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The Lard Is My Shepherd

A Collection of Short Fiction

by Robert Calder II ...

Have you ever arranged a coup? Ever hang out with werewolves, vampires, and hipster undead? Ever wonder what the neighborhood story of the creepy witch was really about?Leave your assumptions at the door and take an adventure across several worlds and stories designed to make you think twice about the finer details of what you want. Not everything turns out like we want it, but sometimes it turns ... Read more

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Have you ever arranged a coup? Ever hang out with werewolves, vampires, and hipster undead? Ever wonder what the neighborhood story of the creepy witch was really about?Leave your assumptions at the door and take an adventure across several worlds and stories designed to make you think twice about the finer details of what you want. Not everything turns out like we want it, but sometimes it turns
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Mrs Craddock

by W. Somerset Maugham ...

“There is something bracing about the sincerity of [Maugham's] style . . . a style that serves his general purpose of stripping life to the bone with a thin, sharp knife that lays open to view the normal flesh and the healthy flow of blood as well as the cancerous sore beneath.” —Leslie A. Marchand, The New York TimesEdward Craddock is a thoroughly good man. He may lack his wife Bertha’s education ... Read more

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“There is something bracing about the sincerity of [Maugham's] style . . . a style that serves his general purpose of stripping life to the bone with a thin, sharp knife that lays open to view the normal flesh and the healthy flow of blood as well as the cancerous sore beneath.” —Leslie A. Marchand, The New York TimesEdward Craddock is a thoroughly good man. He may lack his wife Bertha’s education
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The Moon and Sixpence

by W. Somerset Maugham, Robert Calder ...

Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, this “witty, compelling” novel (The Boston Globe) by the internationally acclaimed author of The Razor’s Edge is a dazzling ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius.Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. As Strickland pursues his artistic vision, he leaves ... Read more

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Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, this “witty, compelling” novel (The Boston Globe) by the internationally acclaimed author of The Razor’s Edge is a dazzling ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius.Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. As Strickland pursues his artistic vision, he leaves
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A Hero for the Americas

The Legend of Gonzalo Guerrero

by Robert Calder ...

A group of shipwrecked Spaniards washed onto the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in 1512, leading to first contact between the Spanish and the Maya. Two men survived the ordeal: Jerónimo de Aguilar, who became a translator for Hernán Cortés in his conquest of the Aztecs, and Gonzalo Guerrero, who, as legend has it, embraced the Mayan way of life and skillfully led the opposition to the Spanish take ... Read more

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A group of shipwrecked Spaniards washed onto the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in 1512, leading to first contact between the Spanish and the Maya. Two men survived the ordeal: Jerónimo de Aguilar, who became a translator for Hernán Cortés in his conquest of the Aztecs, and Gonzalo Guerrero, who, as legend has it, embraced the Mayan way of life and skillfully led the opposition to the Spanish take
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The Magician

by W. Somerset Maugham ...

Maugham’s enchanting tale of secrets and fatal attractionThe Magician is one of Somerset Maugham’s most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de siecle Paris, Arthur and Margaret are engaged to be married. Everyone approves and everyone seems to be enjoying ... Read more

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Maugham’s enchanting tale of secrets and fatal attractionThe Magician is one of Somerset Maugham’s most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de siecle Paris, Arthur and Margaret are engaged to be married. Everyone approves and everyone seems to be enjoying
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Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham, Robert Calder ...

An obsessive love affair provides the pivot of this powerful evocation of a young man's progress to maturity in the years before the First World War. ... Read more

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An obsessive love affair provides the pivot of this powerful evocation of a young man's progress to maturity in the years before the First World War.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much

by G.K. Chesterton ...

Horne Fisher, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", is the main protagonist of the first eight stories. In the final story, "The Vengeance of the Statue", Fisher notes: "The Prime Minister is my father's friend. The Foreign Minister married my sister. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is my first cousin." Because of these intimate relationships with the leading political figures in the land, Fisher knows too ... Read more

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Horne Fisher, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", is the main protagonist of the first eight stories. In the final story, "The Vengeance of the Statue", Fisher notes: "The Prime Minister is my father's friend. The Foreign Minister married my sister. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is my first cousin." Because of these intimate relationships with the leading political figures in the land, Fisher knows too
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The Idiot

A Tragic Philosophical Novel of Innocence in a Corrupt World

by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky ...

The Idiot follows Prince Myshkin, a man of pure goodness and compassion, as he navigates a society driven by greed, vanity, and manipulation. Dostoyevsky uses this Christ-like figure to explore morality, suffering, love, and the impossibility of absolute goodness in a fallen world. Deeply emotional and psychologically rich, this novel stands as one of Dostoyevsky's most ambitious explorations of ... Read more

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The Idiot follows Prince Myshkin, a man of pure goodness and compassion, as he navigates a society driven by greed, vanity, and manipulation. Dostoyevsky uses this Christ-like figure to explore morality, suffering, love, and the impossibility of absolute goodness in a fallen world. Deeply emotional and psychologically rich, this novel stands as one of Dostoyevsky's most ambitious explorations of
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Beyond Good And Evil

Prelude to a Philosophy Of The Future

by Friedrich Nietzsche ...

Beyond Good and Evil is a book by a philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but approached from a more critical, polemical direction.In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality. The ... Read more

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Beyond Good and Evil is a book by a philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but approached from a more critical, polemical direction.In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality. The
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The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James ...

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention, was that of an apparition in just ... Read more

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The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention, was that of an apparition in just
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The Prince and the Pauper

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Classic tale of switched identities. According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is extensively quoted. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend ... Read more

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Classic tale of switched identities. According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is extensively quoted. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend
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Vanity Fair

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Vanity Fair is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. It follows the lives of two very different women, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, amid their friends and family. The novel is now considered a classic, and has inspired several film adaptations. In 2003, Vanity Fair was listed on the BBC's The Big Read ... Read more

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Vanity Fair is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. It follows the lives of two very different women, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, amid their friends and family. The novel is now considered a classic, and has inspired several film adaptations. In 2003, Vanity Fair was listed on the BBC's The Big Read
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