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  The Hand that Feeds

  Mike DeFrench

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  A woman gets a cursed tattoo on her hand. A crow. 
  If she does something against "the rules" it pecks at her. 
  At first the rules are easy. Don't eat this food. Can't use that color lighter... 
  But they've gotten worse. So has the pain from the bites.

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  All Soul's Eve - From their pens...

  Dora Sigerson Shorter

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Dora Sigerson Shorter.

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  The Raven

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is a haunting narrative poem about a man consumed by grief over the loss of his beloved Lenore. On a dreary night, he is visited by a mysterious raven that perches on a bust of Pallas and repeats the word "Nevermore." As the night progresses, the narrator's sanity deteriorates as he becomes increasingly obsessed with the raven and its ominous word, which he interprets as a denial of hope and escape from his sorrow.

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  50+ Great Novellas and Short...

  Washington Irving, Charlotte...

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  This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature.
  The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century.
  The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose.
  It features classics of American, British, Irish, French, German, and Russian literature.
  Some of the outstanding authors included in this collection: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Conan Doyle, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, H. P. Lovecraft,  John Galsworthy , Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, and many more.
  This book is intended for teachers and true literature enthusiasts.
   
  Washington Irving. Rip van Winkle
  Charlotte Bronte. Napoleon and the Spectre
  Mary Shelley. The Mortal Immortal
   
  Edgar Allan Poe
  The Cask of Amontillado
  The Black Cat
   
  Ivan Turgenev. First Love
  Charles Dickens. Nobody's Story
  Herman Melville. Bartleby, The Scrivener
   
  Mark Twain
  A Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San Francisco
  Answers to Correspondents
  Among the Fenians
   
  Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The Cold Embrace
  Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Parson's Horse Race
  Joel Chandler Harris. The Wonderful Tar Baby Story
  Guy de Maupassant. The Piece of String
   
  Leo Tolstoy
  The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
  God Sees The Truth, But Waits
   
  Oscar Wilde. The Happy Prince
  Jerome K. Jerome. Three Men in a Boat
  Kate Chopin. The Awakening
  H. G. Wells. The Star
   
  Anton Chekhov
  Gooseberries
  A Malefactor
   
  Arthur Conan Doyle
  Lot No. 249
  The Crime Of The Brigadier
   
  Rudyard Kipling. The Cat That Walked By Himself
  Jack London. To Build A Fire
  H. H. Munro, or Saki. Gabriel-Ernest
  O. Henry. The Caballero's Way
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Cottagette
  James Joyce. The Dead
  Franz Kafka. In the Penal Colony
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Christmas Tree And The Wedding
  John Galsworthy. The Broken Boot
  F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Offshore Pirate
  G. K. Chesterton. The Blue Cross
   
  Ivan Bunin
  The Grammar Of Love
  Gentle Breathing
   
  Aleksandr Kuprin. The Outrage - A True Story
   
  Ernest Hemingway
  Up in Michigan
  Out of Season
  My Old Man
   
  Ray Bradbury
  A Little Journey
  Zero Hour
   
  H. P. Lovecraft. The Shadow over Innsmouth
   
  Mikhail Bulgakov
  The Cup Of Life
  The Beer Story
  Moonshine Springs
   
  Agatha Christie
  The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge
  The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
  The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Katherine Mansfield, Virginia...

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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 decade the equality of the sexes is now law.  In real life it’s patchy.  Power refuses to ebb or cede.  In literary terms though women are again second to none with writing that strides confidently forward addressing the issues, the characters and the stories in unique and individual ways. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The Women - The 1920's - An Introduction 
  2 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 
  3 - The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf 
  4 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall 
  5 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow 
  6 - Rhapsody by Dorothy Edwards 
  7 - Hodge by Elinor Mordaunt 
  8 - Blessed Are the Meek by Mary Webb 
  9 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen 
  10 - The Night of No Weather by Violet Hunt 
  11 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson

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  Arch Rascal An - From their pens...

  Knut Hamsun

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  Knud Pedersen was born in Lom in the Gudbrandsdal valley of Norway on the 4th of August, 1859 in what was then the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway.  He was the fourth son of seven children born to poor parents who, when he was three, were invited to an uncle’s farm to work his land. 
  When he was nine he moved away from his family to help another uncle who ran a post office.  Whilst with him he was beaten and starved which manifested in a series of chronic nervous difficulties.  The treatment endured for six years until he managed to escape back to Lom. 
  For some time he now took any job that was available to him, including store clerk, peddler, shoemaker's apprentice, sheriff's assistant, elementary-school teacher and ropemaker's apprentice.  At about the same time, with the wealth of these gained experiences, he began to explore his literary talents. 
  In 1877 he published his first book ‘The Enigmatic Man: A Love Story from Northern Norway’, others soon followed but real success only came in 1890 with ‘Hunger’, an influential work for later novelists with its internal monologue and bizarre logic.  His work is often associated with Pantheism; where nature and mankind are unified in a strong and often mystical bond.   
  His work was so influential that in 1920 he was awarded the Novel Prize for Literature. 
  Shortly after this point his works became fewer and his interests darker.  During World War II he became a fervent admirer of the Nazi’s, even meeting Hitler, even though German armies had overrun Norway.  With the war’s end he was detained on charges of treason.  His old age was apparently the primary reason given for Hamsun receiving only a fine.  Other reasons also sought to excuse his abhorrent behaviour but it was clear that whilst he was loved for his literature he was detested for his politics and morals. 
  His literary canon includes more than 20 novels, a poetry collection, short stories, plays, a travelogue, other works of non-fiction and essays. 
  Knut Hamsun died on the 19th February 1952 in Grimstad. He was 92.

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