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  A Society - From their pens to...

  Virginia Woolf

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  Adeline Virginia Woolf was born on the 25th January 1882 in South Kensington in London. 
  Although lauded as a founder of modernist writing with such classics as ‘Orlando’, ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ‘To the Lighthouse’ and, of course, many classic short stories, her background is filled with elements of tragedy that she somehow overcame to become such a revered writer.   Her mother died when she was 13, her half-sister Stella two years later and with it her first of several nervous breakdowns.  Appallingly it was later found that three of her half-brothers had sexually abused her so darkness must have seemed ever present.   
  She began writing professionally at age 20 but her father’s death two years later brought a complete mental collapse and she was briefly institutionalised.  Somehow she found within herself a literary career and with it great innovations in writing; she was a pioneer of “stream of consciousness”.    
  Her tight circle of friends were the founders of the Bloomsbury Group, a movement whose legacy still influences across the arts and society in many way to this day.   
  Whilst the dark periods continued to interrupt her emotional state her rate of work never ceased.  Until, on 28th March 1941, Woolf put on her overcoat, filled up its pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse, in Lewes, East Sussex and drowned herself.  Her body was not recovered until the 18th April.  She was 59. 
  She left behind a note which read in part “Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again.  I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times.  And I shan't recover this time.  I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate.  So I am doing what seems the best thing to do”.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Frances W Harper

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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. 
   
  Race and gender have denied many their rightful place in literary history.  When we take time to look again we find remarkable jewels of astonishing merit that reveal just how many talented stories have emerged from the pens of these very special women. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The African American Women - An Introduction 
  2 - Two Offers by Frances W Harper 
  3 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart 
  4 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson 
  5 - The Hoodoo by Martha Gruening 
  6 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd 
  7 - Breaking the Color Line by Annie McCary 
  8 - The Quadroons by Lydia Maria Child 
  9 - The Preacher at Hill Station by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman 
  10 - Talma by Pauline E Hopkins 
  11 - Aunt Lindy. A Story Founded on Real Life by Victoria Earle Matthews

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  Seasons of Purgatory

  Shahriar Mandanipour

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  The first English-language story collection from "one of Iran's most important living fiction writers" (Guardian) 
   
   
   
  In Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions. Mandanipour, banned from publication in his native Iran, vividly renders the individual consciousness in extremis from a variety of perspectives: young and old, man and woman, conscript and prisoner. While delivering a ferocious social critique, these stories are steeped in the poetry and stark beauty of an ancient land and culture.

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  I Am A Fish - Lessons from the...

  Amir Rimer

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  I Am A Fish: Lessons from the Whirlpool 
  In a world where survival means fighting the currents, one fish has learned the secret to freedom: Surrender. 
  Living next to a deadly whirlpool, our fish narrator witnesses countless humans battling the relentless pull, only to be dragged under by their fear and resistance. If only they understood the truth he has discovered – the only way out is to let go. 
  Through poetic storytelling and profound wisdom, I Am A Fish: Lessons from the Whirlpool takes readers on a philosophical journey, exploring life’s deepest struggles from a perspective we never knew we needed. This mesmerizing fable invites us to question our instincts, face our fears, and find peace amidst chaos.Learn how acceptance can be the key to liberation.Discover the power of letting go in a world that demands control.Find meaning in struggle and hope in surrender. 
  This isn’t just a story about a fish. It’s about all of us – the battles we fight, the fears we carry, and the peace waiting for us on the other side of surrender. 
  Dive into a tale that will change how you see life’s whirlpools forever. 
  Ready to Let Go and Live Freely?

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  Vertical Motion

  Can Xue

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  "There's a new world master among us, and her name is Can Xue." —Robert Coover 
   
  Two young girls sneak onto the grounds of a hospital, where they find a disturbing moment of silence in a rose garden. A couple grows a plant that blooms underground, invisibly, to their long-time neighbor's consternation. A cat worries about its sleepwalking owner, who receives a mysterious visitor while he's asleep. After a ten-year absence, a young man visits his uncle, on the twenty-fourth floor of a high-rise that is floating in the air, while his ugly cousin hesitates on the stairs . . .  
   
   
   
  Can Xue is a master of the dreamscape, crafting stories that inhabit the space where fantasy and reality, time and timelessness, the quotidian and the extraordinary, meet. The stories in this striking and lyrical new collection—populated by old married couples, children, cats, and nosy neighbors, the entire menagerie of the everyday—reaffirm Can Xue's reputation as one of the most innovative Chinese writers in a generation.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Robert Louis Stevenson, HP...

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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. 
   
  In this volume the wonders of Sci-Fi and its inventions are twisted with the darkness of horror to reveal narratives that grip us in inventive ways.  Perhaps only pens of the calibre of Lovecraft, Stevenson, Wells and their literary colleagues can so easily lure our senses into dark and terrifying times.   
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Classic Sci Fi Horror - An Introduction 
  2 - Re-Animator - Part 1 by H P Lovecraft 
  3 - Re-Animator - Part 2 by H P Lovecraft 
  4 - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Part 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  5 - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Part 2  by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  6 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London 
  7 - The Operation by Violet Hunt 
  8 - Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce 
  9 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson 
  10 - Carnivorine by Lucy Hamilton Hooper 
  11 - The Blue Laboratory by L T Meade 
  12 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  13 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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