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  The Leo Tolstoy Collection -...

  Leo Tolstoy

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  This collection brings together stories and reflections in which Leo Tolstoy turns inward.
  Stripped of grandeur, these works offer something more intimate: the inner noise of conscience, the weight of faith, the silence before death.
  A servant's silence, a horse's memory, a dying man's doubt—these are not performances.
  They are questions, waiting quietly for whoever dares to ask the same.
  Tolstoy isn't offering answers. He's writing toward something deeper. And the questions haven't aged a day.
  Contents:
  • Alyosha the Pot
  • Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse
  • A Russian Christmas Party
  • A Confession
  • God Sees the Truth, But Waits
  • A Letter to a Hindu
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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  Miss Mole

  E. H. Young

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  Hannah Mole, the child of poor farmers, is now a forty-year-old woman who spent her life working as a governess in the households of the wealthy. Not having the freedom to live life as she desires, she contents herself by making ironic comments in order to cause shock, in an effort to mask her true personality. The plot focuses on the interactions between Miss Mole and her new employers, Reverend Corder and his family, in which she assumes a motherly role. Miss Mole's sharp wit and generous spirit help guide the growing family, but raise one of the novel's central questions: who is taking care of Miss Mole? E. H. Young (died 1949) was an influential writer of the modernist period. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, Miss Mole exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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  Stories by English Authors -...

  Various Various

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  England by the story-writers of the day: Charles Reade's railway flirtation in a tunnel, Amelia B. Edwards's four-fifteen express, Thomas Hardy's three strangers at a shepherd's christening, Wilkie Collins's widow, Anthony Hope's philosopher in an apple orchard, and a black bag that goes to the wrong man. Assembled for American readers by Scribner's in 1896, the volume is a good map of what the English thought worth telling about themselves at the end of the century. Sixty plates of English landscape and figure painting, from George Clausen and Myles Birket Foster among others, give the volume's homegrown tales their matching scenery.

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  Vizetelly And Company

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Georges Duroy returns to Paris from military service in Algeria penniless. After meeting up with an old friend, he finds journalism work at a renowned newspaper. He gradually climbs the ranks to chief-editor—but all this time, he hasn't been using his wit as a writer, but rather the clever manipulation of the women around him, to get ahead. Bel Ami is Guy de Maupassant's second novel. It was first published in 1885 and was an instant success, with fifty more editions appearing in the following two years. This translation by Vizetelly & Co. was published in 1888. Bel Ami shows the rampant corruption prevalent in 19th century French high society. Guy de Maupassant (died 1893) was one of the most distinguished authors of the Victorian age. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, Vizetelly And Company exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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  Across the Moors - From their...

  W F Harvey

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  William Fryer Harvey AM was born on 14th April 1885 into a wealthy Quaker family in Leeds, West Yorkshire. 
  He was educated at the Quaker Bootham School in Yorkshire and Leighton Park School in Reading before university at Balliol College, Oxford.  
  His health was fragile and he poured his energies into writing short stories and in 1910 published his first collection ‘Midnight House’. 
  In the Great War he was with the Friends' Ambulance Unit and then served as a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Navy.  There he received the Albert Medal for Lifesaving but lung damage received at that time troubled him for the rest of his life. 
  He continued to write short stories, and even a memoir, but by 1925 ill health had forced his retirement to any outside work.  Three years later he published his second collection which contained his macabre classic ‘The Beast with Five fingers’, only one more collection would come from his pen in his lifetime. 
  For many years of his life he now lived in Switzerland with his wife but a yearning to be home saw them come back to England in 1935. 
  W F Harvey died in Letchworth on the 4th June 1937. He was 52.

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  The Recurring Tragedy - From...

  A M Burrage

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  Alfred McLelland Burrage was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex on 1st July, 1889. His father and uncle were both writers, primarily of boy’s fiction, and by age 16 AM Burrage had joined them.  The young man had ambitions to write for the adult market too.  The money was better and so was his writing. 
  From 1890 to 1914, prior to the mainstream appeal of cinema and radio the printed word, mainly in magazines, was the foremost mass entertainment.  AM Burrage quickly became a master of the market publishing his stories regularly across a number of publications. 
  By the start of the Great War Burrage was well established but in 1916 he was conscripted to fight on the Western Front. He continued to write during these years documenting his experiences in the classic book War is War by Ex-Private X. 
  For the remainder of his life Burrage was rarely printed in book form but continued to write and be published on a prodigious scale in magazines and newspapers.  In this volume we concentrate on his supernatural stories which are, by common consent, some of the best ever written.  Succinct yet full of character each reveals a twist and a flavour that is unsettling…..sometimes menacing….always disturbing.

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