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  The Jungle Anthology

  Paul A. Hernandez

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  This collection of 21 short stories was gathered from all of my present works and some that were never published before, and in fact just recently completed. 
  There are some science fiction stories in there, some ironic, others mysterious and yet others just plain silly. I'll let you decide which is which. 
  I hope that you find it a quick and enjoyable read. Thank You for choosing this book to read. 
  Paul A.Hernandez 
  2024

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  Conan Doyle - More Selected...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  A further selection of short tales from the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle containing all the imagination and intrigue he brought to his famous detective. 
  Headstories Audio presents Conan Doyle - More Selected Short Stories, narrated by Simon Hester, with original music.

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  Terrifying Love - A Halloween...

  Helle Gade, Victoria Larque,...

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  Come on a journey filled with witches, ghosts, hunters, and more. Our authors will thrill you, chill and keep you on the edge of your seat while keeping you reading well into the night.  
  Meet an artist who brings her creations to life, creatures who can save your soul, a desperate healer fighting to save humanity and a contemporary thriller involving fraud and murder and a cursed sailor looking for the reincarnation of his lost love - and these are just some of the stories contained within. 
  Join us on a voyage through the works of our wonderful authors and get a taste for their amazing talent in this collection of romance stories featuring scary encounters, obstacles, and chilling moments where we discern how love can conquer all. 
  Each story is accompanied by a poem written by award-winning poet - Helle Gade. 
  Included in this collection: 
  The Lighthouse by Elizabeth G. Ellis 
  Runes and Fangs by Victoria Larque 
  Imaginary Friends by Boris Bacic 
  The Spade and the Patio by Ada Rossi 
  Bloody Money by Annelie Janssen 
  Affliction by Cassandra Lyle

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  A Middle-Sized Artist - From...

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on 3rd July 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to an unaffectionate mother and a father who abandoned her and her older brother to a life of poverty. 
  Inevitably her schooling was limited and by 15 she had attended seven different schools but received only four years education.  However Charlotte was resourceful and did spend time with her father’s aunts – the suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker and the ‘Uncle Tom Cabin’s’ author, Harriet Beecher Stowe as well as many hours at the public library studying ancient civilisations. 
  In 1878, she enrolled in classes at the Rhode Island School of Design where she met Martha Luther and they developed a close relationship until Luther married in 1881. Charlotte was devastated and detested romance and love until she met and married the artist Charles Walter Stetson.  
  Their only child, Katharine Beecher Stetson, was born in 1885 but left Charlotte with post-natal depression, then often dismissed as a case of hysteria or nerves.  Unsuited to domestic life she ruptured her life and moved to California with Katherine.  She divorced in 1894 and then sent Katharine east to live with her father and his second wife confirming that his paternal rights be acknowledged and that Katherine establish a relationship with her father. 
  After her mother died in 1893, Charlotte moved back east and became involved with her first cousin, Wall Street attorney, Houghton Gilman who she married in 1900. After his death she moved back to California, where Katherine now lived.   
  Her most popular story is ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ which touched on her own post-partum depression and underlined the need for women to be responsible for their mental and physical well-being, as the narrator is ordered by her husband/doctor to take compete rest in her room where she is isolated and becomes obsessed with the revolting yellow wallpaper.   
  She wrote other notable short stories the best of which we also include.   
  Charlotte lectured widely for social reform, wrote important non-fiction works that questioned our patriarchal system and left a legacy as a leading and positive spokesperson for feminism.  
  She was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer in 1932 and, as she wrote in her suicide note and autobiography, she ‘chose chloroform over cancer’    
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman took her own life on 17th August 1935, aged 75, in Pasadena, California.

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  The Ice Palace - Author of the...

  F Scott itzgerald

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  Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died.  Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained. 
   
  His intelligence and talent was recognised from an early age, with his first story, about a detective being published in the school magazine when he was just 13.   
   
  In 1913 he enrolled at Princeton but his devotion to his own literary pursuits resulted in him leaving and, rather bizarrely, joining the Army.  In 1918, stationed at Fort Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama he met and became infatuated and then inseparable from Zelda Sayre.  Initially though she refused to marry him but with the success of ‘This Side of Paradise’, the fame and the flow of money enabled them both to begin a gilded life.  For them this was The Jazz Age.  For Fitzgerald he was already an alcoholic. 
   
  He continued to write with great mastery and the titles of his novels and many of his 164 short stories are household names.  The Great Gatsby, often cited as The Great American Novel was published to mixed reviews.  As America moved from the Great Depression to the slaughter of the Second World War his works and himself were seen as far too entwined with the decadent twenties. The world had moved on and he hadn’t.   
   
  Further tragedy was never far from his life. Zelda after years of erratic and now intolerable behaviour was committed to an institution in 1936.  His own sales began to decline and he became a hack for hire in Hollywood, dependent on increasing amounts of booze and the weekly pay check.  His drunken state had often resulted in arrest or hospitalisation, further imperiling his talents.   Despite his contribution to many MGM films he received only one credit. 
   
  The end came all too soon for one of America’s greatest ever writers.  On 21st December 1940, at only 44 years of age in Hollywood, F Scott Fitzgerald succumbed to a heart attack. 
   
  One of Fitzgerald’s short story gems is ‘The Ice Palace’. A Southern girl wants ‘to live where things happen on a grand scale’.  She is engaged to a Yankee but on their visit to The Ice Palace attraction life reveals a very different destiny for her.

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  50+ Great Novellas and Short...

  Washington Irving, Prosper...

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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, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, and many more.
   
  This book is intended for teachers and true literature enthusiasts.
  Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  Prosper Mérimée. Mateo Falcone
  Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Ambitious Guest
  Edgar Allan Poe. The Masque of the Red Death
  Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold-Bug
  Ivan Turgenev. The District Doctor
  Charles Dicken. A Christmas Carol
  Herman Melville. The Lightning-Rod Man
  Mark Twain. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
  Mark Twain. Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man
  Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp
  Robert Louis Stevenson. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  Leo Tolstoy. Kholstomer, The Story Of A Horse
  Leo Tolstoy. Alyosha The Pot
  Guy de Maupassant. The Necklace
  Oscar Wilde. The Selfish Giant
  Ambrose Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  Thomas Hardy. The Three Strangers
  Ambrose Bierce. The Magic Shop
  Anton Chekhov. The Darling
  Arthur Conan Doyle. The Case of Lady Sannox
  Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
  Jack London. The Law of Life
  Rainer Maria Rilke. How Old Timofei Died Singing
  H. H. Munro, or Saki. The Music On The Hill
  O. Henry. The Gift of the Magi
  O. Henry. The Ransom of Red Chief
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper
  Katherine Mansfield. The Fly
  Willa Cather. A Wagner Matinée
  James Joyce. Araby
  James Joyce. Eveline
  D. H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer
  Franz Kafka. The Metamorphosis
  Franz Kafka. Jackals and Arabs
  Fiodor Dostoievski. The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man
  Sherwood Anderson. The Egg
  Virginia Woolf. The Mark On The Wall
  Ring Lardner. The Golden Honeymoon
  John Galsworthy. The Broken Boot
  Joseph Conrad. Heart Of Darkness
  F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
  Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises
  Ray Bradbury. Asleep In Armageddon
  Isaac Asimov. Youth
  E.M. Forster. The Machine Stops
  H. P. Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu
  Agatha Christie. The Adventure of "The Western Star"
  Agatha Christie. The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
  Agatha Christie. The Adventure of the Cheap Flat

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