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  The Kiss A Short Story Trilogy

  Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Guy...

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  Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin. These three names thrill the literary world as well as our own.  They have gravitas, they have knowledge, experience and they have the literary style and panache to seduce our imagined world. 
   
  Each has written a short story on pleasured lips placed on another’s flesh. 
   
  For Chekhov it was a kiss in a darkened room that happened by mistake.  Who was she? 
   
  For Chopin it was a kiss that almost derailed a hoped-for marriage proposal.  Why did he do that?  
   
  For de Maupassant it was a niece seeking advice from her Aunt on when to kiss and whom.  And did she? 
   
  Add to this our own experiences of ‘the kiss’.  A kiss to welcome a friend, the loving kiss for our child, our parents, the passionate kiss to a lover.   
   
  These experiences are individual to each of us but perhaps shape a thought or recall a memory when our three authors relate their own stories into our senses. 
   
  01 - The Kiss - A Short Story Trilogy - An Introduction 
  02 - The Kiss by Anton Chekhov 
  03 - The KIss by Guy de Maupassant 
  04 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin

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  Bedtime Stories For Kids: - A...

  Alexa Wood

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  Are you looking for a fun, soothing way to bond with your kids? Does your child have difficulty falling asleep? Do you want to calm your child down, improve their vocabulary, and listening skills? 
    
   If yes, then this little collection of spellbinding stories for kids can help you. 
  These stories put you into the perspective of the main character, placing you directly into the landscape and action of the story, for a first-hand, invigorating experience.  
   You can see and experience everything for yourself, in order to learn more about yourself and your abilities by the time you return to your daily life.  
   Sleep stories are relaxing classic tales and works of literature that are engineered to help you fall asleep faster and stay sleeping through the night.  
   You'll deeply relax your body and mind. 
   In this audiobook you’ll discover stories like: 
  ·        Poor Little Kyle 
  ·        The Tortoise that never gave up 
  ·        The brave Little Panda 
  ·        A happy Zoo Day 
  ·        The Brave 
  ·        The Three Pigs 
  ·        The Lone Wolf 
  ·        Anna and the wicked wood lady 
  And many other stories… 
  Your children will be delighted to hear these stories written especially for them.So, what are you waiting for? You will thank yourself later for choosing to listen to this audiobook.Download this audiobook and improve your life.

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  The Yellow Wallpaper - A...

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  The story's protagonist and narrator is an unnamed woman whose husband, a doctor named John, makes her spend the summer in the country for her health. The woman, her baby, John, John's sister and some servants stay in a large rented house. John chooses a bedroom for himself and his wife, which is large and airy but otherwise quite unpleasant. The narrator takes an immediate dislike to the room's yellow wallpaper. She soon starts to see grotesque images in its pattern. After some time, the narrator becomes convinced that the wallpaper depicts a woman trapped behind a cage.The story's protagonist is confined to the house. She has to write in secret because she has been forbidden to do work of any kind. John, in his capacity as both a husband and a representative of the medical profession, is dismissive of her problems. John's treatment of his wife and patient means that her physical and mental health only got worse.

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  The Great Fairy Tale Collection...

  Andrew Lang, Maurice Baring,...

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  A fascinating collection of some of the great—but less well known—fairy tales of all time.  
  The Glass MenderThe Giant who had no HeartThe Gifts of the MagicianThe Miller, his Son and their AssPunchkinThe Enchanted KnifeThe MinstrelThe StonecutterThe ParrotThe Alligator and the JackalThe Stag at the PoolThe Cormorants of UdrostThe Three DogsThe Brahman, the Tiger and the Six JudgesThe PancakeEast of the Sun and West of the MoonThe Stag in the Ox StallThe Lad and the DevilThe Blue RoseThe Man who was going to Mind the HouseThe Golden MermaidThe Lads who met the Trolls in Hedale WoodsThe Curse of the Seven ChildrenThe FrogThe Blind Man, the Deaf Man and the DonkeyThe Cunning ApprenticeAn Old Fashioned Christmas EveThe Eagle and the JackdawThe Two FrogsThe Silver MountainThe Donkey SkinTit for TatThe Old Woman and the PhysicianThe Wise PrincessThe Bronze RingThe Princess who was hidden UndergroundMatthias the Hunter’s StoriesThe Language of AnimalsMercury and the WorkmenPeter Gynt

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  Nine Inches - Stories

  Tom Perrotta

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  A stunning short story collection from the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers   and Little Children, featuring stories focusing on Tom Perrotta's familiar suburban nuclear familiesNine Inches, Perrotta's first true collection, features ten stories—some sharp and funny, some mordant and surprising, and a few intense and disturbing.   Whether he's dropping into the lives of two teachers—and their love lost and found—in "Nine Inches", documenting  the unraveling of a dad at a Little League game in "The Smile on Happy Chang's Face", or gently marking the points of connection between an old woman and a benched high school football player in "Senior Season", Perrotta writes with a sure sense of his characters and their secret longings.Nine Inches contains an elegant collection of short fiction: stories that are as assured in their depictions of characters young and old, established and unsure, as any written today.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Joseph Conrad, Saki the...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  It may well be that Empire has raised generations of its Nation’s kin abroad.  And some, born abroad, adopted England as their home in preference to their own.  For both this lure of ‘Home’ has nourished their ambition whilst all around them stories are to be found that they, with their unique outsider’s view, can create and deliver to our ears their literary masterpieces. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The English. Born Abroad - An Introduction 
  2 - The Informer by Joseph Conrad 
  3 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro 
  4 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 
  5 - Major Wilbraham by Hugh Walpole 
  6 - A Little Dinner At Timmin's by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  7 - The Story of the RipplingTrain by Mary Louisa Molesworth 
  8 - The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railroad by Baroness Emmuska Orczy 
  9 - A Little Holiday by Oswald Sickert 
  10 - A Resurrection by H B Marriott Watson 
  11 - Amour Dure - Part 1 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee 
  12 - Amour Dure - Part 2 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee

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