Poor Love & Other Stories


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These stories, in all their narrative voicings, deal with sorrow and still seek to find life’s joys. Despite conflicts, contradictions, sacrifices, surprises and ironies, the haunted and hunted characters try to comprehend death in detail. In so doing, the human spirit rises up and triumphs against the incomprehensible and bewildering aspects of life, love and death.




The Eternal Husband


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A rich and idle man confronts his dead mistress's husband in this psychological novel of duality. Powerful and accessible, it offers a captivating and revealing exploration of love, guilt, and hatred.




Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby And Other Stories


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"Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby" by means of Kathleen Thompson Norris is a compelling tale that delves into the complexities of human relationships and societal expectancies. The story unfolds round Margaret Kirby; a female whose lifestyles becomes intertwined with the lives of those round her. As Margaret navigates the challenges of love, sacrifice, and personal boom, the radical explores the impact of societal norms on person picks. Set towards the backdrop of the early twentieth century, the narrative weaves collectively issue of family dynamics, societal expectations, and the pursuit of personal achievement. Margaret's journey is marked with the aid of resilience and self-discovery as she confronts the constraints imposed by way of societal norms and seeks a direction genuine to her personal aspirations. Kathleen Thompson Norris crafts a nuanced and emotionally resonant story that captures the zeitgeist of the generation at the same time as addressing timeless subject matters. Through Margaret's reviews, the novel displays on the iconic human quest for identification, reason, and the pursuit of a meaningful existence inside the face of societal pressures.




The Bad Family and Other Stories


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Reproduction of the original: The Bad Family and Other Stories by Mrs. Fenwick







The Descent of Man; and Other Stories


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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.




The Princess and Other Stories


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A practising doctor, Chekhov was an acute observer of Russian society's moral, as well as physical sickness. Joining The Russian Master, Ward Number Six, and A Woman's Kingdom in the World's Classics series, this collection, including `The Party', `After the Theatre', and `A Case History', again poses his recurrent literary quandary of whether to moralize, hoping to reform these ailments, or simply to entertain. The solution is to be found in the stories themselves, which, like his plays,offer no easy answers, but pinpoint the anguish, tedium, or downright evil of his characters with an irony that makes them both poignant and truthful.




Poor Folk and Other Stories


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With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. Poor Folk, the author's first great literary triumph, is the story of a tragic relationship between an impoverished copy clerk and a young seamstress, told through their passionate letters to each other. In The Landlady Dostoyevsky portrays a dreamer hero who is captivated by a curious couple and becomes their lodger. Mr Prokharchin, inspired by a true story, is a sly comedy centring on an eccentric miser, and Polzunkov is a powerful character sketch which, in common with the other tales in this volume, questions the very nature of existence.




White Nights and Other Stories


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Reproduction of the original: White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky