English stories and books

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Stephen King THE BOOGEYMAN ‘I came to you because I want to tell my story,’ the man on Dr Harper’s couch was saying. The man was Lester Billings from Waterbury, Connecticut.
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Tanaji Malusare was Shivaji’s childhood friend and companion at arms. He was very brave and daring. Shivaji proudly called him his Sivnha or Lion.
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Oscar Wilde. The Canterville Ghost I When Mr. Hiram B.
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John Galsworthy The Apple Tree “The Apple-tree, the singing, and the gold.
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William Gibson. New Rose hotel Seven rented nights in this coffin, Sandii. New Rose Hotel. How I want you now. Sometimes I hit you. Replay it so slow and sweet and mean, I can almost feel it.
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The Story Behind The “Foundation” by Isaac Asimov The date was August 1, 1941. World War II had been raging for two years.
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OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck ONE A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.
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Ray Bradbury. The Veldt “George, I wish you’d look at the nursery.” “What’s wrong with it?” “I don’t know.” “Well, then.
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I stood on the deck of S.S. Rajula. As she slowly moved out of Madras harbour, I waved to my grandparents till I could see them no more. I was thrilled to be on board a ship.
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Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott “Pondering shadows, colors, clouds Grass-buds, and caterpillar shrouds Boughs on which the wild bees settle, Tints that spot the violet’s petal.
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Edgar Allan Poe. The Masque of the Red Death The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.
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The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I – Part The First Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought.
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Humayun lay in a coma. His father Babar stood beside his bed, sad and worried. The Chief Vizier and the nobles crowded behind him.
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THE GIFT OF THE MAGI by O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies.
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