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  Sword of Damocles The: A Story...

  Anna Katharine Green

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  In Book II, the suspense deepens as private anxieties and public appearances collide. Questions of loyalty, inheritance, affection, and moral responsibility press upon the characters with increasing force. Beneath the elegance of New York society lies a growing sense of peril, as every decision seems to bring the unseen sword closer to falling.

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  A Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens, John Stainer,...

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  A fantastic story in Prose  or simply being a Ghost Story of Christmas.  This timeless classic was written by Charles Dickens in 1843 and recounts the imaginative, heartwarming tale about the eerie encounters of Ebenezer Scrooge, an arrogant and insensitive miser, whose ghostly journeys through the past, the present and the future ultimately transform him into a kind and caring individual.  The ultimate Christmas story for every age. From the youngest to the oldest.

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  The Kiss and The Duel and Other...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Here are the most unforgettable stories of a master writer who saw all of life and rejected none of it. 
  In The Kiss, a lonely, love-starved soldier keeps a secret rendezvous for another man and becomes enamored with a woman he is never to see again. The Duel describes the collisions between men and women in hopeless relationships, and how two men are driven to settle the score in a clandestine meeting on a bridge, pistols in hand. In all of these stories, Chekhov’s brilliant portrayal of people from all walks of life and how they deal with the moral dilemmas their circumstances press upon them comes to vivid life in the listener’s mind. In all of these stories, Chekhov’s brilliant portrayal of people from all walks of life and how they deal with the moral dilemmas their circumstances press upon them come to vivid life in the reader’s mind. 
  Other stories included here are “Excellent People,” “Mire,” “Neighbours,” and “The Princess.”

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  The MS Found in a Bottle

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "MS. Found in a Bottle" is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever southward, he writes an "MS.", or manuscript, telling of his adventures which he casts into the sea. Some critics believe the story was meant as a satire of typical sea tales.
  An unnamed narrator, estranged from his family and country, sets sail as a passenger aboard a cargo ship from Batavia (now known as Jakarta, Indonesia). Some days into the voyage, the ship is first becalmed, then hit by a simoom (a combination of a sand storm and hurricane) that capsizes the ship and sends everyone except the narrator and an old Swede overboard. Driven southward by the magical simoom towards the South Pole, the narrator's ship eventually collides with a gigantic black galleon, and only the narrator manages to scramble aboard. Once aboard, the narrator finds outdated maps and useless navigational tools throughout the ship, the timbers of which seem somehow to have grown or expanded over time. Also, he finds it to be manned by elderly crewmen who are unable to see him; he obtains writing materials from the captain's cabin to keep a journal (the "manuscript" of the title), which he resolves to cast into the sea. This ship too continues to be driven southward, and he notices the crew appears to show signs of hope at the prospect of their destruction as it reaches Antarctica. The ship enters a clearing in the ice, where it is caught in a vast whirlpool and begins to sink into the sea.

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  The Phantom of the Opera -...

  Gaston Leroux

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  Beneath the blinding lights of the Paris Opera House lies a kingdom of shadows, ruled by a tortured genius who demands perfection—and absolute obedience. 
  A whispering voice in a locked dressing room. A tragic death in the labyrinthine cellars. A rising young soprano who sings with an almost supernatural beauty. When Christine Daae becomes the sudden star of the Paris Opera, her childhood friend, the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny, falls desperately in love with her. But Christine harbors a terrifying secret: her ethereal voice is guided by an invisible tutor she calls the Angel of Music. He is a spectral presence of staggering genius, a masked phantom whose obsessive devotion will stop at nothing to claim her soul. 
  As Raoul attempts to free Christine from this spectral imprisonment, he inadvertently sparks a deadly rivalry. A dark, theatrical war erupts, shaking the grand Opera House to its very foundations. 
  Why you will love this masterpiece: Immerse yourself in the ultimate Gothic Fiction experience. Leroux perfectly weaves the opulent, claustrophobic atmosphere of nineteenth-century Paris with enduring romance tropes, a tragically misunderstood antihero, and an intricate mystery. It is an unforgettable dark fantasy that explores the thin veil between divine inspiration and obsessive madness. 
  Gaston Leroux was a renowned French journalist and author of detective fiction. First published in 1910, this atmospheric masterpiece cemented his legacy, immortalizing him as a pioneer of romantic horror and gothic suspense.

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  3 Stories - Success at What Cost...

  Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Hope, Amy Levy

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.  
   
  01 - 3 Stories - Success At What Cost 
  02 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 
  03 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy 
  04 - A Sucessful Rehearsal by Anthony Hope

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