taken together clearly show his Irish Nationalism coming to the fore.  
  His handsome features and romantic nature led to many affairs but those he wanted including Katharine Tynan and Maud Gonne rejected him but kept him as a life-long friend. It was only in 1917, in his 50’s, that he married the much younger Georgie Hyde-Lees. 
  With Ireland now a free nation he was appointed to the first Irish Senate in 1922.  The following year there came the recognition of the Nobel Prize in Literature with the citation "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation". 
  By the end of the decade several years of health problems had worn him down but after a radical new treatment he was seemingly back to his best. 
  William Butler Yeats died on 28th January 1939 in Menton, France. In accordance with his wishes: 'If I die, bury me up there and then in a year's time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo'.

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  Twenty-Six Men and a Girl - From...

  Maxim Gorky

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  Alexei Maximovich Peshkov was born on 28th March 1868, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. 
  Better known as Maxim Gorky he was orphaned at 11 and ran away from home at 12.  At 19 he had already attempted suicide and thereafter travelled, by foot, across the Russian Empire for 5 years. 
  His first book ‘Essays & Stories’ in 1898 was a sensation and so began a long career as an author of short stories, novels and plays.  Gorky saw writing as a moral and political act that would help to change the unjust world around him.  He was an ardent early advocate of the emerging Marxist movement and publicly opposed the Tsarist regime leading several times to his arrest.  
  In 1904 he began his own theatre but the censor banned every play and Gorky was forced to abandon the project. 
  But Gorky was a financially successful author, editor, and playwright and gave monies to political parties as well as for civil rights and social reform.  The brutal shooting of workers, which set in motion the Revolution of 1905, pushed Gorky more decisively toward radical solutions.  
  In 1906 he went to the United States to raise funds for the Bolsheviks. Those experiences including a scandal over travelling with his lover and not his wife deepened his contempt for the ‘bourgeois soul.’ 
  Gorky now moved to Capri in Italy, both for health reasons and to escape the increasingly repressive times in Russia.  
  An amnesty for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty saw him return to Russia in 1914. His politics remained close to the Bolshevik cause.  But soon, after the 1918 revolution, his essays referred to Lenin as a tyrant for his senseless arrests and repression.  He was soon appealing to the outside world for food aid after the catastrophic crop failure. 
  In October 1921 Gorky returned to Italy, now in Fascist hands, and settled in Sorrento until 1932.  His health worsened with the onset of tuberculosis. 
  He wrote several successful books there but now decided to find an understanding with the communist regime. Stalin invited him home and his return was hailed as a major propaganda victory.  He was decorated with the Order of Lenin, and a province, a park, and various streets re-named in his honour. 
  But he had his faults too.  In 1933, Gorky co-edited a book on the White Sea-Baltic Canal and denied even a single prisoner died during its construction, but thousands had. As well, knowing that some Nazis were homosexual, a phrase was attributed to him that said ‘exterminate all homosexuals and fascism will vanish’.  Although he was himself was quoting another he was decidedly homophobic. 
  With the increase of Stalinist repression in 1935 Gorky was placed under unannounced house arrest. 
  Maxim Gorky died on the 18th June 1936 from pneumonia.  He was 68. 
  Stalin and Molotov were among those who carried Gorky's urn of ashes at his funeral.

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  Christmas Fiction off the Beaten...

  Laurie Lucking, Michelle L....

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  Not your Granny's Christmas stories … 
   Step off the beaten path and enjoy six stories that look beyond the expected, the traditional, the tried-and-true. 
   Inspired by the song, Mary Did You Know? -- a mother's memories of events leading up to and following that one holy night. MARY, DID YOU KNOW? 
   A young woman seeking her own identity searches for the man who tried to kill her and her mother on Christmas Eve twenty years before. A ROSE FROM THE ASHES 
   Princess, tower, sorceress, dragon, brave knight, clever peasant -- combine these ingredients into a Christmas-time story that isn't quite what you'd expect. RETURN TO CALLIDORA 
   Anticipating tough financial times, the decision not to buy or exchange presents leads to some painful and surprising revelations for a hardworking man and his family. NOT THIS YEAR 
   Years ago, a gunman and a store full of hostages learned some important lessons about faith and pain and what really matters in life -- and the echoes from that day continue to the present. THOSE WHO STAYED 
   A community of refugees, a brutal winter, a doorway to another world -- a touch of magic creating holiday joy for others leads to a Christmas wish fulfilled. CRYSTAL CHRISTMAS 
   

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