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  Jonah

  Aldous Huxley

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  Though Aldous Huxley gained popularity from his novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. Jonah, his second compilation of poetry, is a collection of twelve poems (four of which are written in French). He published it, at the age of 23, for Christmas in 1917.He stated his intention to stop writing poetry at the end of the volume, but actually went on to publish numerous compilations after Jonah. (Mary Kay)

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  Five Random and Very Short Stories

  Martin Lundqvist

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  This anthology contains five random short stories. Some are funny, some are chilling and most of them are plain weird: 
  Contains the Following stories. 
  Christmas Mayhem 
  Eternity Can Wait 
  Martin Puther's mission in China. 
  Serendipity Saved the Arsonist. 
  The Masked Menace

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  Land Of Big Numbers - Stories

  Te-Ping Chen

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  A Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama · NPR · The Washington Post · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Esquire · Kirkus Reviews · Chicago Public Library · Electric Literature  
  Malala Yousafzai’s Fearless Book Club Pick for Literati  
   
   ""Dazzling...Riveting."" —New York Times Book Review 
   
  “Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chen’s remarkable debut lies a question all too relevant in 21st Century America: What is freedom?” —Jennifer Egan 
   
   “Immensely rewarding, from the first sentence to the last . . . An exceptional collection.” —Charles Yu 
   
  A “stirring and brilliant” debut story collection, offering vivid portrayals of the men and women of modern China and its diaspora, “both love letter and sharp social criticism,” from a phenomenal new literary talent bringing great “insight from her years as a reporter with the Wall Street Journal” (Elle). 
   
   Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled—messily, violently, but still beautifully—into the present. 
   Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chen’s stories coalesce into a portrait of a people striving for openings where mobility is limited. Twins take radically different paths: one becomes a professional gamer, the other a political activist. A woman moves to the city to work at a government call center and is followed by her violent ex-boyfriend. A man is swept into the high-risk, high-reward temptations of China’s volatile stock exchange. And a group of people sit, trapped for no reason, on a subway platform for months, waiting for official permission to leave. 
   With acute social insight, Te-Ping Chen layers years of experience reporting on the ground in China with incantatory prose in this taut, surprising debut, proving herself both a remarkable cultural critic and an astonishingly accomplished new literary voice.

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  Pension Séguin

  Katherine Mansfield

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  Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.  
  'Pension Séguin' is one of Mansfield's popular travel anecdotes. She arrives at a town in France with an apparent shortage of suitably quiet and respectable rooms. At first glance the Pension Séguin would seem to answer all her needs...but then the mysterious guesthouse begins to unveil its secrets.

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  The Two Brothers and the Gold

  Leo Tolstoy

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  Leo Tolstoy is one of the most famous Russian writers and thinkers and is considered one of the greatest writers in the world. His novels created a bridge between the literature of the XIX and the XX centuries. His religious speculations led to emergence of a new movement – Tolstoyans. "The Two Brothers and the Gold" is a story of Athanasius and John, who disinterestedly helped the poor and infirm. Once they found a pile of gold and show different attitude to it. The younger John refuses to take the gold, whereas the older Athanasius uses it to help as many people as possible. As the the nature of the gold is revealed to him, he understands, whom his deeds were for and changes his mind. Despite some may disagree with the ending, the story will definitely set you thinking.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  Mangawhai New Zealand

  Jack Freestone

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  Short story based upon the author's true fishing experiences as a teenager in his hometown Mangawhai, Northland, New Zealand.

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