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  The Terrible Solomons

  Jack London

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  “The Terrible Solomons” written by Jack London: There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands. On the other hand, there are worse places in the world. But to the new chum who has no constitutional understanding of men and life in the rough, the Solomons may indeed prove terrible.

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  A Country Doctor - The plight of...

  Franz Kafka

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  Franz Kafka was born on 3rd July 1883 in Prague, then in Bohemia, the eldest of 6, into a middle-class Jewish family. 
   
  Life for the young Kafka and his passion for literature was often made an ordeal by his over-bearing and domineering entrepreneur of a father.   
   
  In 1889 Kafka was sent to the Deutsche Knabenschule, an elementary school in Prague. His father would only allow him to be educated in German-speaking schools and even went so far as to limit visits to the synagogue to four a year. 
   
  In 1901 he graduated from the classics-oriented Altstädter Gymnasium. Kafka did well there and across a large range of subjects.  He now enrolled at the Charles Ferdinand University, to study chemistry, but quickly switched to law for which he obtained his degree in June 1906 and then performed the mandatory year of unpaid service as clerk at the civil and criminal courts. 
   
  A job at an Italian insurance company left him little time to write and after a year he took another job with the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia where he stayed until ill health led to his resignation in 1922. 
   
  Although he saw work as a means to pay the bills and to allow him time to write, he received several promotions and was noted as a good employee. 
   
  By 1917 Kafka was suffering from tuberculosis, which required frequent periods of convalescence. Interspersed with this, were several intense affairs before he settled in Berlin with Dora Diamant, a 25-year-old kindergarten teacher who herself having left the ghetto now influenced Kafka's interest in the book of Jewish law, the Talmud. 
   
  Kafka’s on-going health was littered with problems. Apart from TB there were several other ailments, including migraines, insomnia, boils, depression, all usually brought on by excessive stresses and strains. He attempted to counteract all of this by naturopathic treatments, a vegetarian diet and consuming large quantities of unpasteurized milk. 
   
  His tuberculosis still worsened. He returned to Prague, where he died on 3rd June 1924. He was 40. 
   
  His literary works are few in number but towering in influence.  His masterpieces include ‘The Trial’, ‘The Metamorphosis’ as well as a number of short stories which reveal facets of humankind that truthfully could only be born from Kafka’s brain and pen.

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  Arthur Conan Doyle - Six of the...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
   1 - Six of the Best - Arthur Conan Doyle - An Introduction 
  2 - Arthur Conan Doyle - An Introduction 
  3 - The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  4 - The Leather Funnel by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  5 - The Story of B 24 by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  6 - A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  7 - The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  8 - The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under...

  Jules Verne

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  Published in 1870, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is one of Jules Verne's most famous works. This science fiction novel takes readers on an underwater journey with Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus. The story is narrated by Professor Pierre Aronnax, who, along with his assistant Conseil and the harpooner Ned Land, becomes an unwilling guest of Captain Nemo. The trio experiences a series of adventures under the sea, encountering exotic sea creatures, exploring sunken ships, and discovering the wonders and dangers of the ocean depths. The book is renowned for its scientific foresight and imaginative storytelling.

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  On Official Duty

  Anton Chekhov

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  Doctor Starchenko and Lyzhin, a young deputy examining magistrate, arrive at Syrnya to attend to the case of Lesnitsky, an insurance agent, who, upon arrival to the village three days before, entered the local zemstvo house, ordered himself a samovar, unpacked his food packets, and then all of as sudden shot himself. The suicide was so bizarre, that the inquest was deemed to be necessary...

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  Aakash - Katha Kathan and Kissa

  Va Pu Kale

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  A classic narration done by Va Pu Kale about his experiences in life.

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