Dr Kevin Phillips, an extraordinary man, became the focus of thousands of followers lives on social media, through his alter ego, Toddy Furrington, a gentle, steampunk bear. The effect he had on peoples lives was so enormous, that his sudden and unexpected death,...

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The 35 best classic Christmas fairy tales With these classic Christmas stories, your Christmas season will also be a special experience and your children will love the stories.

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I have pledged myself to painting, like a monk to his church. I do not preach,I confess. I am not a painter, I am a confessor Vojnov...

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Chatting with a friend about implications of the New Corona Virus, I turned to inventing a bat having planned it all. She soon told me, "write it down & get it published... The world needs a story!". So, after some hestitations, I did. I did not know, where that would...

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A FRIEND of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me one day, as if between jest and earnest, "Fancy! since we last met I have discovered a haunted house in the midst of London." "Really haunted? and by what,-ghosts?" "Well, I can't answer these...

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Flying has always been an almost magical fascination. Even in times of global mass travel with huge airliners, you can hardly escape this spell. By how much more pronounced must this attraction be as a pilot of one's own plane? In his Flight Log, the 1960-born author...

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She was very elegant and shy.She covered her face with her long black hair. A sparkle of her eyes came through, but there was no glance in them. She walked into the room through the door like walking on a stage. Every step seemed to be idealized. It was like behind such...

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THE PEACE PARABLES HOWTHE FOOL BECAME GOD AND OTHER STORIES By Rosie Jackson What do the stories INSIDETHE MARBLE andTHE ROOF andTHE EMERGENCY BRAKE have in common? Like the other 53 stories in this volume, they are "peace parable", so named because they help to...

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»We all have the potential to turn into monsters.« Vampires. Werewolves. Hunters. Three stories, three choices. In New Orleans, vampire king Damien Moreau is torn between his position of power and his conscience. Connor O'Rileigh wakes up in the Scottish Highlands...

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Conceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleries, wanders out among the trees and wild flowers and birds that the pictures of the galleries have sentimentalised. It is some such joy that the man who truly loves the noblest in letters feels when...

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How much real comfort every one might enjoy if he would be contented with the lot in which heaven has cast him, and how much trouble would be avoided if people would only "let well alone." A moderate independence, quietly and honestly procured, is certainly every way...

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I do not know which of us got into the carriage first. IndeedI did not know he was in the carriage at all for some time. It was the last train from London to a Midland town-a stopping train, an infinitely leisurely train, one of those trains which give you an...

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It is customary to regard Mary Shelley's claims to literary distinction as so entirely rooted and grounded in her husband's as to constitute a merely parasitic growth upon his fame.It may be unreservedly admitted that her association with Shelley, and her care of his...

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories is a collection of thirty-three fantasy and science fiction short stories written by the English author H. G. Wells between 1894 and 1909. It was first published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in 1911. All the stories had first...

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Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. (from wikipedia.org)

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Parution : 2019-04-29

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Beneath the scorching rays of a blistering summer's sun, or chilled by the piercing blast of winter, a puny, sickly youth might have been seen daily ascending a ladder, bearing on his head a heavy weight of slate. There is nothing about his appearance but his feeble...

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July 16, 1833.--This is a memorable anniversary for me; on it I complete my three hundred and twenty-third year! The Wandering Jew?--certainly not. More than eighteen centuries have passed over his head. In comparison with him, I am a very young Immortal. Am I, then,...

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You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation. And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon...

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"But why Turkish?" asked Mr. Sherlock Holmes, gazing fixedly at my boots. I was reclining in a cane-backed chair at the moment, and my protruded feet had attracted his ever-active attention. "English," I answered in some surprise. "I got them at Latimer's, in Oxford...

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In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see the loom of the opposite houses. The first day Holmes had spent in...

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