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During the French Revolution, three nuns and a priest live in fear of a man who appears to be watching them.
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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In the midst of manoeuvres, a young officer attends a dinner party at the home of the von Rabbeck family.
- Length: 20 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A poor family set their hopes on the return of a previously good-for-nothing uncle who left for America to seek his fortune.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Maupassant's short masterpiece following the journey of a group of civilians during the Franco-Prussian war.
- Length: 42 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Dr Ragin is honest and intelligent but lacks the strength of character to see to it that life around him is honest and intelligent - which has serious consequences for the psyciatric ward he runs.
- Length: 56 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A bored middle-aged adulterer picks up a young married woman little expecting the great love that will develop.
- Length: 19 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A woman marries a meek, scientifically minded doctor but can't help comparing him to her much-admired artistic friends.
- Length: 26 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A frank extract from the notebook of an eminent - but aging - Russian professor.
- Length: 63 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A man drinks a magic potion and sleeps through the American Revolution. Classic reworking of a European folk-tale.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: U
5 Stars
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A man rich enough to despise everything that money can buy goes out and tries to want something that he can't pay for.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A tough gang member wanted for murder meets a lady in a bar.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A bedraggled writer corners the editor of a respected publication and demands to know why his story has been rejected.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A portrait of Nashville through the eyes of an adventurous stranger.
- Length: 19 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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First-person account of a successful lawyer's sudden loss of memory and the resulting adventure.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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The story of the violinist Ramonti and a woman with two jealous suitors.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars