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  Philosophical Stories - Stories...

  Alexander Kuprin, Ambrose...

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  We love reason, advancing through facts to reach a conclusion that explains exactly where we are at.   
   
  When literary masters create their stories on this theme we are left with some quite brilliant and riveting works that help us gain fascinating insight into both author, story and the world beyond. 
   
  1 - Philosophical Stories - An Introduction 
  2 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 
  3 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 1 by Herman Melville 
  4 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 2 by Herman Melville 
  5 - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  6 - Parker Adderson, Philosopher by Ambrose Bierce 
  7 - Dickory Cronke, The Dumb Philosopher or Great Britain's Wonder by Daniel D 
  8 - Plato's Dream by Voltaire 
  9 - The Shades, A Phantasy by Vladimir Korolenko 
  10 - Gods in Exile by Heinrich Heine 
  11 - An Evening Guest by Alexander Kuprin 
  12 - Bellerophon To Anteia by Mary Butts 
  13 - Putois by Anatole France 
  14 - The Lightning Rod Man by Herman Melville 
  15 - Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce 
  16 - A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka

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  Emissaries - and other short...

  Youssef Rakha

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  What might William Burroughs be doing in Tahrir Square at the height of the Egyptian revolution of 2011? Was there really a radical atheist insurgency in New Cairo? Where in extant science fiction do people go when they die? In these Cairo-focused stories written at the height of the Arab Spring, in its wake and its ruins, the reader is led by a colorful cast of characters through a hypnagogic urbanscape pulsating with the spectres of post-political Islam and failed revolution. Whether it is an alien abduction in “Lexi” or a Cairo-centered, futuristic retelling of an Old Testament narrative in the titular story “Emissaries” - the stories here play with notions of contemporary Egyptianness to evoke a human circus of possibility and despair that is undeniably universal at its core. 
  Emissaries, and other short stories is the first short story collection of Youssef Rakha's work. The short stories within this collection appeared first in the following journals: 
  The Boy Jihadi (Guernica) 
  Thus Spoke Che Nawwarah (Kenyon Review Online) 
  Emissaries (The Puritan) 
  Nawwah (Miranda Literary Magazine – defunct) 
  Qaf (Mashallah News) 
  The Secret History of Atheism (Minor Literatures) 
  A Father’s Counsel (BULL) 
  The End Night (Litro) 
  “Lexi” and “The Trees Are Houses” are published for the first time. “The Trees Are Houses” was written especially for this publication.  

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  God Sees the Truth But Waits

  Leo Tolstoy

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  "God Sees the Truth, But Waits"  is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1872. The story, about a man sent to prison for a murder he did not commit, takes the form of a parable of forgiveness. English translations were also published under titles "The Confessed Crime", "Exiled to Siberia", and "The Long Exile". The concept of the story of a man wrongfully accused of murder and banished to Siberia also appears in one of Tolstoy's previous works, War and Peace, during a philosophical discussion between two characters who relate the story and argue how the protagonist of their story deals with injustice and fate. Along with his story The Prisoner of the Caucasus, Tolstoy personally considered this work to be his only great artistic achievement.

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  How It Went - Thirteen More...

  Wendell Berry

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  Thirteen new stories of the Port William membership spanning the decades from World War II to the present moment 
   
   
   
  For those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly vital work as advocate for rational land use and the right-size life, these stories of Wendell Berry's offer entry into the fictional place of value and beauty that is Port William, Kentucky. Berry has said it's taken a lifetime for him to learn to write like an old man, and that's what we have here, stories told with grace and ease and majesty. Wendell Berry is one of our greatest living American authors, writing with the wisdom of maturity and the incandescence that comes of love. 
   
   
   
  These thirteen new works explore the memory and imagination of Andy Catlett, one of the well-loved central characters of the Port William saga. From 1932 to 2021, these stories span the length of Andy's life, from before the outbreak of the Second World War to the threatened end of rural life in America.

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  Fallen Out - A Jesse McDermitt...

  Wayne Stinnett

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  When Jesse McDermitt leaves the Marine Corps, he has no idea what he will do for the rest of his life. He only knows he doesn't want to spend the coming winter anywhere cold. His greatest skill is killing people from up to a mile away and he knows there aren't many job opportunities in the civilian world for that. 
  Jesse also knows his way around boats and has an old friend living free and easy in the Florida Keys. Being an experienced diver and angler, he immediately heads south toward Key West and the end of the road. 
  With a single comment, a waitress in a waterfront restaurant in north Key Largo shakes loose a long dormant dream and Jesse runs with it. With the help of friends, new and old, he buys just the right boat to live on and soon starts a part time charter business. Everything is going smoothly, until a Carolina girl and a hurricane hit him at the same time. 
  Danger lurks in the sleepy little town of Marathon, in the middle of the Florida Keys, as well as in the swamps of the Everglades. But danger doesn't expect to run into a man like Jesse. A man who will not only respond swiftly in facing it, but with a vengeance unexpected.

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  Tea

  Saki Saki

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  In "Tea," a short story by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), we follow James Cushat-Prinkly, a thirty-four-year-old bachelor who has long been pressured by his family to settle down. Despite being surrounded by potential suitors, he has never taken the initiative to pursue a relationship. The story unfolds as he prepares to visit Joan Sebastable, the woman his relatives have chosen for him, and he dreads the prospect of the traditional afternoon tea ceremony that accompanies such visits.

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