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  Désirée's Baby - From their pens...

  Kate Chopin

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  Katherine O'Flaherty was born on the 8th February 1850 in St Louis, Missouri to parents of French and Irish descent. 
  At age 5, she was sent to the Sacred Heart Academy and, apart from a 2 year period at home when her father died, remained there until graduating in 1868.  Whilst there she began writing and became an avid reader of almost anything that crossed her path.   
  Kate married Oscar Chopin in 1870 and the couple moved to New Orleans, and later to the rural setting of Cloutierville, Louisiana to raise their 6 children.  
  In 1882 her husband died leaving her in a deep trench of debt.  Despite her best efforts to turn the businesses around they were sold, and she moved the family back to St Louis and the financial help of her mother.  Sadly, her mother died within the year.  Kate, now struggling with depression, pushed herself to write and gained a local reputation as a writer of short stories that captured the local color and vibrancy of her surroundings.  
  By the early 1890’s her short stories were published nationally.  With this widespread audience also came negative reviews, controversy, and cries of immorality as themes such as interracial relationships, the rights of women and other burning issues of the day were written about. 
  Despite the criticism, which unnerved her, she continued to write though in the main her works, around 100 short stories and two novels, were not attributed with any literary worth. 
  Kate Chopin died from a brain haemorrhage in St Louis Missouri on the 22nd of August 1904.  She was 54. 
  For much of the 20th Century her work was forgotten and out of print.  It was only in early 1970’s, with the rise of feminism and the call for a more just society that she was given the status her works had long described and shone a literary light at.  She is now safely revered as one of America’s great authors.

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  A Saga of the Seas - From their...

  Kenneth Grahame

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  Kenneth Grahame was born on 8th March 1859 in Edinburgh. 
  At age 5 his mother succumbed to puerperal fever.  His father, who had a drinking problem, now sent his 4 children to live with their grandmother at her large house in Cookham, Berkshire. Here the children lived in large open grounds next to the river.  These early experiences would in later years, be retold in his writing through a myriad of characters. 
  Grahame loved being a pupil at St Edward's School, Oxford and wanted to enroll at the university there but his guardian demurred on account of the cost. 
  Instead, a banking career was chosen for him, starting in 1879 at the Bank of England, where he rose steadily to the rank of its Secretary until retiring, with a pension, in 1908 due to ill health. 
  Alongside his commercial career Grahame had written and published various stories and essays in several periodicals. Some were anthologized as ‘Pagan Papers’ in 1893, and two years later ‘The Golden Age’ and later still ‘Dream Days’ and its masterpiece ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ became part of many home libraries.  His ability to view life through the lens of a young and curious child was superb, enabling the reader to easily identify with the character.   
  Grahame married Elspeth Thomson in 1899 and they had one child; Alastair, born semi-blind and plagued by health problems.  In a heart-rending tragedy he would later take his own life whilst attending Oxford University in 1920.   
  In 1908 Grahame reworked many of the bedtime stories he had fashioned for his son into the enduring favourite; ‘The Wind in the Willows’, describing the heart-warming adventures of Mr Toad and his friends.   
  Kenneth Grahame died in Pangbourne, Berkshire, on 6th July 1932.

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  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde

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  A beautiful face. A terrible secret. One man's soul trapped inside a portrait that never forgets.
  When the charming and breathtakingly handsome Dorian Gray wishes for eternal youth, his desire is mysteriously granted—but every sin he commits stains his hidden portrait instead of him. As he plunges deeper into pleasure, temptation, and moral decay, the truth he fears most slowly takes shape on the canvas he dares not look at.
  
  This timeless masterpiece by Oscar Wilde blends beauty and darkness with unmatched elegance. Readers around the world praise it as *"haunting, seductive, and shockingly modern"—*a novel that lingers in the mind long after the final page.
  
  If you crave a story that is philosophical yet thrilling, poetic yet unsettling, this edition will pull you into Dorian's glittering world and keep you turning pages late into the night.
  
  Start reading now and experience the classic that changed gothic fiction forever.

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  Doll's House A - Audiobook

  Henrik Ibsen, Classic...

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  A Doll's House is a groundbreaking three-act play by Henrik Ibsen that revolutionized modern drama. It tells the story of Nora Helmer, a seemingly happy wife and mother who comes to realize the limitations of her role in a patriarchal household and makes a shocking choice.With sharp dialogue and bold realism, Ibsen challenges traditional gender roles and the illusion of domestic bliss. A Doll's House is one of the most performed and discussed plays in world theatre—a powerful portrait of awakening and personal freedom.

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  Shipwreck The (Unabridged)

  Carles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
  THE SHIPWRECK: Never had I seen a year going out, or going on, under quieter circumstances. Eighteen hundred and fifty-nine had but another day to live, and truly its end was Peace on that sea-shore that morning.

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  The man in a case

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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  Short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, about how a provincial love story comes to an end.

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