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  Horror Stories of the Pyramids

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P....

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  The Victorians were obsessed with Egyptology and mummies. It was during the second half of the 19th century that many of the most significant archeological finds were made in Egypt, and stories of the revenge of the mummies on anyone raiding their tombs, stealing their treasures or unwrapping their corpses abounded.This collection brings together the best and scariest short stories of the period, featuring vengeance-seeking mummies, bandaged zombies, pharaonic ghosts and ancient curses.    "Lot No. 249", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle    "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs", by Harry Houdini and H. P. Lovecraft    "Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy’s Curse", by Louisa May Alcott    "An Egyptian Cigarette", by Kate Chopin    "Some Words with a Mummy", by Edgar Allan Poe    "The Mummy’s Foot", by Théophile Gautier    "A Professor of Egyptology", by Guy Boothby    "Nyarlathotep", by H. P. Lovecraft    "The Story of Baelbrow", by E. & H. Heron    "The Ring of Thoth", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Captain Blood

  Rafael Sabatini

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  A thrilling tale of piracy, justice, and honor on the high seas from the author of Scaramouche Retired soldier Peter Blood lives a happy, comfortable life as a physician in seventeenth-century England. Yet everything changes one fateful evening when he saves the life of the wrong patient: a young rebel involved in an uprising against King James II. For doing his job and obeying the Hippocratic oath, the shell-shocked Blood is convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in Barbados, toiling as a slave.   Once in the Caribbean, however, Blood has other plans. The daring doctor wins over his peers with his courage and skill, falls in love with the plantation owner’s niece, and begins to plot his escape. When a Spanish privateer attacks the plantation town, Blood seizes his chance, and with the help of his fellow slaves, pulls off a daring heist of the pirates’ ship. Based on a true story, Captain Blood is an immensely satisfying high-seas adventure for the ages.   This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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  Anna Karenina

  Leo Tolstoy

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  The nineteenth-century Russian classic novel of a tumultuous love affair set amidst the nation’s changing society in the 1870s. First published in the late nineteenth century, Anna Karenina, by famed Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of all time. Chronicling the turbulent affair between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky, Tolstoy weaves a parallel plot of self-discovery and a turn to religion by character Konstantin Levin that is thought to be autobiographical. The result is a tale of jealousy, faith, hypocrisy, passion and progress set amidst the social change occurring in Russia in the 1870s. Now available as part of the Word Cloud Classics series, the novel is a must-have addition to the libraries of all classic literature lovers. “One of the greatest love stories in world literature.” —Vladimir Nabokov

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  Protagoras

  Plato

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  Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets with Protagoras and other sophists and pursues his inquiry into virtue. The dialectic brings the thinkers to a surprising ending. Socrates narrates this dialogue. (Summary by Kevin Johnson )

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  The Yellow Wallpaper

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  Charlotte Perkins Gilman's powerful and unsettling story of a young woman descending into psychosis. Confined to her attic bedroom by her husband to ensure rest and recuperation after having her baby, and with nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman slowly becomes obsessed with the old yellow wallpaper covering the walls until she looses her grip on reality, imagining herself and others imprisoned behind the wallpaper. 
  An Almost Tangible production, read by Rebecca LaChance.

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  Your Lover Just Called - A...

  John Updike

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  The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975. 
  In describing how he wrote these stories in a small, rented, smoke-filled office in Ipswitch, Massachusetts, he says, ""I felt that I was packaging something as delicately pervasive as smoke, one box after another, in that room, where my only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me -- to give the mundane its beautiful due.""

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