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  Fun with Problems - Stories

  Robert Stone

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  In Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is "one of our greatest living writers" (Los Angeles Times). The pieces in this new volume vary greatly in length-some are almost novellas, others no more than a page-but all share the signature blend of longing, violence, black humor, sex, and drugs that has helped Stone illuminate the dark corners of the human soul. Entire lives are laid out with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a decades-long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent into addiction he can neither turn from nor share; a bored husband picks up a mysterious woman only to find that his ego has led him woefully astray; a world-beating Silicon Valley executive receives an unwelcome guest at his mansion in the hills; a scuba dive guides uneasy newlyweds to a point of no return. Fun with Problems showcases Stone's great gift: to pinpoint and make real the impulses-by turns violently coercive and quietly seductive-that cause us to conceal, reveal, and betray our very selves.

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  The Tiger

  Hugh Walpole

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  Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.'The Tiger' is the evocative tale of an Englishman who travels to New York and descends strangely into a terrible psychosis in which he seems to perceive wild animals roaming through the subway beneath the streets. One of them, a tiger, is particularly sinister because the man knows this is the beast which will eventually track him down and pounce....

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  Five Sci-Fi FIC029000 by H Beam...

  H. Beam Piper

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  Five short stories by classic science fiction writer H. Beam Piper.

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  Special Delivery - An Erotic...

  Roxanna Cross

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  When an intruiging package arrives at an upper-class residence, the porter taking delivery of the alluring box has her interest piqued. Yet whichever way she looks at it, she can’t seem to fathom how the sophisticated recipient could be involved in the kind of thing her dirty mind is cooking up…This erotic short story contains graphic language of an extremely sexual nature and is suitable only for a mature, open-minded audience.

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  10 Masterpieces you have to...

  Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, F...

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  This Audiobook contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names:
  
  "Emma" by Jane Austen,
  "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë,
  "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin,
  "Heart of Darkness" byJoseph Conrad,
  "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky,
  "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald,
  "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London,
  "The Dunwich Horror" by H.P Lovecraft,
  "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu,
  "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde.

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  Classic Short Stories - Volume...

  Thomas Hardy, Jerome K

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  Stories are one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements.  Whether written down or spoken they have an ability to capture our imagination and thoughts, and take us on incredible journeys in the space of a phrase and the turn of a page. 
   
  Within a few words of text or speech, new worlds and characters form, propelling a narrative to a conclusion with intricate ease. Finely crafted, perfectly formed these Miniature Masterpieces, at first thought, seem remarkably easy to conjure up. But ask any writer and they will tell you that distilling the essence of narrative and characters into a short story is one of the hardest acts of their literary craft.  Many attempt, but few achieve.

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