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  Taming of the Shrew

  William Shakespeare

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  Trevor Howard and Margaret Leighton lead a full cast performance of this popular Shakespeare comedy

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  The Luck of Roaring Camp

  Bret Harte

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  "The Luck of Roaring Camp" is a short story by American author Bret Harte. It was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international prominence.
  The story is about the birth of a baby boy in a 19th-century gold prospecting camp. The boy's mother, Cherokee Sal, dies in childbirth, so the men of Roaring Camp must raise it themselves. Believing the child to be a good luck charm, the miners christen the boy Thomas Luck. Afterwards, they decide to refine their behavior and refrain from gambling and fighting. At the end of the story, however, Luck and a villager, Kentuck, perish in a flash flood that strikes the camp.
  Roaring Camp was a real place. It was a goldmining settlement on the Mokelumne River in Amador County, California. It was home to forty-niners seeking gold in and around the river; it is now a privately owned tourist attraction. The story's flood theme may have been inspired by California's Great Flood of 1862, which Harte witnessed.

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  Saturday Night And Sunday Morning

  Alan Sillitoe

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  Alan Sillitoe was an integral part of the Angry Young Men movement of the fifties that focused on its authentic depiction of real working class people.  This book is true to their ideals in its raw sharp writing of the story of a young man framed by his brutal experience in the army and as a factory worker.  Fuelled by a bleak aggressive outlook on life the book centres around a boozy, philandering weekend which is graphically captured by Sillitoe’s clever prose and Linus Roache’s strong reading.

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  Nathaniel Hawthorne - Short Stories

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Embark on a mesmerizing journey into the captivating world of Nathaniel Hawthorne's timeless tales with our digital audiobook collection.  
   
  Delve into the eerie and mysterious realms of 'An Old Woman's Tale,' experience the enigmatic 'The Intelligence Office,' and explore the profound allegories within 'The Vision of the Fountain.' Finally, get lost in the powerful narrative of 'The Great Stone Face.' With expert narrators bringing these classics to life, this collection promises hours of enthralling storytelling that will captivate listeners and transport them to Hawthorne's enchanting literary universe.

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  The Dream Woman

  Wilkie Collins

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  “Wake up! Wake up, there! Murder!” A hostler spits out these vehement words while he turbulently sleeps. He is haunted by a phantasm. It is a phantasm with a droop in the left eye, long flaxen hair, and a long buckhorn clasp knife.

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  Morton Hall

  Elizabeth Gaskell

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  "Morton Hall" (1853) is a story written by Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the leading representatives of British literature of the Victorian era. The book weaves together many different elements from the description of ancient houses and noble lineages to the commemoration of historical events, all with the background of childhood memories of the protagonists. This text has the ability to offer a wide reflection on social and Political Affairs of England: Elizabeth Gaskell traces back several vicissitudes until they reach the intestine foiled attack on King James I, Cromwell's Protectorate, the so-called witch hunt, until you get to touch the social and cultural revolution produced by colonial politics.
   
  In this short-story there is everything : the role of women in society and in the process of formation of children, ways considered more suited to its educator function, until detailed depictions of torture, humor, mental illness often found themselves inside the England of that time. These reasons they do fall under the genre of tales of thrill, with continuous references to ghosts, witches and superstition of the demonic element...

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