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  The Captive – Part I

  Marcel Proust

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  Volume IX of the Naxos AudioBooks recording of Remembrance of Things Past. In The Captive, Part I, Marcel’s obsessive love for Albertine makes her virtually a captive in his Paris apartment.

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  The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  This short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald is included in the collection entitled Tales of the Jazz Age. It follows a sixteen-year-old boy from an affluent family in Mississippi on his way to the most exclusive preparatory school in the world. It is at this school that the boy, named John, meets Peter, a boy whose father is the richest man in the world. John is invited to stay in their home in the west on a break. As John learns more and more about the wealthy family, he discovers their dark, haunting secrets and finds himself running for his life.

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  Desiree's Baby

  Kate Chopin

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  Desiree's Baby BY Kate Chopin is about the daughter of Monsieur and Madame Valmondé, who are wealthy French Creoles in antebellum Louisiana. Abandoned as a baby, Desiree was found by Monsieur Valmondé lying in the shadow of a stone pillar near the Valmondé gateway. She is courted by the son of another wealthy, well-known and respected French Creole family, Armand. They marry and have a child. People who see the baby have the sense it is different. Eventually they realize that the baby's skin is the same color as a quadroon (one-quarter African)—the baby has African ancestry. At the time of the story, this would have been considered a problem for a person believed to be white.

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  50 Short Story Masterpieces you...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, O. Henry,...

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  F.Scott Fitzgerald—The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonO.Henry—The Gift of the MagiMark Twain—On The Decay of the Art of LyingSun Tzu—The Art of WarE.A. Poe—The RavenKahlil Gibran—The MadmanW.W. Jacobs—The Monkey's PawAnonymous—AladdinThe Founding Fathers—The Declaration of IndependencePlato—The Apology of Socrates Lord Alfred Tennyson—Charge of the Light BrigadeT.S. Eliot—The Waste LandWilliam Dean Howells—Wild Flowers of the AsphaltKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels—The Communist ManifestoE.A. Poe—The Pit and the PendulumF. Scott Fitzgerald—The Offshore PirateLeo Tolstoy—A Letter to a HinduWashington Irving—The Legend of Sleepy HollowSamuel Taylor Coleridge—Kubla KhanF. Scott Fitzgerald—Camel's BackBram Stoker—The Judge's HouseLao Tzu—Tao Te ChingPlato—The Allegory of the CaveOscar Wilde—The Happy PrinceOscar Wilde—The Nightingale and the RoseWilliam Blake—Songs of InnocencePatrick Henry—Give Me LibertyH.G. Wells—The Magic ShopSaki—The Music on the HillHerman Melville—Bartleby the scrivenerMark Twain—The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyClement Clarke Moore—Twas the Night Before ChristmasBret Harte—The Luck of Roaring CampO.Henry—The Caballero's WayT.S. Eliot—The Love Song of J. Alfred ProfrockImmanuel Kant—Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?Jack London—To Build a FireEdgar Allan Poe—The Fall of the House of UsherHenry Ford—The Terror of the MachineG.K. Chesterton—The Blue CrossCharles Perrault—CinderellaAnton Chekhov—Difficult PeopleD.H. Lawrence—The Prussian OfficerFyodor Dostoevsky—The Dream of A Ridiculous ManFranz Kafka—The JudgementJames Joyce—The DeadSaki—The Unrest CureJohn Muir—Steep TrailsAnton Chekhov—Lady with a DogAnton Chekhov—The Wife

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  David Copperfield - The Classic...

  Charles Dickens

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  First published in 1850, David Copperfield begins with avid the tragedy of David's brother dying when David is just a boy. After this episode, he is sent by his step-father to work in London for a wine merchant. When conditions worsen he decides to run away and embarks on a journey by foot from London to Dover. On his arrival, he finds his eccentric aunt, Betsey Trotwood who becomes his new guardian. Being witness to the formation of David's character is quite fascinating. David begins as a strong child whose only aspiration is a better life. On the way to his adulthood, David sees how people enter and leave his life. Romanticism takes its place in David’s life as he gets married to Dora Spenlow who is not long for this world. Will David ever find stability and happiness? And what of his wife? Dickens proves to be a master in creating an autobiographical work that is a captivating page-turner.

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  The Three Musketeers

  Alexandre Dumas

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  One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, "The Three Musketeers" tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the honour of the queen against the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of seventeenth century France are vividly played out in the background. But their most dangerous encounter is with the Cardinal's spy, Milady, one of literature's most memorable female villains, and Alexandre Dumas employs all his fast-paced narrative skills to bring this enthralling novel to a breathtakingly gripping and dramatic conclusion.

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