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  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1922. It tells the story of a man who is born with the appearance and physical condition of an old man, and who ages in reverse throughout his life. The story explores themes such as identity, love, and mortality.

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  The Other Tiger

  Arthur C. Clarke

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  "The Other Tiger" was first published in the June/July 1953 issue of Fantastic Universe.Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is regarded as one of the most-influential science fiction writers of all time. He was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.Two English friends enjoy a stroll when one starts a conversation that if there are an infinite number of planets in the universe, then everything possible must happen. All of a sudden, the two men die at the hands of a mysterious monster.

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  Education that Educates...

  Booker T. Washington

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  Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. EDUCATION THAT EDUCATES: Perhaps I am safe in saying that during the last ten days you have not given much systematic effort to book study in the usual sense. When interruptions come such as we have just had, taking you away from your regular routine work and study, and the preparation of routine lessons is interrupted, the first thought to some may be that this time is lost, in so far as it relates to education in the ordinary sense; that it is so much time taken away from that part of one's life that should be devoted to acquiring education.

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  The Odyssey

  Homer

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  The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War. After the war, which lasted ten years, his journey lasted for ten additional years, during which time he encountered many perils and all his crew mates were killed. In his absence, Odysseus was assumed dead, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus had to contend with a group of unruly suitors who were competing for Penelope's hand in marriage.The Odyssey was originally composed in Homeric Greek in around the 8th or 7th century BCE and, by the mid-6th century BCE, had become part of the Greek literary canon. In antiquity, Homer's authorship of the poem was not questioned, but contemporary scholarship predominantly assumes that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed independently and that the stories formed as part of a long oral tradition. Given widespread illiteracy, the poem was performed by an aoidos or rhapsode and was more likely to be heard than read.

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  Horror at Sea - 15 Nautical...

  William Hope Hodgson, H.P....

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  HorrorBabble's complete "Horror at Sea" collection. 15 nautical nightmares: from the discovery and subsequent investigation of a mysterious vessel in The Derelict; to the terrifying ordeal of a lighthouse keeper stationed at the remote, Three Skeleton Key. 
  "There’ll be restless nights for thee, upon these seven seas…" 
  Contents: 
  The Derelict by W. H. Hodgson (Red Magazine, Dec 1912) 
  The Ocean Ogre by D. Carroll (Weird Tales, July 1937) -- A stranded ship. 
  Ghouls of the Sea by J. B. S. Fullilove (WT, March 1934) -- Death aboard the "Kay Marie". 
  The Voice in the Night by W. H. Hodgson (Blue Book Magazine, Nov 1907) -- A schooner, approached in the night. 
  The Black, Dead Thing by F. B. Long (WT, Oct 1933) -- A dreadful thing came aboard the ship. 
  The Temple by H. P. Lovecraft (WT, Sep 1925) -- A submarine on a strange descent. 
  The Lure of Atlantis by J. M. Nichols, Jr. (WT, April 1925) -- An expedition into a lost city. 
  The Uncharted Isle by C. A. Smith (WT, Nov 1930) -- A sailor lost at sea. 
  The Night Ocean by H. P. Lovecraft (Californian, Winter 1936) -- An artist, unsettled by the ocean. 
  Fire in the Galley Stove by W. Outerson (Atlantic, May 1937) -- An attack on the "Unicorn". 
  The Black Kiss by R. Bloch (WT, June 1937) -- The thing that swam in black waters. 
  Lost by A. M. Schnirring (WT, July 1943) -- A tale of the marshes. 
  The Thing in the Weeds by W. H. Hodgson (Story-teller, Jan 1913) -- A Sargasso Sea story. 
  The Brain-Eaters by F. B. Long (WT, June 1932) -- A horror from four-dimensional space. 
  Three Skeleton Key by G. G. Toudouze (Esquire, Jan 1937)

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  1984

  George Orwell

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  It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
  
  The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features.
  
  Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move.
  
  BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.

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