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  The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles

  Herman Melville

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  The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the Encantadas, or Galápagos Islands. It was collected in The Piazza Tales in 1856. The Encantadas was a success with the critics, and contained some of Melville's "most memorable prose".

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  The Black Ferry

  John Galt

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  John Galt (1779-1839) was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator.One night, a traveller is waiting for the young ferryman to return, as he is unable to take himself over the river, owing to a broken arm. While he waits, a young military recruit and a heavily pregnant woman arrive, arguing. They set off together on the ferry. The old ferryman's wife thinks she hears a shriek shortly afterwards, but the night is so stormy and black that they can see nothing. That night the traveller has strange and disturbing nightmares. Every year on the anniversary of this date, for seven years, he had further terrifying dreams, which he describes to a learned friend. Fourteen years from the incident at the ferry, a stranger is lodged with them, who looks strangely familiar. It is the young recruit from the black ferry...and what follows is bizarre and terrifying.

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  A Season of Goodwill - 10...

  Stefania Hartley

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  How far should Viviana’s family go to avoid being thirteen at the table? Should Melina and Tanino attend a New Year’s party hosted by Melina’s old flame? Why do Don Pericle’s clients want a Christmas wedding at all costs? 
  Ten humorous and heart-warming short stories shining with the Sicilian sunshine, fragrant with red wine and ringing with Christmas bells, perfect for the festive season. 
  Also available as ebook, paperback and Large Print 
  Hartley’s stories are a tonic: full of delightful, down-to-earth characters and recognisable life dilemmas, as well as unexpected twists. Above all, each story reminds us that simple human goodness can still be found and shared. —Sandy Salisbury

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  Jane Austen - The Complete...

  Jane Austen

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  This book contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original publication.- Lady Susan Starts at Chapter 1- Sense and Sensibility Starts at Chapter 43- Pride and Prejudice Starts at Chapter 93- Mansfield Park Starts at Chapter 154- Emma Starts at Chapter 202- Persuasion Starst at Chapter 256- Northanger Abbey Starts at Chapter 280 - The Watson Starts at Chapter 310Bonus - Sanditon ''Unfinished Masterpiece'' Starts at Chapter 314

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  The Irrelevance of Space and...

  Swapna Gupta, Ashis Gupta

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  The Irrelevance of Space, The Katowice Eviction, Remembrance, Fal-e-Hafez, Guantanamo, and The Cyberdeath Files - stories of surprises, memories, and loss that range in settings from Scandinavia to Canada, Eastern Europe, Iran, Cuba and the USA. A thread of coincidences runs through the stories, some true, other fanciful.

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  The Gift of the Magi

  O. Henry

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  The Gift of the Magi is a short story by the American writer O. Henry, written and published in 1905. It takes place at Christmas time and tells the story of Jim and Della Dillingham, a poor, young married couple who don't have enough money to buy each other Christmas gifts.

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