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Franz Kafka was born on 3rd July 1883 in Prague, then in Bohemia, the eldest of 6, into a middle-class Jewish family.Life for the young Kafka and his passion for literature was often made an ordeal by his over-bearing and domineering entrepreneur ...

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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 difficu...

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Katherine Merritte Yates was an American author who also wrote such works as Prairie Artist: Homesteading under the pseudonym E.E Stevens. In 'By The Roadside' Marjorie and her Dream have a beautiful and enchanting adventure. Whilst her work and s...

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James John Davies was born in Tredegar, Wales, before emigrating with his parents to the United States in 1881 at the age of eight. Apprenticed as a puddler's assistant in a steel mill thereby acquiring his nickname. After stints as City Clerk in ...

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This is the seventh book in the series written by L Frank Baum. It was first published on July 1st , 1913 and includes many characters including the Woozy, Ojo "e;the Unlucky"e;, Unc Nunkie, Dr. Pipt, and of course Scraps - the patchwork g...

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Owen Wister's seminal novel The Virginian (1902) is historically the first successful novel that initiated a whole movement of novels set in the American "e;Wild West."e; Such novels have later been known to all as "e;Westerns"e; m...

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The Prophet is a book of prose poetry published in 1923 by the renowned Lebanese philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran who has been a member of a group of Lebanese intellectuals and writers expatriated in the United States. Having been translated f...

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The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers is a novel published in 1903 that belongs to military fiction or "e;invasion novels."e; It predicts pre-First-World-War threats of German invasion of the British Isles. The pertinence of Childers...

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How to Live on Twenty Four Hours a Day is a classic of self-improvement by Arnold Bennett published in 1910. Although the book is more than one century old, the practical advice and the inspirational ideas that it provides have become much pertine...

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Anthony Trollope was born in London on 24th April 1815. He is considered a giant of English literature and perhaps his crowning achievement is the series of books known as The Barchester Chronicles. It begins with 'The Warden'. Trollope's early sc...

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Anthony Trollope was born in London on 24th April 1815. He is considered a giant of English literature and perhaps his crowning achievement is the series of books known as The Barchester Chronicles. We continue that series with book 2 'Barchester ...

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Anthony Trollope was born in London on 24th April 1815. He is considered a giant of English literature and perhaps his crowning achievement is the series of books known as The Barchester Chronicles. We continue that series with book 3 'Doctor Thor...

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Anthony Trollope was born in London on 24th April 1815. He is considered a giant of English literature and perhaps his crowning achievement is the series of books known as The Barchester Chronicles. We continue that series with book 5 'The Small H...

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Anthony Trollope was born in London on 24th April 1815. He is considered a giant of English literature and perhaps his crowning achievement is the series of books known as The Barchester Chronicles. We continue that series with book 6 'The Last Ch...

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Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad the author of The Heart of Darkness. Published at the very end of the nineteenth century, Lord Jim follows the life of the eponymous hero, a young British seaman working in the Malays. In the first part of the ...

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DH Lawrence was often at odds with the Establishment and more commonly thought of as a pornographer. Now he is admired as a great literary voice. Women In Love studies the nature of relationships between men and women through four very different c...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley is more widely known as one of the great Romantic Poets. Yet in his short life he was politically active and in writing The Masque of Anarchy in 1819 and basing it on preceding events at the bloody massacre at Peterloo he help...

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The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fa...

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The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fa...

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The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fa...

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Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his...

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Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his...

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Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his...

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Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his...

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Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his...

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Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his...

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Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his...

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Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his...

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Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his...

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Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses to let his...

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