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1) The overcoat
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Akaky Akakyevitch is a small, insignificant man who endures ridicule from his co-workers and performs tedious work copying legal papers. When he uses his life savings to buy a custom made overcoat, it changes his life, but also leads to tragedy.
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"This eerily superb story of murder and monstrosity on the streets of Victorian London has remained in the public imagination for well over a century. Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story of split personalities lurking beneath the prim and proper morals of society is now available in an unabridged, super readable format for all readers."-- Back cover.
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Man can move easily enough in the three dimensions of space - why not the fourth: Time? An intriguing after-dinner conversation takes an unexpected turn when the host produces a small machine, which promptly disappears into thin air. It has been sent into the future, he says. Or maybe the past. As his skeptical guests try to fathom what they have seen, the host unveils a full-size machine, nearing completion. At a similar gathering one week later...
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The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry is a hilarious and ironic short story that flips the classic kidnapping plot on its head. First published in 1907, this timeless tale follows two small-time crooks who plan to kidnap the son of a wealthy man and hold him for ransom only to discover that the boy is far more trouble than they bargained for.
As chaos unfolds, the would-be kidnappers find themselves at the mercy of their wildly imaginative and hyperactive...
