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Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
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A Venetian Night's Entertainment
A renowned judge recalls a youthful adventure in Venice that began with an encounter with the beautiful Polixena Cador.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 20 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Afterward
Mary Boyne and her husband, requiring a country home in England after a business windfall, acquire a reputedly haunted house.
(Horror)
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 32 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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Kerfol
A prospective buyer goes to look round a French chateau (complete with chapel and tombs) but finds the place deserted - apart from a strange pack of dogs.
(Horror)
- Date Added: October 2001
- Length: 24 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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Mrs. Manstey's View
The only pleasure in the life of a lonely widow is the dismal view from her third floor New York boarding house.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Bolted Door
A suicidal playwright, finding himself unable to do the deed on his own, attempts an unconventional method involving the confession of a dark secret from his past.
(Crime,Fiction,Humour)
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 44 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Dilettante
The story of a man's manipulative relationship with two women.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Fulness Of Life
A romantic vision of the afterlife.
(Romance)
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The House Of The Dead Hand
With the promise of a viewing of a lost Leonardo masterpiece, a man visits the home of the obsessive Dr. Lombard and his daughter.
(Fiction,Horror,Romance)
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 30 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Other Two
A man finds his life increasingly intertwined with those of his wife's previous two husbands.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: May 2000
- Length: 21 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Reckoning
A couple are in agreement on the ethics of marriage but personal feelings, inevitably, intrude.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 23 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Verdict
A man seeks out the truth behind the sudden withdrawal of a well-known painter from the art world three years before.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Xingu
The members of a women's Lunch Club - an organisation rife with political infighting - are keen to impress a distinguished guest.
(Humour)
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 26 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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