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  Wheels of Chance The (Unabridged)

  H. G. Wells

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  A humorous account of a young man's cycling holiday in the south of England. By the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds.

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  Frederick Cowles - Six of the...

  Frederick Cowles

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

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  The Tragedy of Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

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  Macbeth and his wife show how bad the evil that can possess human souls is. But evil is not all powerful. On the one hand, Macbeth is the gloomiest of the great Shakespeare's tragedies; on the other hand, it's more encouraging than Hamlet, Othello or King Lear. In no other tragedy as in Macbeth the evil is confronted by so many people, and nowhere else they are so active.
  Shakespeare is the author of the world famous sonnets and plays: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello, as well as comedies Twelfth Night, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and As You Like It. William Shakespeare is the most performed playwright, the works of the great English poet have been on top of the world theatre stages for some centuries already.

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  Nurse's Stories (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
  NURSE'S STORIES: There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit when I
  am in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been.

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  The Raven

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'"
  
  Few works of literature have captured the public imagination—or the chill of a winter's midnight—quite like Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. First published in 1845, this hypnotic narrative poem remains the gold standard for atmospheric storytelling, tracing a grieving scholar's slow descent into insanity as he is visited by a mysterious, talking bird.
  
  A Symphony of Dread and Beauty: The Raven is a masterclass in "The Philosophy of Composition." Poe meticulously engineered every stanza to evoke a singular effect: a beauty tinged with sadness. Through its rhythmic, driving meter and rich, classical allusions, the poem explores the universal human experience of grief and the terrifying realization that some losses are eternal. It is a work where the boundaries between the supernatural and the psychological blur, leaving the reader to wonder if the raven is a demonic messenger or a mere projection of a fractured mind.
  
  From its "tapping" at the chamber door to the haunting shadow on the floor, The Raven continues to influence modern art, film, and music. This volume is an essential cornerstone for any library of classic poetry, horror fiction, and Dark Romanticism.
  
  Open the door to the shadows. Buy "The Raven" today and experience the most famous poem in the English language.

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  The Turn Of The Screw

  Henry James

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  “If a child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children—?” 
   
  “I don’t know what I don’t see, what I don’t fear!” 
   
  “Miles and Flora saw more — things terrible and unguessable.” 
   
  “For there again, against the glass ... was the hideous author of our woe — the white face of damnation.” 
   
  “I want my own sort!” 
  Henry James 
   
  The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly. In October 1898, it was collected in The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. 
  Henry James OM was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

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