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20/09/2024
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Sword of Welleran and Other Stories

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The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories is the third book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in October, 1908, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with A Dreamer’s Tales as A Dreamer’s Tales and Other Stories in 1917. The book is a series of short stories, some of them linked by Dunsany’s invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna, which were the focus of his earlier collections The Gods of Pegāna and Time and the Gods. One of the stories, “The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth,” was afterwards (1910) published by itself as a separate book. – Summary by Wikipedia     [chương_files]  

20/09/2024
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Kai Lung’s Golden Hours

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Kai Lung’s Golden Hours is a frame story or frame novel, that is, the narrative provides a frame for different stories. Think One Thousand And One Nights or Canterbury Tales. Kai Lung is an ancient Chinese storyteller who tells stories to postpone his criminal conviction in the court of a Mandarin. (david wales)     [chương_files]  

20/09/2024
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Sportsman’s Sketches

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A Sportsman’s Sketches (Russian: Записки охотника; also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter’s Album) was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition. He wrote this collection of short stories based on his own observations while hunting at his mother’s estate at Spasskoye, where he learned of the abuse of the peasants and the injustices of the Russian system that constrained them. The frequent abuse of Turgenev by his mother certainly had an effect on this work. The stories were first published in The Contemporary with each story separate before appearing in 1852 in book form. He was about to give up writing when the first story, “Khor and Kalinich,” was well received. This work is part of the Russian realist tradition in that the narrator is usually an uncommitted observer of the people he meets. – Summary by Wikipedia     [chương_files]  

20/09/2024
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Dozen Ways of Love

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This is a collection of (each in their own way) romantic short stories by Lily Dougall. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]  

20/09/2024
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Maker of Moons, and Other Short Stories

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An eclectic collection of 8 stories by one of the early masters of the weird tale, Robert W. Chambers. The stories include a range of topics including war, romance, humor and even fishing. The title short story, “The Maker of Moons,” is considered to be one of Chamber’s greatest weird horror tales and was one of H.P. Lovecraft’s favorite stories by the author. (Summary by Kadath)     [chương_files]  

20/09/2024
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Among the Night People

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No need to be afraid of the dark – here is a wonderful collection of stories about the creatures and personalities who live at night and sleep in the day. – Summary by Jude Somers     [chương_files]  

20/09/2024
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Whilomville Stories

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This collection consists of thirteen stories. The stories are set in the mythical town of Whilomville used by Stephen Crane for many of his best stories. They appeared in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine between 1899 and 1900. The writing is crisp, the stories are poignant and funny (usually) and always tell us something about our quirky human nature. – Summary by Phil chenevert     [chương_files]  

19/09/2024
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Mobilizing Woman-Power

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Harriot Stanton Blatch, a suffragist in her own right, was the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was one of the champions of women’s rights and a force in the suffragist movement. In this volume, Blatch focuses on the mobilization of women during World War I, both in Europe and American. These courageous women stepped into roles formerly the domain of men and provided the essential services crucial to the success of the outcome of the war. – Summary by Larry Wilson     [chương_files]  

19/09/2024
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Faith of Men

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A collection of short stories by author Jack London.     [chương_files]  

19/09/2024
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Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism

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The object in reprinting this most interesting review is simply to show the progress made in moral, intellectual, and physical science. The reader will go back with us to a time—not very remote—when nothing was known of Phrenology and Psychology; when men and women were persecuted, and even put to death, through the baldest ignorance and the most pitiable superstition. If we were to go back still farther, to the Holy Wars, we should find cities and nations drenched in human blood through religious bigotry and intolerance. Let us thank God that our lot is cast in a more fortunate age, when the light of revelation, rightly interpreted by the aid of Science, points to the Source of all knowledge, all truth, all light. When we know more of Anatomy, Physiology, Physiognomy, and the Natural Sciences generally, there will be a spirit of broader liberality, religious tolerance, and individual freedom. Then all men will hold themselves accountable to God, rather than to popes, priests, or parsons. Our progenitors lived in a time that tried men’s souls, as the following lucid review most painfully shows. (Summary by Samuel Robert Wells)     [chương_files]