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  • Memory
    421 27 1

    Memory, by H.P. Lovecraft. This flash fiction short story was written in 1919, and was first published in the June 1919 issue (No. 2) of The United Co-operative.

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  • The Alchemist
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    The Alchemist, by H.P. Lovecraft. This short story was written in 1908, and first published in the November 1916 issue (No. 4) of the United Amateur.

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  • PARADISE LOST (Completed)
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    Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608-1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revision...

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  • A House of Pomegranates (1891)
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    "A House of Pomegranates" is a collection of fairy tales. "The Young King" tells the story of the illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter of an unnamed country. Being his only heir, he is brought to the palace to await his accession. "The Birthday of the Infanta" is about a hunchbacked dwarf, fo...

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  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
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    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his famous detective.

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  • The Body Snatcher
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    A short story by author Robert Louis Stevenson.

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  • The Jungle Book (Completed)
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    The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. A principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. Other characters include Shere Khan the tiger and B...

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  • Short Stories by Rudyard Kipling (Completed)
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    The book is arranged with a story in each chapter. Each story is followed by a poem that serves as an epigram. Many names in the story are Russian, as the Pribilof Islands had been bought (with Alaska) by the United States in 1867, and Kipling had access to books about the islands.

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  • The Story of the Gadsbys (Completed)
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    The Story of the Gadsbys is a story by Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published as no. 2 of the Indian Railway Library in 1888. The Story of the Gadsbys is written in dramatic form, consisting of eight short scenes. This short pamphlet, of 100 pages, was later collected in book form as the second part of Soldiers...

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