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  25+ The World's Greatest Short...

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  - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug
  - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener
  - Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp
  - Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich  
  - Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
  - Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
  - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper
  - Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog
  - D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer
  - James Joyce. Araby
  - Ivan Turgenev. First Love
  - Nikolay Gogol. The Mantle
  -  Mikhail Bulgakov. The Embroidered Towel
  - Ivan Bunin. The Gentleman from San Francisco
  - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Carmilla
  - O.Henry. The Gift of the Magi
  - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  - Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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  - W.W. Jacobs. The Monkey's Paw
  - Arthur Conan Doyle. His Last Bow
  - Henry James. Daisy Miller
  - H.P. Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu
  - Alexsandr Pushkin. The Queen of Spades
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  How It Went - Thirteen More...

  Wendell Berry

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  Thirteen new stories of the Port William membership spanning the decades from World War II to the present moment 
   
   
   
  For those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly vital work as advocate for rational land use and the right-size life, these stories of Wendell Berry's offer entry into the fictional place of value and beauty that is Port William, Kentucky. Berry has said it's taken a lifetime for him to learn to write like an old man, and that's what we have here, stories told with grace and ease and majesty. Wendell Berry is one of our greatest living American authors, writing with the wisdom of maturity and the incandescence that comes of love. 
   
   
   
  These thirteen new works explore the memory and imagination of Andy Catlett, one of the well-loved central characters of the Port William saga. From 1932 to 2021, these stories span the length of Andy's life, from before the outbreak of the Second World War to the threatened end of rural life in America.

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  The Scratch Company - Story from...

  Anna Alice Chapin

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them are the intriguing and tender narratives of Anna Alice Chapin.

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  The Fire

  Geo Mihalache

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  From the series 'Stories for Vlad': 
  Great joker, the fire in the stove plays arrogantly with the grandparents' tomcats, sprinkling them from the stove with flames and sparks and finally learning a hard lesson - even the strongest find their end - under the ashes in the stove in his case;

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  Valentines in an Apocalypse - A...

  Tao Wong

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  What happens when the apocalypse is over; to love, strained and torn?  
     
  How do you pick up the pieces, when life stabilises?  
     
  It's a question our heroes must ask themselves, when they're no longer fighting off swarms of monsters, no longer struggling for Credits and Levels.  
     
  Valentines in the Apocalypse is set four years after the System Apocalypse has arrived, between books 5 and 6 of the System Apocalypse and features new characters. The story is set in Vancouver, BC.

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  Aloysha the Pot - From their...

  Leo Tolstoy

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  Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Russian province of Tula to a wealthy noble family. As a child, he had private tutors but he showed little interest in any formal education. When he went to the University of Kazan in 1843 to study oriental languages and law, he left without completing his courses.  Life now was relaxed and idle but with some writing also taking place.  Gambling debts forced an abrupt change of path and he joined the army to fight in the Crimean War.  He was commended for his bravery and promoted but was appalled at the brutality and loss of life.  He recorded these and other earlier experiences in his diaries which formed the basis of several of his works. 
  In 1852 ‘Childhood’ was published to immediate success and was followed by ‘Boyhood’ and ‘Youth’. 
  His experience in the army and the horrors he witnessed resulted in ‘The Cossacks’ in 1862 and the trilogy ‘Sevastopol Tales’. After the war he travelled around Europe, visiting London and Paris and meeting such luminaries as Victor Hugo and Charles Darwin.  
  It was now that Tolstoy began his masterpiece, ‘War and Peace’. Published in 1869 it was an epic work that changed literature. He quickly followed this with ‘Anna Karenina’.  
  These successes made Tolstoy rich and helped him accomplish many of his dreams but also brought problems as he grappled with his faith and the lot of the oppressed poor. These revolutionary views became so popular that the authorities now kept him under surveillance.  
  He led a life of asceticism and vegetarianism and put his socialist ideals into practice by establishing numerous schools for the poor and food programmes. He also believed in giving away his wealth, which caused much discord with his wife.  
  His writing continued to bring forth classics such as ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ and many brilliant and incisive short stories such as ‘How Much Land Does A Man Need’.  
  In 1901 Tolstoy was excommunicated from the Church and controversially deselected for the Nobel Prize for Literature. 
  Whilst undertaking a pilgrimage by train in October 1910 with his daughter Aleksandra he caught pneumonia in the nearby town of Astapovo.  Leo Tolstoy died on November 9th, 1910, he was 82.

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