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  Arizona Nights

  Stewart Edward White

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  Arizona Nights is a collection of tales from the American West as told by those who took part in them. (Summary by Adam E. Maroney)

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  Boleslaw Prus - A Short Story...

  Boleslaw Prus

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  Aleksander G?owacki who wrote under the nom de plume Boleslaw Prus was born on 20th August 1847 at Hrubieszów in the Kingdom of Poland, at that time, controlled by the Russian Empire. 
   
  At three his mother died and then at nine his father.  Female relatives helped raise him but at 15 he joined the Polish uprising against the might of Imperial Russia.  Wounded on the battlefield, arrested and imprisoned, he was later released into the care of a relative and resumed secondary school and then Warsaw University but poverty forced him to leave after two years.  At some point he developed agoraphobia which often caused problems. 
   
  In 1869, he enrolled in the Forestry Department at Pu?awy but was soon sacked and so he began a system of self-education that led to work as a newspaper columnist on a wide-ranging series of topics that eventually became the ‘Weekly Chronicles’ and spanned 40 years. 
   
  With his finances now stabilized he married and then adopted his late brother-in-law’s son.  
   
  It seems he had doubts as to the scale of his talents and early on adopted the name ‘Boleslaw Prus’ for both his journalistic and literary offerings. 
   
  His work as a short-story writer met with much acclaim. He wrote several dozen of them, originally published in newspapers and ranging in length from micro-story to novella. His keen observation of everyday life and sense of humor are evident in them.  
   
  During his career he also wrote novels. After ‘Pharoah’, in 1895, he embarked on a four-month journey taking in Berlin, Dresden, Nuremberg, Rapperswil in Switzerland, where he stayed for two months, and his final destination, Paris.  Here his agoraphobia was so bad he couldn’t cross the Seine.  
   
  However, his writing continued and in 1911 his novel ‘Changes’, though uncompleted, began to be serialised.  It was never finished. 
   
  Boleslaw Prus died on 19th May 1912, at his Warsaw apartment.  He was 64.  A National Hero, thousands attended both his funeral service and interment. 
  1 - Boleslaw Prus - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - Shades by Boleslaw Prus 
  3 - Fading Voices by Bolslaw Prus 
  4 - The Living Telegraph by Boleslaw Prus 
  5 - Mold of the Earth by Boleslaw Prus 
  6 - A Legend of Old Egypt by Boleslaw Prus

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  Confirm Humanity and Other Stories

  Ren Ellis

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  "Ren Ellis's Confirm Humanity and Other Stories is a collection...filled with questions, intrigue, tears, and hope. Ranging from familiar to fantastical, the settings and the characters are diverse. Readers will definitely enjoy the eclectic and fantastical stories in Ren Ellis's Confirm Humanity and Other Stories, and the collection's element of humanity will hit home, reminding us of the pivotal moments that define us." -Readers' Favorite ★★★★★ 
  Confirm Humanity and Other Stories is a collection of twelve short stories by Ren Ellis. Primarily comprised of speculative fiction stories, this collection ranges from slice-of-life to the supernatural and beyond. Genres include:Climate-change fictionFairytale retellingsContemporary fictionParanormalScience fantasy Dystopian 
  This collection uses imaginary tales as a lens through which to see the very real threats and struggles of our time. 
  Extreme flooding and Venice-like canals reshape the famous city of Paris in “Deluge.” The fairytale stepmother casts new light on old tales in “The Stepmother’s Story.” Monsters meet the Marie Kondo method in “Monsters Welcome.” Other stories explore the paranormal world of "Red Rain;" the cosmic courses of "The Time Garden," "The Welkin Tree," and "Winter's Last Breath;" and the dystopian worlds of "Life" and "Recycled." These stories feature cycles of hardship and hope that will resonate with adults of all ages.

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  The Short Stories of Arnold...

  Arnold Bennett

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  Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. For a short time he worked for his solicitor father before realising that to advance his life he would need to become his own man. Moving to London at twenty-one he obtained work as a solicitor’s clerk and gradually moved into a career of journalism. At the turn of the century he turned full time to writing and shortly thereafter in 1903 he moved to Paris and in 1908 published to great acclaim The Old Wives Tale. With this his reputation was set. Clayhanger and The Old Wives Tale are perhaps his greatest and most lauded novels. But standing next to these are many fine short stories and it is to these in this volume we turn our attention. Bennett bathes us in vignettes of life, of characters that whatever their ambitions are easy to immerse ourselves in. These stories are read for you by Richard Mitchley.

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  The Young Lady in Black

  Amyas Northcote

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  Amyas Northcote (1864–1923) was an English writer and a contemporary of M. R. James. He is best known for his ghost stories."The Young Lady in Black" is an eerie tale of a woman who died, leaving one crucial task in her life unfinished. The tale poses at the outset the question of whether the dead can return to earth to bring incomplete tasks to their conclusion... and the weird circumstances of this story appear to confirm the theory.

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  Shadows in the Moonlight -...

  Rachel Lawson

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  Mary Gregory and Sir Justin Beaufort hate each other because they are victims of shotgun marriage and as Road agents, Gentleman John and Silver Buckles love each other truly in spite of their engagement to another who happens to be the other one although they don't know Mary thinks he's stark raving mad. Jack thinks she is not the woman he loves he knows she hates him too. Their love will be their deaths. It is a tale of love on the highways of old. 
  with the new highwayman story The Ride of the Highwaymen 
  rework of series in one book

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