Nicholas's Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and had also to entertain his relatives and friends at home. But when the last of them had gone he at once began to prepare to drive over to see a neighbouring proprietor about a grove which he had been bargaining over for a long time. He was now in a hurry to start, lest buyers from the town might forestall him in making a profitable purchase.

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    Contents: -Introduction by Brian Stableford-Early Stories: The Egregore/ Funeral Oration/ The Locked Room/ Magic Lantern/ The Glass of Blood/ Beyond/ Glaucous Eyes-Sensations: One of Them/An Undesirable Residence/ A Troubled Night/ A Posthumous Protest/ An Uncanny Crime/ The Holes in the Mask/ The Visionary/ The Possessed/ The Double-Souvenirs: The Toad/ Night-Watch/ The Spirit of the Ruins/ Récits: Dolmance/ One January Night/ The Spectral Hand/ Prey to Darkness-Contes: The Princess of the Red Lilies/ The Princess at the Sabbat/ Narkiss/ The Princess au miroirs-Notes

    Gathered in 1895, and following his fascination with the supernatural in the 1880s, this elegant collection explores the sadness of loss, both physical and spiritual, and finds James at his introspective best, while providing a glimpse of how the author dealt with death in his own life.The collection consists of four stories: The Death of the Lion, in which the narrator prepares to write an obituary for a great editor he admired; The Coxon Fund, where an endowment from a will comes unexpectedly to a seemingly undeserving character; The Middle Years, a brief glimpse at the public reception of a novel and the private sacrifice it exacted from its author; and The Altar of the Dead, a moving meditation on finding meaning in life that James wrote in response to the death of a close lady friend.Terminations reveals a writer preoccupied with the endings of life, expressing his thoughts in prose that is as finely balanced as the most famous of James's work.

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    This book includes four novellas:Slain by the Doones,Frida;or, the Lover's Leap,George Bowring,Crocker's Hole

    The reveries a man and his most talented companion mouse, these stories are representative of a significant subgenre of fantasy.

    This collection of Tolstoy's stories includes Sevastopol, Two Hussars, Albert, What Men Live By, Master and Man, How Much Land Does a Man Need?, The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Three Hermits, and the title piece.