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The Gambler (Russian: Игрокъ, romanized: Igrok; modern spelling Игрок) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoevsky completed the novella in 1866 under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts.

A translation of Freud's 1900 statement concerning his theory of the nature and mechanism of dreams.

Contains: [Désirée's Baby]Madame Célestin's divorce -- At the 'Cadian Ball -- A gentleman of the Bayou Têche -- A night in Acadie -- Azélie -- A respectable woman -- [The Dream of an Hour][A Pair of Silk Stockings]:

The egg / Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941, American) [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]( / Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?, American) The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather (1873-1947, American) A malefactor / Anton Chekhov (1860-1904, Russian) [A pair of silk stockings]( / Kate Chopin (1851-1904, American) The veteran / Stephen Crane (1871-1900, American) The apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe (1660-1731, English) Nobody's story / Charles Dickens (1812-1870, English) If I were a man / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935, American) Squire Petrick's lady / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928, English) The luck of Roaring Camp / Bret Harte (1836-1902, American) [Dr. Heidegger's experiment]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864, American) A ghost story / Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927, English) A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909, American) A country doctor / Franz Kafka (1883-1924, Czech) Wee Willie Winkie / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936, English) Sanctuary / Nella Larsen (1891-1964, American) Second best / D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930, English) The white silence / Jack London (1876-1916, American) Germans at meat / Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923, English) A piece of string / Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893, French) The open window / H.H. Munro, or Saki (1870-1916, English) The furnished room / O. Henry (1962-1910, American) With other eyes / Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936, Italian) [Cask of Amontillado]( / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849, American) The coffin-maker / Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837, Russian) The three hermits / Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian) The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain (1835-1910, American) The remarkable case of Davidson's eyes / H.G. Wells (1866-1946, English) The sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde (1854-1900, Irish)

The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Journalism in Tennessee -- About barbers -- A literary nightmare -- The stolen white elephant -- A private history of the campaign that failed -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offences -- How to tell a story.

Over seventy-five inspired works by Melville, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Edwin Markham, many others.

Contains: [Eyes of the Panther]( The moonlit road The boarded window The man and the snake The secret of Macarger's Gulch The middle toe of the right foot A psychological shipwreck A holy terror John Bartine's watch Beyond the wall [Watcher by the Dead]( Moxon's master.

After forty years of living in a cramped farmhouse, a woman reacts to the new barn her husband has built by moving the household into it while he is gone on a trip.

Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to defend himself and disorientated by the legal process at work around him the man soon becomes apathetic and acquiescent, accepting his eventual sentence as inevitable.

[Black Cat]( [Cask of Amontillado]( [Fall of the House of Usher]( Gold-Bug Ligeia [Masque of the Red Death]( Murders in the Rue Morgue [Pit and the Pendulum]( [Tell-tale Heart](

A collection of 16 documents of Abraham Lincoln's speeches, proclamations, and personal correspondence.

[Adventure of the Copper Beeches]( Case of the lost foreigner / Arthur Morrison -- Ghost of Fountain Lane / Catherine L. Pirkis -- Return of Imray / Rudyard Kipling -- Divination of the Zagury Capsules / Headon Hill -- York mystery / Baroness Orczy -- Haverstock Hill murder / George R. Sims -- Dead hand / R. Austin Freeman -- Mr. Bovey's unexpected will / L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace -- Perverted genius / Silas K. Hocking -- Eye of Apollo / G.K. Chesterton -- Purple emperor / Robert W. Chambers -- Tragedy of the life raft / Jacques Futrelle -- Story of Baelbrow / E. and H. Heron.

Contains; Дама с собачкой Дом с мезонином Крыжовник Мужики Чёрный монах

With two of North America's most notorious serial killer/sex slayers as its focus, Lynn Crosbie's novel, dissects and pathologises the horrific world of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. In the true-crime tradition of Norman Mailer and a host of others, this book is a remarkable work of theoretical fiction that sensitively, imaginatively, and systematically analyses the abduction and murder of Bernardo and Homolka's innocent victims while exploring, in startlingly graphic detail, the cultural effects of the shocking revelations and controversy surrounding the capture, trial, testimony, videotape evidence, and incarceration of the almost unthinkable monstrous pair. This is compelling, moving, impossible work: a book which will shock, terrify, and anger you: a book which will break your heart and change you.

82 speeches. Includes selections by Russell Means, Powhatan, Red Jacket, Osceola, Red Cloud, Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Seattle, Geronimo, and Crazy Horse, among others. Primary source.

One of the most famous poems in the English language, "The Raven" first appeared in the January 29, 1845, edition of the New York Evening Mirror. It brought Edgar Allan Poe, then in his mid-30s and a well-known poet, critic, and short story writer, his first taste of celebrity on a grand scale. "The Raven" remains Poe's best-known work, yet it is only one of a dazzling series of poems and stories that won him an enduring place in world literature. This volume contains "The Raven" and 40 others of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable poems, among them "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror Worm," "Eldorado," and "Annabel Lee." Together they reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe's personality — his idealism; his visionary qualities; his responsiveness to beauty, to love, and to women; and his susceptibility to the eerie and the morbid. They reveal, too, his virtuoso command of poetic language, rhythms, and figures of speech — command that would make his one of the most distinctive voices in all of poetry.A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. --back cover Contains 41 poems: Alone [Annabel Lee]( Bells, The City in the Sea, The Coliseum, The Conqueror Worm, The Dream, A Dream-Land Dreams Dream within a Dream, A Eldorado Eulalie—A Song Evening Star Fairy-Land For Annie "Happiest Day—the Happiest Hour, The" Haunted Palace, The Israfel Lake: To The Lenore [Raven]( Romance Sleeper, The Sonnet—Silence Sonnet—To Science Sonnet—To Zante Spirits of the Dead Stanzas To — ("I heed not that my earthly lot") To — ("The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see") To — — ("I saw thee on thy bridal day—") To — — ("Not long ago, the writer of these lines") To F To Helen ("I saw thee once—once only—years ago:" ) To Helen ("Helen, thy beauty is to me") To M. L. S. To My Mother To One in Paradise To the River — Ulalume Valley of Unrest, The

The Symposium and the Phaedrus are combined here because of their shared theme: a reflection on the nature of erotic love, the love that begins with sexual desire but can transcend that origin and reach even the heights of religious ecstasy. This reflection is carried out explicitly in the speeches and conversations in the dialogues, and implicitly in the dramatic depiction of actions and characters. Thus, the two dialogues deal with a theme of enduring interest and are interesting for both their literary and their philosophical character. In addition to the introduction, the book contains substantial commentaries and thorough endnotes. Key Greek terms are discussed for readers who are unfamiliar with the language. A special feature is a discussion on the importance of the dramatic and literary aspects of the dialogues for interpreting their philosophical content. -- Back cover.

Три сестры: Драма в четырёх действиях

This poem - originally published anonymously, written after Wilde's two year's hard labour in Reading prison - is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. The Ballad of Reading Gaol follows the inmate through his final three weeks, as he stares at the sky and silently drinks his beer ration. Heart-wrenching and eye-opening, the ballad also expresses perfectly Wilde's belief that humanity is made up only of offenders, each of us deserving a greater charity for the severity of our crimes.

National Theatre, direction: A.L. Erlanger & W.H. Rapley, business management: S.E. Cochran. S.E. Cochran offers the National Theatre Players in "What Every Woman Knows," by Sir James M. Barrie, staged by Addision Pitt, scenery by Charles Squires. Stage manager Frank Peck, production built by Charles Sturbitts, properties Geo. Donaldson, electrician, Walter Burke.

Classics of English poetry, alternately describing childhood states of innocence and their inevitable ensnarement in a corrupt and repressive world. Contains the full texts of all the poems in the original 1794 edition of both collections.

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native American poetry. The land of little rain (1903), Austin's first book, focuses on the arid and semi-arid regions of California between the High Sierras south of Yosemite: the Ceriso, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert; and towns such as Jimville, Kearsarge, and Las Uvas. She writes of the region's climate, plants, and animals and of its people: the Ute, Paiute, Mojave, and Shoshone tribes; European-American gold prospectors and borax miners; and descendants of Hispanic settlers.

At Fault is Kate Chopin’s early novel about a young widow seeking to reconcile her own needs with those of the people she is responsible for.

Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Rouault et de sa fille, Emma. Après leur mariage, Emma reste insatisfaite et rêve d'une nouvelle vie. Son premier amant lui donne le goût du luxe et fait miroiter un avenir à deux avant de l'abandonner. Une fois remise, Emma continue à faire de folles dépenses, qui peu à peu la mènent à la ruine et au déshonneur. (Résumé par Nadine)

From the book:Whatever hour you woke there was a door shunting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure - a ghostly couple. “Here we left it,” she said. And he added, “Oh, but here too!” “It’s upstairs,” she murmured. “And in the garden,” he whispered “Quietly,” they said, “or we shall wake them.” But it wasn’t that you woke us. Oh, no. “They’re looking for it; they’re drawing the curtain,” one might say, and so read on a page or two. “Now they’ve found it,” one would be certain, stopping the pencil on the margin. And then, tired of reading, one might rise and see for oneself, the house all empty, the doors standing open, only the wood pigeons bubbling with content and the hum of the threshing machine sounding from the farm. “What did I come in here for? What did I want to find?” My hands were empty. “Perhaps it’s upstairs then?” The apples were in the loft. And so down again, the garden still as ever, only the book had slipped into the grass.

Contains: Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans Adventure of the Dying Detective [Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual]( [Adventure of the Dancing Men](

Illustrated edition of the best-known poems of the Yukon poet Robert Service.

Contains: King Richard III Midsummer Night's Dream [Romeo and Juliet](

Contents: [Dr. Heidegger's Experiment]( The birthmark -- [Young Goodman Brown]-- [Rappaccini's Daughter]( Roger Malvin's burial -- The artist of the beautiful -- My kinsman, Major Molineux

> A tribute to the first great age of fictional sleuthing, this delightful collection of 13 mystery classics is devoted to the genuine tale of ratio-cination, "in which the detective solves the crime by investigation and observation, by using his or her wits." >Included among these gems, written between 1841 and 1920, are Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," widely acknowledged as the first detective story; Charles Dickens' "Three Detective Anecdotes," in which a policeman is the detective-hero; Jack London's "The Leopard Man's Story," featuring an unusually grisly but thoroughly plausible murder method; "The Phantom Motor," by Jacques Futrelle; as well as tales by Wilkie Collins, Gelett Burgess, Susan Glaspell, E.C. Bentley, Rodrigues Ottolengui, Baroness Orczy, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Melville Davisson Post, and H.C. Bailey. >Douglas G. Greene, a widely recognized authority in the field of mystery fiction, provides an introduction and informative headnotes for the stories. Original Dover (1999) compilation of 13 stories from standard editions.