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  A Slav Soul - From their pens to...

  Alexander Kuprin

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  Alexander Kuprin was born in Narovchat, Penza in Russia on 7th September 1870. 
  At 3 his Father died and he and mother moved to Moscow. By 10 he was enrolled at the Second Moscow Military High School and there his interest in literature began. The Alexander Military Academy followed and two years later he was a sub-lieutenant and posted to an Infantry Regiment for a further four years. 
  Despite his duties he was a now a keen writer and published his first short story at this time. His military duties also garnered him experiences for his breakthrough work ‘The Duel’.  Leaving the military he left for Kiev to work for local newspapers.  He continued to publish both stories and novels and by 1901 he was in St Petersburg becoming part of a group that included Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, Maxim Gorky and Leonid Andreyev.  
  In the years that followed further controversial works and acclaim followed.  His comments on the regime meant he was also put under secret police surveillance.   
  As World War I erupted, Kuprin opened a military hospital but was then given command of an infantry company in Finland. He was soon discharged on grounds of ill health.  
  The October Revolution saw him praise Lenin, but he warned that the Bolsheviks threatened Russian culture and might cause further widespread suffering to the peasants.  As Civil War raged he took his family to Helsinki and then on to Paris. 
  Exile saw his talents decline further and his succumbing to alcoholism. He became lonely and withdrawn. The family's poverty increased his malaise.   
  In May 1937, the Kuprin’s returned to Moscow.  He now saw his work published but wrote almost nothing new.  In 1938 his health rapidly deteriorated.  Already suffering from a kidney problems and sclerosis, he had now developed cancer of the oesophagus.  
  Alexander Kuprin died on 25th August 1938.

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  The Age of Innocence

  Edith Wharton

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  A world of glittering rules. A love that breaks them. A choice that could destroy everything.
  Set amid the rigid elegance of 1870s New York high society, The Age of Innocence follows Newland Archer—a man poised to marry the perfect social match—until the arrival of Countess Ellen Olenska, whose independence and passion awaken a longing he can no longer suppress. Torn between duty and desire, Newland must confront the silent forces that shape his world and threaten his happiness.
  
  Praised as "one of America's greatest novels," Wharton's masterpiece blends emotional depth, razor-sharp social observation, and exquisite prose. Readers treasure its themes of love, sacrifice, and the invisible cages of society.
  
  If you crave richly layered storytelling, unforgettable characters, and a romance shaped by impossible choices, this classic will captivate you.
  
  Step into Old New York—and experience a love story as fragile and beautiful as the world that binds it.

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  A Farewell to Arms

  Ernest Hemingway

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  Set against the harsh landscape of World War I-era Europe, this hauntingly beautiful tale of love and loss follows American ambulance driver Frederic Henry as he embarks on a romance with British nurse Catherine Barkley. Narrated with Hemingway's signature economy and power, the book navigates the brutal realities of war and the sacrifices one makes for those they love.
   
  Blending gritty realism with poignant romance, and daring escapes with focused emotion, A Farewell to Arms endures as one of Hemingway's most iconic novels.

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  No Longer Human Confessions Of A...

  Osamu Dazai

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  No Longer Human (1948, Ningen Shikkaku / A Shameful Life / Confessions of a Faulty Man) was an attack on the traditions of Japan, capturing the postwar crisis of Japanese cultural identity. Framed by an epilogue and prologue, the story is told in the form three notebooks left by Ōba Yōzō, whose calm exterior hides his tormented soul.
  Osamu Dazai was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as Shayō (The Setting Sun) and Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human), are considered modern-day classics in Japan.
  Japanese novelist and a master storyteller, who became at the end of World War II the literary voice and literary hero of his generation. Dazai's life ended in double-suicide with his married mistress. In many books Dazai used biographical material from his own family background, and made his self-destructive life the subject of his books. 
  Famous works of the author Osamu Dazai: The Setting Sun, Run, Melos!, Winter's firework, I heard it in this way, No Longer Human, Good-Bye.

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  How to Write a Blackwood Article

  Anónimo

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  Let me introduce you to Signora Psyche Zenobia. An adopted name of course, but for someone so flamboyant, appropriate.
  The good signora has aspirations. She would like to be a writer. At present she is the corresponding secretary to an interesting group of notables in Philadelphia which goes by a lengthy name with the initials of P.R.E.T.T.Y. B.L.U.E. B.A.T.C.H.!
  But how to get published? She travels to Edinburgh to meet with the esteemed proprietor and editor of 'Blackwood Magazine.' A real publication of the 1830s. He proceeds to tell her about the kinds of articles that catch the attention of readers in Blackwood's.

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  Bartleby The Scrivener - A Story...

  Herman Melville

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  Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's Magazine, and was reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. 
   
  Among Melville's best-known works are Moby-Dick; Typee , a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival, and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels. 
   
  During his last years, he privately published two volumes of poetry, and left one volume unpublished. The novella Billy Budd was left unfinished at his death, but was published posthumously in 1924. Melville died from cardiovascular disease in 1891.

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