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  The Canterville Ghost

  Oscar Wilde

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  The Canterville Ghost is a humorous short story by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court and Society Review, 23 February and 2 March 1887. The story is about an American family who moved to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead English nobleman, who killed his wife and was then walled in and starved to death by his wife's brothers. It has been adapted for the stage and screen several times.

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  On the Makaloa Mat

  Jack London

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  "The old Hawaii is passing; these are its echoes."
  
  In this masterful collection, Jack London moves away from the "Survival of the Fittest" brutality of the Yukon to the lush, nuanced landscape of the Hawaiian Islands. The title story, "On the Makaloa Mat," features two elderly sisters of high chieftain rank reflecting on their lives, loves, and the secrets they've kept while reclining on a traditional mat—a symbol of status and history. From the haunting folklore of "The Water Baby" to the tragic beauty of "Aloha Oe," London captures a culture in transition, blending the psychological depth of his later years with the rugged storytelling that made him a legend.
  
  The "High Ali'i" Perspective: Unlike many Western writers of the era, London focuses on the Hawaiian aristocracy (the Ali'i). He portrays them not as primitive "subjects," but as highly sophisticated, tragic figures navigating the loss of their kingdom and the blending of their bloodlines with the "haole" (foreign) world. These are stories of dignity, hidden passion, and the weight of ancestry.
  
  A Psychological Oasis: Written while London was exploring the works of Carl Jung, these stories delve into the "collective unconscious" of the islands. London uses the tropical setting to explore the shadows of the human heart, where ancient myths still hold power over the modern mind. It is a world where a pearl diver might encounter a sea-spirit, or a prince might find himself a stranger in his own land.
  
  Experience the sunset of a kingdom. Purchase "On the Makaloa Mat" today and discover the soul of the islands.

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  Notes from Underground

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal Epoch in 1864. It is a first-person narrative in the form of a "confession": the work was originally announced by Dostoevsky in Epoch under the title "A Confession".The novella presents itself as an excerpt from the memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man), who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. Although the first part of the novella has the form of a monologue, the narrator's form of address to his reader is acutely dialogized. According to Mikhail Bakhtin, in the Underground Man's confession "there is literally not a single monologically firm, undissociated word". The Underground Man's every word anticipates the words of an other, with whom he enters into an obsessive internal polemic.

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  Shy Neighbourhoods (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.
  SHY NEIGHBOURHOODS: So much of my travelling is done on foot, that if I cherished betting propensities, I should probably be found registered in sporting newspapers under some such title as the Elastic Novice, challenging all eleven stone mankind to competition in walking.

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  The Beggar

  Anton Chekhov

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  The Beggar is a short story written by Anton Chekhov. The story revolves around the life of a blind beggar named Lushkov, who is trying to earn a living by begging on the streets. The story highlights the struggles of the poor and the difficulties they face in their daily lives.
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  Les Misérables: Volume 5: Jean...

  Victor Hugo

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  Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.
  BOOK 1: THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS: The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies can name do not belong to the period in which the action of this work is laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different aspects, of a redoubtable situation, sprang from the earth at the time of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets that history has ever beheld.

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