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  Blindfolded - Mistaken for a...

  Earle Ashley Walcott

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  San Francisco before the fire: a young man steps off the train, is mistaken for someone else within the hour, and finds a fortune, a vendetta and a woman all attached to the mistake. Walcott edited the San Francisco Bulletin and the Overland Monthly, and wrote the city as a newspaperman knows it — Chinatown, the waterfront, the men who buy juries. Fifty-two plates by painters including Manet and Degas, from the theatre to the artist's studio, catch the city's duplicity in the years Walcott was writing it.

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  The International Spy

  Allen Upward

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  "The International Spy" is an entertaining suspense story by Allen Upward. Filled with intriguing characters and a gripping storyline, this work is a must-read for spy story fans. Excerpt "Look! A fair, delicately-molded hand, on which glittered gems worth a raja's loyalty, was extended in the direction of the sea. Half a mile out, where the light ripples melted away into a blue and white haze upon the water, a small black smudge, like the back of a porpoise, seemed to be sliding along the surface."

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  The Ghost Pirates

  William Hope Hodgson

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  A mysterious voyage at sea becomes a terrifying struggle when something unnatural begins to threaten the crew.
  
  William Hope Hodgson's The Ghost Pirates follows a sailor aboard a mysterious vessel where strange events gradually transform an ordinary voyage into a terrifying supernatural ordeal.
  
  As the crew encounters unexplained phenomena and increasingly disturbing circumstances, the boundaries between the natural world and something far more frightening begin to disappear.
  
  Combining maritime adventure, psychological tension, and supernatural horror, Hodgson creates an eerie tale of isolation and mounting dread.
  
  Set sail into the unknown and experience William Hope Hodgson's atmospheric classic of ghostly terror, mystery, and supernatural danger.

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  On Ghosts

  Mary Shelley

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  Why do ghost stories continue to frighten us even when reason tells us not to believe?
  
  In On Ghosts, Mary Shelley turns her attention to one of humanity's oldest fascinations: the possibility that the dead may somehow remain among the living. Blending reflection, anecdote, imagination, and curiosity, Shelley considers why supernatural stories possess such extraordinary power over the mind.
  
  Rather than offering a conventional fictional ghost story, this fascinating piece explores belief, skepticism, fear, memory, and the mysterious experiences that resist easy explanation. Shelley's thoughtful approach makes the work especially compelling for readers interested in Gothic literature, supernatural folklore, nineteenth-century ideas, and the psychology of fear.
  
  From the author of Frankenstein comes an intriguing glimpse into the cultural world that helped shape Gothic and supernatural literature.
  Enter Mary Shelley's shadowy meditation on ghosts and discover why the unknown continues to haunt the imagination.

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  The Village of God - From their...

  Vladimir Korolenko

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  Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire on 27th July 1853. 
  His father died when he was 13 and life was then often struck with bouts of poverty, which resulted in his education being somewhat erratic.   A spell in exile at 23 was followed by another as the politics of the times opposed his volatile but heart-felt passions. 
  Writing was also coming to the fore and in 1879 his debut short story telling of a young Narodnik searching for social and spiritual identity, was published. 
  In 1881, Korolenko refused to swear allegiance to the new Russian Tsar and was again exiled, this time much farther afield.  He spent the next three years doing manual work, but took time to study local customs and history.  These impressions in exile provided rich material for his writings. 
  In 1885 he was allowed to settle in Nizhny, where again he repeatedly questioned the authorities.  That same year ‘Makar's Dream’ established his literary reputation and was part of his first collection ‘Sketches and Stories’, the following year. 
  In the early 1890’s when famine struck Central Russia, he went to work on relief missions, collecting donations, supervising the delivery and distribution of food, opening 45 free canteens, all this while writing the graphic reports that would later be published as ‘In the Year of Famine’ in 1893. 
  By 1896 despite some psychological disorders, he was well regarded amongst Russian writers and was even a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Throughout his writing career Korolenko was a staunch advocate of human rights, putting that sacred activity above what he called his 'part-time-writing'. 
  In the Revolutionary year of 1905, under his editorship, Russkoye Bogatstvo published the Manifest by the Petersburg Soviet of the Workers' deputies. Korolenko was now repeatedly harassed by the authorities, had his flat raided many times and materials confiscated. 
  As a lifetime opponent of Tsarism, he guardedly welcomed the Revolution of 1917.  Once the nature of Bolshevism was established, he soon started to criticize it. During the Russian Civil War that ensued, he condemned both the Red Terror and the White Terror.  
  Despite suffering from a progressive heart disorder, he collected food packages for children in famine-stricken Moscow and Petrograd as well as organised orphanages and shelters for the homeless.  
  Vladimir Korolenko died in Poltava, Ukraine, of the complications of pneumonia on 25th December 1921.  He was 68.

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  The White Pigeon - From their...

  Maria Edgeworth

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  Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire on January 1st 1768. Her early years were with her mother's family in England. Sadly, her mother died when Maria was five.  
  Maria was educated at Mrs Lattafière's school in Derby in 1775. There she studied dancing, French and other subjects.  Maria transferred to Mrs Devis's school in Upper Wimpole Street, London. Her father began to focus more attention on Maria in 1781 when she nearly lost her sight to an eye infection.  
  She returned home to Ireland at 14 and took charge of her younger siblings. She herself was home-tutored by her father in Irish economics and politics, science, literature and law. Despite her youth literature was in her blood.  Maria also became her father's assistant in managing the family’s large Edgeworthstown estate.  
  Maria first published 1795 with ‘Letters for Literary Ladies’. That same year ‘An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification’, written for a female audience, advised women on how to obtain better rights in general and specifically from their husbands. 
  ‘Practical Education’ (1798) is a progressive work on education. Maria’s ambition was to create an independent thinker who understands the consequences of his or her actions. 
  Her first novel, ‘Castle Rackrent’ was published anonymously in 1800 without her father's knowledge. It was an immediate success and firmly established Maria’s appeal to the public.  
  Her father married four times and the last of these to Frances, a year younger and a confidante of Maria, who pushed them to travel more widely: London, Britain and Europe were all now visited. 
  The second series of ‘Tales of Fashionable Life’ (1812) did so well that she was now the most commercially successful novelist of her age.  
  She particularly worked hard to improve the living standards of the poor in Edgeworthstown and to provide schools for the local children of all and any denomination. 
  After a visit to see her relations Maria had severe chest pains and died suddenly of a heart attack in Edgeworthstown on 22nd May 1849. She was 81.

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