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A light-hearted account of a successful middle aged widower who chances to visit the small town in which he grew up to renew old acquaintances and perhaps reflect on his successes since his departure. This visit, however, becomes far more to him than he would have imagined, as he finds that one of his dearest childhood girlfriends had died not long after his departure, and the widower envisions a relationship with none other than her daughter, who he senses to be her mother incarnate. (Summary by Roger Melin)...

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Fiction, Romance

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A bit of a menage-a-quatre in a remote cabin in the wilderness as fugitive Hugh, his younger brother Pete, nursemaid and cook Bella, and now the newly arrived snow-blinded young Sylvie who had been snatched from near death in the snow by the heroic but moody Hugh. Because of her blindness, Sylvie is led to believe her rescuer to be a handsome and dashing hero; his younger brother to be but a young lad of 14; and Bella a matronly old maid. But Sylvie would, in time, form her own image of the clan and attempt to bring them together as they were destined to be split apart. Demonstration lies herein of the inherent ability of the blind to use their other senses to best any situation laid before them. (Introduction by Roger Melin)...

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Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua ist das zweite vollendete Drama Friedrich von Schillers. Er begann das Stück, das sich an die historische Verschwörung des Giovanni Luigi de Fieschi gegen Andrea Doria in Genua des Frühjahrs 1547 anlehnt, nach der Premiere seines Stücks Die Räuber 1782. (Zusammenfassung von Wikipedia) Sektion 00 - Vorrede - Anzeige der Buehnenbearbeitung - Erinnerung an das Publikum: Text (1) Sektionen 01 - 10 - Ein republikanisches Trauerspiel: Text (2)...

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Literature, Play

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Sigge Strömberg, född som Sigfrid Strömberg 22 december 1885 i Göteborg, död 3 mars 1920, svensk författare och journalist. Strömberg praktiserade på en tidning i Minneapolis 1904-1905. Han återkom till Sverige och var verksam inom landsortspressen. Han arbetade 1910-1913 på den nystartade Vecko-Journalen, och 1914-1920 var han chefredaktör för Allt för Alla. Kort före sin död åtog sig han chefskapet för skämttidningen Kasper. Som författare skrev Strömberg huvudsakligen äventyrsberättelser samt pojkböcker. ”Göteborgsflickor och andra historier” är en samling korta kåserier där de flesta handlar om hur kvinnans list övergår mannens förstånd, eller att girighet sällan lönar sig. (Wikipedia) (Summary by Wikipedia & Lars Rolander)...

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Humor, Short stories

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The Seagull (Russian: Чайка, Chayka) is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The play was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingenue Nina, the fading leading lady Irina Arkadina, her son the experimental playwright Konstantin Treplyov, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin. (Wikipedia)...

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Twenty-four short stories by famous and not-so-famous British authors. (Summary by David Wales)

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Short stories

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Viktor Rydberg (1828-1895) was one of Sweden's most important authors in the 19th century, between Almqvist and Strindberg. The novel De vandrande djäknarne constitutes the former half of volume III of fourteen in Skrifter av Viktor Rydberg (collected works), which appeared in the decades following the author's death. The novel was first published in serial form in a daily newspaper in Sweden under the pseudonym “Agricola”, and tells about how two students, during a summer, wandering in the country, and about their pranks and their meetings with people, and how this summer changes their lives. (Summary by Runeberg.org and Lars Rolander)...

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Adventure, Fiction

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Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to Hollywood to become a serious actor. How could Merton fail in attaining his dreams after finishing a correspondence course from the General Film Production Company of Stebbinsville, Arkansas, certifying him to be a competent screen actor? Harry Leon Wilson, the author, was a very popular humor writer in the first decades of the 20th century. This book was made into film several times, the last in 1947 starring Red Skelton. (Summary written by Margaret.)...

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Comedy, Fiction, Humor

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Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman (also published as The Black Mask) is the second collection of stories in the Raffles series. After the dark turn of events at the end of The Gift of the Emperor, Bunny's done his time and, his life not being quite what it was before, now finds himself longing for the companionship of his Raffles. (Summary by Kristin Hughes)...

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Adventure, Mystery

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Der Bär ist ein Theaterstück in einem Akt von Anton Tschechow, von ihm selbst als Scherz bezeichnet. Jeléna Iwánowna Popówa ist eine verwitwete Gutsbesitzerin, die noch immer um ihren Mann trauert. Als Grigóri Stepánowitsch Smirnóff in ihrem Hause auftaucht und eine alte Schuld ihres Mannes eintreiben möchte, ergeben sich Spannungen zwischen den beiden, die in einem ungewöhnlichen Finale gipfeln. (Zusammenfassung von Availle)...

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Comedy, Humor, Literature, Play

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Jewelry thefts, society parties, clairvoyance, and romance marks this mystery, which is set in England and the US in the early 20th century. (Summary by Gesine)...

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Mystery

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A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery. (Summary by Gesine)...

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Mystery

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In this short novel of 1894, Conan Doyle describes a character with seemingly extraordinary powers. Are these powers occult or are they only in the minds of other people? There is no Sherlock Holmes to solve this mystery. (Summary by Delmar H. Dolbier)...

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Fiction, Horror/Ghost stories

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Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as a Pullman Porter. For me, the most amazing thing about him is that despite the circumstances of his life, which included being owned like a farm animal solely because of the color of his skin and spending later decades living and working as an equal with white coworkers, he was an unrepentant racist! Convinced that the only good Indian was a dead one, and that all Mexicans were greasers and/or bums, he rarely passed up a chance to shoot a member of either group, whether in self-defense or cold blood, and shows no sign of having appreciated the difference. At one point, he fell in love with a Mexican girl but, apparently unable to tolerate this reality, considered her Spanish. Nat Love was a fascinating character who lived in equally interesting times, and one only wishes his autobiography was much longer and more detailed. by ohsostrange...

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Adventure

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This recording is in Polish. Moralność pani Dulskiej – dramat naturalistyczny z 1906 r., jedno z najważniejszych dzieł Gabrieli Zapolskiej. Pełna nazwa utworu to: Moralność pani Dulskiej – tragifarsa kołtuńska. Moralność pani Dulskiej powstała w ciągu kilkunastu dni na przełomie października i listopada 1906 roku. Premiera odbyła się w grudniu, w Teatrze Miejskim w Krakowie. (Wikipedia)...

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This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of characters from Portia to Beatrice to Lady Macbeth. In her revision of Ophelia from Hamlet, she creates a backstory for Shakespeare's tragic heroine, from her infancy to just before the action of Hamlet begins.(Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...

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Fiction, Literature

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The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo....

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Adventure, Fiction

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In 1933, Forman Brown wrote, under the pseudonym Richard Meeker, a controversial novel called Better Angel, about a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. This novel is regarded as the first American novel to present the 'gay' experience in a healthy light....

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Serialized in Shadowland from November 1921 to February 1922, Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners is Theodore Dreiser's shocking four part expose on the motion picture industry. In it, he shares his observations from his extended stay in Los Angeles, and gives us an intimate look at the seedier underside of Hollywood. (Summary by ChuckW)...

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Memoirs

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Oswald, Dora, Dicky, Alice, H.O, and Noel fill their free time with entertainments that don't always turn out as they plan. But whether telling fortunes at a fete, unwittingly assisting an elopement, reforming their nasty cousin Archibald or even getting arrested, it is all good fun, and usually in a good cause. (from the back of the book, Puffin publication)....

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Fiction