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  F Scott Fitzgerald - Six of the...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

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  Fantasy and Reality

  Robert Wain Woodward

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  Imaginative stories for casual reading by busy people, ranging from micro-stories to more conventional reads, covering historical facts reappraised, ordinary things reperceived, mind-stretching fantasy, and the downright fantastical.

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  Short Stories - Sketches Around...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  Dostoevsky at short range: an honest thief who cannot stop stealing from the man who shelters him, a beggar boy's Christmas Eve, the peasant who once comforted a frightened child, a civil servant swallowed alive by a crocodile and carrying on his career from inside it, and the dream of a ridiculous man who had meant to shoot himself. These are the sketches around the great novels — the same fevers, in rooms small enough to see all four walls. Fifty-five plates by painters including Fedotov and Perov bring the same cramped rooms and rank-obsessed officials to the page, from 1820 to 1925.

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  An Antarctic Mystery

  Jules Verne

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  ules Verne’s sequel to Poe’s classic The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.    ???   ?A captain seeking a lost brother.   ???   ?A sailor obsessed with redemption as he hides a dark secret.   ???   ?A wealthy onlooker intrigued by possibility.   ???   ?Brought together by coincidence, they embark on a journey into the uncharted waters of the Antarctic.   ???   ?Jules Verne weaves a story of exploration, adventure, and mystery in this exciting tale. An Antarctic Mystery is the unauthorized sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and brings closure to Poe’s cliffhanger ending.   ???   ?Journey through the Antarctic as Verne reveals the shocking conclusion to one of his favorite childhood tales.

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  Before the Supreme Court - From...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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  A Tale of Shadows and Hope -...

  Mangala Suresh

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  A Tale of Shadows and Hope 
  Far away in the capital city of Aurelis, Clara Renard has spent most of her life believing her father is dead. When a mysterious letter reveals the truth, she sets out on a journey that will change her life forever. Their long-awaited reunion becomes the beginning of a deeper mystery, one tied to secrets powerful enough to shake the foundations of the kingdom. 
  As economic hardship grips the nation and tensions rise between rulers and citizens, another figure emerges. Adrian Vale, a young legal advocate, finds himself caught between loyalty to the system and his growing belief that justice has been forgotten. As protests spread and political forces begin to collide, the futures of Elias, Clara, and Adrian become entwined in ways none of them could have imagined. 
  Rich with atmosphere, mystery, and emotional depth, A Tale of Shadows and Hope is a sweeping historical drama about family, resilience, sacrifice, and the enduring power of hope. Set against a backdrop of political unrest and social change, it explores what happens when ordinary people are forced to confront extraordinary circumstances. 
  For listeners who enjoy immersive historical fiction, compelling characters, and stories of courage in the face of uncertainty, this audiobook offers a captivating journey into a world where secrets lie buried, loyalties are tested, and hope remains alive even in the darkest of times. 
  When shadows gather over a kingdom, the smallest spark of hope can change everything.

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