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  The Looking-Glass

  Anton Chekhov

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  "The Looking Glass" is a short story by Anton Chekhov about a young woman named Nellie who is sitting in her room and staring into a mirror. Nellie is dreamy and lost in thoughts of her future and the man she loves. As she stares into the mirror, she sees the reflection of her future husband and begins to imagine her life with him. Suddenly, Nellie's dream is interrupted by a crisis. Her husband is ill and Nellie rushes to the doctor's house for help. However, the doctor is exhausted from treating patients with typhus and is unable to help Nellie's husband. Despite Nellie's pleas, the doctor refuses to see him, leaving Nellie in despair. The story ends with Nellie left to deal with the situation on her own, questioning the reality of her dreams and the future she had envisioned.

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  The Shadow

  Hans Christian Andersen

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  More classic horror narrations on Jonathan Dunne Horror Stories & Audiobooks: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks 
  Title: The Shadow 
  Author: Hans Christian Andersen 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1847 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 76 
  Description: 
  The Shadow is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s most unsettling tales — a dark allegory of identity, ambition, and the divided self. A learned man’s shadow detaches itself, slowly gaining independence and power, until it comes to dominate the very person who once cast it. 
  Told with quiet menace and philosophical precision, the story explores the danger of denying one’s darker nature and the triumph of intellect without conscience. Its horror is subtle and inevitable, unfolding through irony and psychological tension rather than spectacle. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance highlights the story’s cold elegance and creeping dread. 
  Part of Timeless Terrors, The Shadow endures as a chilling reminder that the most frightening monsters are often our own reflections.

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  Polaris - From their pens to...

  HP Lovecraft

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  Howard Phillips Lovecraft is among the greatest American masters of fantasy and the supernatural.  
  Born in 1890, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, his health was uncertain from childhood and he led a sheltered early life. His semi-invalidism enabled him to read omnivorously, and as a shy imaginative child he began to invent what would in his adult life become a whole macabre fantastic world of his own, peopled by creatures out of his own weird imagination.  
  As an adult he was retiring, almost a recluse. Tall, thin and pale, but with bright alert eyes, he was much given to wandering his native city in the dark hours of the night, and he became a devoted student of its antiquities.  
  Although he began to write early he had nothing published until he was in his twenties. He set many of his stories around the imaginary town of Arkham, and invented an entire mythology of his own, its core being the demoniac cult of Cthulhu, based on the lore or legend that the world was at one time inhabited by another race who, in practising black magic, lost their foothold or were expelled, yet live on outside, ever ready to take possession of this earth again. 
  Since his early death in 1937 his stories have continued to attract attention and praise from an ever-growing audience.

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  Richard II

  William Shakespeare

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  Sir John Gielgud, Sir Michael Hordern, Leon McKern and Edward Harwicke star in this unabridged performance of Shakespeare's Richard II

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Oscar Wilde, Anthony Trollope,...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume we explore and enjoy the stories of authors who attended one of the great seats of learning.  Amongst their storied number are Anthony Trollope, Radclyffe Hall, Lewis Carroll and a host of others.   
   
  01 - The Top 10 - Oxford - An Introduction 
  02 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 
  03 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde 
  04 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope 
  05 - The Blank Cheque by Lewis Carroll 
  06 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall 
  07 - Lucifera by Anthony Hope 
  08 - Couching at the Door by D K Broster 
  09 - The Spectre of Tappington - Part 1 by Richard Harris Barham 
  10 - The Spectre of Tappington - Part 2 by Richard Harris Barham 
  10 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon 
  11 - The Omnibus by Arthur Quiller-Couch 
  12 - The Beast With Five Fingers by W F Harvey

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  FRUIT OF THE TREE THE - A...

  Edith Wharton

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  In The Fruit of the Tree, Edith Wharton delivers a powerful and deeply reflective novel about moral responsibility, compassion, and the unintended consequences of human choices. 
  Set in a growing industrial town at the beginning of the twentieth century, the story follows John Amherst, an idealistic man determined to improve the lives of factory workers while navigating the expectations of wealth, marriage, and social duty. When an accident at the mill changes several lives forever, questions of justice, mercy, and personal responsibility begin to blur. 
  As relationships grow more complicated and emotions run deeper, the characters must confront decisions that challenge both the law and their own conscience. What begins as an effort to do good slowly becomes a test of how far kindness can go before it leads to tragedy. 
  Blending psychological insight with social commentary, Wharton explores themes of industrial reform, ethical conflict, love, guilt, and the burden of choice. The result is a timeless literary drama that feels as relevant today as when it was first published. 
  This audiobook edition is narrated by Tracy Peace, whose calm and expressive voice brings new depth to this thoughtful and emotionally complex classic. 
  Perfect for listeners who enjoy classic literature, philosophical fiction, and character-driven stories filled with moral tension and human truth.

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