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  Landor's Cottage

  SAMPI Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  "Landor's Cottage" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe that describes in detail the bucolic landscape and architecture of a charming country house encountered by the narrator during a walk. The tale is notable for its rich visual description and serene atmosphere, contrasting with Poe's darker works.

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  The Wharton Gothics - Stories of...

  Edith Wharton

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  An original compilation of eight of Edith Wharton’s gothic stories 
  A ghostly presence in “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” desires revenge against a tyrannical husband. In “Mr. Jones,” Lady Jane Lynke inherits an estate unexpectedly and can’t make sense of how to manage the servants—especially since the caretaker has been dead for decades but keeps giving orders. 
  Meanwhile, in “Afterward,” a newly wealthy American couple moves into a large, isolated house in southern England complete with a ghost—and the mysteries surrounding the husband’s business are slowly uncovered. In “The Hermit and the Wild Woman,” the “hermit,” while a young boy, witnessed the killing of his family during an attack on his town. As a result of this trauma, he has retreated into isolation—until he meets a “wild woman” who comes to live nearby. 
  These are just a few of the wonderful and unnerving tales gathered together in this new compilation of Wharton’s gothic stories.

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  The Old Fellow's Letter

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.
  The Old Fellow's Letter: Ruggles and I were down on the Old Fellow. It doesn't matter why and, since in a story of this kind we must tell the truth no matter what happens or else where is the use of writing a story at all? I'll have to confess that we had deserved all we got and that the Old Fellow did no more than his duty by us.

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  Miser in the Bush The - Story...

  Brothers Grimm

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  A farmer had a faithful and diligent servant, who had worked hard for him three years, without having been paid any wages. At last it came into the man's head that he would not go on thus without pay any longer; so he went to his master, and said, 'I have worked hard for you a long time, I will trust to you to give me what I deserve to have for my trouble.' The farmer was a sad miser, and knew that his man was very simple-hearted; so he took out threepence, and gave him for every year's service a penny. The poor fellow thought it was a great deal of money to have, and said to himself, 'Why should I work hard, and live here on bad fare any longer? I can now travel into the wide world, and make myself merry.' With that he put his money into his purse, and set out, roaming over hill and valley.

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  Ella D'Arcy - A Short Story...

  Ella D'Arcy

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  Ella D'Arcy was born on 23rd August 1857 in London, one of nine children.  
   
  Her education spanned London, Germany, France and the Channel Islands. A student of fine art, her poor eyesight meant a switch to literature was needed and with this she had hopes to be an author. 
   
  She worked as a contributor and unofficial editor, alongside Henry Harland, to The Yellow Book, Aubrey Beardsley’s sensational quarterly magazine that combined art, stories, poetry, essays and much else besides.  D'Arcy wrote several stories for the magazine and her stories have an undeniable psychological and realist style through her engagement with various themes from marriage, the family, imitation through to deception.  
   
  Recognition of her talents grew after the publication of ‘Irremediable’, in the Yellow Book, where it received much praise from critics.   
   
  She also wrote and published in the Argosy, Blackwood's Magazine, and Temple Bar.  
   
  However, D’Arcy’s canon was small and, apart from her magazine stories, her book publishing was limited to ‘Monochromes’ (1895), ‘Modern Instances’ and ‘The Bishop’s Dilemma’ (1898). She also translated André Maurois's biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley entitled ‘Ariel’ (1924). 
   
  Her diligence with work aside she was notorious for her inability to maintain relationships with friends.  When she did appear to them it was often unannounced.  This earned her the sobriquet 'Goblin Ella.' 
   
  D'Arcy spent much of her life living alone, though she had a constant urge to travel, but usually she resided on the edge of poverty. Her writing was often motivated by this need. 
   
  Much of her later life was spent in Paris before returning to London in 1937, where she died, in hospital, on 5th September 1937. 
   
  01 - Ella D'Arcy - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - At Twickenham by Ella D'Arcy 
  03 - White Magic by Ella D'Arcy 
  04 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy 
  05 - The Death Mask by Ella D'Arcy 
  06 - Sir Julian Garve by Ella D'Arcy

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  65+ Russian Short Stories...

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy,...

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  The best collection of Russian short stories includes:Fyodor Dostoevsky:Notes from the UndergroundThe Dream of a Ridiculous ManThe Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas TreeLeo Tolstoy:The Death of Ivan IlyichKholstomer, the Story of a HorseAlyosha the PotA Letter to a HinduA ConfessionGod Sees the Truth, but WaitsA Russian Christmas PartyAnton Chekhov:KashtankaGusevThe DarlingThe Lady with the DogA SlanderThe Horse-StealersThe PetchenyegA Dead BodyA Happy EndingThe Looking-GlassOld AgeDarknessThe BeggarIn TroubleFrostMinds in FermentGone AstrayAn AvengerThe Jeune PremierA Defenceless CreatureAn Enigmatic NatureA Happy ManA Troublesome VisitorAn Actor's EndA Story Without a TitleVankaIvan Turgenev:First LoveThe District DoctorMumuNikolay Gogol:The MantleMemoirs of a MadmanThe NoseA May NightThe CloakThe ViyChristmas EveAlexsandr Pushkin:The Queen of SpadesMaxim Gorky:One Autumn NightHer LoverLeonid Andreyev:LazarusThe Little AngelAleksandr Kuprin:The OutrageMikhail Bulgakov:The Cup of LifeKomarov CaseMoscow SettingsPsalmMoonshine SpringsSeanceShifting AccommodationThe Beer StoryThe Embroidered TowelIvan Bunin:The Gentleman from San FranciscoThe Grammar of LoveGentle BreathingSonAn Unknown FriendMikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin:How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials

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