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  Ghar Jamai

  Munshi Premchand

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  Ghar Jamai is a poignant tale penned by the renowned Hindi writer Munshi Premchand. The story revolves around Hari Dhan, a once-respected man who has fallen on hard times. Here’s a glimpse into the narrative: 
  Setting: Hari Dhan, once prosperous, now lives in poverty. 
  Plot Summary: 
  Hari Dhan’s two brothers and their sons have moved into his home. 
  Despite the harsh treatment he receives, Hari Dhan endures silently. 
  His wife, resentful and cruel, berates him for his misfortune. 
  Hari Dhan reflects on his past prosperity and the stark contrast to his present life. 
  The story unfolds as he grapples with humiliation and the loss of his dignity.

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  Les Misérables: Volume 1:...

  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 3: IN THE YEAR 1817: 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated.

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  How to Tell a Story and Other...

  Mark Twain

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  In his inimitable way, Mark Twain gives sound advice about how to tell a story, then lets us in on some curious incidents he experienced, and finishes with a trip that proves life-changing. 
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  How to Tell a Story, The Wounded Soldier, The Golden ArmMental Telegraphy AgainThe Invalid's Story

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  Pomegranate Seed

  Edith Wharton

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  Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.Among her most popular and terrifying tales are the many masterly ghost stories which she wrote in her early career. "Pomegranate Seed" is a disturbing ghost story in which a man receives a series of eerie letters from his dead first wife.

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  Lord Arthur Saville's Crime &...

  Oscar Wilde

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  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland.  The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Trinity College and then at Oxford.  
   
  Wilde then moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles.  With his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the most well-known personalities of his day. 
   
  His only novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ was published in 1890 and he then moved on to writing for the stage with ‘Salome’ in 1891.  His society comedies were enormous hits and turned him into one of the most successful writers of late Victorian London. 
   
  Whilst his masterpiece, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, was on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, prosecuted for libel.  The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency. He was convicted and imprisoned for two years hard labour. It was to break him. 
   
  On release he left for France. There he wrote his last work, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ in 1898.  He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six sipping champagne a friend had brought with the line ‘Alas I am dying beyond my means’. 
   
  This collection of light-hearted and witty stories was written by Oscar Wilde in 1891. It’s presented here in its original running order of 
   
  Lord Arthur Savile's Crime 
  The Canterville Ghost 
  The Sphinx Without a Secret 
  The Model Millionaire

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  The Student Lodger

  Neil Munro

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  Neil Munro (1863-1930) was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author, and literary critic who is now mainly known for his humorous short stories.The Student Lodger is the humorous tale of a Scottish couple who take on an English divinity student as a lodger. The trainee minister turns out rather livelier than his landlords had hoped....

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