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  The Fringes Of The Fleet

  Rudyard Kipling

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  During the war (WWI), Kipling wrote the booklet "The Fringes of the Fleet" containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war. Some of the poems were set to music by English composer Edward.

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  The Secret of the Strong Room

  J.S. Fletcher

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  Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story.In 'The Secret of the Strong Room', three young men of unimpeachable character are planning to commit the perfect heist on the safe of the Illysium Theatre. But they have planned without the greater cunning of the theatre's owner, Markenstein.

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  The Album

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Chekhov has begun his literature career in the 1880s. First he deprecated turning a person into slave. Later he began to make higher demands to his characters and to blame not only their environment, but also themselves for losing their dignity and for enslavement and abjection."The Album" is a story of an official being congratulated on his jubilee and becoming an album with portraits of his colleagues as a gift. Touched to the depth of his soul he comes home to get warm and loving congratulations there, but as the album that he has just highly valued was taken by kids, his attitude weirdly changes, but the reasons thereof are left to us entirely. "The Album" will definitely set you thinking and probably check your own behavior and even thoughts as well.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  The Murderer

  Perceval Gibbon

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  Perceval Gibbon (1879-1926) was an author and journalist, working on the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa and several other publications. He is best remembered for his masterly short stories which were often characterized by an ironic twist at the end.The Murderer is just such a tale. It tells the story of Conroy, a young English sailor who is bullied and beaten by the brutal mate of the German merchant ship Villingen. Conroy is goaded on by the other members of the crew and ends up publically blurting out a vow of revenge on the mate.He himself would have quickly forgotton the incident, but his fellow sailors are quick to encourage him to see the thing through. One supplies him with a weapon, others remind him repeatedly of his purpose. But when he is on watch as look-out one night, the mate is accidentally swept off the forecastle head by a wave onto the main deck below, hitting his head hard and killing him instantly, everyone in the crew assumes that Conroy has murdered him.Conroy finds himself in a very uncomfortable position indeed... but then he realizes how to deal with the situation.

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  The Staircase at the Heart's...

  Anna Katharine Green

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  Detective Ebenezer Gryce tells the story of the case with which he begun his career in 1840. Several wealthy men were drowned and washed ashore in New York City, and the first clue leads to a dubious money lender... (Summary by Carolin)

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  Ten Tales from the Artist's Studio

  Barry Pain, Guy de Maupassant,...

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  A colourful palette of short stories featuring artists and their love of paintings.    "Rose Rose" by Barry Pain    "The Cat" by E. F. Benson    "The Model Millionaire" by Oscar Wilde    "A Queer Night in Paris" by Guy de Maupassant    "Portrait of a Lady" by Jerome K. Jerome    "Miss Harriet" by Guy de Maupassant    "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe    "My Adventure at Chislehurst" by A. J. Alan    "The Stalled Ox" by Saki    "The Room in the Tower'" by E. F. Benson

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