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  The Nightingale Collection

  Anonymous

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  Tom Bosley continues to mesmerize children of all ages in performing the classic tale of The Nightingale. We travel to ancient China and participate in the search for the only creature who could make the miserable emperor happy. The Nightingale Collection also includes such classics as Windbird and the Sun, The Tinderbox, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, How Six Traveled the Wide World and The Seven Simons.

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  Strange Tales

  E. Nesbit, Edgar Allan Poe,...

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  A collection of seventeen classic tales of the macabre and supernatural by some of the best known writers in these genres.E.Nesbit - “Man-Size in Marble” and “The Letter in Brown Ink”Edgar Allan Poe - “The Sphinx” and “The Angel of the Odd”Arthur Conan Doyle - “The Case of Lady Sannox” and “Playing with Fire”Henry Seton Merriman - “The Tale of a Scorpion”M.R. James - “The Ash Tree”Robert Louis Stevenson - “The Body-Snatcher” and “Markheim”Mary Elizabeth Braddon - “The Cold Embrace”Wilkie Collins - “The Dead Hand”Saki - “Sredni Vashtar” and “The Music on the Hill”Hugh Walpole - “The Snow” Washington Irving - “The Pride of the Village”E.F. Benson - “The Cat”Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

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  New Machiavelli The (Unabridged)

  H. G. Wells

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  This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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  Rip Van Winkle

  Washington Irving

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  In New York's Catskill Mountains before the American Revolution, a Dutch-American villager named Rip Van Winkle falls asleep and wakes up twenty years later without realizing how much time has passed. Unaware that the Revolutionary War has taken place, he must come to terms with the changes he encounters. Washington Irving wrote “Rip Van Winkle” while living in England as part of the collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., alongside his other famous tale, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Irving later admitted that When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills. Since its publication in 1819, the story has become part of American pop culture and has been adapted many times for stage, film, radio, and television.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev,...

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  The top 10 short stories of all time written by European authors. 
   
  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. 
   
  The short story in Europe has a long and illustrious career yet is often unjustly neglected after a quick scan of de Maupassant and one or two others.  Across its seemingly endless cultures that enrich themselves across the canvas of time many other gems are apparent. In this volume we bring some of their bountiful harvest to your ears. 
  1 - The Top 10 - The European Short Story - An Introduction 
  2 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev 
  3 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 
  4 - Youth by Joseph Conrad 
  5 - The Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac 
  6 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 
  7 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol 
  8 - The Dead by James Joyce 
  9 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 
  10 - The Return of Martin Guerre  by Alexander Dumas 
  11 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  Martin Chuzzlewit

  Charles Dickens

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  Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character'.Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, to undertake a voyage to America. It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin, but also for his grandfather and his grandfather's servant, Mary Graham with whom young Martin is in love. The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee company and the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time.This strong sub-plot shows evidence of Dickens' mastery of crime where characters such as the criminal Jonas Chuzzlewit, the old nurse Mrs Gamp, and the arch-hypocrite Seth Pecksniff are the equal to any in his other great novels. Generations of readers have also delighted in Dickens' wonderful description of the London boarding-house — 'Todgers'.

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