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  Doctors As The Protagonists –...

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Honoré...

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  The Hippocratic oath is sacred.  Until it’s not.  Human foibles and frailties can quickly grow and make the Doctor into a romantic hero, or a despised villain, or hopeless professional in the face of what is around him. 
   
  In this volume our protagonists are the people we look to for help and certainty when we are in distress and pain.  Our authors place these characters in stories that are as relevant to our thoughts today as when they were first published.       
   
  1 - Stories with The Doctor as Protaganist - An Introduction 
  2 - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Part 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  3 - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Part 2  by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  4 - La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac 
  5 - A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka 
  6 - Doctor Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  7 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev 
  8 - The Arm of Mrs Egan by W F Harvey 
  9 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  10 - Green Tea - Part 1 by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  11 - Green Tea - Part 2 by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  12 - The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac

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  The Sea Wolf

  Jack London

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  The novel begins when Van Weyden is swept overboard into San Francisco Bay, and plucked from the sea by Larsen's seal-hunting vessel, the Ghost. This ship's evil captain, Wolf Larsen - The Sea-Wolf - is a murderous tyrant who uses his superhuman strength to torture and destroy, his brilliant mind to invent sick games, and his relentless will to control his mutinous crew. Pressed into service as a cabin boy by the ruthless captain, Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a brutal shipboard drama. Larsen's increasingly violent abuse of the crew fuels a mounting tension that ultimately boils into mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation.

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  The Trouble with Happiness - And...

  Tove Ditlevsen

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  The Trouble with Happiness is a short-story collection from Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, never before translated in EnglishA newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife’s beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence, and despair, as women and men struggle to escape from the roles assigned to them and dream of becoming free and happy—without ever truly understanding what that might mean.Tove Ditlevsen is one of Denmark’s most famous and beloved writers, and her autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy was hailed as a masterpiece on re-publication in English, lauded for its wry humor, limpid prose, and powerful honesty. The poignant and understated stories in The Trouble with Happiness, written in the 1950s and 1960s and never before translated into English, offer readers a new chance to encounter the quietly devastating work of this essential twentieth-century writer.

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  Hunting the deceitful turkey

  Mark Twain

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  Mark Twain is called sometimes “the father of American literature”. He was a journalist, lecturer, boat pilot, inventor and, of course, writer. His wide life experience allowed him to depict different aspects of life very realistically. Millions of children and adults worldwide still read his books and are fond of them. The most famous writings are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This book became a national treasure. But there are also many worthwhile tales by Twain. One of them is "Hunting the Deceitful Turkey". This is a boyhood story about a guy trying to catch the deceitful turkey. His hunting became funnily wrong. Clever turkey pretended she was wounded and he believed her. He couldn’t even imagine she was making a fool of him. The game was endless, but eventually he left empty-handed. This short story is very easy and quick. If the Thanksgiving Day is coming and you want to have an appropriate mood – this book is what you have been looking for.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Jerome K. Jerome

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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. 
   
  Invariably Jerome is most often remembered for his light-hearted and humourous works such as ‘Three Men in a Boat’.  Here we have a number of his beautifully lyrical short stories and some from his forgotten, and rather darker side. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - Jerome K Jerome - An Introduction  
  02 - Told After Supper - The Doctor's Story by Jerome  K Jerome 
  03 - The Curate's Story - My Uncle's Story - My Own Story by Jerome K Jerome 
  04 - Told After Supper - The Wisdom Of Uncle Podger by Jerome K Jerome 
  05 - The Absent Minded Man by Jerome K Jerome 
  06 - The Man of Science by Jerome K Jerome 
  07 - The Man Who Went Wrong by Jerome K Jerome 
  08 - The Cost of Kindness by Jerome K Jerome 
  09 - The Man Who Did Not Believe in Luck by Jerome K Jerome 
  10 - The Minor Poets Story by Jerome J Jerome 
  11 - The Lesson by Jerome K Jerome

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  The Captain's Vengeance

  Dewey Lambdin

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  It is early February, 1799, a year of war. 
   
   
   
  Sailing in the Caribbean, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is once again pursuing a chimera. A rich French prize ship he'd left at anchor at Dominica has gone missing, along with six of his sailors. 
   
   
   
  What starts as a straightforward search for it, and them, from Hispaniola to Barbados, far down the Antilles, leads Lewrie to a gruesome discovery on the Dry Tortugas and to a vile cabal of the most pitiless and depraved pirates ever to sail under the "Jolly Roger" . . . and the suspicion that one of his trusted hands just may be the worst of them all. 
   
   
   
  Against his will—again—the usually irrepressible Lewrie is made his superiors' "cat's-paw" once more, and his covert mission this time is to go up the Mississippi in enemy-held Spanish Louisiana to the romantic but sordid port of New Orleans in search of pirates and prize, where one false step could betray Lewrie and his small party as spies. Beguilements, betrayal, and death lurk 'round every corner of the Vieux Carré, and it's up to Lewrie's quick but cynical wits to win the day for their survival and wreak a very personal vengeance on his foes.

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